are work from home opportunities real?

So you're out of work and exploring your options huh. While it is good to keep your options open and be flexible in your job search, you also should be a little realistic. This is especially true when it comes to the barrage of work from home sites out there. A few things to keep in mind if you are considering a work from home opportunity. First, remember the old adage, "if it seems to good to be true, it usually is"? Remember that? You should - it could be your saving grace from having you part with your money. If a site is pushing all of these claims about how much money you could make and how much money the author of the page is making, that is perhaps a good point to begin raising eyebrows. That is especially true if the  page author claims you can make all this money doing this job or that job; but, that same site has little to no traffic and cant even pay a search engine to index their content. Come on people - do a little research. Second, if your landing page is nothing more than a squeeze page than that should definitely cause an eyebrow to be raised. If you aren't familiar with a squeeze page, this is simply a page designed to collect information from you by limiting the amount of text on the page and pushing you to fill out a form for more information. Personally, that is just bad business to me, if they are offering you a job or work from home opportunity and you cant info on what its all about without filling out a form for information, than it is probably not worth the time or money you will be asked to pay. Keeping your options open is one thing, but being open to this kind of junk is just being naive. Sure times are tough with the job situation and all but there are real jobs and work from home opportunities out there. Like anything else you just have to exercise a little common sense and good judgement. If you do so, the right job or work from opportunity will surface.