Ever hear of the cliche: Don't put all of your eggs in one basket? Unfortunately, most only have one egg...their job.
Since the age of 15 after seeing my folks get laid off and struggle with money, I never ever wanted to put my faith in a job. I always was open to having a job, but wanted to always be in biz for myself on the side. And from experience, there's plenty to do as an employee working from home and as a business owner OR employee working from home. I did sales for a newspaper, bookkeeping, accounts receivables (calling companies that owed us), a cfo for 2 diff businesses, business consultant, tax prep, political consultant, energy drink supplier, corporate and gift incentives, day trading (bombed at that) and a couple others that elude me for the moment. I did all of these from home without needing an office. Now a couple of these did and do require travel for meetings and whatnot, but none of these required an outside office and most of these I could do while holding a typical 9 to 5 job without leaving work. This is what I did anyway. There are plenty other things to do out there.
BTW, mentioning specific companies is a no-no, unfortunately. There's a great number of good companies out there.
