looking for work to do at home

[lrryan]

My cousin and I are looking for some business that we can do from home. She has a two yr old daughter and my son is in kindergarten and we like being able to have our time with our children but we want to make some money also. we are looking for ideas. : l:

[Lyle]

Hey lrryan...what type of work from home would you like to do? Do you have any skills that you feel can be utilyzed from a home base? These are things that you need to think about as you look for home-work. For example I realized a few years ago that I enjoyed surfing the Web and that maybe I could use that to my advantage to work from home...hence my web-design business which is in it's fourth year and doing well...for me at least... It is difficult to figure out what potential talents you may have but I am sure you and your cousin can come up with a few...also you may find that you and your cousin have similiar talenst and that maybe you both can work on something as partners. If I can be of any more help please feel free to let me know. There are lots of ways to use this board and I wish you luck in your search.

Lyle

[lrryan]

that is my problem. i am at a changing point in my carrer. I have worked in the childcare business for the last 15 yrs of my life and even have education in that field. I have found that isn't what I want to do. Please don't suggest that I run a child care out of my home. I have tried it. I am just done with it. I do love children and the idea of avoactiong for them but the child care business is alot of work and stress. I have a child with special needs and I tended to give to much to my work and by the time I came home I didn't have enough left for my son. I don't want to do that anymore. I am very crative and I love to write and read. I just started dabbling in oil painting and photography. Unfortunaly in the middle of my oil painting classes my teacher had to quite because her husband is very ill. I haven't found anymore classes in my area and I can't really aford to take classes at the community collage. As for photography have just started to mess around with it and I feel inaduate in it. I just don't know. As I said I am in a change right now and not sure what to do.

[Lyle]

Hi again lrryan. I can understand your position and no, I won't suggest opening your own day care...

I don't know if you have already done this or not but I have and it always proves inspiring...especially on those days when I need an inspirational pick-me-up. Go to www.ivillage.com , which is a site for women, and even though I am not a woman I enjoy checking it out.

Do a search for "success stories" and see what comes up. There are many women out there who are in the same position as you and Ivillage has some great stories of how such women worked the Web from home to become successes online. This may provide you with some ideas that you can utilyze.

There is another resource as well that you might look into at http://www.hbwm.com/ .

Hopefully checking out these sites may provide a spark that will allow you to realize your needs. All the best to you and your son and if I can be of any more help please feel free to let me know. Take care.

Lyle Robinson

[jrthrmn]

I work at home for a company called Melaleuca - their opportunity is nice because I don't have to sell anything, stock or deliver anything. All the people I speak with in the course of my work are very friendly and polite and never give me trouble of any kind. Please let me know if you'd like to know more.

(I hope nobody thinks I'm 'just advertising' my business - I really do want to help if my opp is right - let me know if this is inappropriate)

[hellow]

Hi jrthrmn,

I am a new member.

I wish to work from home.

I wish to know more about the company Melaleuca

Thanks

[uniquorn]

Some ideas:

Do beaded jewlry and hold parties.

Keep searching on hotjobs.com and learn to use the advanced search feature. There are some cool jobs for work at home once in a while.

Make unusual gift baskets, like cold and flu survival baskets etc.

Learn html and offer free one page sites. People will usually want more and you can charge them.

Start a baby sitter location service. Wish there was one in my area!

Offer to sell peoples stuff for them on ebay. You can build this by walking around the neighborhoods and handing your card out. People will take you to their garage and ask you if you can sell this or that.

Put together cool kits for kids, like stamp collecting, rock collecting, etc.

Hope this helps.

[hellow]

hi uniquorn,

give me some more tips. ur tips seems to be interesting and useful. please tell me how to launch a webpage.

thnaks in advance