Ideas for self employment - mature couple

BigAunty

tommyknocker wrote: »

The world will be a vastly different place in 10 years time. I'd suggest you consider your options a few more years down the line.

Your view may well be that the world will be a vastly different place in a decade but I am still optimistic that there will be a requirement for the kinds of services I am contemplating.

I'm only going to be weighing up my options and doing some research and mulling in the interim, keep an eye out for opportunities. I could bring my plans forward if my partner gets sick of their current role (I actually want to do this sooner).

londonTiger

Mistral001 wrote: »

LondonTiger may have had some success with elance.com, but be prepared for low fees there. There seems to be very few fields where you are not competing with people from low-pay economies. Also I suspect a lot of work is being done as "homers" by people who use their employers very expensive software to produce work for extra cash. They can do it for low fees because they have not the software overheads of the established firms.

LondonTiger has mentioned having your own website. In fact most of the people on elance who have a large number of sucessful bids seem to be established firms with their own website etc. So perhaps that is the way to go if you want to be a sucessful freelancer.

Relying on elance for you living is a bad idea. It can affect your business if you have one bad review. I do not recommened relying on elance. But it's a good way to test what works and dip your toes in the water as you don't need to have a website and can experiment with things.

It's a route to get started and get experience before creating an advertising campaign to get traffic to your website.