Greg.Wick@p1.f26.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Greg Wick) (06/06/90)
Index Number: 8664
[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]
Does any one here know of some good ideas to make money at home. I
think I want to start some kind of job, but would like to do it at
home. I don't think I want phone sales, and I don't type to fast. I
thought I could do something with Ventura. I could make brochures or
something but I only have a dot matrix printer and to do nice work I
would need a laser printer. any other thoughts...........
Thanks
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Internet: Greg.Wick@p1.f26.n343.z1.fidonet.orgGreg.Wick@p0.f5.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Greg Wick) (06/09/90)
Index Number: 8735
Hi, I was trying to think of a home job I could do to make some extra
money. I don't type fast and don't want to do phone sales. any
thoughts on what I could do. Or where I could get help on findind
something........Thanks a lot
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Internet: Greg.Wick@p0.f5.n343.z1.fidonet.orgThomas.Williams@p0.f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Thomas Williams) (06/28/90)
Index Number: 8938 > not a creative type. I thought of teaching something like > Wordperfect or Ventura. But I don't think I'll ever know > enough about those big monsters to be comfertable enough > to teach them. Well thanks i'll sit and think a little Since you have ventura, perhaps you might want to consider freelance page layout/Graphic design? It seems to be an up and coming field and all it really requires is a good page layout program and a good sense of what looks good. Page layout is what I'm doing now for a living. I use a Macintosh with Pagemaker 4.0 and Word 4.0. You would be amazed as to what you can make with these two packages. Tom Williams -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!26.0!Thomas.Williams Internet: Thomas.Williams@p0.f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org
Greg.See-Kee@f631.n712.z3.fidonet.org (Greg See-Kee) (06/29/90)
Index Number: 8998
GW> Well, teaching would be a last resort. I don't think I know
GW> everything about WP50 or Ventura. There just to big and I wouldn't
GW> want to pay for a teacher unless he/she knew everything or almost
GW> everything about what they were teaching.
Other disabled people I know are working as independent
microcomputer contractors.
We used to swap & trade software with each other, then we started
specializing.
Leon went into Open Access, then Dataflex, where he is well-paid.
Alan "played" with mice, "Hot", Word, then became expert at
Ventura.
GW> Icould get into make thing on Ventura but ...
Alan still just has his one dot matrix machine. He "bluffed" his
knowledge with Ventura, because compared to those who employed
him, he is THE EXPERT!
The "penalty" was that he had to study long hours each night and
every weekend, so that he could really become "the expert".
GW> first......thanks. lets all get rich and not need to work <grin>
Both men are sufficiently impaired that they could sit back and
just live off the pension. What we like about work is the
feeling of "Worth" and "Belonging".
If you are genuine about stop being a parasite, try volunteer
work. Then study like crazy in just one aspect of the volunteer
work. After that, the jobs will surprise you.
In one case, my old employers were thinking of replacing their
existing mini-computer. So I studied their needs - as a
volunteer. Then I learnt about PC-FILE (a shareware program).
Finally, they gave me the computer job. I'm getting that many
(most) people employed in microcomputer jobs did the steps I
outlined above. And that covers both disabled & able-bodied
people.
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