What working-from-home is not

As already hinted, working-from-home does not mean having a location-independent job or being able to relocate if/when you wish.

Instead, more often than not, you are literally "grounded" in your own place to an internet connection (sometimes even to an IP address if your company makes use of a VPN) and/or to a land line.

Sometimes, you even need to be available to reach the office by 1 hour or so, in case of an emergency.

So, normally, no freedom of stay at friends or relatives for a week, unless differently specified.

For the same reasons, working from home is not necessarily "for those who love to travel" unless your job doesn't allow you to work "on the go" or to visit customers and prospects on a regular basis but do you consider business trips, maybe to the same place over and over again, a travel?

I will talk soon again about the other types of unusual jobs.

Unusual Jobs...location independent jobs

After consideration, unusual is a better word (than anomalous) for all those jobs which are not done in a traditional working environment.

In the meanwhile, I have been browsing on the internet and found lots of confusion with what I call "unusual jobs": webmasters tend to mix them all together even if these types of jobs might be very different from each other.

So they title a page/website "location independent" jobs but they link to work-from- home opportunities (some of them are clearly spams) and to jobs on cruise ships and for travel agencies which are totally unrelated to you being able to work "location independently", in other words where the h... you prefer.
That's a bit annoying.

I am afraid this is done intentionally though: I have the feeling they aim to fill the blanks of careers which are sadly not in high demands. Careers where you can more likely make money from those who search for them than from those who offer employment. Very Sad.

I know I ought to provide you with a link to the aforementioned websites (at least, for you to ban it from your lists) but you know how it works: they might be bigger than me and with a good lawyer, so better avoiding it (well, exactly as it is in real life, after all :-D).

See you soon with some definitions...

Unusual Anomalous jobs

I do not know how appropriate is this adjective "anomalous".
UPDATE 14.jul.10 Changed attribution into unusual. Anomalous gave the idea of something wrong associated with it.

With that, I refer to all those careers which are not performed in a job-dedicated environment; jobs which do not happen in offices, factories, studios, labs, etc.

Among the anomalous jobs are the work-from-home jobs, the jobs where you travel, the jobs where you move to a certain place/house or a combination of the above.

But among the anomalous careers the top is the location-independent job: a job you can run from anywhere in the world either from your in-the-middle-of-nowhere secret spot or from the other hemisphere while you sail.

I will ramble some more details about these later.

So far, food for thought.