Pros
Working from home is very comfortable and saves on the gas and commute-time budgets. As long as you meet minimum weekly hours and do reasonable work, the job is virtually stress free and puts a few extra bucks in your pocket at $14.50 per hour.
Cons
Expect to put in more time than you're paid for. I put in anywhere between 30% more to twice as much time as is billable, usually much closer to the latter. Why this discrepancy? It's the result of two factors: each billable task is accompanied by instructions that must be read before the task can be completed. But that's not what slows you down. This is: These instructions often change. You don't get paid to read instructions, conduct ongoing education, or attend online seminars. You get paid to complete tasks. Which brings us to the second reason billable time works out to less than actual time: work is not always available and may trickle in very slowly over the course of several days (which is why I'm here, typing this note, instead of working). If you aren't available when the work is, you'll not get it done. If you are, but that work trickles in slowly over the course of a day, you could put in twelve hours waiting for work, only to find, at the end of the day, that your time has produced five billable hours.
