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Are you desperately trying to find a telecommute job so that you canquit your current one? Hold on! Your job just might have the potentialto be done from home. With the right approach, a little research and a good proposal, manyemployees are selling the idea of telecommuting to their employers. In this first segment, we focus on the steps you should take in order todetermine whether or not your job is a candidate for telecommuting. Many jobs are well suited for telecommuting...and many aren't. Yourfirst step should be to evaluate your current job and determine whetheror not it is feasible to do it from home. Ask yourself the following questions: Here are some useful resources for evaluating your current job and fordetermining whether telecommuting is right for you: ====>Do You Have The Skills to Telecommute? from About.com ====>Is Telecommuting For You? In Part 2, we will discuss the ways that you can convince your boss to let you telecommute. -------------------------------- Sharon Davis is the Mom to two girls, the owner of 2Work-At-Home.Com, Work At Home Articles.net and the Editor of the site's monthly ezine, America's Home. In her spare time she reminisces about what it was like to have spare time. To subscribe to her free ezine, Click Here. This article may be reproduced providing it is published in it's entirety, including the author's bio. For a text version via autoresponder, send a blank email to dayjob@sendfree.com
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