legitimate work online sites for a Canadian?

ihmmy

anybody know of work online/from home type jobs that aren't, well, scams? I live on Canuckia so that might put a damper on a few of them
Thanks!

Monolithic_Dome

Are you looking for a job to like pay the rent and stuff or are you just looking to earn a bit of cash in your free time?

If it's the latter, I'd suggest taking a look at Mechanical Turk. I think it's sort of a neat concept, and you can make a few bucks. Pretty sure you don't have to be a USian to do it.

Doubt it would work as a full time job though. I did have a friend who made pretty decent bank as a transcriptionist. Company was legit and everything. What was the name of the company...

Ah, here it is Acu-Trans, though I have no idea whether or not they are hiring.

Nibble

It's really hard to find legitimate unskilled online jobs. Your best bet is probably to find those "get paid to take a survey" sites, but most of them are USA-only.

ihmmy

I'm looking for something to help pay rent in addition to my p/t job while I search for a f/t one, heh. I know there was a site mentioned in another thread a while ago where you could essentially bid on jobs (editing, article rewrites, transcription, data entry, etc) but it was limited to US residents as far as I could tell

thanks for the acutrans link Mono, I'll take a peek at it!

Kate of Lokys

Well, if you have qualifications (an English degree, or writing/editing experience), and some stuff you could toss into an online portfolio, there are always places like Elance. It's a pretty competitive market, though, and it does cost a small amount of money to place bids on projects. The good thing is, it's worldwide, but that can be a drawback too - there's a *lot* of bitching on the forums there about Indian design studios snapping up contracts for a song, because they'll charge $50 for 10-20 hours of work and be thrilled about it, while a US-based provider would charge $500. That's not quite as much of a problem in the writing field, but you're still going to be competing with 14 year old high school kids with no overhead, and with big word-mill firms who charge pennies on the dollar and rely on volume to make profit.