The metropolitan city of Chennai is renowned for its Kanchipuram sarees, South Indian cuisines, palmyra-fiber handicrafts, stone carvings and Marina beach. Over the recent years it has developed an extensive industrial base in the automobile,manufacturing, Information Technology & Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) and textile and ready-made garment industry. The sun of opportunities never sets in Chennai. There are myriad job possibilities available in various sectors of Chennai’s economy. The Retail sector , IT, automotive and textile industry have facilitated a large number of people to find worthwhile job opportunities with lucrative remuneration in Chennai famously known as the ‘Detroit of Asia’. Being located at the Coromondal Coast, the port of Chennai has been helpful as a gateway of cargo to people engaged in Export-Import ventures. Nonetheless there is no dearth of job opportunities in Chennai but people now-a-days are preferring to work part time, work from home, work online or to work as freelancers owing to the changing life styles. You just need a computer, internet knowledge and a good typing speed to begin with. Part Time jobs in Chennai have actually helped many people to earn even more than their full time jobs. Companies aiming to cut costs have also begun allowing employees to work from home. These work for home opportunities are also available for housewives, students and retired persons. Chennai has various BPOs owing to the leadership of IT domain there and many of them have organized non-voice BPO projects and even inbound and out bound campaigns for single and bulk customers to be done from employees’ home easily. On the other hand content writing, copywriting, advertisement posting, blogging, data entry, form filling, survey processing, link building, forum posting, home based MT, HBT, data conversion, html tagging, data editing, captcha entry, pdf to doc, jpeg to doc, copy paste work etc. at home have been handsomely rewarding options of work in Chennai. Freelance article writing, textile designing, still photography and proof reading have been the most followed jobs in Chennai recently. Such jobs are offering people from Rs.10,000/- to Rs.50,000/- depending upon their potential to work. Various MNCs and IT Companies in Chennai are now offering flexibility in working hours in part time jobs as suitable to the employees and such jobs are also paying more than regular part-time jobs. Universities in Chennai have also been involving graduates and post graduates for part time research works and fellowships. The written material required as a reference for thesis and doctorate dissertation, referencing list and bibliography have also become a part of work from home but such works are available to only those who have secured degree in the concerned subject and are only approved after some written tests and assignments. These are some of the new ways chosen by those living in Chennai to learn and earn with confounded complacency.


