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I recently retired from the Marine Corps, and was wondering if anyone knows of a good home based business that isn't a scam, and isn't involved with selling stuff that no one wants? Only need about a grand a month extra, so any ideas are welcome.

I recently retired from the Marine Corps, and was wondering if anyone knows of a good home based business that isn't a scam, and isn't involved with selling stuff that no one wants? Only need about a grand a month extra, so any ideas are welcome.

Home based businesses can be very profitable.... IF your locality isn't already saturated with them. *nod*

Make porn.

Sell crack.

Make porn.

Sell crack.

Bribe prostitutes with crack and make them star in porn.

guess I forgot to add that it has to be LEGAL

Well, then make porn.

Bribe prostitutes with crack and make them star in porn.

Oh. I'm going to try that.

I figured out what my talents were, then did freelance work.

guess I forgot to add that it has to be LEGAL

Porn's legal.

Porn's legal.

That may well be, but it is not a "business" that i'm willing to engage in.

That may well be, but it is not a "business" that i'm willing to engage in.

What the hell kind of Marine are you?!? :mad:

;)

That may well be, but it is not a "business" that i'm willing to engage in.

You could bake waffles and burn imprints vaguely resembling Jesus into them and sell them on ebay?

I wish there was some sort of 'fight back' thing for those home business roads to riches infomertial bullshit things. I don't want to buy the systems, I just want to know how they are supposed to work and why they don't in specific terms.

I'm not a retired marine, hell, I'm not even a marine. But you could start your own business. Just don't take a loan from the bank they'll get you to pay more than you started with...I think that if you were a marine, who did it long enough, did the job well and got it done, then the corp. should help pay for retirement.
:sniper:

That may well be, but it is not a "business" that i'm willing to engage in.

Just sayin':D

Seriously. Figure out what talents you have. Use them to form a business. It takes some thought and some creativity, but it's the best way to make some extra $$.

At the moment, my health situation is such that I'm pretty much stuck doing most of my work from home whether I like it or not (of which I pick "not"). I do website design/maintenance - it's tedious, my clients make me want to beat my head against a wall on a regular basis, and the pay is utter crap, but I can do it from my bed when I need to. I don't recommend it as a career, but if you really need to work from home, it's better than starving.

At some point, I may get back into tutoring - if you're clever and good at explaining things, it's not a bad way to bring in a little extra money from home.

You could bake waffles and burn imprints vaguely resembling Jesus into them and sell them on ebay?

Why isn't there a Jesus waffle iron available yet...hold on a sec, the internet is trying to tell me something...

Ah, sorry, forgot (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=5774) what age I lived in...though I didn't find a waffle iron...

I recently retired from the Marine Corps, and was wondering if anyone knows of a good home based business that isn't a scam, and isn't involved with selling stuff that no one wants? Only need about a grand a month extra, so any ideas are welcome.

Do you have any backround in investigations? I do work for banks and other lenders and a few law firms.

At the moment, my health situation is such that I'm pretty much stuck doing most of my work from home whether I like it or not (of which I pick "not"). I do website design/maintenance - it's tedious, my clients make me want to beat my head against a wall on a regular basis, and the pay is utter crap, but I can do it from my bed when I need to. I don't recommend it as a career, but if you really need to work from home, it's better than starving.

At some point, I may get back into tutoring - if you're clever and good at explaining things, it's not a bad way to bring in a little extra money from home.

:( That sucks.

I'm surprised you don't make more doing web design. The company that did our web- design/ maintence was flat out raping my company before I came along. $20K for initial design, $2K every month for maintence (excluding hosting fees).

Why isn't there a Jesus waffle iron available yet...hold on a sec, the internet is trying to tell me something...

Ah, sorry, forgot (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=5774) what age I lived in...though I didn't find a waffle iron...

And that's why christianity is truly better than Islam; when Jesus appears in your breakfast, it's a miracle and a million mexicans or italians will show up to kneel, pray and weep before your breakfast nook.

When Muhammed appears in your breakfast, you get death threats. :eek:




;)

Main reason I desire working from home is that I find it extremely difficult to deal with civilians, after being in the Corps. My "skills" are all infantry related, as I have never held a civilian job.

Main reason I desire working from home is that I find it extremely difficult to deal with civilians, after being in the Corps. My "skills" are all infantry related, as I have never held a civilian job.

If the movies have taught me anything, it is that you should become a High School teacher. :)

I am making money from home... you need a good printer for that :)

SCNR

Main reason I desire working from home is that I find it extremely difficult to deal with civilians, after being in the Corps. My "skills" are all infantry related, as I have never held a civilian job.

Do you have computer skills?

Maybe look for a factory job as well. Not all of them sucked. I worked for a short time at Voith Paper Rolls. It was one of the best jobs I held. I was working with my hands, it required a degree of skill so the place wasn't filled with glue- sniffing burn-outs.

When I joined the Corps I was 5'5" tall and weighed 106lbs. After 22yrs of physically abusing my body and being wounded 2x, physical labor is pretty much outa the question :)

I don't have any computer skills, or a degree, I just want something that I can fool around with at home and make some extra cash.

You know all those work-at-home scams out there?

Use the Internet to create your own work-at-home scam. Make tons of money, but slightly illegal and immoral. I wouldn't suggest it. ;)

When I joined the Corps I was 5'5" tall and weighed 106lbs. After 22yrs of physically abusing my body and being wounded 2x, physical labor is pretty much outa the question :)

I don't have any computer skills, or a degree, I just want something that I can fool around with at home and make some extra cash.

What are you good at? What do you like doing?

Edit: Do you have enough money for start-up costs? If not, could you get a loan?

Maybe look at screen-printing/ emroidery.

I recently retired from the Marine Corps, and was wondering if anyone knows of a good home based business that isn't a scam, and isn't involved with selling stuff that no one wants? Only need about a grand a month extra, so any ideas are welcome.


ONLY a grand a month?!?!? :eek: I'm disabled and that is just about my entire monthly income.

If you don't want to deal with the public in person sell on e-bay. People will buy anything and pay through the nose for it.

And that's why christianity is truly better than Islam; when Jesus appears in your breakfast, it's a miracle and a million mexicans or italians will show up to kneel, pray and weep before your breakfast nook.

When Muhammed appears in your breakfast, you get death threats. :eek:




;)

Makes atheism a bummer, if someone like Richard Dawkins showed up in my oatmeal all that would happen is for me to ask him to get out of my oatmeal...

When I joined the Corps I was 5'5" tall and weighed 106lbs. After 22yrs of physically abusing my body and being wounded 2x, physical labor is pretty much outa the question :)

I don't have any computer skills, or a degree, I just want something that I can fool around with at home and make some extra cash.

Damn, there goes my internet stripper idea.

Scars can be hot, but scars on an old guy? Bleh!

Develop internet skills, write a book about your experience in the military.

Seriously, become a high school gym teacher you don't have to worry about dealing with civilains, just give them hell.:p

I recently retired from the Marine Corps, and was wondering if anyone knows of a good home based business that isn't a scam, and isn't involved with selling stuff that no one wants? Only need about a grand a month extra, so any ideas are welcome.

Two words: Affiliate marketing. You will need to pick up some computer skill (but nothing major...you don't have to program, just be able to get a website up, which isn't hard to learn at least compared to programming)--and you do need to know how to sell stuff.

But, the kind of "stuff" sold is pretty much anything you can think of. Amazon.com's got a huge affiliate program (although it is NOT the most lucrative one, it's a biggie and can give a basic idea of how "mainstream" affiliate marketing works). Lots of retailers have affiliate programs; some of them have stuff that sells well, others can't sell ice in the Sahara...same as with bricks-n-mortar stores.

Becoming an affiliate is cheap: The price of a domain name, and if you want to use a program to make site-making dirt easy, then there's the cost of that. LEGIT affiliate programs are free to sign up for. Avoid any programs that charge!!


And, you're not too much of a n00b to get accepted to some programs. Once you get a fairly decent site put together, many will accept your application.

You can also sell stuff online as a merchant, but that's more risky because then you have to buy stock. As an affiliate, if something doesn't sell, you aren't stuck with any stock...just sign up for some other program and promote their stuff instead.

If you don't want to bother learning much computer stuff, you can hire the programming part done. And it's standard to use a "shopping cart" that someone else programmed, and just customize it.

I do both affiliate-side and merchantside selling, and the potential is FAR more than $1k/month (not guaranteed that you will make that or even 1c, but it's possible to make a shedload)--although it does take several months, at least, to ramp up. I've bought a car and some land from my earnings, along with totally avoiding employment (working for someone else) for 7 years now.

I could go on and on, and on, but I'll refrain from putting all of NSG to sleep. Here's a network that's popular on the big affiliate marketing forum (because they're the most ethical one):
www.shareasale.com

Scroll down to where it says "affiliates" and they give a good quickie overview. Except they mention email lists, which gives a wrong impression...most legit affiliate marketing is done via websites afaik.

Develop internet skills, write a book about your experience in the military.

Seriously, become a high school gym teacher you don't have to worry about dealing with civilains, just give them hell.:p

Bombardment..!! Bombardment!! [/simpsons]

My parents sell trees and tools for bonsai on ebay. But you need to be willing to put up with compulsive hobbyists and total n00bs (fyi, it's pronounced 'BONE-sigh'. BAN-Zai is an exclamation.) And you need to understand when it's safe to ship tropicals and what will grow where... Only a business for those who like trees, I think

Collect racket...

Send me your account details and pin and I'll have you earning a minimum of up to $4000USD a month! All you have to do is recieve payments from my deposed president father's account to save my little brother from leukemia, so that the central bank of an obscure east european finance ministry can conduct business in your area.Penis pills! Viagra! ********! girly girly xxx asian girly girls! Hardcore webcam interviews online now! Until over gunship however, heffron average.

So just send me your account details ;)

I wish there was some sort of 'fight back' thing for those home business roads to riches infomertial bullshit things. I don't want to buy the systems, I just want to know how they are supposed to work and why they don't in specific terms.
If they told you that, you wouldn't need to buy several books from them on the subject.
Also, let's face it, if it really was 'guaranteed' to work then there'd be 100s of thousands of millionaires out there working from home.

Last time I checked, there weren't. Just a few intensely irritating grinning idiots on TV telling me how I can become rich if I send them all my money.
Now, I don't have had much to do with economics (was forced to do it as part of my business degree and promptly tried to forget it asap), but for the life of me I can't help but feel there's something wrong with that scenario.

And that's why christianity is truly better than Islam; when Jesus appears in your breakfast, it's a miracle and a million mexicans or italians will show up to kneel, pray and weep before your breakfast nook.

When Muhammed appears in your breakfast, you get death threats. :eek:




;)Does that make Judaism the halfway post? I mean if Moses ever showed up in my friend's cereal I'd just feel sorry for them. Moses was an ugly bastard.

:( That sucks.

I'm surprised you don't make more doing web design. The company that did our web- design/ maintence was flat out raping my company before I came along. $20K for initial design, $2K every month for maintence (excluding hosting fees).

holy crap! :eek:
i knew i was being underpaid...


but yeah, web design is probably a good one. you don't need an office, just a computer and a bit of training maybe. just about anything to do with computers can be done from home - ebay trading, stock photography websites, your own e-commerce store...

http://nichegeek.com/10_totally_stupid_online_business_ideas_that_made_someone_rich

I recently retired from the Marine Corps, and was wondering if anyone knows of a good home based business that isn't a scam, and isn't involved with selling stuff that no one wants? Only need about a grand a month extra, so any ideas are welcome.

Build websites. You can work with what you just have. and you can learn ANYTHING about HTML and XML on www.w3.org , if you don't know about it. And you clearly already own the equipement needed, that is, a computer and the internet.

I mean if Moses ever showed up in my friend's cereal I'd just feel sorry for them. Moses was an ugly bastard.

If Moses ever showed up in your cereal, he'd just stir up a storm and spill it all over the edges of the bowl! :D

Build websites. You can work with what you just have. and you can learn ANYTHING about HTML and XML on www.w3.org , if you don't know about it. And you clearly already own the equipement needed, that is, a computer and the internet.

how much can you earn with building websites? if you learn everything from that site and you have a little bit of talent?

I can't believe that the forces did not offer you some training before unleashing you onto civilian society! My friends husband was 22 years in the Royal Navy and they gave him training before he was due to decommission and also provided help looking for work and he is now working as an electrician, which is a good income on top of his pension. He went in at 16, so is still a young enough guy to need to earn extra to his pension, also he has two boys.

I wish you luck with your task, I am sure that you will get used to civilians, we are not all idiots you know. :)

I'm a translator and writer, I work from home. Does this count? :)

How many languages do you speak? You could be a qualified translator and not know it yet - and there's always a need for writers, esp. with military experience. SoF is always recruiting ex-Marines, for instance.

I recently retired from the Marine Corps, and was wondering if anyone knows of a good home based business that isn't a scam, and isn't involved with selling stuff that no one wants? Only need about a grand a month extra, so any ideas are welcome.

Something like this maybe?

www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_/203-1650802-1639953?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=work+from+home&Go.x=13&Go.y=7

I recently retired from the Marine Corps, and was wondering if anyone knows of a good home based business that isn't a scam, and isn't involved with selling stuff that no one wants? Only need about a grand a month extra, so any ideas are welcome.

I retired from the IRR a few years ago, so I don't get the money for a few more years. I have a couple hobbies that can be pretty good businesses -- cabinet and furniture making, but that's not for everyone. What I'd recommend is looking into things that you enjoy doing, that also might be worth something to another.

Semper Fi -- What did you do in the Corps?

If Moses ever showed up in your cereal, he'd just stir up a storm and spill it all over the edges of the bowl! :DGood point. Even better reason to feel sorry for them. Especially if the cereal was coco-pops. That would be such a waste.

And that's why christianity is truly better than Islam; when Jesus appears in your breakfast, it's a miracle and a million mexicans or italians will show up to kneel, pray and weep before your breakfast nook.

When Muhammed appears in your breakfast, you get death threats. :eek:
But no-one knows what he looks like, so you'd just be sitting there for a few minutes thinking, 'Who's that ugly bastard staring out from my cornflakes?' before eating them and condemning the followers of Islam to purgatory.