Work at Home
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I think that being in an office environment encourages work and keeps you focused (Said while chatting on here when I should be working). Being at home has too many distractions like cleaning and tidying
I have a regular office job as well as a home job. My online personal training business is my home job which I plan on making my ONLY job in the near future.
I must say though, I really don't enjoy being home all day. I think if I were to maybe have young children it would be a plus however at this stage of my life I'd rather be on the go and get out of the house.
I must say though, I really don't enjoy being home all day. I think if I were to maybe have young children it would be a plus however at this stage of my life I'd rather be on the go and get out of the house.
Yeah, I started to feel like that, you're too isolated and you miss the human contact
I wouldnt mind that. Whats the pay like?
LOL Tony....I'm a stay at home mom...I took my daughter out to an Alpaca farm down the road yesterday.
I just wish I could find something to do here to help contribute to the household income, you know?? Anyway......
LOL Tony....I'm a stay at home mom...I took my daughter out to an Alpaca farm down the road yesterday.
Anyway......
For some reason, our society has linked the word "contribution" to "income" - which doesn't make sense at all to me.
What a huge contribution to a household, to take the time required to nurture and raise your own children yourself, and, by doing so, to show them that they are the top priority in your life. What better contribution to society than to mold, guide, and teach the future members of it.
I could go on all day...lol, but this is an issue very close to my heart, and it saddens me to see the standards by which people raise their children, and the lengths they will go to to justify their actions.
There is nothing at all wrong with wanting to make a few bucks at home, while still putting your kids first. Just don't ever belittle what you do everyday, thinking it is "less than" b/c it doesn't generate an income.
LOL Tony....I'm a stay at home mom...I took my daughter out to an Alpaca farm down the road yesterday.
Anyway......
Second Life?
I've never been on it myself but a woman I work with makes thousands of dollars a month buying and selling real estate on the game (It took some months to build up to that level though).
IMO, it's a dumb concept, I mean buying a virtual bit of land?!? It's crazy, but then loads of people are prepared to buy so why not take the poor geeks money away from them?
I agree with you, believe it or not. However, we are hurting financially right now, and my hubby is doing all the working, and although he makes really good $ ($25-30/hr) it's not enough.
If I can just get $200-300 per week, it would really help. I'm hoping to get some riding students soon and such...But yeah, I am so thankful to be able to stay home with my daughter (the boys are in school) and I was just thinking this morning how happy I am that the boys can get on the bus AT HOME rather than at day care or something. I have so much fun with my daughter, even if we aren't doing anything. Just knowing I'm there if she needs me or that we can lay on the couch and snuggle all day if we wanted....very powerful...
Second Life?
I've never been on it myself but a woman I work with makes thousands of dollars a month buying and selling real estate on the game (It took some months to build up to that level though).
IMO, it's a dumb concept, I mean buying a virtual bit of land?!? It's crazy, but then loads of people are prepared to buy so why not take the poor geeks money away from them?
Or, I could just work the street corners at night.....:yelrotflmao:
When we go on vacation, we use someone to come by each day to feed our cats and change the litter box. It's a real business she's running with invoices and all, and we have to book pretty far in advance or her calendar is full, and she's doing it full time, so there must be lots of demand for the service.
She charges over $20 per day, it's almost twice as much as having 1 cat in a kennel, but we have 2 cats so it's actually cheaper (but I live in a different country, so prices may well be really different). I don't know how far she has to drive, but each place takes 10 minutes tops, so she could be doing quite well. She also sells all sorts of extra services, like a text sms with how the cat is doing, extra time playing with the cats, watering plants, and filling the fridge before return.
I just thought it was a cool business idea she got
She charges over $20 per day, it's almost twice as much as having 1 cat in a kennel, but we have 2 cats so it's actually cheaper (but I live in a different country, so prices may well be really different). I don't know how far she has to drive, but each place takes 10 minutes tops, so she could be doing quite well. She also sells all sorts of extra services, like a text sms with how the cat is doing, extra time playing with the cats, watering plants, and filling the fridge before return.
I just thought it was a cool business idea she got
Second Life?
I've never been on it myself but a woman I work with makes thousands of dollars a month buying and selling real estate on the game (It took some months to build up to that level though).
IMO, it's a dumb concept, I mean buying a virtual bit of land?!? It's crazy, but then loads of people are prepared to buy so why not take the poor geeks money away from them?
A guy at my old job had did this on ebay. Was making a killing before the game became not so hot or something.
Second Life is a bit like a "real life simulator". People control a so-called avatar, a virtual human that they make to look like themselves or their ideal self perhaps.
What people do in there mostly is socialize, just chat with eachother basically. But as people who socialize in the real world, people in Second Life also care about how they look, how others look, where they go, and so on. So people get smart clothing for their avatar, pretty houses in interesting neighborhoods, they go to clubs, restaurants, or whatever they fancy.
Second Life has a currency, Linden Dollars, that can be exchanged with real world currency. You want a rich avatar, you buy a lot of Linden Dollars with your real life money. If you through trading or providing services make a lot of Linden Dollars, you change them back to real world currency.
For example, an area with many interesting restaurants, a pretty park, a high traffic of interesting people, living near that is attractive, so land here is expensive.
Or running a business there is attractive. Someone might buy a piece of land there, hire an architect to design a pretty building and an interior decorator and so on. He'll charge money for entering the club. He'll hire good DJs so they play the coolest, hippest, newest music when people come there.
It's a real world social life simulator, with all the monetary implications of that.
Companies establish themselves in there too, and provide services or just get marketing. For example Toyota sells very cheap cars in there, not only do they get some advertising effect from it, they also allow the buyers to change their cars, and the changes people choose, the real world Toyota car designers use as input on what people really want their cars to look like.
There are lots of job opportunities in Second Life that will make you real world money if you're good at it, real estate investor, clothes designer, architect, DJ, events organizer, club owner, etc.
Pretty strange, but when you think about it, why shouldn't people who spend a lot time chatting and making friends online want to do and act exactly the same way as when they socialize in the real world?
What people do in there mostly is socialize, just chat with eachother basically. But as people who socialize in the real world, people in Second Life also care about how they look, how others look, where they go, and so on. So people get smart clothing for their avatar, pretty houses in interesting neighborhoods, they go to clubs, restaurants, or whatever they fancy.
Second Life has a currency, Linden Dollars, that can be exchanged with real world currency. You want a rich avatar, you buy a lot of Linden Dollars with your real life money. If you through trading or providing services make a lot of Linden Dollars, you change them back to real world currency.
For example, an area with many interesting restaurants, a pretty park, a high traffic of interesting people, living near that is attractive, so land here is expensive.
Or running a business there is attractive. Someone might buy a piece of land there, hire an architect to design a pretty building and an interior decorator and so on. He'll charge money for entering the club. He'll hire good DJs so they play the coolest, hippest, newest music when people come there.
It's a real world social life simulator, with all the monetary implications of that.
Companies establish themselves in there too, and provide services or just get marketing. For example Toyota sells very cheap cars in there, not only do they get some advertising effect from it, they also allow the buyers to change their cars, and the changes people choose, the real world Toyota car designers use as input on what people really want their cars to look like.
There are lots of job opportunities in Second Life that will make you real world money if you're good at it, real estate investor, clothes designer, architect, DJ, events organizer, club owner, etc.
Pretty strange, but when you think about it, why shouldn't people who spend a lot time chatting and making friends online want to do and act exactly the same way as when they socialize in the real world?