Looking for online ways to make money?

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Any ideas on how to do this?   Just injured myself and can't work really for awhile.  I live pay cheque to pay cheque so this is concerning.   I need a way to earn money on a laptop sitting down.  What's the best way?   

For the long term, how is it learning a programming language?

Newbie_John

How long is a while?

Programming isn't that easy, and then you would also need to find a job that is fully remote which is becoming rare these days. Although there are some chances.

In my opinion, simplest thing is to teach English - hardest part is to get enough continuously paying customers.

But back to programming, I am myself, and we have hired before some juniors who completed 3 months intense bootcamps before and they were very good - so it's all possible.
There used to be a remote company that charged £6k for a 3 months course and if you didn't find a job after 12 months they would refund the cost to you - but I see it's no longer a case there so I won't be mentioning them.

Brie

do a search on MSE for Prolific surveys - think that's the name - some here make a bit of cash from that.  Also there's the competitions and contests.

for actual work you could try being a virtual personal assistance....so typing, transcribing meetings etc - assuming you have the skills for that.  

there area  a lot of WFH roles in various fnancial companies - customer service for banks or insurance - but many of those will require you to attend training at a central location initially.  

Think you said elsewhere that you are self employed.  Is there anything within your field that you could do as support to others in your area?  Like - if you were a carpenter could you assist by booking appointments and pricing up jobs or something?

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Newbie_John said:

How long is a while?

Programming isn't that easy, and then you would also need to find a job that is fully remote which is becoming rare these days. Although there are some chances.

In my opinion, simplest thing is to teach English - hardest part is to get enough continuously paying customers.

But back to programming, I am myself, and we have hired before some juniors who completed 3 months intense bootcamps before and they were very good - so it's all possible.
There used to be a remote company that charged £6k for a 3 months course and if you didn't find a job after 12 months they would refund the cost to you - but I see it's no longer a case there so I won't be mentioning them.

Any links to teach English.  I have the CELTA so could do that temporarily.   

Regarding programming or trying something in IT a mate of mine who's doing website design told me udemy do courses, dunno what you think of them?   Gotta be a cheaper way than paying out 6K, surely?

mjm3346

The main site has a boost your income section

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/

droopsnoot

Programming is something that you either find easy, or not, and that can vary from language to language - I can pick up some languages quite quickly, but others I still struggle with after many years. As well as Udemy there is also CodeAcademy who do courses, many of which are free.

As for anything else, it all depends on your skills and aptitudes. If you have a hobby, is there a way you can make some income from that?

Newbie_John

Regarding links to teach English - I would say try to get your customer base directly, pick a country - and try to search for portals these people would search for - and register there. All the UK/US based ones pay very low Also, you would be among many English speakers so not really standing out, registering abroad you could be one of a few native speakers.

Regarding Udemy vs £6k course - yes, Udemy is fine, and can be done for free but.. you need a lot of self motivation, you won't have much (if any) access to ask questions, to get your code reviewed, explained how things work, why this, why that and you will hit a lot of dead ends which you could only solve by motivation - rather than relying on 1/1 support to have someone actively trying to help you. It's a long journey but definitely possible for free.

If this is a journey you would like to take, then £6k is not much money compared to future salaries. But if this is just to cover the next few months - then totally not worth it. Start with Udemy and see what you think, this course is £16:
https://www.udemy.com/course/complete-python-bootcamp/
Worth a try.

DullGreyGuy

textbook said:

For the long term, how is it learning a programming language?

Depends on the language, your existing skills and what you are going to do with it. Will also depend on exactly what you mean by "programming language" as for some that will include HTLM where as others will say that's a scripting or markup language not programming 

Personally self taught, SQL has been the most useful thing I've learnt but my skills are only at the level of an analyst - so I can get what I want out of a database but not necessarily in the most efficient or eligant way. I've never had the desire or motivation to push it deeper and become at developer level. 

The hardest thing for me is what to do to learn/use the skill before you have paying customers/employer... some of the training courses suggested creating a Contacts app or such but that didn't inspire me, happy with the app I've got and its doing something for the sake of doing it. If you look at more specialist languages like R then its even harder to come up with something (for me anyway) that you really want to do a where R is the best solution. 

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Newbie_John said:

How long is a while?

Programming isn't that easy, and then you would also need to find a job that is fully remote which is becoming rare these days. Although there are some chances.

In my opinion, simplest thing is to teach English - hardest part is to get enough continuously paying customers.

But back to programming, I am myself, and we have hired before some juniors who completed 3 months intense bootcamps before and they were very good - so it's all possible.
There used to be a remote company that charged £6k for a 3 months course and if you didn't find a job after 12 months they would refund the cost to you - but I see it's no longer a case there so I won't be mentioning them.

Got an interview to teach English online on zoom.  Never used the app and my laptop is quite old.  I'll download it and get one of those speaker phone things

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Newbie_John said:

Regarding links to teach English - I would say try to get your customer base directly, pick a country - and try to search for portals these people would search for - and register there. All the UK/US based ones pay very low Also, you would be among many English speakers so not really standing out, registering abroad you could be one of a few native speakers.

Regarding Udemy vs £6k course - yes, Udemy is fine, and can be done for free but.. you need a lot of self motivation, you won't have much (if any) access to ask questions, to get your code reviewed, explained how things work, why this, why that and you will hit a lot of dead ends which you could only solve by motivation - rather than relying on 1/1 support to have someone actively trying to help you. It's a long journey but definitely possible for free.

If this is a journey you would like to take, then £6k is not much money compared to future salaries. But if this is just to cover the next few months - then totally not worth it. Start with Udemy and see what you think, this course is £16:
https://www.udemy.com/course/complete-python-bootcamp/
Worth a try.

Do you know any portals in countries where they pay well e.g. Gulf, Korea or Japan I guess are good but dunno