any work from home ideas?

[Fireye]

Hi I am 21 and married. Ive been told by my doctor not to work outside of home, drive or have children for the time being. As a result my husband is working 80+ hours a week to support us. We need the money but I need him at home at least some of the time. If I can find a way to make money he could spend less time at work. But I just feel so lost that I dont know where to even begin...If anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.thank you :unsure:

[flutterbye]

Hi there, I am sorry that you are in such a situation, it must be terribly lonely and isolating for you. Firstly from a financial perspective, make sure that you are claiming any benefits and support that you are entitled too. I have no advice for you on this as I am in UK> different systems, but there are sections on benefits taht might be usefull. I work from home, and have done a variety of things, unfortunately sometimes i think some of the work you can do from home can be terriblky frustrating and badly paid, and can potentially interfere wwith any benefits that you are recieving. I mainly make jewellery, but of course i have to go places to sell it, i have also done data entry and assembly/circuit board solderiing. Is there something that you enjoy doing, craft stuff springs to mind that you could make and sell? or are there companies local to you, that may have work you can do. I can understand how it feels to not be able to wwork and to have your partner working hard to pick up the slack. Did you wwork before, you may have skills that you can use in this capacity. Sorry not to have any better advice. The othr thing is the lonliness and isolation, can you get out to maybe doo some sort of voluntary wwork, the feeling of not being usefull can be terribly damaging and hard to deal with, and that may give you some benefit, and perhaps a new direction when you are wwwell enough to work, certainly try to keep in touch with other people in some wway. Being ill can but a huge strain on the finances, and being isolated can be terribly hard emotionally, so i really feel for your situation, i wwish that I could give you some better advice, but do check out that you are claiming any benefits you are entitled to, and do bear in mind any wwork you do could affect these. Sorry if this is as much use as a chocolate teapot, but I do wish you luck, how is your lupus doing? are you on medications that are helping? With best wishes xxx

[mooks]

heya...i am in exactly the same situation!!! My bf has to work all the hours that god sends and i end up sitting on my own feeling useless at home...im 20 and should really be having a good career but i am so ill i cant do anything....i have looked into working from home but i cant find anything....all these things on the internet seem to be a scam...dont part with any money!!! The best thing to do is go to a local careers center or jobs center..they may be able to help...as for benefits i applied for income support and incapacity benefit and got refused for both...the income support because they expect my bf to support me and he works so im not entitled to it...and the incapacity benefit because i havent been paying national insurance for three years...i have only been paying for two years as i was AT SCHOOL in 2003!!! This country sucks and ive appealed and theres no way around it..not sure how it will work out for you if you dont live in uk?? Anyway yeah i just want you to know i understand how things are for you...much love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[patchichay]

hi im michelle and imsinglemom and i have no work too. i want too but my dr advice me not to work.i have nmo money to support my daughterdo u have idea to have work at home im in phil






Hi I am 21 and married. Ive been told by my doctor not to work outside of home, drive or have children for the time being. As a result my husband is working 80+ hours a week to support us. We need the money but I need him at home at least some of the time. If I can find a way to make money he could spend less time at work. But I just feel so lost that I dont know where to even begin...If anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.thank you :unsure:

[bellaeyes_1]

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[lupie98]

I understand totally to have the spouse work all the time and you stay home. It does get lonely. When he is home I just follow him around becasue I miss him so much. Have you applied for social security benefits? I know it can be hard but if you are denied, you can keep appealing the decision until you finally get it. It can take along time but well worth it. Your Social Security Admin. would be who to contact. I live in Virginia, U.S.A and we have something called Disabilty Resource Center and they help people find jobs. My friend has done things like rate stores. SHe found it on the internet and paid no money for it so it is not a gimmec. Basically you order a pizza and report back on how the company was. THey pay you by the job. xxx xxx , stampin up are some things you can sell out of your home. If you are interested on the internet thing, email me and I will get the info. I have thought about doing that.

[stefanie]

hi I too am in your situation, I have lupus and cannot work and have been denied disability! So i'm looking too and bella I emailed you already thanks.

I could use any help i'm trying right now to live off of 76$ a month!

[hurley]

Watch out for the "looks to good to be true" schemes they advertise on the internet and magazines, etc. There really are not too many jobs that you can do from your home.

Of course, there are the honest stuffing envelope type jobs which take forever and would require large production rates to make a little money. If you have to send in money to get information about a job then it is a scam. Don't do it.

Something like selling Avon/diet powder/cleaning supplies, etc, is not as easy as it sounds. Where will you find a steady source of clients to buy enough product to make decent money. You also have to spend time taking and placing orders and dispensing products. You would need to establish a large reliable clientele to make money doing this type of job.

If somebody tries to rope you into a pyramid scheme (this is where somebody recruits you to work under them, they make a percentage of the income you generate; you, in turn, recruit people to work under you and you earn a small percentage of the income they generate, etc), I would be very cautious. Again, you would have to find a very large number of people willing to buy the product/service and who would reliably stick with it. Most of them won't. Most of us don't even know enough people, much less have an ability to recruit enough people to make anything more than a $12 or $14 a month check.

Transcription, if you are good at it, is something one can do at home and make a fair wage. It may be difficult establishing a client base, as you must have a reputation of being reliable and efficient. Along the same lines, you might be able to make some money typing term papers and resumes, etc.

There are jobs available, you just have to look and may have to learn some new skills. The only way you make money is thru hard work. Get rich schemes quick schemes should be avoided.

[gingertoni]

Hi not sure if this is a help as I don't know what skills you have and what is available where you live.
But, have you thought of tutoring, a school subject or music etc if there is something that you can do, the students could come to you.
I am trying to get students at the moment where I live to teach mathematics, the money is much better than alot of jobs so you would not have to do too many hours. There would be some initial work involved in setting up lessons etc but once you get going it wouldn't be as bad.

Hope it is a help. Good luck

[Edith]

Hi all,

I remembered reading this thread a while back and thought of it when I saw this link:

http://www.womenforhire.com/work_at_home.asp#resources

I don't know anything about this organization, but they have some ideas for people as well as some warnings about how to avoid being scammed. I thought someone might be interested. Good luck to you all!