Many work-at-home jobs categorize themselves as great second incomes but there are many opportunities to not only work full time but to also to work in very career-oriented jobs.
For example, I came across this managing editor job that is a contract job, but is a full time regular position within this company. The full ad is posted below and you can go to their web site, www.econjournalwatch.org, to see exactly the nature of the publication. They do prefer someone who lives in Northern Virginia to facilitate face-to-face meetings but prefer is the key word. For the right person I am sure it wouldn't matter.
Econ Journal Watch (www.econjournalwatch.org) seeks a person to fulfill the core tasks of managing editor, as well as to work as circulation manager. EJW is an eminent, scholarly online journal publishing about 600 pages per year. Six Nobel prize winning economists are on the journal’s Advisory Council.
The core tasks of managing editor include: preparing manuscripts for publication by copy-editing, typesetting (in MS Word), working with the editors and authors to complete and correct all citations, proof-reading, assembling the material, managing a production schedule, posting material at the site, corresponding with website provider and others, updating webstats, managing the email list, and so on.
The additional tasks as circulation manager would be promotional. The journal is free; the promotion would not be sales, but rather getting the journal exposure and interest, particularly among journalists and professors. The circulation manager might also design advertising and arrange placement, etc.
Person must be highly proficient in MS Word and graph/figure/chart production (preferably in Excel). Also, punctual, reliable, thorough, meticulous, energetic, articulate, and good with the English language. Generally speaking, the job does not call for creativity, but it does call for at-home self-direction, project completion and perfection, and readiness to respond to what the editor needs to have done. Web skills are a plus but not essential. There is a lot of crossing of ts and re-crossing of ts, so patience, organization, and attention to detail are crucial. The job is to make sure the journal production and web presentation are perfect.
Work at home. The commitment is to the job, so time depends on the individual’s skill and capability. Job starts in late January or February 2007.
Supervision and contact would be with the journal’s editor, Daniel Klein, who is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Pay depends on extent of the job description agreed, experience, etc. This a contract job, but would be regular.
Econ Journal Watch is a project of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. The contract would be with Atlas, but the relationship would be with the EJW editor, Klein.
We much prefer individual who lives in Northern Virginia, so as to facilitate occasional face-to-face meetings with the editor. (Klein lives and works in Fairfax.)
Please send letter of interest, resume, and the names and contact information of two references to:
Daniel Klein
Editor, Econ Journal Watch (www.econjournalwatch.org)
Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Dklein@gmu.edu
It is very interesting to think you would be working with Six Nobel prize winning economists who are on the journal’s Advisory Council.
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