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Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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When it's pointed toward someone's real wife, in a sincere thread about something important - well, sex worker jokes aren't funny in that situation. Particularly given the guy isn't a friend of yours, nor is the wife. Suggestion: never try that anywhere but a web forum.

Phone sex is about the same as telemarketng-- more ethical, even. Don't degrade the people who do it by insinuating that it is bad work.

I never said it was bad work. Don't misrepresent what I actually said. I said it's a sex worker job. Which it is. I'd love to see an explanation for how getting paid to perform phone sex is not a sex worker job.

Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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I recently started using concierge services available to some credit cards.

Basically, concierge workers are similar to personal assistants and will fulfill requests such as book concert tickets, make phone calls for reservations, do some google research regarding one topic or another.

I found out that most concierge workers actually work from home. If she's ok with that kind of work, it might be worth looking into. Here's a reference: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/VIPdesk-com-Reviews-E29813....

Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

#163
Earning the credentials to have a satisfying career once the kid no longer benefits from a stay-at-home mom is more useful than earning side income doing something boring.

After 10-15 years of being a stay-at-home mom, she will be even more bored if she can't find a job and no longer has children to care for.

Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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post #140
post #43

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I don't happen to be a programmer. I have skills at doing things the world says cannot be done. There appears to be no money in either doing the impossible nor in trying to share information on how to do so. But thanks anyway.

You made me curious (about your skills at doing things the world says cannot be done). Can you elaborate?

Oh, sure. I'm talented at solving certain kinds of "personal" and social problems. Doing so tends to leave no evidence, thus I get called a teller of tall tales. Some issues I have addressed:

Recovery from child sexual abuse. I talk about that sort of/some on a blog called November West.

Raising and effectively educating very challenging children. I talk about that on a site called Kids Like Mine.

Getting well when doctors say it cannot be done. I talk about that on a site called Health Gazelle.

I don't know how to get traffic or effectively monetize any of them, in spite of the big reaction it often gets out of the handful of people that read them.

Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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Buying shit on Cragslist (or Gumtree in the UK) and selling on eBay and vice versa. My better half manages 500-800GBP a month with this quite happily. Persuaded some muppet to sell her a Korg Triton for 80GBP and got 580GBP on ebay for it :) Unfortunately it got converted to clothes and shoes pretty quickly :(

let me translate what you just said:

"Persuaded some muppet": she gained her mark's confidence.

"to sell her a Korg Triton for 80GBP": she ripped her mark off.

"and got 580GBP on ebay for it": and then she profited from the rip-off.

in some circles, that is referred to as grifting.

Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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post #166

Buying shit on Cragslist (or Gumtree in the UK) and selling on eBay and vice versa. My better half manages 500-800GBP a month with this quite happily. Persuaded some muppet to sell her a Korg Triton for 80GBP and got 580GBP on ebay for it :) Unfortunately it got converted to clothes and shoes pretty quickly :(

let me translate what you just said: "Persuaded some muppet": she gained her mark's confidence. "to sell her a Korg Triton for 80GBP": she ripped her mark off. "and got 580GBP on ebay for it": and then she profited from the rip-off. in some circles, that is referred to as grifting.

It was knocked down from 120 from someone who hadn't done their pricing research so it's fair game :)

Taking from idiots is an evolutionary step. Look at VC funding!

Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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post #113
post #49

QA, testing web sites in late development and logging bugs. Most developers hate doing this, & PM's are not good at anything. I usually pay $40/hr for this, however it only takes a few hours, and that rate means the bug report is reported in a way that it's easy to read and recreate without having to have a conversation about it.

I would also love to get into this. I am teaching myself programming but I'm far off from making a career out of it. I believe I can usually communicate well with programmers, but is there anything else I can do to make myself qualified for this type of job? Also, are there any recommended sites or places to look for these types of job postings besides the 99tests one mentioned? Thank you.

Also, as runamok mentioned above, there's http://www.usertesting.com/be-a-user-tester

Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

#169
post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

let me translate what you just said: "Persuaded some muppet": she gained her mark's confidence. "to sell her a Korg Triton for 80GBP": she ripped her mark off. "and got 580GBP on ebay for it": and then she profited from the rip-off. in some circles, that is referred to as grifting.

It was knocked down from 120 from someone who hadn't done their pricing research so it's fair game :) Taking from idiots is an evolutionary step. Look at VC funding!

Ignorance =/= idiocy.

Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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post #156
post #123

Placenta encapsulation

Ooooook. My wife makes hundreds of dollars a month doing this; it was a serious comment.

Intriguing - women send your wife their babies placenta and she makes it in to capsules for them??
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