Please help - I need a job I can do from home.

[meanieleanie]

Sorry to abuse AIBU in this way. I have found out I'm going to lose my job soon.

For various reasons, I really need to find something I can do from home but I have no idea where to start or what I could do but really need an income of about £1000 a month.

My skills/interests:-

I have a law degree but am not a solicitor
I am good with data analysis
I like beauty and fashion
I'm quite shy when I first meet people
New places scare me but I'm getting better
I lack confidence
I'm good at writing/grammar
I'm not good at tech stuff

Any ideas whatsoever for some kind of self employment I might be able to do from home?

Banya, how bloody rude! I have built up my business myself, and am certainly not part of a pyramid scheme! No need for your comment at all!

Ignore Banya.

It is certainly possible to earn a good profit through selling second hand stuff on ebay.
A full time salary is easily possible.
I sold second hand books online for 14 years.
Every Saturday I would attend a jumble sale or two.
Dealers would arrive early- often an hour before opening to make sure they were the first to the tables. Those few minutes gave a huge advantage.
The same faces would appear week after week and as waiting is boring I struck up friendships with many.
A lot of them earned a full time living by selling stuff online.
Some sold vintage clothing, or other types of clothing,others one sold jewellery, I sold books- others did too, some sold vinyl records, some ceramics and pottery.
It was an eye opener to see how money could be made.

Matched betting is a good wfh way to bump your income up. There are forums and websites, a couple knocking around on mn, and some susbscribed services you can sign up to for a few quid per month.

Income varies, you can earn in excess of 1k a month but you do have to put the hours in and build a bank to work with. But you could whizz through the welcome offers in a few weeks with a couple of hundred quid and an hour a day. That should give you enough to start on the reload offers.

I wouldn't want to rely on it to pay my bills, but as an additional income stream it would work well.

Watson cat I would very interested in knowing more too, if you have time to PM me! I am sure you are inundated!

I used to sell clothes on eBay too - to start I went online and googled clothing wholesalers and bought some stock. It’s not rocket science to get started.

I agree with a few others that it’s really galling when you’ve put months or years worth of trial and error into starting a business, and people come along and expect you to give away that knowledge for nothing. For example I spent thousands and a few years trying out materials for my old business until I found the perfect things - the number of people who asked me to just tell them where I got stuff was insane.

I am super curious though about the pp who makes £3k a month selling handmade items - I know hundreds of people who do something similar and only two who make that much (although generally they make a lot more).

My neighbour works from home screening job applicants for a big company. So she sifts through resumes and does reference checking. I wouldn't have thought that you'd need lots of experience to do this, just good phone skills, professional manner, be discreet and organised.

SinkGirl

That's me who does the craft stuff.
I sell on ebay an Amazon, I have a few outlets too- shops that I supply in the US, Ireland and Japan.

It's a niche type market, again I don't want to give too much away, but it is very profitable for me.

That’s great :) Glad it’s going so well for you! I’ve never tried selling handmade items on eBay or amazon, I guess it really depends what you’re making.

I used to sell books on Amazon a few years ago and made a bit, however over time found postage costs went up and book prices went down as more and more listings were made. I used to buy from charity shops and booksales. But again they started also selling online.

Hi everyone. So Im new to this but hoping you lovely lot can offer some words of advice. I suffer with chronic migraine (basically I have tension headaches and/or migraines everyday. Ive also recently been diagnosed with fibromyalgia so Ive been struggling quite a bit recently and am currently signed off sick. My partner has always drank alot and Ive told him recently how much I dislike it when he drinks as it makes me feel so lonely. He sits there drinking can after can, trys talking nonsense to me and I just get wound up coz hes slurring his words and talking tubbish before he falls asleep with a can in his hand or snoring from the beer. Oh and then he wakes up in the morning after a fridge full feeling horny! He has got a project on at work at the moment which has a deadline so he is doing extra hours (he works with a group of his friends) but he still finds a couple of hours after work to go to the pub with his work friends. He says I am being unreasonable in being upset that he has gone to the pub instead of coming home to me and his children. He also uses any excuse to drink so it was our sons birthday the other day and we had family round and he just had to get drunk. He becomes argumentative with me whenever I mention it and I have really just had enough now. He told me last night that I should leave if I didnt like it! He also said that he will be really annoyed with me if I ruined the weekend. Hangon a minute what exactly have I done? Any opinions please.

Hiya, you'd be better off starting off your own thread on the Relationships board. ANd if that's your real name, you need to change it pronto. Good luck xx

This is a really great thread.

I make 3-400 per month on crowdworker platforms such as Figure Eight, UHRS/Clickworker and Microworkers. Most of this can be done with one eye on the telly.

Try tefl.net for online tefl jobs. They list them daily. Many online ones don't even ask for a Celta but do research them-a couple ask you to work for them for a month before you are paid. Some actually provide you with a set script to deliver.

spiteful have you any tips for making good money this way? I did a quick Google and the turnover seems tiny?

I don't wfh at the moment but I'm another who started with AQA. I briefly did some audio typing at home, too, having fallen into audio typing in various temp jobs at uni. I have a CELTA and a few years face to face teaching experience and used to private tutor for IELTS so that's something I may consider in the future. At the moment I have a full time job and do tiny tiny bits of matched betting, having fallen out of the habit, but will probably try and up this a bit. We also used to buy from an auction house and sell on - started by accident, buying box lots that had something we wanted and then selling on the rest. OH went further and bought and sold quite a lot to do with his hobby but knocked that on the head a year or so ago. He works from home now, in an employed rather than self employed capacity, but does have to be out of the house a couple of days a week on average for meetings.

I'm interested in some of the info on this thread; not going to ask for obvious reasons but I would love to know the details behind some of the success stories such as the craft sales. Write a book one day!

I wouldn't invest in beauty therapy. There is too much competition and the industry is being very driven to Botox and stuff now. It's not just about A nice little facial nowadays.

A word of warning. Proofreading and copy-editing are not careers you can just step into if you have good grammar.

It’s a highly competitive field and you need training and experience.

You have to market yourself to build up your client base, be able to run your own business, etc.

The society for Editors and Proofreaders is a good place to start. They and the Publishing Training centre provide good training,

I knew someone who made children's clothes and sold them online and did quite well from it.

eel's right about Proofreading & copy editing. But it does really help to have a specialism. Your law degree is a massive advantage. Not everyone can copy edit legal tracts as you have to know the difference between elephantine, cumbersome language that can be simplified and elephantine cumbersome language that is a specific legally binding point of law.

whats is crowdworking?

Having just quickly googled crowd working, I am really none the wiser!

Have you thought about auditing? Given the fact you have a legal/compliance background and a 'feel' for data analysis/interrogation, it could work for you.

A friend of mine works as a PT auditor for a company that configures scientific equipment and although they are occasionally required to make 'site visits', it's generally only in the case of an anomaly, so maybe two/three times a year. The money is very good, hence they are able to work PT hours. They say the work is quite inetersting too, which is a bonus!

@meanieleanie makes a good point, but assistants are still being used but in an expanded capacity. The current trend is in the move to virtual assistants that can handle a lot more than just document preparation. There is a big market for content writing, maybe utilise that skill? Even though you're not very technical, getting set up doing VA tasks isn't too complex. You can check out listing your services on UpWork or Fiverr. This is a really informative blog that can help you get started: avirtual.co.uk/blog/