@ the fairy....I'm sure that is so adorable!!! =DYep, right now I'm doing some "alternative marketing" for a non-profit. Did computer repair, musician(never got paid but free rent for 4 months works too)....I always push to learn new things that are fun to me and other people may need. Right now I have a lot to do just am lacking the motivation to do it. =/It could be something at awesome as picking up a paint brush and doing murals. Something as small as washing windows, mowing lawns, detailing cars, djing at parties. You don't even have push your work directly to individuals, small businesses love contract work. You can take pics of properties for real estate companies.... So many different things... soaringeagle said: i agree completely\
last boss i had was when i was 18
(well no i did a year as a vista in an office), but other then that been self employed or livin without the need for a job most of my life
i have often dine thinfgs i could get paid to do but didnt wanna though.. and ran a non profitr and never made a cent..but i dont like money much i dont need money much so was never too concerned with it
the "job" i loved most was making jewlery and thats all i did for many years
i have a freind who loved to cook..macrobiotics.. and that became her business, going into rich ppl's homes who were intertested in healthy diets but too lazxy to cook and shed cook for em..she got so bust with her biz we hardly ever saw her
anything u like doing normaly in everyday life u can market..i know 1 woman whos self employed and her job description is "fearie" she dresses up like a fairy and entertains at kids parties..
Didjeridurian said:2 words
Self employment!
That used to seem like a far fetched idea but these days with the market like it is it is actually more practical than finding a steady job.
Just start a business for yourself while you are in this one. Its not really that hard. Think about what you actually enjoy doing and that you are naturally good at. Then think of an angle in which that skill is needed by a certain demographic of people.
Fact is it may never take off enough to fully support you but if you do a few different things that you like to do instead of one big thing that makes you crazy you will be much happier.
Also if you diversify your income streams, when one dies down you can transfer your eggs to another basket for a while until things balance out again.
I see people wasting time every day doing things for free that most people would be more than happy to pay for. Even if you are doing a Not For Profit you still need to consider that in order to keep the orgnization alive you need to account for your own living expenses.
Self - employment means that you cannot lose your job. If it starts to fizzle out you have the opportunity to fix/improve/adjust/evolve your business in whatever creative way you like.
I know you can do it as long as you are confident and level headed about it.
Most people complain about their jobs but they spend their off time doing nothig about it. We all are capable of doing whatever we want to do if we take the responsibility to create it ourselves instead if waiting around for it to be offered to us.
Good Luck with whatever you choose
updated by @spider-feet: 07/16/15 08:19:26AM
