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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: tombogan03884 on November 15, 2010, 10:31:57 PM
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This forum seems to contain all the knowledge of humanity, and I know we have IT people on here
I'm looking for a career change .
What is available for non geeky computer work at home jobs that are legitimate ?
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Good question, I'll be keeping an eye on this one myself.
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Consulting, Small scale manufactoring, porn( I have a friend form HS making several 100k a year in the porn industry) Small scale confections, machining, all kinds of sales, record keeping, RE stuff, raising "pets", and many many more...
The really question is can you legally do it in your area.
I have 2 consulting biz running right now, not making a bunch of cash, but its netting about 1500 a month for basicly what ammounts to less then 100 hours of work a month.
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IT requires training and experience to do consulting successfully. Training you can get, but with the glut of Indians in IT getting experience may be a tad difficult. It is one of the obstacles I faced when I was unemployed, not only do they control a large percentage of the recruiting in this country now, they also see nothing wrong with asking for decades of experience, and then offering $42 an hour for the skills - including $15-20 in travel expenses, so you're netting maybe $22 an hour. May sound like a lot, but it isn't. Plus there's that whiole TSA travel thing.
I have a friend who is making some substantial change in placing ATMs in various businesses. Or you can consult or do custom work in machine work as a sideline to build the business before bailing on your current job.
Things that bad with the jackass management?
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IT requires training and experience to do consulting successfully. Training you can get, but with the glut of Indians in IT getting experience may be a tad difficult. It is one of the obstacles I faced when I was unemployed, not only do they control a large percentage of the recruiting in this country now, they also see nothing wrong with asking for decades of experience, and then offering $42 an hour for the skills - including $15-20 in travel expenses, so you're netting maybe $22 an hour. May sound like a lot, but it isn't. Plus there's that whiole TSA travel thing.
I have a friend who is making some substantial change in placing ATMs in various businesses. Or you can consult or do custom work in machine work as a sideline to build the business before bailing on your current job.
Things that bad with the jackass management?
Yes >:(
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I'm very interested in this as well since I have to make a career change due to health issues. I'm generally healthy but not enough to do what I've been doing. That along with family needs is forcing a change. I'm looking for a good business to start to with a minimal investment, say 10k. I'd like to learn more about the ATM idea, I looked into vending machines a little and that still may be a possibility. I still do a little consulting work in corporate safety and security but not enough to depend on.
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That's pretty much my situation as well. My health issue's make my current employer leery of keeping me, and should they let me go it will pretty much bar me from what I have been doing for the last 25-30 years.
To expand on my reply to Path, it is not so much that management are being jerks any more, but they do not want to be liable if I drop dead on the job, I really can't blame them for that as I would not want that responsibility either.
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This forum seems to contain all the knowledge of humanity, and I know we have IT people on here
I'm looking for a career change .
What is available for non geeky computer work at home jobs that are legitimate ?
Consulting: I charge $1,000 for 2 questions. What was your second one?
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Consulting: I charge $1,000 for 2 questions. What was your second one?
shit I wish I could do that
would only need to work 3 days a year then 8)
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shit I wish I could do that
would only need to work 3 days a year then 8)
Downside is that's all you may get. I get paid pretty well for research, but I don't get paid often. I had a sweet little deal going that paid almost as well as working. Problem is twofold. As searching gets easier, your skills become a lot less valuable. Its like secretaries and receptionists. Why hire them when you have e-mail, voice mail and spellcheck and automated forms? Book keepers? You've got Quik-Books. I am very leery of "work at home" stuff. I tend to think the only people that make money at it are those who teach other people how to do it. :-\ I would love to do it, but since my two biggest customers have either joined with a larger firm or retired, I will need a real job sooner rather than later. Anyone who has any bright ideas let me know.
FQ13
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quick books is crap.
Its nothing more slighly more user friendly spread sheet.
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As always, I offer my most humble opinion in two short words...
Man Whore!
Discuss quietly please!
;D ;D
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Wow, I don't know if I can top the man whore suggestion, but I'm working on a side project, iPhone game. Still work in progress and I won't see a dime until it releases, need a programmer first though. Any of you boys know Java Script or C#? ;)
Good luck, the working from home doesn't offer a lot, outside the illegal.
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As always, I offer my most humble opinion in two short words...
Man Whore!
Discuss quietly please!
;D ;D
Quietly? If I could make good money offering my glorious bod in living technicolor on the web I'd be shouting it from the roof tops. Hell, I'd be the pinesol guy. (Well, maybe not not him, but at least close as long as it was only over the web)> :o ;D
FQ13
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As always, I offer my most humble opinion in two short words...
Man Whore!
Discuss quietly please!
;D ;D
Doesn't sound real promising for a guy with a bad heart.
But what a way to go. ;D
FQ, There ARE legitimate ways to make money with out great computer skills, E-Bay and Amazon for example.