During these times of high unemployment, many people are looking into earning money on the net. Might be approached in various ways. One of the ways would be to find and make application for real online jobs. There are numerous opportunities for such on the internet, but A. They’re very different from regular jobs and B. You have to know where and how to look for them.
Making money on the Internet is usually a marketing thing; offering goods or services available for purchase online. Selling thing on eBay comes to mind as being a making money Internet sort of thing. Or offering your services online through such marketplaces as elance.com or guru.com. You can earn money on the net these ways, but they tend to be sporadic in the levels of earnings they supply.
To seek out real online jobs you need to search for and find companies that are organized and established to provide these jobs and have been doing so successfully for a moderately long time, say 2-3 years.
Some companies that meet these criteria offer real online jobs or real writing jobs. There’s one which helps you to find jobs online.
Remember that while offline “bricks and mortar” jobs are time-related, time driven (you “punch a time clock” in one way or another), online jobs are “measure of work” or piecework related. As an example, for offline jobs you earn money for your time, like so much each hour or so much a month. For online jobs you get paid for work done, like $20 per article written or $8 per blog posting made.