Early last year, when Tabatha Curtis left her server job at Cracker Barrel to care for a daughter with health issues, her prospects for finding a position that would allow her to work from home seemed bleak.
There were plenty of remote job postings – for secretaries, tax preparers and customer service roles at communications and insurance companies.
“But I didn’t have the experience they were looking for,” says Curtis, who is 46 and lives in Killeen, Texas.
Then she saw an Indeed ad for a remote restaurant order taker and wondered, “How in the world is that going to work?”
Now she’s taking drive-thru orders for a fast-food chain called Baby Jack’s in Memphis, Tennessee, 600 miles away. “It’s right up my alley,” she says. “You’re sitting at home” in a T-shirt and sweats as a parade of drivers pop up on your laptop screen.
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