www.elance.com
Depends on your skill set and experience, but I just found it and it looks promising. Fair warning: I haven't actually used it, so it could be not right for you, but worth a shot ... good luck.

I work in sales from my house. I sell fire equipment for a small company that is based in Idaho. The key to making it work is working with a family oriented company that is small. My "boss" knows that my first priority is my family. I try to schedule all my sales calls around their activities and limit their time with baby sitters. Since my customers (fire fighters, mostly volunteer) are also very family oriented, they are very understanding on my time balancing needs.

I have made between 20 and 30 thousand per year for the past six years and am usually gone from the house 10-20 hours per week. Most of that is at night when my wife is home and many of those hours are late night drives back from my rural customers.

So, if you can find a job in sales for products you believe in, it might work out for you.

When in doubt, call the fire department. Unless there is violence involved.

My uncle lost his job a few years back. He was close to retirement but did not want to sit around or play golf all day. He has an aviation background and he buys and sells parts for a few small regional airports and has made some decent extra cash. There are opportunities everywhere you only need to look for them or be creative about how you develop them.

I started a home business in 2000 when I moved to El Paso with my ex. She was active duty. I work with other businesses mostly. I set my own schedule, and could go out on sales calls in my local area during the day. It's commission only, but that's okay I earn enough to survive (and thrive) which is all I could ever ask for.

Now that I"m single, my home business turned into my full time job. It's not only "extra money" but it's the money that pays bills.

Michael

Dads are meant to be home. Stay at home, work at home

I once worked for Teletch.  they are a giant call center and they have locations all over the world.  They also have an at home division.  I used to do customer service for a large cable television company at home through my computer.  This was 30 hours a week via teletech.  there is the opportunity for bonuses and it was a real job.  their hiring website is hirepoint.com  then you have to find the at home division.  You can apply online and then they will call and conduct a phone interview.

Flyingdad,

I'm kind of in the same boat you are - I have a degree in Mortuary Science and worked primarily as an embalmer. . . The neighbors would not appreciate me doing this at home.

I also did quite a bit of technical writing in a prior career (I did Disaster Recovery in the IT industry before embalming) and have been looking at opportunities there.  This seems to be my most lucrative prospect, but as has been pointed out before it seems there is an endless supply of college kids willing to work for nothing to get beer money.

My last option is that I tie flies.  It has always just been a hobby and the profit to time ratio is pretty bad.  Also, it turns out it is not easy to get buyers - even our locally owned fishing shops seem to buy through mass distributors.  I think it is a great idea to try to do something fun, but I'm not sure this is always practicable.

Good luck on your hunt, though!

Like CaptainDad I got lucky.  When we moved to Salt Lake City for my wifes job, I basically told my company that they either let me work from home or I would quit.  She was going to make enough money that we would have been ok if I did not have a job, but they let me keep working.  I guess it all depends on what your strengths and weaknesses are, and some of us just happen to be in a career that goes hand in hand with working from home.

On a side note, I blog, and that generates some income (though minute it has been growing steadily), and my wife and I are coming up with ideas for baby products that could be handeled from home.  Not to say that those are reliable by any means, but sometimes anything can help, plus it will help take your mind off of all those dipressing thoughts that some get.

I have checked out since like elance that was mentioned above, but it seems that most of these jobs that are posted here (at least in my industry) low balled by private development firms in India or China.  So contracting for me may not be all that fesable...

http://piratesandpears.com/Blog/

I tried my hand at sales for a little while but i was never good with either making sales or getting the products to work for the customers. So im thinking now about starting a home day care, make some additional money watching more kids. Not sure how that will work being a man, but i got a desire to help kids see the love of God  and grow healthy

This can be done from your house and in the nooks and crannies of your life. I will gladly send a link to an ABC primetime investigative report to share information. This gives you an idea of what you will see...

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I also don't want to post anything that may be misinterpreted as advertising so if you have 15 minutes give me a call and introduce yourself and I'll send you some information. It sounds very technical from the post but I assure you the video will explain everything.

Thanks

Darren

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