I tend to work from home a lot in the evenings (about every other evening), but I am vpn'd into work, so I guess its not the same thing.
Because of my employment history (or complete lack thereof, as pertains to the past 10 years), I am working at home. I write articles for websites and clients as well. I do transcription, I basically just look all around and see what I can do that equals a budget. A cheap, cheap budget.
I'm wondering how other people are doing, and what changes you have made to either tighten your belts or find other sources of income - or both.
I look at places like GenuineJobs and RatRaceRebellion for actual telecommute openings, in addition to what I do now.
Good for you!!!!! I'd love to find work like that. In my case, it would be just to keep busy. But I do love writing. My life is blessed. I hope yours is as well.
It's been a while since I did at-home business things.
One thing I did that went somewhat smoothly (thought not netting *a lot* of money) was selling jewelry.
I found that visually pleasing pieces that were easy to duplicate - if the design was right - brought in far more money than more complicated (but neato) pieces did.
When doing that - since I had to be budget-very-wise - I'd search Etsy, Ebay and Isell and other things for cheap deals on supplies and all my needs - sometimes bartering what I needed for what I had to get rid of.
I, also, had a good time finding fabrics for people - or selling off my fabric stash - I'd buy on sale/clearance and then resell for a small increase - making a little profit while having all the fun of compulsive buying.
A huge success of mine was teaching a jewelry class at Hobby Lobby once a week in the evenings (I focused it on chainmaille) - I could have done a lot better with the class (organization wise) but I charge $10.00 per 1 hour lesson - and had an average of 10 students.
I wish you success. Personally, I need to be in an office setting to really focus on work, and even than I have trouble with it (hence my posting all day). However, my work schedule tends to be "as people have problems" and "projects" so I end up working evenings because problems don't go away after 5 pm.
I'd search Etsy, Ebay and Isell
The down side to Etsy is that you're not the only one. . .it's a huge international market - hard to be noticed. You have to make frequent activity on your online store (new items, sales, etc) to stay in the circulation loop.
That's what I was thinking. Getting traffic is not easy.
I have to re-read an article I have on writing for Amazon. That should be good residual income.
There you go
I could never make writing an income - I tried through those pay-for-blogs and review sights . . . but money or no - I'd always forget to write something up!
But I can remember to obcessively check my forum!
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