If you are looking to get started straight away looking for work at home jobs online there are websites on the internet advertising a wide range of jobs. If you enjoy and are a good writer you could write information products (eBooks) for people.

Data entry and translation work are other lines of work available on the web. Elance.com and Craigslist.com are websites that advertise such jobs. You can easily set yourself up as a freelancer online and get jobs on a regular basis search Yahoo or Google for freelancing sites.

You may also earn a second income online by setting up your own website to advertise your expertise in a particular field. You can set up a blog and write about something you have an interest in, sell space for adverts on your site. If you can get a lot of traffic (visitors) to your site this can be a very lucrative source of income.

Affiliate Marketing is also another type of website you could set up to promote products, an advantage of having your own website and advertising other peoples products is that you don't have to deal with the day to day problems of having to be in contact with the purchasers of such products.

What you do is send web visitors (which sounds easier than it actually is) to their websites, when they buy you get a commission which can vary from 5% to sometimes 100% of the product depending on the affiliate program.