I want to work from home I'm sick of traveling & if I worked from home I'm home in school holidays & my wife could work a day job instead . I got a big shed full of tools & I could make & repair what ? I'm a fitter who works now as a builder in steel home improvement crap I've made custom made furniture & did build my kitchen did all cabinet making etc so any ideas . I did a job for antique furniture restorer & it put me to thinking .He was booked out for the next two years in a double garage but i doubt anybody is going to give me a 12century clock to restore & I can't afford to by one to restore to sell but there's got to be something . Because I did do a job were I built a privacy screen in the back yard of some gays at chatswood & they had a set of stocks . Is there a niche market for something I can build . I've made knives & swords & armour & crap & sold it but there's to much work for not enough money in to small a circles just can't be bothered with that crap anymore .
Custom made furniture.
Do you have a portfolio? Looking right now (in another window) for a girl's bed.
Just this morning I was looking at all these super cool beds and thinking "I wish I'd just mastered wood work at school and worked out of a shed somewhere making things that people really love and enjoy, with my hands, for myself, and I think I'd be really satisfied doing something like that." Honestly.
Custom Made Furniture is probably your best bet.
Check out Beachwood's shop, and their online content/catalogue. Avalon Parade, Avalon Beach (NSW).
www.beachwood.com.au/
Preferably get a website going also. But not essential.
Develop contacts with architects around Sydney. Their clients will always be looking for feature pieces for their new homes/extensions. It is common for people in Sydney to renovate with a budget of $500k, and then $10-15k on 2-5 pieces of custom furniture really finishes it off. Including custom built-in joinery units.
Also see stuff like this...
www.provincialhomeliving.com.au/
Mobile Tattoo removals - heaps of bad tatts out there. No experience necessary, all you need is a machine - about $2K and a van, get some sweedish backpackers to put on nurse uniforms.
shonkyreviews.com - set up a business where you employ peeps to write fake good and bad reviews for small businesses on social media - urbanspoon, expedia etc.
I've got heaps of good business ideas.
Solid Jarrah wood replacement limbs for people who are unfortunate enough to have their originals bitten off by a shark/ accident at work etc. You could offer custom sized arms with larger biceps to impress the chicks. Carbon fibre hinges at the elbow should eliminate any embarrassing squeaks.
What about coming up with something where people can converse with each other from home without actually meeting in person...
Maple and Beechwood. Are they cheap woods?
$US4,500 (www.inquisitivekid.com/product.aspx?u=combination_walnut-maple)
For a Roman Catholic family:
Google: Kids bunk beds image
Some amazing stuff.
Can you do an Indian accent? An Indian accent pretending to be in Australia (mate)?
Know nothing about computers/IT? Not important.
Welcome to IT outsourcing!
On a serious note, I had a job where I had to work from home, and it drove me crazy for 3 years. I need human contact at work, although I think it'd be different if the work was manual work instead of working on computers all day.
The panda is on to it, but you have to be individual. If you have young kids it won't work - the result will be a 'house hubby' and work will be an ideal that you thought you had the time to do.
Boat / caravan fit-outs - talent with 3d space probably can't all be in wood - but by way of example -- caravans cost a motzaaaaaa and there are heaps around requiring a reno- (update = cabled - a/c - sat tv pop-up - solar panel roof inserts) - upgrade running gear - easy leveling gear -- the range of stuff in the local caravan park is stunning..
Could convert old caravans into kids sleep-out / play room??
Last week - was down in Noosa stopped at an iconic caravan - old aluminium stream-lined bullet design (50's I reckon) used as a coffee outlet (nice brew too
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luck with the transition...(U can always sub yourself out varying amounts till trade built up)
AP
Sex worker.........pays well with good back pay an add on's no tax,
pad it up with 417 visa workers, do it for peanuts[}:)]
Adolf mobile tattoo removals is not working from home . I've spent the last 10 yrs working by myself anyway so I would be alright at home & when kids come into shed if I tell them to grab a broom I don't see them for the rest of the day . Doc u give me recipes. I can do a perfect Indian accent & I use that when I ring & book times for jobs as I do heaps of work for Indians & its funny when a WASP turns up they always expect somebody else . The kids love it when I do it in the drive thru. I want 6 Mac flurrys in a hurry . And as I have no computer skills it might be an option . There is a lot of furniture on the market . Maybe I should just take razor into shed & do bikini lines got compressor & spray guns could do fake tans as well
get on benefits? that's like working from home but like not working... and you got spare time to cook meth... Win-win
Its not being totally at home but perhaps you could make a living out of going to deceased estates sales and auctions. Then buying items you can either sell straight away for a profit or fix them up at home for a profit. Plenty of avenues to sell stuff, whether in shops or online. Most people nowdays are a bit sick of cheapo stuff made in China.
Other than that perhaps lining up supplies online from overseas and then selling them here online.
The idea of renovating caravans sounds like a pretty good one. There are plenty of old vans from the 70s and 80s that could be done up and probably sold for a reasonable amount of money.
All right I have inventions that I don't really know how to sell & I have been ripped off with others in the past when I went through a company that is supposed to do that . So meth lab child care centre were the kids restore caravans sounds like the go
Websites. Hear me out.
Yes I know every man and his firefox is doing it but it's all about the marketing. If you wanted a website tomorrow where would you look? And if I told you I know somebody who did mine for me and I'm really happy with it...? See? My first job out of uni was working in a garage with some guy and he had more work than he could do and he never advertised except at the bottom of sites he'd built. He was probably making $100K+ and that was in 2000. (He didn't even have a framework or template or anything more than a library of functions, which seemed odd to me and I couldn't talk him out of making custom sites, perhaps I was wrong)
I also got into a conversation with a taxi driver who was jail-breaking AppleTV 2s and setting them up with all the foreign channels for people. Again word-of-mouth and again more work than he could handle. He got two calls about it while he was driving me to the airport where he then offered me double what I paid for my ATV2 (because you can't buy them anymore and you can't jail-break the ATV3s).
There are little niche markets everywhere.
i got a mad scam which makes $250 a week with 10 min/day work... no risk, no upfront costs etc............
Unfortunately I'd like to keep it that way so i better keep my mouth shut about it
If you can work in your shed and make things like that bunk it can pay ,but it takes time to get up the business. you do need to put that unique twist on it and live in a city to keep the freight down and a local market ( maybe not with the internet.
youd have to work real hard on getting one job after the other finished and away.
also gonna have to keep up with the paperwork rather than leaving it to wifey.
however ,the next few years are gonna be so focused on the business, will you have time for doing stuff with the kids , so youll have to factor in strict times for them.
I always try to go and meet my kids at school when they are in primary, and try to involve them in projects for a little while after school. on weekend it is harder as you want to use that time for your latest project,
so there are sacrifices. but the rewards can be brilliant
like a miniwindsurfer that only a 11year old could sail
Work hard for a couple of years and live off it. I retired at 46 but worked since i was 16.
Even easier now, if I was starting now I would be into the internet.
I know of one guy clearing 100k/mth selling on Amazon.
Ignore most of what you hear from both ends, oppotunities abound.
I started work at 14 but used to spend a lot of money on slow cars fat women, beer pot & the rest I wasted. Well they weren't all fat & racing motorbikes took a big chunk . I got an idea already built proto type didn't think anybody would b interested but apparently it solves the same problem I had so give me a bit of time & proto type 2 could b for sale & sell enough so that I can have sustainable businesses from shed maybe I hope 
Design a very good, unique and popular app for iPhone, iPad etc. Instant multi-millionaire if it takes off. Just look at instagram for example... what did the co-founder take away from the sale? 600 million or something 
Took them a week to make aswell.
You could try Forex which is best suited for home lifestyle work, but possibly you have also 95% chance to loose all your investment.
But with this 5% chances to succeed still better chances that Lotto and once mastered could replicate and repeat that success at will.
