One huge benefit to the Internet is the amount of jobs that have been created from it. In this particular case, you are sent out to the thrift stores in your city to buy non-fiction books to be sold on Amazon.com or eBay.com. Apparently this company, Aquaricon, makes enough money off their sales to pay you to buy these books on their behalf.
When you get to the thrift store or warehouse, you will call the company’s operator and tell them the ISBN number on the back of each book, the cost, and any defects. The operator will give you an instant yes or no decision. You then buy the book using Aquaricon’s money (which I don’t know how that part works–do they send you a pre-loaded debit card? I didn’t see this info anywhere. Sorry.) You then mail the books to the customer every second business day, and you use prepaid shipping labels off of the Internet to do that shipping. The pay for a part-time employee is $0.75 per book purchased plus $0.50 per book shipped plus $2.50 per trip to the post office. If you are a full-time employee, you are paid $30,000 per year paid semi-monthly, or the fees above, whichever is higher. They also reimburse for the time you spend on the cell phone with the operator at 3.5 cents per minute. This seems to be a very aboveboard job, although certainly a bit unusual–I had never heard of it before anyway. Perhaps I need to crawl out from underneath my rock more often.
Anyway, if this is something you are interested in, just know that you have to live within 30 miles of a major city center; have a computer, printer, and the Internet; cell phone with free long distance and Internet browser; and a car. You also cannot be employed elsewhere full-time or be a full-time college student.
If this still sounds like it would be a good fit for you, please send your resume to agents@aquaricon.com If anyone ends up getting this job, please tell me–I would love to hear an update!