Working, with no boss or mates
From home
I’ve been searching a bit but most things are usually, poker, filling polls, things that don’t work. In general shit
I don’t want big money neither. Just something in which there’re no calls, meetings…
You can recommend me whatever you want but if you have experience on it better
I hate to say it but if you want to make a living you kinda have to interact with other people a bit. I’m currently an independent contractor for one of my previous employees. I work when I want for as long as I want, my only requirement is to work less than 32 hours a week and of course to keep my client happy. I have a boss and I do attend some meetings but it’s incredibly chill. I would however much prefer if they hired me on full time, but at this point I don’t think that’s happening.
Otherwise at home there’s always some kind of service you can provide. Painting is easy to pick up and some landlords repaint every property between tenants. Any kind of converting trash into something with value is also a good option. For example I know of a guy in town who collects furniture people leave out for trash and refurbishes it to resell.
If you’re handy you could even go the extreme route of house flipping, which usually is most profitable if you live in the houses you flip. I’ve seen a few run down houses bought from estates sell for way below market value then flip for much more, since families just want mom and dad’s house sold, and buyers often don’t want to do a ton of repairs before moving in. Alternatively buying up run down properties to repair and rent out might be a good path to a solid living too
Or just go all in with a small business. I’ve not seen sellers of affordable and decent looking Corsi-Rosenthal boxes for example, or if you can find some kind of furniture/device for special needs people there’s usually a huge premium charged for those as “medical devices” which are often paid for by Medicaid so it would be very easy to undercut established brands that way. In a similar vein there’s a huge hole in the market for durable furniture. The Amish famously make extremely high quality furniture that holds incredible value due to its high durability, and you don’t have to be Amish to make high quality furniture. Or just find something else you can sell. I saw you mention some programming skills, maybe you can make some kind of B2B app. I’ve seen it said that anything that’s a spreadsheet can be turned into an app and sold to businesses. Or just make a bunch of phone apps and see if any happen to take off.
(In the US) If you make a medical device paid for by Medicaid, you have to have FDA approval. Which honestly, now may be the time to try and get it?
So specifically I was thinking of adaptive furniture. There’s special programs in some states for folks with long term disabilities to help with purchasing adaptive furniture. Think restraints/locks/alarms for things that a cognitively impaired person might need, such as if they get up in the middle of the night, or door alarms and the like.
For a real world example, my youngest was diagnosed with level 3 autism. Because of his diagnosis he qualifies for our states Medicaid expansion which is intended to cover all of the random costs of having a special needs child that normal kids wouldn’t cost, like door alarms, a fridge lock or we almost had them pay for putting a fence in our yard because he tries to run when outside. We were looking at what could be described as a crib for kids too big for a crib, and all of the options cost a minimum of $10k and a median of about $20k. That would be an extremely easy market to disrupt with a lower cost solution since I highly doubt it actually costs anywhere near $10k to make such a bed
What I’m saying is that adaptive furniture is likely a registered class II medical device which goes through FDA approval. So the bed isn’t 10K, but (a portion) the FDA registration is. The consequences of failing to register something that qualifies as medical devices are 1) fines 2) payments to anyone harmed and/or 3) time in federal prison.
Sure you could easily “disrupt” the market, but the market could easily disrupt the rest of your life.
Restraints are 100% a medical device and I would highly doubt you would either be allowed to purchase or be reimbursed for one that’s not approved.
Edited to add: https://www.registrarcorp.com/blog/medical-devices/medical-device-registration/fda-class-ii-medical-devices/ A quick explainer (marketing from a business that helps companies register devices) since the FDA website is … not super clear nor helpful.
Huh TIL thank you