Work from home for housebound disabled/chronically ill?

Glad

moved over to new board at request of OP

sleepymy

Thank you Glad, you're a little star :beer:

zzzLazyDaisy

Sleepy, could you set up a website and sell your photos online? There are some good hosting sites around that set you up with paypal or google checkout.

I joined a camera club (no I'm nowhere near being a professional photographer, just an enthusiastic amateur) and am picking up loads of tips and having fun. I doubt I'll ever make my fortune, but you are streets ahead of me, so who knows?

lozzer90

some good info on here will have a look at some of the links tomorrow

Horace

Hi folks

I am disabled and in the process of setting up my own business working from home, however, I am lucky in that I can get out and about so I won't be meeting clients in my home but theirs. I work as a wedding planner and am more than half way through a home study course in Professional Wedding Planning.

There is one group of people who have, unbeknownst to them, provided me with some information and I shall be joining them and that is the Disabled Entrepreneurs Network. Check out their website for more information:

https://www.disabled-entrepreneurs.net

sleepymy

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

Sleepy, could you set up a website and sell your photos online? There are some good hosting sites around that set you up with paypal or google checkout.

I joined a camera club (no I'm nowhere near being a professional photographer, just an enthusiastic amateur) and am picking up loads of tips and having fun. I doubt I'll ever make my fortune, but you are streets ahead of me, so who knows?

It is something worth considering Daisy, I have a couple of ME friends who do this, I must ask them if they sell much of their work. Another one of me ME friends set up as a freelance music photographer last year but unfortunately trying to keep it up has made her relapse very badly. She's a wealth of information for me when it comes to photography (she did her degree in it, mine was fine and applied art). I can't get out and about very much at all to take photographs but maybe I should consider photographic cards and perhaps handmade cards. The market is flooded with them so I'd have to think of something a bit different.

I'd love to make personalised guitar and camera straps, a friend was teaching me some new skills last year which would be useful if I could practice them more. I'd also love to do an embroidery/textiles course if I could get the energy and stop my hands being so wonky :rolleyes:

I'm thinking that a variety of different handmade crafts being sold online may be the way for me to go given my art background. I'd also like to work as a researcher and am looking about for a course which would let me hone those skills.

I'm very flexible about what I would work at, it's just finding something that will fit around the ME without making me any iller.

We're in the process of sorting out the spare room, I bagged a great desk on freecycle and will hopefully have a designated space where I can work from soon :cool:

I'm doing some volunteer online work atm and have agreed to look after my friends post and finances while she's on her year out abroad. Hopefully doing that on a voluntry basis will help me gain some more skills *is a bit rusty*

zzzLazyDaisy

Gosh, Sleepy, you are a real inspiration! Make sure you pace yourself and be prepared to take time out when you need it.

You might not have to go far for some good pics - I got some super ones of birds and insects in my garden over the summer. Also, if you can drive, it is amazing what your camera can see from the car window (you can even get a 'tripod' that attaches to the car window).

I am hoping to start some part-time work from home soon. I was an employment lawyer before I got too sick to work. Recently I made contact with a small company that needs someone to keep them on top of their HR issues - It would just be a few hours a week, and the details have yet to be hammered out as I've been too poorly recently to want to be bothered. Fortunately, they know my health situation and are happy to work round it....

.... I just need to gather enough energy to get it set up.... :rolleyes:

sleepymy

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

Gosh, Sleepy, you are a real inspiration! Make sure you pace yourself and be prepared to take time out when you need it.

lol you might wanna hold of on those sort of compliments until I'm actually putting these plans into action

I considered law, I did the A level at night class and loved it but my memory lets me down when it comes to final exams , all those case references and dates! It was a toss between it and teaching art so I went for the art degree with the intentions of following it up with the PGCE but unfortunately didn't get that far.

It's great that you made that contact, I hope you enjoy working with them :beer:

Horace

Hi Sleepy

Why not make bespoke, handmade cards? There is always a market for them. Now if you could combine photography too that would be even better - the best christmas card that I ever bought was a photograph of a robin sitting on a tree and I bought it from a photographer at a craft fair. I gave it to my mum one christmas.

sleepymy

Horace wrote: »

Hi Sleepy

Why not make bespoke, handmade cards? There is always a market for them. Now if you could combine photography too that would be even better - the best christmas card that I ever bought was a photograph of a robin sitting on a tree and I bought it from a photographer at a craft fair. I gave it to my mum one christmas.

I'm liking the sound of that :cool:, I'm seeing photographs on aged card, reclaimed fabrics and if I could get my paws on a laser printer... photographs on fabric, embroidery threads, delicate lace trims, metallic threads... hang on is this a card or a frock?