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Finding Employment Options For The Over Fifties, As The Age For Retirement Keeps On Going Up

Recently newspapers reported the findings of the Pensions Policy Institute that the normal retirement age be put up to 72, in order to allow the state to maintain the costs of pensions at the level they were in 1990. This has worried many people, since it could signify that a large part of the population must forget the idea of ever getting a pension and may need to carry on working until they die. However there is another aspect to this: what type of work is going to be open to people over 50? There is a worrying amount of age discrimination by many companies, and a significant proportion of over 50s may be unable to either find a job or qualify for a pension. However there is a possible solution in the field of Internet business, where they can work from home in a wide choice of online jobs.

Employers overall tend to prefer more youthful employees, but they also seem to require a long period of previous experience. One person I heard of was told they were ‘long in the tooth’ although they were just 35. Discrimination against older people is officially against the law, but it is very difficult to prove when it has occurred.

Despite this, life expectancies are higher today than before. While everybody says it is desirable to extend life as much as medical science allows, on the other hand they do not consider the implications in terms of the need to put aside more money for pensions. A second question is that low birth rates mean that there aren’t going to be enough economically active people working and providing for the pensions of a significantly larger number of old people.

In fact, the National Insurance contributions collected today are used to pay directly for current pensions. It is no more than an ‘IOU’ note for people who are still working, and many fear that when today’s younger or middle aged people want to stop working, the government won’t have enough money to provide these people with their pensions.

Senior citizens’ charity Age UK has found that the number of unemployed people over 50 who have remained unemployed for over a year, has risen by over half in the last 12 months, as a direct result of the disproportionate impact of the downturn on older generations. Three-quarters of the unemployed over 50 are men, indicating that the women in this generation may be better at finding temporary or part-time positions. The position could be made more acute by the competition for jobs from three quarters of a million older people re-classified as able to work since their incapacity benefit has been removed, following the government’s cost-cutting drive.

So what solution can online jobs in Internet business bring to this predicament? Firstly, it is indisputably a line of work where ‘silver surfers’ can offer as great a contribution as more youthful workers, and their knowledge from their previous careers can be very helpful. Second, they let people work from home, so people who have health or disability issues could nevertheless work without a problem in these positions.

Discrimination against older workers may be to some extent a matter of personal perception. If you see somebody and think they are past it, then they are not likely to be offered the position. In Internet business you do not see the individual you are doing business with, and you cannot tell how old they are, so you don’t form a subjective opinion on the basis of what age they seem to be.

In view of raised retirement ages and the jobs shortage, the problem of work for the older generation will not be resolved overnight. Opportunities to work from home in the online jobs generated by Internet business may not resolve the problem completely, but they are a serious choice for a lot of older workers.

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Get Rich Quick? Apply A Little Bit Of Common Sense If You Are Searching For A Livelihood Using The Internet.

Somebody some time ago said – “Today, the greatest single source of wealth is between yours ears”. Well considering the amount of individuals who fall for Work From Home schemes, you would conside that they were altogether mentally bankrupt upstairs. There are no get rich easy answers, unless you win the lotto, or a certain long lost aunt bestows her millions to you. So when you see ads for “Make money working from home”, or “make thousands running your Internet Business”, certainly have a look at what is proposed, but use your common sense when thinking about working for these firms.

Don’t get these firms muddled up with Franchising Companies. Most Franchises are reputable enterprises. They will be searching for people with skills in specific areas of commerce and with some cash to buy into a new or existing franchise enterprise. What we are discussing here is envelope stuffing, product building, Data entry, reading books, typing and Online Jobs where little education or skills are needed. Frequently it’s one of two schemes – you either have to purchase your parts and when you send off your completed handiwork, you never hear from them again, or your handiwork doesn’t meet their “stringent” quality standards, and you don’t get rewarded. Or it’s a pyramid selling scheme so the money is brought about by recruiting other individuals.

By sticking to a few basic principles you can avert a lot of grief –

1. Don’t trust everything you read. Rarely do ads reflect the reality about an appointment or the company that is hiring staff. This is particularly true if the company is an Internet Business with no real property. Call them and ask to talk to the managing director or head of personnel.

2. Be sure about who you are working for. It could be yourself!! If you are going to Work From Home doing manual work, or if you get one of these Online Jobs where you are entering data etc, confirm who is paying you. Is it the firm you originally contacted, or are they just making an opportunity for you and you find that you are in fact self-employed.

3. Check that the product or service is in fact wanted out there. If it is an Internet Business, are there other contenders. Who are the customers and are there any reviews or blogs about the kind of business. Just because a firm may say they will instruct you and send you notes to learn from, doesn’t indicate their product is any good. Would you purchase it? If not, then have second thoughts.

There are a lot of schemes out there. It does make individuals looking for Online Jobs very skeptical, but if you research your future new company properly and make sure that you get a suitable employment contract, then there is no reason that you can’t Work From Home and receive good money. Just bear in mind that it is very rare to get something for nothing. So if the situation is very superficial and needs little training or earlier experience then you won’t get paid handsomely and there will be thousands of other individuals thinking they could do that job too.

The more a new job hinges on training, on education and on earlier work experience, the more liable it will be a genuine opportunity and that the financial returns will be more rewarding for the effort you put in.

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E-Accounting Is An Instance Of How One Of The Traditional Professions Has Moved With The Times And Employed The Internet, To Service Existing And New Business.

The accounting profession has almost certainly gained the most in efficacy, with the introduction of computers, and more recently the introduction of the World Wide Web. Only 30 years ago, a multitude of book keepers was needed to deal with the masses of costs and payments. Now only a modest department is required to manage the accounts of a sizeable corporation. And it’s basically down to technology. With the introduction of spreadsheets and global accounting systems from multinationals like Oracle and SAP, accounting has truly been converted into an Internet Business.

And as the large multinationals have moved with the times, so too have small partnerships of accountants, adopted the new technology. Accounting is beyond doubt one of the Online Jobs which have little to compare with past, apart from its fundamental accounting laws and practices.

Those accountants, who have opted to go on their own, now have the possibility to Work From Home. With faster and faster Broadband packages and greater download allowances, large files like multiple page accounting spreadsheets can be appended to e-mails. In loads of cases accountants can log on to web links right into the clientele’s business accounting system and perform their tasks online. Running a remote accounting business no longer signifies that dated practices are rule. There is abundant online training and online learning materials. Consequently there is a huge Internet Business formed around accountant training, so there is no excuse to fall behind in your professional learning.

From the small company’s point of view, subcontracting their accounts to an accounting contractor, who can Work From Home, delivers several benefits. By tradition accountants are full of activity at month, quarter and year ends. So paying for accounting services as required can save on the salary bill. The other plus is that small firms don’t need to invest in pricey accounting systems and the continual upgrading and maintenance A large amount of the development in large consulting companies like KMPG, Price Waterhouse and Ernst Young has been on the back of Accountancy and Actuary services. The premier four companies in this sector grossed a staggering $93 billion dollars in 2009 and employed over 600,000 personnel. A lot of their staff Work From Home as consultants, auditing local companies and providing consultancy services to set up new accounting systems These systems dovetail into all sorts of Online Jobs, from procurement costs through to labour and overhead expenses.

Even with the advances in technology, firms still manage to disregard GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles). Examples of this are the Enron and the collusion with accountancy firm Arthur Andersen. Enron filed for bankruptcy and Arthur Andersen was broken up due to the gravity of the corporate fraud. So it appears that even internet technology and the introduction of Online Jobs in the accountancy world, hasn’t curbed some people’s appetite for wealth. The magnitude of the fraud went into billions, which sort of makes running anillicit Internet Business, selling fake watches, look like a practical joke.

Having said all that, accountancy remains one of the most upright professions to enter, even if they now use spreadsheets and web based programs to count those beans.

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