I would avoid jobs where someone claims they can train you to work from home.  I have found that some of these jobs are either pyramid scams or there is no guarantee that you would get a job or training for that matter.  If a prospective employer offers you training or a job to work from home and then asks you for money I would avoid it like the plague.
The best way to telecomute is to already have a set of skills and be using them in an office job.  I work from home sometimes but I have been working in an office most of the time for the past 25 years.  I didn't get to work from home right away.  Just make sure you thoroughly investigate the employer with the chamber of commerce.  You should also make sure you have assistive technology which you can use at home.  An employer may want to see you use your assistive technology in an office and make sure it works in their network environment.  Working at home may be tricky especially if you need to set up a VPN with your employer.  Sometimes they use hardware security devices which issue pin numbers you use to log into a server and those devices aren't usually accessible.  Fortunately, I have a setup which uses software to log into a VPN and that works well with JAWS.  Make sure to do your homework before you present yourself to an employer for a job.

Dan

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> Catherine, excellent info to provide, and usually, telecommuting jobs might also require sales and not all technical jobs are telecommuting since their potentially could be a security risk.
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> This is a great question to ask your state VR agency.  It's been my experience that many of the telecommuting companies that claim to provide jobs for people with disabilities provide temporary contract work at best.  I haven't heard of too many people having a long-term, stable, sustainable wage job from organizations such as NTI or J Lodge.  Not to say these sustainable wage, stable jobs don't exist with these organizations.  I just personally haven't had any customers where this worked out.  There are also usually pretty stringent computer equipment and computer skills requirements which can eliminate many candidates.  My recommendation would be to look for a job from a company that has both a brick and morter office and some work from home options for employees.
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>> On 1/12/16, Jeff Kenyon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi everyone, I am also interested in this as well. I am interested in 
>> the kind of telecommuting work that can be done from home and also 
>> what is legit and what is not and how to tell one from the other.
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>>> On Jan 12, 2016, at 5:08 PM, Bundy, Keith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Good evening, list. I continually read where legitimate telecommuting 
>>> jobs are on the increase.
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>>> For a variety of reasons, I am looking for a career change and would 
>>> love to step into telecommuting due to not wanting to relocate at 
>>> this point in life. Does anyone on the list have any ideas as to how 
>>> one can make a serious effort to find legitimate telecommuting work?
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>>> Thanks for any thoughts you may have.
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