Some of us longer in the tooth who remember the eighties may have mixed views about that time, and various things stick in the mind about it. We were fortunate to have some excellent pop music from those times. There was a certain lady prime minister, of course. However for many that was not such a good decade, as there were critical levels of unemployment. There was, in those days, no Internet business and no online jobs as there are since the growth of the Web. Yet I know jobs were available for those who looked for them. If you were happy to do any job you were able to, it was possible to do part-time office work, work from home, or move from place to place looking for seasonal opportunities.

After gaining a qualification in Geography and finding there was not a huge demand from employers for Geography graduates, I became for a while one of the millions of unemployed. Nonetheless, I signed up with an agency that I had heard about. After a few days they contacted me about a short-term job. In this post I was working a print machine in an industrial unit, then I served as a clerk at a Tax Office (somebody has to it, as they say!). Over time I did short term work as a stock controller, and inputting data. The jobswere generally pretty monotonous, and I wasn’t going to make a huge amount of money working in these roles, but they kept me off the dole queue. Within a couple of days after one post ending, I would be contacted by the agency, and I would be offered work with another company.

Much has changed since those times. The Internet has transformed the way jobs are advertised, with online jobs boards competing with agencies. We are at this time dealing with a joblessness crisis as critical as at any time before. However, Internet business creates the ability to work from home as well as in a normal workplace in numerous types of online jobs that were previously unheard of.

In 1988 I found a long-term job and worked without interruption until the present recession. Although I joined the many employees who faced redundancy last year, I did not feel pessimistic, as I assumed I could return to working in short-term jobs. As in the eighties I signed up with the employment agencies. Unfortunately, I never got offered anything. I could not find even the type of casual jobs that kept me off the dole queue at an earlier time. And as for finding my next permanent job, I reckon I have a better chance of being selected for the next England World Cup team.

It was not before I learned of online jobs and got offered the chance to work from home on my own account, that I was able to find a way out of a long period of unemployment. Following a modest payment for the appropriate training, I could set up an Internet business giving advice to companies on raising their website’s search engine profile. Reward is on the basis of results, verifiable confirmation that a website has made it to the top page of a Web search. However by employing the proper ethical techniques, this can be achieved over a reasonable time.

The benefit of working in your own Internet business is that you are free to decide your own hours, and your own way of working. It is a fascinating and challenging type of work, and definitely beats checking widgets in a factory or punching data on a keyboard all day, as I did in the past. Once I had the chance to work from home in this area, I never regretted it. I don’t even think I’d want to go back to my former permanent job, if they offered it to me. And as for my recollection of the 1980s, well it was never all gloomy: the fantastic music of that decade will live forever, for me.

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