<p>I have been unemployed since late December and am not able to find a job in our city. I have even applied for jobs in other cities (with the thought that I would live in another city part time) and can’t find anything.
So I’m wondering what I could do from home. I have a B.A. in English if that makes any difference.
Any ideas?</p>
<p>Look for this thread: Work That Enables You To Be Anywhere And Be Self-Employed on about page 11 for a few ideas. I know you would qualify for some of the ETS jobs I mentioned in that thread.</p>
<p>Susantm,
thanks! I missed that thread but will check it out. :)</p>
<p>DrDrews mom–
You could be a reporter. If you worked for a local weekly or daily paper you’d have a good chance of getting in. Although the pay is not great, it would be good for your resume if you are going into something English-word related.</p>
<p>You could also be an editor or proofreader (a stay at home mom I know does this).</p>
<p>You could write magazine articles & pitch them using the Writers’ Digest as a resource.</p>
<p>I’ve found craigslist to be a surprisingly effective source for all kinds of legitimate employment opportunities. I’ve gotten a number of part-time gigs in my field (very reputable employers) through this avenue (I work at home sometimes).</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Mentioned on the other thread is medical transcription. You can make your own hours and you don’t have to go anywhere.</p>
<p>I was just going to add that. I know several people doing that and making decent $$$.</p>
<p>Figure out a website you can create that will attract people to it then earn income from ads placed on the website. Creating an actual website is pretty easy and something most people can do using easy to use tools like MS Frontpage etc. Figuring out the content that will attract people to the site is more difficult but there are lots of niche sites on history, gardening, food, technology, cars, literature, how-to, geneology, medicine, exercise, collecting, and even - colleges. Find some area that you’re either very knowledgable in or interested in, design a website with content to attract like-minded people, and rake in the dough. Note - it’s not always quite so easy but plenty of people are doing it successfully.</p>
<p>Speaking of craigslist, can someone please give me a simple and very brief tutorial on how to navigate it? I had started another thread about relocation and many mentioned this as a resource for housing. Thanks!</p>
<p>I just found out that I mistyped the url of the ETS page in the other thread about working at home. Here is the correct one: <a href=“http://www.ets.org/reader/osn/index.html[/url]”>www.ets.org/reader/osn/index.html</a> </p>
<p>My apologies to anyone who was interested, but couldn’t find the page!</p>
<p>Testing companies always looking at this time of year for college grads with degrees in certain areas to grade essays for standardized testing. FCAT/Florida Writes are being graded in the next few weeks/months, as are the short answer paragraphs in the FCAT reading. And multiply this by the 40 or so states that administer standardized testing… Maybe too late for this year. But in FLorida you have to pass in the 10th grade reading, writing and math, and if not retake until you do, to graduate, so there will be retests all year round. Google for companies (I know Harcourt used to be one, they are now Houghton/Mifflen/Harcourt (sp?) as Houghton just bought/merged with Harcourt.</p>
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<p>For those of you who do these scoring test gigs, do you have to be a teacher?</p>
<p>DrDrewsmom—no you don’t have to be a teacher (just have a BA or BS, usually) & they are hiring right now!</p>
<p>Craig’s list is very easy to navigate. Go to craigslist.com & pick your closest city or state. Then you’ll see the categories you are interested in (working gigs, for sale items). Click on & you’ll see postings. Go to the upper right of the home page & you’ll see “post.” Click on that & it will tell you how to navigate posting.</p>
<p>You might want to create a yahoo or gmail address so people don’t (eventually) get your home email. Initially, Craig’s List filters the email so if you post something, people respond to an anonymous address which then forwards the email to you (so, initially, your email is not out there for everyone to read). If you do back/forth exchanges w/people via email, however, the anonymity filter doesn’t continue. Hence, good to have one that’s not your main account.</p>
<p>Thanks, Jolynne. Very helpful.</p>
<p>I am a grant writer and do most of my work at home. There are introductory courses for grant writers listed at the Foundation Center website.</p>