Looking for a work-from-home self-employed job

duchy

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philmts

As others have said there are lots of online opportunities that you can benefit from here are a few I use.

PTC sites. specifically ones that you can rent referrals from. (it saves chasing about and trying to get people to sign up under you) sites like neobux and probux are a good start

Set up a blog with google adsense to advertise on for you and blog about a hobby. you just set the adverts where you want them and google does the rest based on users cookies and keywords on the webpage.

Finally my favourite and best so far... Youtube. Set up a youtube account. make videos about hobbies or skills you have. once you get a fair amount of views you can monetize the videos and make around £1 for every 1000 views. they don't pay unless you make over £60 but i got payed twice this year with only having 4-5 videos up.

Good luck finding some inspiration

Bobster64

GustyGardenGalaxy wrote: »

I'm currently looking to work from home, self-employed in some kind of technical or research capacity but am in need of some ideas.

I'm currently a circuit board diagnostician and repairer but after 12 years of doing this it's boring me utterly senseless. I now truly hate it.

My income requirements are small - I would be happy to earn as little as £400 to £500 per month (as long as I don't end up working a huge number of hours for little reward).

I've looked into doing online paid surveys and the like but to be honest they pay such an utter pittance for such mundane work that I'm sure I would be bored utterly rigid within a day, let alone a week. I also don't like giving out my private details to assorted marketing firms just to enable them to put my details onto a database with the result that I end up with spam emails/mail/phone calls coming at me left, right and centre.

I have an inquisitive mind and like technical things, I also like a cerebral challenge - but where do I start?

Any ideas please?

Thanks

What skills do you have for working at home? Any programming, computer skills? You sound like you like tech stuff. Let me know and will try to point you in the right direction.

caitchbee

wesleyad wrote: »

Hey Gusty,
I would recommend looking at one of Lionbridge, Leapforce or Appen ButlerHill. Do a search in this forum and there are 3 healthy threads about them. They pay, and they can pay extremely well if you get lucky. On the whole the work isn't guaranteed (although I am working for ABH on a guaranteed week) and so it can get frustrating if you get a few weeks with hardly any work. I always say use them as a top up, don't rely on them as a job, else you will get too stressed.

I second this. I work for Leapforce and there is currently enough work for you to earn your target each month although this is not guaranteed. The work is also challenging and you need to use your brain so you will not be bored.

GustyGardenGalaxy

Bobster64 wrote: »

What skills do you have for working at home? Any programming, computer skills? You sound like you like tech stuff. Let me know and will try to point you in the right direction.

I've always preferred 'hands on' work, ie I like to work with my hands with some analysis involved. Circuit board repair suits me very well in that regard and meets those criteria, but there is relatively little work out there for involving repairing old arcade game PCBs (which is what I have been doing for a living for about 12 years now). I'm also, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, rather tired of this particular line of work (ie the arcade PCB repair side). I'd like to branch out while still remaining in my comfort zone, in other still do something involving PCBs if at all possible.

For about 15 years I was a PC tech support person, ie anything and everything to do with configuring PCs, upgrading them, resolving software and hardware problems, etc.

I'm not a programmer I'm afraid - I've dabbled in the past but it just doesn't interest me, plus my brain doesn't seem to be too good at anything involves mathematics.

zugzwang

Maybe you could set yourself up a computer repair or computer help business. Advertise on gumtree etc. Maybe offer a local callout service to people.

Lots of people need help with things you'd find quite simple- data backup, scanning for viruses, connecting devices, webcams etc.

But I think you would find it interesting, because of the wide variety of potential problems and range of hardware and software problems people would throw at you.