Working from Home
April 21st 2007 10:16
In the long patch between finishing my old job and trying to find a new one, I considered several ways of working from home. My wife and I thought we might gradually set up a secondhand bookshop in the house; certainly we wouldn’t have to pay rent on the place, and it’s the rent that often kills a business. We would build up an email list of customers, hopefully, and keep alerting them to new stock.
I considered doing people’s accounting, but while I can do bookkeeping, I’m not quite an accountant, and might not have been able to do the job satisfactorily.
I searched the Net constantly for ways to make money, and discovered that there are plenty of ways to make money, but none of them will keep you in anything more than pocket money – and I mean children’s pocket money, not what an adult would call pocket money. Still, I did discover some ways to write for cash, and though the gains are slow, they’re steady, and have been worth doing. Writing posts that include links to business sites is one of the more lucrative ways (if we take the word ‘lucrative’ to mean rather less than its usual meaning) and sites offering opportunities in this area are on the increase. Some are better at doing it than others, some are too restrictive in their approach to the task, and some have already folded for lack of advertisers.
I did come across one site where you got offered writing jobs constantly, but you had to bid for them and looking at the average bid of a $100US for writing anything up to 500 short posts seemed to me to fall somewhat short of a fair pay for a day’s work.
Aside from making money from the Net, I’ve transcribed music for people, and this isn’t a bad source of income, except there just aren’t enough people wanting this done for them at the moment. Still, it makes good use of my copy of the Sibelius software which I bought some months before I was unemployed, and that’s helpful.
My latest idea is to farm worms. But that'll have to wait until we come back from England, now.
I considered doing people’s accounting, but while I can do bookkeeping, I’m not quite an accountant, and might not have been able to do the job satisfactorily.
I searched the Net constantly for ways to make money, and discovered that there are plenty of ways to make money, but none of them will keep you in anything more than pocket money – and I mean children’s pocket money, not what an adult would call pocket money. Still, I did discover some ways to write for cash, and though the gains are slow, they’re steady, and have been worth doing. Writing posts that include links to business sites is one of the more lucrative ways (if we take the word ‘lucrative’ to mean rather less than its usual meaning) and sites offering opportunities in this area are on the increase. Some are better at doing it than others, some are too restrictive in their approach to the task, and some have already folded for lack of advertisers.
I did come across one site where you got offered writing jobs constantly, but you had to bid for them and looking at the average bid of a $100US for writing anything up to 500 short posts seemed to me to fall somewhat short of a fair pay for a day’s work.
Aside from making money from the Net, I’ve transcribed music for people, and this isn’t a bad source of income, except there just aren’t enough people wanting this done for them at the moment. Still, it makes good use of my copy of the Sibelius software which I bought some months before I was unemployed, and that’s helpful.
My latest idea is to farm worms. But that'll have to wait until we come back from England, now.
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