Can You Work From Home Without Any Experience? I meet a lot of people who are soon to retire and who are asking themselves if there is anything they could do workwise from home. I live abroad as an ex-pat and loads of the Western pensioners are truly suffering because of the drop in the exchange rate. For instance, the British pound has dropped by 33% and the US dollar by 25%. That is a large chunk of pay to lose. Most of the questions I get are from pensioners who truly require more money in order to satisfy their visa requirements or they can be deported and others merely want to keep themselves occupied. However, what we are about to discuss is equally as valid for other age groups and people who still live 'at home'. If you have a lifetime of work behind you, you have to know something. You have to be good at something. Even if your specialty was digging drainage ditches, you will know more about digging drainage ditches than most people. Given the fact that lots of people are doing more DIY to save money, there is potential there to offer advice to homeowners. What if your leisure pursuit was gardening? You could offer seasonal advice on what to do in the backyard each week of the year. If you read books avidly, you could compose reviews of books. Are you a movie buff? Then compose reviews on films or videos that you have seen. So now you understand that you are more of an expert at something than others. That will become your specialty or maybe only one of them. Now, how are you going to capitalize on that knowledge by working from home? Well, naturally, the Net is the easiest route. If you do not know anything about the Net, learning is going to be your next hobby. A great deal of people, even older ones like myself, can send emails and surf the Internet already. It is not that difficult, is it honestly? When you have gotten to that stage, you are practically half-way there. Websites look complex and programming one sounds terrifying, but really most people could learn how to make a simple website in a day and a pretty good one in a week. My nephew went to university for four years to study programming and there is not anything that I can see that he does not know about}. He writes the HTML code in a text editor and up-loads it to his website manually - he is working on Tesco's website now- but you can purchase automated systems - point and click. I want a blue web site - click. I want a 2" wide right and left side column - click. I would like a photo of a garden there - click. I want some text here - click. I would like adverts here and there - click, click. I would like to upload my code to my website click. And you have a web site. If you later look at the HTML code it is a mile long, but the computer created all that. You chose from a list of options which caused the
programme to insert pre-written snippets of code into a programme. You could be online selling your knowledge within a week or let's say a month. Owen Jones, the author of this piece writes on quite a number of subjects, but is at present concerned with Professional Translation Services. If you want to know more go to our website at Real Translator Jobs Advice.