The choice of work at home opportunities is vast and varied. There will be obvious pros and cons attached to all of them but there is a third aspect that only you will be able to perceive: there will be an indefinable quality that makes one of the thousands of work at home opportunities exactly right for you. The choice of work at home opportunity needs to be made on an emotional level as well as being based on a logical process. You need to spend time investigating the different home business opportunities to be able to pick the one that will suit you perfectly in all respects. It is vital that any such project will make you feel comfortable as well as having good earning potential.

If you approach the task of choosing a work at home opportunity on the basis that you can always dump it and switch to something else, you will be starting your work at home career with a negative attitude that invites failure. I am not talking here about signing up for a free trial of a work at home opportunity. Many work at home programmes offer a free trial to enable you to get an idea of what work at home involves and to get the "feel" of the programme. This sort of courtship is fine, it is part of the investigative procedure. The sort of thing to be avoided is jumping into a work at home programme without making proper investigations or getting to know the programme and without having the belief on an emotional level that you and the work at home programme are compatible.

Choosing your ideal work at home opportunity is similar to choosing your spouse (or partner in life if you insist on political correctness). If you rush into a relationship without first getting to know the other person, you will be likely to find yourself suffering from a bad case of repenting at leisure. The good looking, glamorous character with the flashy car who promises fun and excitement might seem like a good choice at first but you need substance to back up the superficial attributes. When you get up close and personal, you might find that the good looker is unintelligent, frivolous and is being pursued by a credit company for payments on the flashy car.

The promise of fun and excitement might be attractive but it is always best to get to know each other before becoming seriously involved. For a relationship to succeed there needs to be a deep emotional response, not just a passing fancy. A work at home career will make demands on your time and energy, it will not always be a pleasure. In order to achieve success you will require patience, persistence and commitment. Giving up at the first obstacle and flitting from one work at home programme to another will result in serial disappointments and inevitable failure. Instead of having a successful home business with a growing profit margin, you will find yourself back working for someone else with nothing to look forward to except the same sort of measly pay cheque that made you want your own business in the first place.

Don't automatically reject the boy/girl next door type. The producers do not make all those movies on the subject for no reason. People really do travel far and wide searching for a soul mate only to return home and notice their goofy childhood buddy has shed the braces, become gorgeous and wants to be more than best friends. If looks were the deciding factor in a relationship, no ugly person would ever get married. Millions of kind and loving people would be doomed to a solitary, unrewarding life and that is just too sad to contemplate. Don't bypass the work at home opportunity that has been around for ages and looks too safe and sensible to be interesting. There will be reasons why it has been around for so long and you will very likely discover that it has hidden depths. Honesty and stability are more important qualities than good looks or promises of excitement and will last longer.

The desire to be your own boss with your own home based business is a strong force. Don't permit it to influence you into making a rash choice. Of course, you want to make the best income available to you, but that is not the only consideration: you need to have a passion for your home business if you are to succeed. If you have any doubts about a work at home opportunity when you start out, in a short time you will feel like one of the ugly sisters trying to fit into the glass slipper. You will fare much better if you remain patient for a little longer until you find your Prince of work at home opportunities. You do want a happy ending, don't you?