Question: How is working on the Internet different from working at a regular job?

Answer: Most "regular jobs" are time-based and require you to be physically present. For example if you get a job at McDonalds, you have to:

A. Show up at a certain time, ready to work.

B. You must be presentable, which means dressed and groomed in a manner compatible with the position and the public contact your job requires.

C. Your compensation is generally time-based; you are paid by the hour or week or month that you are there working or ready to work.

D. Your supervisor is charged with making sure you show up, look presentable and actually work during the hours you are "clocked in"

Internet jobs, real online jobs, are results-based and deadline-based. This means that no one cares how you look, how (or even if) you are dressed or what hours you work. They care about what you get done. How many surveys you completed, how many blog postings you made, how many social network bookmarks you placed -- whatever it was you were supposed to do.

No one cares whether you work mornings, afternoons or nights. That is generally up to you. If your job was to write ten articles on "Artichoke hearts" and deliver them by noon on Friday, they don't care when or where you wrote the articles or if you shaved and took a bath or not.  All they care about is that you have them there, with acceptable format and quality by or before noon on Friday.

In a "regular job" at a "bricks and mortar" company/business, it's about showing up on time, making a good appearance and working during the prescribed hours.

In an Internet job (real online job), it's all about what you accomplished and whether you met your deadlines or not.

Oh, and when you work for a bricks and mortar company you have to show up at a specific time and place on payday to get your check or your pay envelope. When you work on the Internet your money earned is deposited in your PayPal account and you access it using a debit card at any ATM, anywhere in the world, at any hour.