Google Jobs from Home – Not Freakin’ True!!!

I really hate to bust anyone’s bubble about this, but if you actually believe that there is any such thing as Google jobs from home, I can only assume that you’re either brand new to all things Internet-related, or just extremely naïve. People love the idea of not having to commute to work, but rather working from home in the comfort of their PJ’s or whatever, and when you combine this with the prospect of working for such a rock-star company as Google, you’ve got yourself a good framework for a plethora of scams aimed at unsuspecting job seekers. I don’t know what it is about people to where they simply won’t do their own homework, but like P.T. Barnum (or someone who knew him) once said, “There’s a sucker born every minute”. This is so true, and for a while I did not want to believe this about my fellow man, but I have come to the place in my life where I have realized that the majority of people out there simply do not think for themselves. The Bible even says in the Book of Proverbs that “the simpleton believes every word they hear”. This is so true, especially when you throw a little desperation in the mix…a lot of times, people will override their own common sense for the sake of believing that there’s some kind of remote possibility that they could make money working for Google from home. For those who may not have too much of a background on this, there was a time recently where a rash of websites and advertisements were popping up claiming that “Google is hiring”, and that you could make money from home by doing nothing more than “posting links on Google”. Again, these advertisements were aimed at the complete Web noob, and unfortunately, tons of people took the bait. Here’s how the basic scam went: These advertisements would claim that Google was looking for people that they could hire to work from home, and that you could make money by doing nothing more than “posting links on Google”—which, by the way, is an extremely ambiguous job description. Well, once you signed up for the free kit (normally you only paid about 3 bucks for “shipping and handling”) which supposedly showed you how to do your “job” of posting links on Google, what these scumbags failed to emphasize was that once you received your kit, your credit card would be billed every month to the tune of 80 dollars, give or take, until you put up enough fuss to get it cancelled, which would normally take the equivalent of an act of Congress to get done.

The websites promoting this crappy pseudo-opportunity were normally set up like news websites, such as the New York Times or the Chicago Sun-Times, with the same look and feel, to hopefully dupe you into thinking that they were legitimate. A lot of times, these sites would appear on people’s computers as pop-up windows, many times planted there by some sort of malicious software (malware). Others, however, were set up to look like a personal blog, with someone’s fake “testimonial” about how they’re making tons of money posting links on Google (which doesn’t even make any sense if you really understand AdWords and AdSense). The testimonial would show a screen shot of a check from Google for three grand or whatever, and of course the person would say that they’re getting these checks every week from Google, which is already a lie, because if you are involved in Google’s AdSense program (which to my knowledge is the only way you can get ANY kind of check from Google), those checks only come once a month, not once a week. And for you to receive a check for supposedly “posting links on Google”, which is a retarded way to say that you’re advertising via PPC with Google AdWords, Google doesn’t pay you jack for doing that—actually, you pay Google to participate in Google AdWords. Anyone with even half of a shred of knowledge about Google AdWords or Google AdSense should be able to see right through this bullcrap. But again, people desperate for money (and there’s a lot of ‘em out there) tend to operate in selective hearing and confirmation bias, believing only the things that will support their desires, instead of looking at something objectively. So again, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there is no such thing as Google jobs from home…at least not in the sense that these fake scamming websites would lead you to believe. If you really want to find out about Google’s employment policies and opportunities, go to their website (hey, that’s a novel idea) at http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/joininggoogle/index.html. Hopefully I haven’t crushed anyone’s dreams of making tons of cash every day online while sitting at their kitchen table in their underwear a la Jeff Paul (another fine upstanding scam artist), but if I did, don’t shoot the messenger.