lcortez

Was already unemployable at 18,had to get trade and become selfemployed (best thing I've done so far!)

E17Avenue

I got my first job in the IT field here in the US, doing tech support for an internet company.

After five jobs in six years and a good third of that out of work, I was able to drop out of IT and move into...

Translation!

I do German-English translation for a company in Detroit. Work from home. Occasional 2.5 hour drive to the office for meetings. Customers include Audi, Daimler, VW...

TheArmChairDetective

I take it german is a language you have qualifications in through schooling or uobrubging or are you saying you get a computer to do it?

TheArmChairDetective

Excuse the tongue in cheek question but if you were unemployable how, dear chap ,did you get in the trade.

I wish I could learn to be a locksmith, money in the bank being a locksmith, can one learn from home?

E17Avenue

I took it for four years at school, lived in Germany and Switzerland for six years (where I took a 2-year community college "commercial school" course in German), and have maintained contacts in the language in the past 20 years.

Haven't got a single piece of paper to prove what I can do, but my test translation was more than good enough for them! Some qualified translators have done much worse...

lcortez

lasted long enough to earn the money for a weekend course in emergency locksmithing & 1 days extra lock fitting as had no carpentry skills

lcortez

2.5 hrs occasionally Your working too hard,dude!

mikeoc

I used to work for a supermarket, night shifts stacking shelves. Saved up as I never needed to go shopping for 20 years. Sold the council house for a huge profit, moved here. Watched the local builders and saw that I could do that so set myself up, it's easier than stopping beans from falling over, we didn't use cement then.