What qualifies as "good income" where you live? How feasible is it to make your own business? It doesn't have to be a contract/service based role, you can simply sell a product. Depending on your income needs it may be enough to keep you afloat while you figure out a long term strategy.

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fsloth 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

"you can simply sell a product."

Are you personally making a living by selling a product or service you created - and if so could you share something of your experience? Making a product is not trivial - it's double hard.

First you need to come up with a product. Then you need to sell it and the latter is possibly much harder than the technology in all except the most complex of products. There are success stories, sure, but so many people in the internet are hustling so success looks like driven by chance rather than a deterministic outcome by following a given process. (If you get to medical school, then becoming a doctor is a deterministic outcome. If you get unemployed, coming up with a product and sales to make a living does not seem deterministic to me in the same sense).

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OulaX 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Coming up with an idea for a product/service has always been the reason that stopped me from starting my own business!

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DougN7 4 days ago | parent [-]

You don’t have to come up with something original. If you see something and think you could do it better consider it.

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SoftTalker 4 days ago | parent [-]

It also doesn't have to be very complicated. patio11 on here famously got his start selling a program that made bingo cards for teachers. And then doing automated appointment reminders for doctors. Neither of these ideas was complicated or original -- you just need to solve a problem that enough people have, and (critically) be able to market it.

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fsloth 4 days ago | parent [-]

The marketing part is potentially quite challenging. As well as finding a niche market that is underserved.

patio11 is famous because what he did was really non-trivial even though he is such a humble person he discusses his work in very homely terms.

	▲	SoftTalker 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Right, didn't intend to understate the achievement. Mostly emphasizing that the product idea does not have to be complicated or original. Success is overwhelmingly about it filling a need for the target market, execution, and professionalism.