I’ve found a place where you can work at home in the field of your choice, as a freelancer.  If you have skills in the fields of writing, photography, editing, web development, law, sales, engineering, and more, you need to check out elance.com.    Elance.com is a community-based site, where employers post jobs and projects and “providers” (freelance employees) make bids on the jobs.  Employers choose the provider they want to work with, and pay upon completion of the project.

Like eBay, elance has a feedback interface, so that potential employers can see how happy previous employers have been with a provider’s work.

In order to become an elance provider, you must complete ad Admissions Test.  The test covers concepts about elance, its terms of service, and their rules for employment.  This is so that elance can be sure that potential elance providers have a working knowledge of the site.

There is a free basic membership, which will allow you to bid on and complete projects for elance employers, but there are also different paid membership plans.  The paid membership plans rance in price from $9.95 – $39.95 per month.   The higher the monthly cost, the more benefits each plan has.  Again, you can find employment at elance with a basic free membership plan.  Paid memberships simply offer more perks and more job availablity.

Click-N-Work is a company that provides online workers for several brick-and-mortar companies. (Instead of outsourcing to companies overseas, these companies keep jobs in the US by using Click-N-Work home-based employers.) Their needs fluctuate, depending on the needs of the companies they service, and with the pool of homeworkers they have employed at any given time. Most of the time, though, they are in need of the following:

* Analysts/consultants – people with specific analyst/consulting skills that wish to work from home.

* Information professionals/specialists – business researchers with strong track records and proficiency at a range of information sources (Factiva, Lexis Nexis, Profound etc).

* Writers/Editors – writers with experience at high quality business writing.

* Web Searchers – individuals proficient at quickly finding information on the web to answer business questions.

* Data entry specialists – individuals skilled at rapid and accurate data entry.

* Shoppers, Trend spotters, Social observers – people keen to shop for certain products and adept at seeing trends, drawing parallels and generating valuable commercial insight.

* Telephone interviewers – people skilled at interviewing senior business people, discussing business issues and surfacing opinion on often sensitive business questions.

* Photographers – people able to take photos of buildings, inside stores and of products on shelves.

* Translators – people qualified to translate between popular business languages

To apply, click here to go to Click-N-Work’s registration page.