WORKING AT HOME<br >How To Go To Work From Your Home<br >"This is our lifestyle; it s called freedom."<br > mJanice Katz， Sacramento Professional Typists Network<br > Personnel manager Pat Mahywasn t looking for a job at home， but when<br >Escrow Overload asked her to give it a try a couple of years ago， she said okay.<br > "Starting out I had my doubts. I couldn t imagine being without the<br >stimulation of other people at work. It had some appeal， though. I figured my<br >time might be better spent if I wasn t wasting it commuting. Well， I was thrilled<br >within a week!<br > Pat is one of the 40 million Americans who currently work at home， a<br >number that is currently growing at a rate of almost 20% a year. Some<br >government studies have indicated that as much as 75% of the work done in this<br >country could eventually be moved home.<br > Not everyone would be happy working at home， of course， and many<br >people are simply not interested in moving their work home. Still， more and<br >more people are having the same experience as Pat Mahy， who says "I m still<br >finding more hidden benefits to working at home the longer I do it."<br >Using This Book<br > If you want to give working at home at try， this book can be a good place<br >to start. It won t teach you how to start a home business from scratch and it won t<br >duplicate certain other work-at-home topics that are well covered in other<br >books.* As far as we know， though， nowhere else can you find as many specific<br >opportunities for working at home--involving so many diverse optionsm<br >already assembled for you into one neat package.<br >* For an unusually good selection of home-business books see the catalog<br >available from The New Careers Center， listed in the Resource Guide at the back<br >of this book.<br >