Aella has written a bunch on camgirling, including questions to ask yourself about suitability. The advice is probably applicable to twitch streaming or tiktok video creation too.
Content or product creation online and sales has never been easier, but it’s hard work with no guarantee of payoff.
There is a lot written/on youtube about retail arbitrage, if you have stores nearby you might be able to do that.
Fully remote entry level call center/sales jobs are pretty much always hiring, they’re pretty demanding though. Staffing agencies can potentially set you up, be ready to do things like convince elderly people to give to a charity.
Longer term, professional certifications in healthcare or IT can usually make a big difference in someone’s life.
I’m guessing the funding environment for entrepreneurs isn’t great right now, but something is always happening somewhere.
Amazon Mechanical Turk used to be a decent way of doing boring work for a little money.
Free money from the government is a thing, but services for people who don’t have kids are few and far between.
Starting from zero today is hard, but the best thing you can do is get out there and start trying stuff. You don’t have any opportunity cost for trying things, which isn’t true for a lot of people. You can go into the unknown knowing that the alternative (your present situation) is complete crap.
Thank you for the thoughtful suggestions. Aella is exemplary but camgirling strikes me as a nightmare.
I have considered making stuff, like custom glasses/premium drinkware, and selling on Etsy but the market seems saturated and I’ve never had the money to buy the equipment to learn the skills required to do this kind of thing.
I am certified in Salesforce and could probably get hired helping to manage the Salesforce org for my tribe (Cherokee Nation) but would have to move to Oklahoma.
I’ve applied for every grant I can find that I’m eligible for, but there’s not much out there and the competition is stiff.
We will figure out something, I’m sure. If we don’t, there’s nothing standing between us and homelessness and that reality fills me with anger and despair.
I feel like there’s nothing society wants from me, so there’s no way for me to convince society that I deserve anything from it.
If you can get a salesforce cert, you can get any of the other baseline IT certs. Being a female and being native is actually massive for hiring at companies that care about that stuff.
Apply for government IT jobs, help desk type stuff, a lot of it is hybrid or remote, if it’s a hybrid position, ask to be remote for the first month (two paychecks) to manage moving.
Six months in, open a business, ask your company to switch you to 1099, route the job through your business, work it for another year, this creates a performance history.
Now you are a poor, native american woman owned small business, and you can apply for 8A set aside contracts as the prime. This allows you to take 10% or so off the top when teaming with a large company that will actually staff the thing. Grow to around 40 employees, sell for 5-10mil in 15 years.
It’s not honest work, but lots of people have done this. If you think I’m full of it, I literally worked on a contract where one of the companies on the winning team was called “Native American Woman”.
Aella has written a bunch on camgirling, including questions to ask yourself about suitability. The advice is probably applicable to twitch streaming or tiktok video creation too.
Content or product creation online and sales has never been easier, but it’s hard work with no guarantee of payoff.
There is a lot written/on youtube about retail arbitrage, if you have stores nearby you might be able to do that.
Fully remote entry level call center/sales jobs are pretty much always hiring, they’re pretty demanding though. Staffing agencies can potentially set you up, be ready to do things like convince elderly people to give to a charity.
Longer term, professional certifications in healthcare or IT can usually make a big difference in someone’s life.
I’m guessing the funding environment for entrepreneurs isn’t great right now, but something is always happening somewhere.
Amazon Mechanical Turk used to be a decent way of doing boring work for a little money.
Free money from the government is a thing, but services for people who don’t have kids are few and far between.
Starting from zero today is hard, but the best thing you can do is get out there and start trying stuff. You don’t have any opportunity cost for trying things, which isn’t true for a lot of people. You can go into the unknown knowing that the alternative (your present situation) is complete crap.
Good luck!
Thank you for the thoughtful suggestions. Aella is exemplary but camgirling strikes me as a nightmare.
I have considered making stuff, like custom glasses/premium drinkware, and selling on Etsy but the market seems saturated and I’ve never had the money to buy the equipment to learn the skills required to do this kind of thing.
I am certified in Salesforce and could probably get hired helping to manage the Salesforce org for my tribe (Cherokee Nation) but would have to move to Oklahoma.
I’ve applied for every grant I can find that I’m eligible for, but there’s not much out there and the competition is stiff.
We will figure out something, I’m sure. If we don’t, there’s nothing standing between us and homelessness and that reality fills me with anger and despair.
I feel like there’s nothing society wants from me, so there’s no way for me to convince society that I deserve anything from it.
It’s so hard out here.
If you can get a salesforce cert, you can get any of the other baseline IT certs. Being a female and being native is actually massive for hiring at companies that care about that stuff.
Apply for government IT jobs, help desk type stuff, a lot of it is hybrid or remote, if it’s a hybrid position, ask to be remote for the first month (two paychecks) to manage moving.
Six months in, open a business, ask your company to switch you to 1099, route the job through your business, work it for another year, this creates a performance history.
Now you are a poor, native american woman owned small business, and you can apply for 8A set aside contracts as the prime. This allows you to take 10% or so off the top when teaming with a large company that will actually staff the thing. Grow to around 40 employees, sell for 5-10mil in 15 years.
It’s not honest work, but lots of people have done this. If you think I’m full of it, I literally worked on a contract where one of the companies on the winning team was called “Native American Woman”.
Good luck.