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Needing ideas.

June 23, 2009 on 11:42 am | In Computers and Web Stuff, Craftiness, Life In General | 1 Comment

I’m out of a job very soon. There are a limited number of jobs that I can do in an office, and even fewer that are willing to hire an immigrant right now. My husband has a decent job but he earns about £500 a month less than we need to pay all our bills and continue to eat. So I need money.

I have a cafepress shop that brings in a few hundred dollars every few months. Nowhere near enough to live on. The ads on my web pages bring in even less.

Ideas I have in process right now:

Freelance proofreading and editing – I’m nearly through my course for a proofreading certificate.
Etsy shop – I make handspun yarn suitable for knitting, crocheting, and weaving. Not a lot, but it might be a little extra cash.
Zazzle shop – I’ve been thinking about moving a lot of my t-shirt designs from cafepress to Zazzle. But I lost all the source image files when my computer was stolen last year, so I’d be starting over from scratch.

What else can I do that you would pay for? Leave your ideas in the comments.