Part time work at home internet business?

Okay, so I just recently moved to a new city & state. I’ve been searching for a job for a little over a month now. It’s no secret that finding a job is like finding a needle in a hay stack nowadays. I’ve posted my resume to several different sites and even filled out applications. I have gotten several messages from company’s claiming that they offer a home based business to the public. I’ve heard so many bad things, and after logging onto to several businesses that claim to be “legitimate” I’ve found that they require money upfront or they are located in the UK or some bizarre place. What I’m getting at is has anyone found a home based business that actually pays. No surveys…no scams…but actual work?

“If a company requires initial payment from you in order to work for them, they are not legitimate.”

There are a few legitimate data entry companies but are not hiring and have large waiting lists (1-2yrs). The majority of data entry jobs you seen online are scams. A real company will want you to have skills inc fast typing, may want you to know MS Excel, and will usually ask that you have high speed internet. Once in a long while you may found one online on a job website but thats rare.

If you do an advanced search on yahoo, you will find previous answers, sometimes the info on these is good as the info they gave is likely to have been verified if the answer was voted as ‘Best’.