careers and what to learn??

justdamo

justdamo

justdamo

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Hi Guys,

Ok, as a new stay at home dad and i have found that i have a a couple of years to start learning a new skill. (well a few hours a day at the moment :()

I have a general interest in PC's (although gaming has been most of it) :) but i am just wondering if any one could shed some light on any potential careers i could learn from home involving, either PC builds, repairs, or software programs, blogging etc i could learn??

Ideally a career would suit me best working from home but thats not a game changer.

In short, i don't know weather to focus my time learing about PC equipment or if i am better of devoting my time to software or games???
Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks
Damian
 
Hi, if I'm honest I don't think there's going to be much in the way of a career in those areas. All of those areas are done to death and unless you have something truly unique you won't get far with a few hours a day(obviously that's short term).
 
PC builds, repairs - You will be able to get work, but not particularly convenient work, i.e. need to get people's PCs or have them drop them off. Also, relatively timeconsuming for what you can get paid, i.e. limited earning potential.

Videoblogging - If you are informative, or entertaining and funny, you can make money video blogging. Straight blogging is a lot harder but not impossible. Pick a specific topic and be the best at it, then get advertising deals.

Software - There are remote opportunities in software, often coupled with having to come into the office once a week or month, but you'll need to be good. Things like PHP coding, Ruby on Rails, server admin.

Games - Don't know about this, but again, you can be a "YouTuber" in the games space with some success if you're entertaining enough, e.g. there's a guy that does this for Minecraft very successfully.

Rgds
 
Thx for your time in replying guys. I thought of doing game reviews on YouTube the ones I see on there can be a little silly and not helpful. It would cost you bomb in money though unless you downloaded them.
I will checkout those software programs too see if they grab my interest.
 
justdamo said:
Thx for your time in replying guys. I thought of doing game reviews on YouTube the ones I see on there can be a little silly and not helpful. It would cost you bomb in money though unless you downloaded them.
I will checkout those software programs too see if they grab my interest.
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I think if you can be entertaining, games reviews on YouTube would make you some money. The problem is, being entertaining is not that easy!! Obviously you need a lot of views to make reasonable money.

If you're prepared to put the time in you could learn web design and create a games review website, just have a very narrow focus to be more successful. Not easy, but can be done.

Rgds
 
justdamo said:
Thx for your time in replying guys. I thought of doing game reviews on YouTube the ones I see on there can be a little silly and not helpful. It would cost you bomb in money though unless you downloaded them.
I will checkout those software programs too see if they grab my interest.
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Give that the most popular YouTube channel is one of these annoying games reviewers I'd have to say that unfortunately the silliness seems to work out quite well. There isn't much chance of you making much money from this - unless you're very charismatic/funny I really doubt a 'Dad' is going to appeal to the people who watch these things given that three are already thousands of kids out there creating these videos.
 
You're going to have to build up a real skillset if you eventually want flexible work from home - ideally something you should have acquired before having a kid. If try and find something that perhaps still has some relation to whatever you previously did as a career. Starting something completely new on a very ad-hoc basis could be quite challenging.
 
radderfire said:
... and whilst gaming away, be thinking about the next gaming or mobile app to create, as that can make you big money.

Rgds
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For every game that makes money there's 10000000000s of games that don't. To make big money is lottery winning odds.

By all means learn it just rather naive to think it's easy.
 
Sorry I read your post as though you thought it was easy my mistake.

She had the backing of a large entity though, she didn't do it by herself. It was also heavily based on an already established franchise. Impressive none the less but it was far from a single person at home wanting to learn.
 
Buy some hosting space and start an entertaining, yet serious blog about being a stay at home dad. It's a strong niche.

Build it up with good content, then monetize it.

Use your space for a few other affiliate marketing pages and let those go to work for you once you've gotten the gist of marketing your blog effectively.
 
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