Depending on the rigidity of your conscience you could whip up some buzzword laden project with "blockchain" written all over it. Some suckers will throw money at that if you give it a colourful website with plenty of vague promises that you never have to deliver.
Ask HN: Disabled and out of work for years, but need some side income
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#13Depending on the rigidity of your conscience you could whip up some buzzword laden project with "blockchain" written all over it. Some suckers will throw money at that if you give it a colourful website with plenty of vague promises that you never have to deliver.
I have a hard time with tutoring as it is because most students (at least where I'm getting them) just want the work done for them and typically come to you last moment.
If they come to you with money in hand and are just a little intellectually lazy or have worse time management than you’d like, you can still make a mutually beneficial trade.
Only offering tutoring to the most motivated students with the best time management skills is a self-limiting market.
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If this is the case, dropping on your own could be very precarious and potentially financially devastating.
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#17It's easy for me and I don't know your situation to say but try not to be so fixated on the $1200/mo. Seems to be that a solid job with Python skills could make the $1200 look small very quickly.
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#18Have you put out your resume on indeed.com, LinkedIn, etc, listing yourself as part time? Getting noticed by recruiters can be a way to get things done. Have you considered going back to school online? Being in school can help with Section 8 housing in the US, as can a disability. It also helps with lots of other public help. Also, you might scour for jobs that require a security clearance that are part time, as the…
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#19You could look at the big CRM platforms like Salesforce which require only a modified version of Java called Apex to customize. I find there are a dearth of good programmers working in the platform.
EDIT: Both of these options allow you to work remotely.
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#20It's easy for me and I don't know your situation to say but try not to be so fixated on the $1200/mo. Seems to be that a solid job with Python skills could make the $1200 look small very quickly.
There is usually a cap on what one can earn while continuing to receive disability. I think the total of disability and other income cannot exceed 60% of pre-disability earnings or something like that.