If you have any ideas about starting a small business in times like this, please put your thoughts down here where others can see them and maybe add to them. Maybe somebody might even put them to use.
Unfortunately I know nothing about starting or running any sort of business.
(Maybe ‘job fair’ was the wrong term)
I was just thinking of doing a thread where FReepers looking for work could post their skills and FReepers looking for employees could post openings, or something.
Needless to say, I never really fully formed my idea.
I was re-reading some of my old notebooks the other day. I keep tons of notes on stuff related to business, crafts, ideas for the future, plans, gardening, etc.
I came across an idea that I got from somewhere, and the idea is to find 20 “talents” that you have that will net you $1K a year, each. That way, you’ll be bringing in $20K a year without having a “real” job.
Anyhow, some of the talents that I have that have brought in cash in the past (when times were tough) were:
Gardening, Baking, Writing/Editing (Newsletter or web-page), Researching, Sewing, Crafting, Space Organizing, Refinishing Furniture, Rehabbing Found “Junk,” Teaching/Instructing, Raising Small Livestock and Selling garden Produce & Seedlings.
So then I thought...pick the Top Ten and make $2,000 off of each, each year. Narrow it down.
What talents do YOU have that could bring in extra cash? You’ll be surprised once you sit down and look at the skills you already have.
As Abraham Lincoln once said, “If you are looking for work, start from where you are standing.”