Before the tough economics nowadays, I will have a full bag of snacks for USD 15 on grocery store, but now my bags getting thinner at the same amount of money.
I could only buy less with the same amount before. Due to the crazy increasing oil prices, everything gets much more expensive.
But what can I do? I don’t have the authority to determine the oil prices, neither you, I think.
So, what can we do to survive?
I hate to say this, but true, we have to be savvy, only buy what we need and not what we want. And at the same time we should try to get more extra income, because what we earn might not enough anymore.
But I get asked once by a friend, ”How can you earn more? Who would hire you now for a higher salary? Company fired people, not hire people anymore to survive themselves.”
Really? Is that so? I mean you should think out of the box if you think that way. You born not only to be an employee, you have more potential to be somebody else.
Here I will give you some idea to drive more ideas from you:
- Sell your home made cookies, puddings, pies, whatever you could do best at your home kitchen. Maybe at the beginning you just let your friends and neighbors know that you are able to make something nice for them at a fair price. It will bring you fun, you could do your hobby and it brings you money at the same time. Who knows that someday you will sell your pudding across the region?
- If you like pets, I believe people would like to ask you to look after their dogs & cats while they are out of town.
- Do you like gardening? Why don’t you put a banner on your gate saying, “We Sell plants & flowers, free delivery on certain areas.” Who knows they will drop by to buy some from you?
- If you like blogging, browsing or another internet activities, go ahead, start your own sites & blogs. There are lots of internet programs you could make money with, like: Parked.com, Kontera, Chitika, YouSayToo, and so on.
- If you think you are a pretty good writer, try to sell your articles to some media or media sites. If it’s a good idea & useful for readers I believe they don’t mind to pay you.
- Be a mentor, Nowadays lots of student needs private teacher to help them with their school lessons, be that one.
Basically just do what you could do best, then be creative. You could earn more by being creative at your best area. Start the steps. One mile journey starts from a single step.
Good Luck Guys, You Can Do It.
