I suggest answering these questions before considering any "work from home" opportunities. If it's just a matter of your current job, why not look for another employer.
Ask HN: Besides programming, what's a realistic "work from home" job?
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Re: Ask HN: Besides programming, what's a realistic "work from home" job?
#12- writing. plenty of places still paying for content. - use software like tradestation or wealth-lab to build a workable trading system. trade from home. - background checks. with rise in VC investment is also new needs for doing cheap background checks. - penny auction arbitrage. there's a new startup in penny auctions every day. they start off unprofitable because not enough traffic. meaning, you can win cheap ipad…
- do a portal on class action lawsuits. almost everyone is applicable to win some class action (e.g. eat french fries from Mcdonalds 10 yrs ago? you won a class action. have an ipod in 2004, you won a class action, etc). High keyword spending there. No portals are good. - buy up popular domain names with the words misspelled (e.g. www.eatingdsorders.com, etc) - then do appropriate content (scrape sites) and google ad…
Hey, you know your therapy idea, I often wondered about that myself. But aren't you begging for prosecution to practice psychotherapy without a license?
Re: Ask HN: Besides programming, what's a realistic "work from home" job?
#13- writing. plenty of places still paying for content. - use software like tradestation or wealth-lab to build a workable trading system. trade from home. - background checks. with rise in VC investment is also new needs for doing cheap background checks. - penny auction arbitrage. there's a new startup in penny auctions every day. they start off unprofitable because not enough traffic. meaning, you can win cheap ipad…
I would like to write more often, and though making money would be a bonus, having a topic to focus on would help greatly. Where can I look to get started?
Thanks!