I am continually asked if there is a work from home opportunity that actually works. My answer is always a resounding, "Yes." There are many work from home opportunities available for anyone wishing to stay at home and perform a job.

However, most people that choose to do so often treat the new work from home business opportunity as a hobby and not a job. This leads ultimately to failure in their venture. This is why there are so many people upset with many of the legitimate home based jobs. They try one system and after giving it a week or so and finding that there is no money pouring in as the system claimed, they give up and move on to the next big thing.

Jumping on board the next work from home opportunity, they try it for a while and nothing happens. Success seems to be so far away. But, here is the problem. These opportunities to work at home are usually being treated as just a hobby, not a real and legitimate career. A hobby effort is going to result in hobby results. Anyone looking to enter a work at home job or a legitimate home based business had better quickly realize that it needs to be treated as a job, not a hobby, or they will never see any success, although with some systems, once they are running properly, the amount of work that needs to be put into them dramatically decreases.

This is just being brutally honest. Think about it for a moment. If you are working for someone, you wake up in the morning and commute to your job. You put in at least eight hours of hard work and then you go home. You do this at least five days a week. The same needs to be done if you are truly going to be successful with a work at home opportunity. If the effort is not put into the venture, then the likelihood that you are going to fail is very high.

I place the blame on the majority of these so called get rich quick schemes that have saturated the work from home arena over the last few years. People are desperately looking for a legitimate work from home job and they are being told if you put in a few hours of work a week, the money will be flooding their bank accounts. Not only is this misleading, but also very unlikely.

I can honestly say that I have fallen for some of those so called legitimate work from home systems only to find out that they were basically a make-over of another system that was doomed to fail. It was not until I finally decided that I needed to treat my home based business as just that, a business, that I started to finally achieve the success I knew I could. I took it upon myself to get down and dirty and develop my own system that would allow me to call my own shots and decide how I was going to run my business from home.

"Yes", is always my answer. A work from home opportunity can set you free so long as you treat it as a business and not a hobby.