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Does anyone know how to work from home??
I’ currently have a 2 year old son and another on the way (Grimace!) so i do the ‘housewife’ routine while my partner goes to work. But i just need to work. Sounds funny doesn’t it actually wanting to work, but i just have a BSc sitting there doing nothing and just want to do something with my life rather than the same thing day after day…I’ve looked at
1) delivering leaflets (difficult to do with my son),
2) ebay (don’t know any wholesalers etc so very difficult to sell on at better prices),
3) mystery shopping (same problem as 1),
4) Ironing for neighbours (no good at ironing and again difficult to do with my son running everywhere)
5) property development – really interested in this but little bit of problem with finding the money to buy a house to let or resell… So now currently looking at doing phone sex lines haha so need better ideas!Soo does anyone know how to work from home as you hear of so many people being Self Employed / Working from home but what do they do??
Thanks guys!
Combine a hobby with work.
Hows about trading odds on the exchanges?
You’re clearly a fan of horse racing, so combine the two.
Hobby + Job = Happy Camper
Haha
actually i did start doing a system with favourites where you just keep backing the favourite until it wins, as well as making your losses with each bet, so if for example you wanted to make £20 you’d back the fave to win £20, if it looses then make £20 + whatever you staked on last bet… and so on. It made me over a thousand by starting with £100 and making £5 a day then went to making £10 a day –
But lost the lot one day when a favourite never won until the very last race when it was odds on so couldn’t bet it. So steering clear of it for now. It’s actually quite a decent system if you have enough money behind you but would rather not risk it haha.Do you use Fairbot? Been looking at buying it as apparently makes trading a load easier so may consider that.
Does anyone know how to work from home??
Here’s the way I do it:
I drag my erse out of bed at about 8-8.15am.
I look out the window and think “thank feck I don’t have to go out in the cold”.
Then I wander through to the living room, switch on my PC and, bingo, my commute is over!
Steve
You lucky bast**d Steve.
I have a much longer commute. I have to go downstairs via the kitchen for a cup of coffee before I can face turning the PC on!
Im pig sick!!!!
I get up at 6am,then leave the house at 6.30am drive to work,do a days work then leave about 5pm getting home for 6pm and usually tired and disgruntled!!!!
I tip my hat to you chaps,i take it you make a living of the Exchange site good on you if you do.
If i could make between £350 -£400 on tyhe exchanges i would do that but im the worlds worst for chasing my losses,although i have slowly improved at stopping myself
Forget making money backing horses, its a mugs game unless your trading for very small amounts of money, lots of times and no one is going to tell you how to do it.
You could maybe just enjoy having the time off work and enjoy being a Mum for a bit, it wont last long and you’ll soon be back to work again, if you want that.
Its a great shout DJ …its a great hobby but thats all it is.
A guy i work with will flash a bookie slip under your nose with a 3/1 winner £200 win..but if hes winning with £200 hes losing with £200 more than he will be winning.
Do you like gardening?
If so and you don’t have a garden how about getting an allotment and growing your own fruit, veg and flowers?
From a standard 30×10 yard plot and for a rental of around £30 a year you wouldn’t believe how easy it is to grow more than sufficient food to satisfy a growing family Also terrific exercise and supremely relaxing.
Saving money is the same as earning money.
I spend most afternoons through the autumn and winter stuck in front of Betfair, RUK and ATR, and the evenings poring over a virtual formbook. Would soon drive me stir-crazy without a morning escape to the garden.
And that is the hard fact about home-working. It actually requires more, not less, discipline to maintain a structure to the ‘working’ day than it does the commuting wage-slave, who doesn’t have Jeremy Kyle, Countdown, staring out the window, or playing with your wife/child/cat as tempting diversions to the grind of getting something constructive done.
In your position with valuable time on your hands, and as an obvious fan of horse-racing, I’m tempted to recommend trying to hone your skills as a punter, but others on this thread apparently regard it as a waste of time and a fast-track to Carey Street, so I won’t.
Whatever you do enjoy the liberty: free time and plenty of it is precious.
hi Drone,
just out of curiosity, how do you go about getting an allotment? likely to be a long waiting list for instance? thanks for any further advice
WOW do you guys really make a lot doing the exchanges?
I used to trade the exchanges, but I don’t anymore. It was tough work and, quite frankly, I found it really boring after a year or so.
Nowadays, I do freelance work for businesses.
It’s less stress, more interesting, better paid and I actually get to feel my work is connected to the outside world.
Steve
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This link should be useful:
Your local Council switchboard will be able to point you to the relevant department for advice on availabilty etc
A waiting list is likely. Either that or the offer of a badly neglected one covered in brambles.
Annual rents are usually due on January 1st regardless of when you actually get it, without discount until the following June. So getting one now wiould see best value for money.
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