You can only obtain legitimate work from home positions from brick and mortar companies. You want to send your resume out to companies hiring for positions you are qualified for, but include in your resume that you have a home office and you wish to work remotely. Include how you have your home office set up and what equipment you already have in order for you to perform your job. These jobs are just going to advertised as jobs, they would not promote them as work at home because they would hear from too many unqualified people
Do you have a car? Maybe a small paper route?Are you allowed to find one child to watch? Maybe 6-12, more independent before and after school?Maybe an old lady just needs company and a little help and you can take the children with?Selling avon or something in that nature?
If you want cash straight out of the gate the only way you ll be able to earn that kind of money is customer service positions. You can mess with Ebay, but you need to buy and sell high dollar items to make your margin because with Ebay you cannot acheive volume without shelling out a good deal of cash and having some serious computer smarts. (Your pretty much an online flea market buying from yard sales and retailing at market value) Ive been doing MLM out of my home full time for about 7 months and have been successful enough to replace my previous income as a Commercial Construction Project Manager (It took 7 months, not minutes). However you will have to leave home to make contacts, attend meetings etc. It is not easy, but Authors like David Bach, Robert Kiyosaki, Charles King and Donald Trump (though I do NOT recomend his company - ask if you want) Heck even David Ramsey said Networking done right is a good source of income. they all recomend mlm over conventional start-up buisnesses. If you absolutley cannot leave your home and dont want to start a small buisness the only thing i can think of is posting ads for google or bing. Everything i recomended has risk associated with it, If you do not have a high risk tolerance you have to be an employee, which means you will have to be held accountable to production rates and times etc.. If you own your own buisness, you are accountable to noone but yourself which means a better schedule, but when you work you give it everything not just going through the motions.