Are 'internet business' and 'work from home' code words for something else?

[jamies]

Years ago I used to make a good living splicing wire to rope for sailboat halyards and eyes for dock lines. I'd sit on the floor in my living room and splice all day - made about $100-200 a day working from home and watching tv. About once a week I'd load up and take a truck full of fininshed lines to the company and pick up another pile of stock. Not many boats use wire anymore so like film cameras and wagon wheels it's kind of an industry that died.

[Rainbow Demon]

"something unsavory"??? that still makes me chuckle.

In the FWIW Dept.

The trend I see is that many of the posters looking to relocate to CO are in their 20's. Most aren't stating it specifically, but I know from being on a few pot growing-related discussion forums and living in that lifestyle for the last 25 years that there are a TON of these transplants moving here because of the recent changes in law concerning marijuana. Once it's safe, everyone wants to play, it seems.....and many have the idea that Colorado is a wide-open market with easy money abounding for anyone who will make the trip here and play the game. They make great $$$ doing this at home...but it's illegal there.... so they transpose their business model there...to here...and think it will all be the same gig...only "legal". NOT!

Unfortunately for them/anyone else looking to profit from marijuana in CO, the State is now the major drug dealer on the block here and competition/prices behind the scenes are like nothing we've ever seen before. As a result, many will move here without full understanding of the game being played and will come up far short of their dreamin and schemin. Such is why, IMO, we are seeing a growing 'homeless" population here.

These folks need to realize there are no LEGAL opportunities here to make anything more than minimum wage off this industry and to break into this industry you must have MILLIONS of dollars to invest AND big cajones to put all your personal info on the table for the Gov't to see.

If you are moving with dreams of riches from pot.....CANCEL that dream and stay where you are. You are too late to the game/don't have the resources to play this game as it is currently being played.

[rugrats2001]

Originally Posted by Hipchik

Oh, please.
I've been working from home/virtual office for close to 20 years. At first it was with the use of fax machines before the internet was what it is now (high speed etc.). My SO has an office that he goes to twice a week, but works from home the other 3 days. My niece has worked from home as a customer service agent for the past 8 years. Many of our friends work remotely. They work for "real" companies. Nothing "unsavory" about it.

I am well aware that there are legitimate work from home opportunities, but most of them that I know of don't appeal to the typical unibomber profile poster wanting to relocate to a state that most have never even visited and haven't even checked out the Colorado listing on Wikipedia.