Lyra's New Business :) (Page 1 of 5)

Awesome!   Send me the sites!   I need to get a new means of earning a living, but I'm just at a complete loss of what to do other than traditional jobs. I've made money on the side through my creative pursuits -   for instance, I used to make jewlery and made a nice bit of side money a few years back doing that for a period of time, but I never pursued it because I ran out of steam with it.  But whatever you can forward, I'm open! 

Sounds cool to me.    If you click on my name you'll see my email address where you can send them to.  Thanks.....

EDIT:  I wanted to add that I don't actually have any debt - no credit cards, no car payments, mortgage payments, nobody hunting me down, no backlogged bills and expenses that I can't pay or which are on the backburner-  but being self sufficient would be nice. 

Z,
I could, but why don't you be more creative and focus on what YOU would enjoy!  Turn that into a business.  You could do an ezine, find a way to market your comics, music, design websites.  You could also add various links to your website that could help earn you money.  You could even sell the Brainwave Generator on your site.

Kathy

Edit: 2004, I like a challenge.

Hi all,

I've been having this pressing urge to go the route that Neo just mentioned for the past few months now, that whole setting up my own business thing, making my own money and living.  "The itch" began probably last year, but over the past few months it's bearing down on me to the point where I'm tearing my hair out.  I'm finding that I have pretty much no tolerance anymore for "the system" and the normal job route.  That's why temping actually suits me to a degree because even though I'm working at regular companies that are all mainstream, temping itself isn't mainstream.  You bounce around to different places.  A week here, a week there, then a week off, then 3 days here, 1 day there, 3 months here, 2 weeks there.....bounce bounce bounce.  Variety and something new, the best that one could hope for while still working "in the system."  You just have to make sure your temp company is good and that they are always lining up work for you.  Not all temp companies are busy and have work.  I've signed on with 4 agencies here where we just moved to.............and only 1 out of the 4 has actually pulled through for me.  There's a second one that's trying really hard and have sent me on 2 interviews but the companies or jobs were not to my liking.

I've been really going around and around about this whole thing lately, and I'm wondering what thoughts others here have on the matter.  Anybody going through this too, anybody having these thoughts besides me, freeme, Neomatrix and Zonabi?   Has anybody here actually done it and been successful?   Some thoughts that I've had go back to the idea of polarization.   Relocating where we live to be more in tune with our frequencies, changing jobs because we no longer have tolerance for something negative..........................and maybe even trying to find a way out of the traditional work system altogether, which is the direction I'm looking in.

Things I realized I no longer have any tolerance for and refuse to do:

- I will not take a job under the pretense that I'm going to stay there forever or that it's my career.   Hell no.  I can't pretend.   But most employers want to hear that.  It's so weird.  Yeah, like I'm going to do this for the next 15 years.  uh huh. 

- Exerting mental and personal energy into a job that's b.s. to begin with and TOTALLY not worth it, so that I have nothing left in me by the time I get home.   A job where I'm expected to take it seriously, take my work home with me, stay late, come in on weekends, give it my all, strive for the top, seek advancement and all that game playing illusory nonsense.   I can't / won't do this anymore because I see how b.s. most jobs and companies and industries are.   Most industries in this country it seems are based on "illusory" concepts with these manufactured positions that really do nothing but push paper.   Take a look around at many companies and see which ones are actually *genuinely producing something of value*, versus ones that are based on illusory concepts.  Any company that revolves around money basically - stocks & financial investments, mortgages, debt management & consolidation, bankruptcy, loans....just nonsense, and all the jobs they invent for people to do in these illusory paper pushing industries are nonsense as well. I know, I've done those nonsense jobs!   Law firms are another HUGE biggie.  Most lawsuits are stupid or based on illusory ideals.   Homeowners association/Property Management!!   MAJOR ILLUSORY CONCEPT. 

The trick is to imagine that we're in apocolyptic times, civilization has crumbled, we have no electricity and computers.   Now looking around at all the companies out there and all the jobs...........which ones are immediately swept into the gutter because they're no longer relevant or feasable?  Which ones are still standing because they provide actual useful services?   There goes about 75% of the industries in this country, buh bye, swept aside! 

I used to be content to hold down a mindless office "tick tock" day job and to some degree I still can but the ability is fading fast!      I keep joking that "I'm in a crisis!"   Anybody else having a tick tock crisis out there???

Careful there, Andy. Don't wanna incur the Wrath of the Kath! ;-)

I'd be very interested to hear what you have to say about this. As regards cost, how low we talking here? PM me

Oops, sorry to anyone that might be making money that way, and is doing ok with it. It definitely is possible. But personally I've lost an absolute ton of money with various 'business opportunities' so I have a very low opinion of them. But I know there are plenty of people that are doing well with them. it just wasn't for me.

Andy

I have worked at home for quite some time now having the animal sanctuary.  However, it took capital to get this going…and I did that with making money house and office cleaning.  After I finished college I was looking at the vast array of possibilities and none were appealing.  I saw folks going to work for 40 hours or more a week, working for usually power hungry supers…and having precious little time to live their lives in an atmosphere of non servitude.  I had so many different jobs while in school and every one of them sucked because of management.  I decided I wanted to work for myself, that was the only viable solution.  So I started out with a lawn mowing business.  It was great, I was in Houston where the grass always grows.  When it rained I got to stay at home and the rain always assured me of plenty of money to make after.  One July a woman whose yard I mowed said would you consider cleaning my home?  It was hot, she was kind and I said sure, why not.  That started my cleaning career and also a way to move to Denver where the grass grows much less.  You work for lots of different folks so if one gets weird you just find another person to work for that is not weird.  I made a rule with all prospective clients…when I come to clean they cannot be home (don’t like anyone under foot) and if I had an animal emergency, was too sick to work, the streets were too icy or there was something I really wanted to do that I would work them in around that…that I would always come on a regular basis, do the very best cleaning they had seen, and if I needed to reschedule then they had to be flexible, but that I would not reschedule without good reason.  It was a wonderful job and I met wonderful folks.  Some of these people I am still friends with today.  I was my own boss and I made my own hours.   I did not work by the hour but by the job…on the days I was a steam roller I got out early…on the days I was a lingering presence I took longer…it was always my call.  The people really liked me and the only problem I had was them sneaking home early to offer me drinks at the end of the day and sit and visit.  When you put yourself in a position of service, like I never called myself the housekeeper or such nonsense, but always left a long note and signed it love, the maid…they let their hair down…you become someone safe to talk to.  When I finally had enough money to move here it was like leaving family, and some of them helped in the move. 

Find something you either love doing, or love the freedom it provides you.  Once you make that decision then the opportunities open up.  The only initial requirement is making the decision to live outside the box.