MSNBC: Working from home - best job in US

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Hello warriors,

So there is an article on MSNBC's site with a list of best and worst jobs in America (Best and worst jobs, from Online Employees to roustabout - Business - Careers - msnbc.com ) and at #1 they have "working from home"

However I found it interesting than the whole "working from home" section reads like an infomercial for "Home Cash Success." It's basicaly the only thing mentioned and boy, do they make it sound good. But after checking out the site (linked 3 times from the article) it appears nothing more than "how to make money with affiliate/cpa" course, and a basic one at that (I mean come on, post links and make money, if every link you post makes you $15... yea, I'd be a millionaire in a few hours)

Just look at the "Job description" from the MSNBC article:
"Job Description: Work online posting links for big corporations like Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, etc."
It makes it sound as if you'll be working for this companies, posting links *for* them. Which is obviously not the case.

Or how about this Gem: "The job brings in about $87,000 annually and the hiring outlook is among the best of the ranking" yea right, they want to tell us that the average person posting links makes 87k a year. And what about that hiring part? Earlier in the article we have this:

"Online Employees made the top ten because of the massive quantity of job opportunities and rising salaries. One of the biggest corporations hiring people online is Home Cash Success hiring over 25,000+ people a month its easy to see why this job made it to the top of the ladder."

Hiring is an interesting choice of words. Considering you have to pay $99 (or $199) for the course, and you get paid for performance (affiliate/cpa after all) I am not sure "Hiring" is the correct word. Otherwise I guess every MLM out there is "hiring" too.

So, what's going on here? Have I spent too much time in the off line section and this "Home Cash Success" is the real deal and the average person who joins it makes $87k a year? Is it just a badly researched part of the article where they interviewed one person and then based the whole article on her particular success? Did the editor of MSNBC decide to make some extra cash by promoting "Home Cash Success" with his affiliate id in the links? (I can't tell if there is an affiliate id attached to the links or if it's a tracking id)

Well, let me know what you think I just found it rather amusing that they would put "working from home" as #1 but then use such nonesense to explain why it's at #1.
#home #job #msnbc #working
  • Profile picture of the author Raydal
    LOL. It's a FAKE site. It's not a real news site.

    Just look at the URL. See those extra characters after the .com?
    The extra links lead to the real site but this is just a fake news
    site which should be illegal.

    -Ray Edwards
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    • Profile picture of the author DonDraper
      Originally Posted by Raydal View Post

      LOL. It's a FAKE site. It's not a real news site.

      Just look at the URL. See those extra characters after the .com?
      The extra links lead to the real site but this is just a fake news
      site which should be illegal.

      -Ray Edwards
      I don't like them either but I certainly hope they don't become illegal. We need fewer things to be illegal and more tech solutions for stuff like this. I already can't make a right turn on red without getting a ticket, I dont want any more rules.
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  • Profile picture of the author drewfioravanti
    Where did you find this article?
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  • Profile picture of the author J smith
    Oh wow, lol, first time I get tricked by those google.com-blahblah.net sites. Now that would explain all of this. Just saw it on facebook when someone posted it, so I didn't really look at the site's URL, they did a good job at making it look like a real site though.

    Oh, the shame lol, being tricked by the good ol' "news7.com" type fake news site. The shame
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  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    The link in the article is blocked by my firewall:

    "Scam/Questionable/Illegal"
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  • Profile picture of the author MLMCoach
    When there are a lot of genuine home based jobs offered by odesk, freelancer, elance, etc., why do people want to go after something like these.
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