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> Write articles for other people

That sounds interesting. What kind of people, and how do they find you? Where are the articles published? How much time do you usually have for writing them (days, weeks, months?) Do they get published under your name or the buyer's name?

As far as I can tell, there is no gold standard for text brokering, including TextBroker.com, but start with Textbroker Alternatives and you'll see lots, and plenty of reviews to find something you like.

After that, get old school and check out the Writer's Market Guide 2019 (or anything from the last couple of years). Keep in mind, all the magazines and industry publications out there need a ton of content every month. What are YOUR favorite places to read? Heck, it can be poetry, fiction, DIY, anything.

Timeline, word count, style, pay and all the other tidbits are almost always agreed upon prior to your efforts. Unless you want to pitch a story. Which can be super fun! And these can be blogs, industry rags, magazines, newspapers, and so on.

Enjoy!

if you are interested to get into that line of work check out http://www.hitsubscribe.com/ they are hiring writers (part time i believe).

eric dietrich who is one of the founders of the company is a frequent speaker on the freelancers show ( https://devchat.tv/freelancers/ ) and seems like a nice guy to work with.

seems like a good way to get started and learn the ropes

> Act as a standby for dish pits at the local restaurants - filling in only when someone doesn't show since I don't want to take what could be a lifeline job for someone AND having a standby like me means they can keep their job instead of just being a no-show

I'd like to try something like that. I have no experience in restaurants. How would you suggest I go about it?

Shadow someone in a dish pit.

  * not a chain - too many rules
  * don't get in the way - harder than it sounds
  * bring your own gloves and get used to them before the big show

If you don't know anyone working a dish pit, ask around. Another good bet is someone just starting a restaurant. They will probably go through many tryouts until they get someone good in the pit, so you'll be really helping them out by being standby.

A few more tips.

  * get some copies of the zine, Dishwasher.  
  * know that the dish pit is the center of the restaurant cycle
  * call out all sharps in the water - especially soapy water
  * keep a flow and constantly look at the big picture
  * always be ready to help anyone in the building

Lastly, find out when they clean the grease trap - and stay home that day. Haha.

> Sell plant starts - a little late for this year, but it's one of those things you can save seeds from your regular groceries / food prep at home and early Spring...ba-da-bing ba-da-bang...kind of almost free plants!

Might work with vegetables, but aren't most grocery fruits derived from cuttings?

For selling, you'll want to have starts, from seeds. Peppers, cucumbers and so on. Organic is usually far easier to sprout - especially if they haven't been radiated or whatever they do to things to keep them "fresh".

For eating, it's fun to toss scraps like lettuce feet, scallion spiders, and ginger thumbs and eventually (almost) never buy them again. Potatoes are fun since they grow so fast and just a bucket by the window is enough.

Of course, a trip to a local farmers market and you'll have an even better starting stock.

Farm it!

Actually it doesn't even work with most vegetables. To get the kind of yields people are used to, many vegetables are hybrids. The kicker is, the second generation plant (the one that you'd grow from the seeds) is no longer a hybrid, so you won't get the same plant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_seed

And as you point out, most fruits can't be grown from seeds either. _Something_ will grow, but you aren't going to get Sweetango apples from seeds.

>most fruits can't be grown from seeds either. _Something_ will grow, but you aren't going to get Sweetango apples from seeds.

Help me understand this. What will grow from the seed? Why won't whatever grows, produce fruit?

Are you retired or otherwise financially independent? Sounds like the average day/week of a workaholic retiree (or stay at home parent - with nanny).

> Labor - the harder the better

how/where do you find such work ?

I would guess CL.

Just walking or driving around town. I've helped a couple get a refrigerator in their house - somehow the delivery service left it in their driveway. Weeded without asking - parking strips, or other parts of property not near the windows or house. I'm always on the lookout in winter for a stuck car that needs shoving.

Since it's Spring, offer to help older folks get their garden going. Once things are planted they can usually manage well enough.

If you live where people dig pools often, sometimes it's easier to shovel than Bobcat - noise issues with neighbors, restricted space, etc. Excellent work if you can get it.

Neighborhood websites around here usually have someone asking for some sort of physically demanding help. Today, for example, someone is asking for help clearing their 10 acre property of limbs that fell off during the winter storms. One could not only pile them up but also bow saw them into kindling.