When it comes to real work from home you are bound to come up with differing opinions as to what real work is. There are a few unfortunate people who seem to think that in order for something to be real work, it must make you miserable. I have several friends that would quite pointedly disagree with that. These friends happen to be massage therapists.
Each of my friends at one time or another operated out of an office where several massage therapists worked. That type of set up makes it convenient for the person who wants to essentially drop in announced and get a good massage. However, the therapists themselves get s relatively small cut of the amount paid to the offices. The result is that many massage therapists opt to do their real work from home.
There would be those snobs that would argue that massage therapy was not real work. I would challenge those making such claims to spend hours a day massaging other people and then still have the nerve to say it did not classify as real work.
A massage therapist generally must be licensed, though that can vary from state to state and locality to locality. Still a therapist you chooses to perform his/her real work from home can charge the same or less than the salons and spas, attend to less clients and still earn as much or more than working out of one of the offices. As such massage therapy is one of the more popular occupations for those doing their real work from home.