Good cooking is a GREAT skill!!! My goodness do you know how many people out there are afraid to boil water? Have a cooking class, or do like Kat suggested. HA! you say you have no skills! And making cheesecakes is something I have never tried. And I love to cook and bake. I know there are liabilities when you sell for public consumption, but this wouldn't be commercial. Years ago, I cooked for a Christmas party my sister threw for her friends, and people were coming up to me afterwards asking if I would cater for them. I was flattered and scared and young, so I didn't do it. I wish now that I had. You know, you could offer to cook a gourmet meal for them in their own kitchens. I am sure you would soon be in high demand.
Happy you are able to sell some stuff, that's a step closer to your goal. So, you are like Lucy Ricardo when it comes to sewing? Remember when she cut out a pattern, and managed to cut the shape out of the carpet, too?
Lawn care, hanging Christmas lights, pizza delivery (a Dave Ramsey idea). And Vistaprints.com has 500 business cards for ten dollars including shipping. I just went on their website, and made a sample card, and they are really neat.
Advertise to do typing for people. Stick an ad in the local paper, you can type up dissertations, letters, books people are writing. Ask around church see if anyone needs that service. Then charge an hourly rate or per number of words. You'd be surprised how many people need this service.
I've just started designing and writing websites for people. There is a simple tool you can use on the internet. I don't charge too much and do good work. Has been invaluable for my travel funds.
Yeah, you could sell the shoplifted items on ebay. Not really!!
On elance.com, there are lots of different categories of possible freelance jobs, like proofreading, copywriting, data entry, creative writing, web content, travel writing, etc. You quote a price to a client, and if it's accepted, you do the job, elance bills the client, takes an 8.75% cut, and you get the rest. I heard of them a few years ago, and forgot about them until reading your posts.
Apparently I have zero skills. No one wants a typist, they all want crazy amounts of web skill sets that I have NONE of. Compiling spreadsheets from web research, etc.. Proofreading? They want only seasoned writers. I was an English major in college (never finished so no use to me) but that means exactly squat.
Finding out you have NO marketable skills whatsoever is pretty depressing. I used to be smart, now I'm irrelevant. Bummer.
Oh well.....McDonald's wouldn't hire me either. Apparently they only hire seniors, in high school or the grey haired variety. Nothing inbetween for anything other than management.
Pity party done.
It could definitely be worse and I have to keep reminding myself of that. My cousin's SIL tried to commit suicide last night because so many things have gone wrong in her life and she's now homeless. See, could be much worse.
Hope you are all doing well. Thanks for being so sweet and supportive.
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No one wants a typist, they all want crazy amounts of web skill sets that I have NONE of. Compiling spreadsheets from web research, etc.. Proofreading? They want only seasoned writers. I was an English major in college (never finished so no use to me) but that means exactly squat.