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Open Internet Explorer or Mozilla Foxfire and a whole world of jobs opens up, some that in no way exist in the physical world.  Online work positions seem to be everywhere, though they get gobbled up, usually in 24 hours.  It’s hardly enough time to find the job listing.

This avenue of employment hasn’t ever existed during the past reccessions and depressions, and there is no telling how the money people are making online is going to affect the economy.  It is a serrindipity to have a job market in these tough times that is not on the usual radar map.

Boggers have led the way through the myriad of bogus advertising to get out excellent information about online jobs. Today.com has the best of those bloggers.  There are only one or two regular websites geared toward online job searches that have legitimate openings. Other than that, bloggers lead the way to getting the word out.

The actual positions are ones that could never exist in the real world.  Besides ghost bloggers, which can actually pay quite handsomely, there are positions such as chat room moderators.  In this job, a person has to make sure the the people who are going into chat rooms and saying things, are going to play nice.  Imagine in real life if we had someone come into our living rooms and say, “I’m here to make sure you don’t say anything that could get us all sued!”

Of course, there are the legitimate call center jobs, the ones that some people scorn as so much drudgery that some people quit after the  first day.  But there are more!  There are online editors and writers, virtual assistants, bookkeepers, web designers, tutors, and cold callers.  There are online sales jobs, tech support and on and on.  Let’s not forget the online small business owners such as the stores that sell old car parts, leather jackets, and anything imaginable. And there is always the money being made by the scam artists.

People pounding the street, looking for work would do well to remember the web.  Not just anyone can make a good career working online because you have to be self-motivated.  You have to get up every morning and know you are going to go to work on time, for a set number of hours, and nothing can interfere with that. You have to not mind having no interaction with co-workers.  But for those who can find the additional jobs, the hidden jobs, it means less time going without a paycheck.  Less time collecting an unemployment check.  Less time our nation will be in a recession.

Right now, many of these jobs are held by work-at-home mothers.  But online accounting jobs, which are seriously taking off, and other kinds of jobs can attract males or females.

Investors need to be aware of this job market because just knowing there are more jobs out there than what anyone expects is a very good thing.  Just knowing that a new hit online web store could open and create jobs is heartening.  Watch for new businesses.  Watch for a faster bounce than what anyone expects.  Most of all, expect that this hidden job market will change the expectations of the doom-and- gloom financial gurus who don’t think about how the web affects the economy.