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I have been disabled since 2002. When you are disabled it is hard to find work. I am in the USA. I have spent most of my time getting healthier so I can do some
by orionblastar 13y ago
I have been disabled since 2002. When you are disabled it is hard to find work. I am in the USA. I have spent most of my time getting healthier so I can do some work from home stuff.
I run a blog and thought I might post some advice for people who are disabled and working at home, but I haven't found much that works yet to earn a good amount of money.
I am trying to write ebooks, and do some side-projects. I haven't gotten any VC funding and nobody wants to meet with me because I am stuck at home most of the time.
I think this would make a great hacker news topic, but every time I submit something about being disabled or mentally ill and trying to do a startup or work from home, someone flags it and it gets downvoted.
The Software Consulting market in the USA is really bad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhLV7jydPJ8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhLV7jydPJ8
Joe Stack flew a plane into a building and my friend Mike Crawford went to talk on CNN why the Software Consulting field is so bad. I assume it is the same in the UK where you do the work and don't get paid and then get hit with a heavy tax on income you earned but didn't get paid on.
My only advice is don't low-ball or put out a low wage, because people in third world nations do that, and you will get junk clients who do rubbish like not pay you or pay a fraction of what they owe you. Make sure your wage is high enough to support your rent of your flat or whatever and you use a proxy service or something to make sure the money is paid to you. Don't be afraid to turn down stuff when clients have a bad rating. There are a lot of scammers out there.
Learn anything: http://noexcuselist.com/ http://noexcuselist.com/
Get a Github account: https://github.com/ https://github.com/
Make a website: http://www.greatdox.com/howto/shittywebsite.html http://www.greatdox.com/howto/shittywebsite.html
That is my howto article where I show you how to use FOSS tools to find a low-rent web host and make a 'shitty website' to get started out, so you can make a better one later as you improve.
If you learn Linux: http://greatdox.com/wordpress1/2013/10/03/6-web-frameworks-that-can-help-you-develop-web-page-apps-quickly/ http://greatdox.com/wordpress1/2013/10/03/6-web-frameworks-t...
There are 6 web frameworks that can help you make your websites if you can learn how they work.
Good luck!
- orionblastar 13y agoAnyway if you want to contact me my websites are: http://www.blastar.org/ http://www.blastar.org/ http://blastar.in/ http://blastar.in/ I am working with others to do some projects, not sure how well it will go. Got a husband and wife in China helping me named Dell and Sye, very smart. Dell is from India and went to Canada and then went to China. I am trying to recruit more people.