I have been adding up the costs of commuting. I have to pay for parking in White Plains, NY. I have to pay tolls on the TZ Bridge. I have to pay for 30 miles worth of gas every day. I have to pay $1 a cup for weak coffee. I have to pay for wear and tear on the truck. I can’t work in my underwear so I have to pay for clothes.

Adding this up and adjusting for before Tax income, it comes to about $9,000 a year that I contribute towards this job. Much of that, except for parking and tolls, I would pay on most any job, but it is a strong argument for finding a work at home job. Homemade Starbucks costs about 35¢ cup.

CraigsList has a telecommute check box when you do job searches. At one time I found a Telecommute job search engine, but a search now just finds work-at-home scam sites. I am going to add the CraigsList NY telecommute job search to my morning start-up web group. I think that working at home would be a good thing for the cats. They get tired of just Erica every day. Also, I could go to the Friday Garage Sales, as long as I got my work done.

Sources of real telecommute jobs and freelance gigs.

Craigslist.org – Real jobs, but there is no checking so watch out for scams. Don’t send anyone money!

WWWAC.org Mailing List. (much lower volume than it used to be, but still 4 or 5 good jobs a month.)

Guru.com – I’ve never got a gig from here due to competition with India and Eastern Europe, but I still keep trying.

eLance.com – like Guru. I see lots of good gigs, especially writing gigs, but the competition is fierce.

Watch out for the websites that have work at home or telecommute in the domain name. It looks like they are mostly from the same scam.

Years ago, I bookmarked the Monster List of Freelance Job Sites. This is still a good site to check out, but it seems that there is way too much information here.