[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cynicalheretic', 'I') like to watch TV and wank off. Can someone point me to a career

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'g')eegaws

[I_Like_Plants]

Yes well Geegaw is just as respectable a slang word as doodad, and I think goes back further in history.

[crossthread]

Grow Green.
Now that's money that really "grows on Trees"......
:twisted evil:

[Chaparral]

geegaws, doodads, doohickeys, whatchamacalits, thingamabobs, thingamajigs..whatever. I bet Toecutter could make 'em all.

Personally, I need a doodad for my AR-15 and a geegaw for my solar thermosiphon. Oh, and I gotta go the the bee keeping supply place and get a Langstroth thingamajig for another hive.

I myself plan to set up a shop to manufacture and sell doinky-ma-hoosits.

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Chaparral', 'g')eegaws, doodads, doohickeys, whatchamacalits, thingamabobs, thingamajigs..whatever. I bet Toecutter could make 'em all.

Personally, I need a doodad for my AR-15 and a geegaw for my solar thermosiphon. Oh, and I gotta go the the bee keeping supply place and get a Langstroth thingamajig for another hive.

I myself plan to set up a shop to manufacture and sell doinky-ma-hoosits.

[Chaparral]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', '
')How about sh_ _ten bricks when the time comes; now there is something that may prove valuable!

[mekmek]

This is a good topic. Why drag it down to the gutter?

Keeping a flock of well housed healthy chickens that happily scratch around and bath in the sun is a hobby in my books.

We sell as many eggs as we can produce - but we live in the suburbs where there are not too many local producers to compete with!

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Chaparral', 'S')h_ _ten bricks? How do you train a brick to sh_t?

[Lore]

On a more serious note related to the topic, almost any hobby can make you money. Most people start out doing things they like and find that they inevitably create more then they can use or appreciate. Then too, once you get good at something you'll always find people of similar interests that will also enjoy having it.

You only have to browse eBay a bit to realize there is a market for most anything. The question is do you want to turn your love affair into to a career with all the pressures associated with selling?

[Pops]

When we lived in ca our 1-acre place was known as The [sup](insert our last name here)[/sup] Family Garden and we hosted weddings and parties for family and close friends. It was beautifully landscaped with ponds, waterfalls, huge plantings of shrubs, perennials, trees, ferns, various great big and tiny secluded lawns, screen porch, exterior stairway – you name it. We even built a circular, 24-foot diameter, outdoor dance floor in sections, that could be setup in just a couple 6-packs time.

(We bought the place half started and took it from there)

We didn’t charge anything to use the place but spent many, many hours keeping it up and getting ready for the parties.

Everyone said we should rent the place out: I always said that would turn what is an enjoyable favor into an obligation – and I had done that before.

OTOH, as someone said, eventually you make more of what you like to make so why not sell the excess? I pay for our entire garden and green house supplies by selling extra seedlings from the greenhouse and produce from the garden from a little ’65 Chevy pickup-bed trailer in front of the house on a tiny lane with maybe 20 cars/day traffic.


Of course my neighbors say why not spend all Saturday and haul the trailer to the farmers market in town…


At any rate, in a planning-for-PO sense, diversifying one's sources of income is one of my top 3 priorities - especially for those of us whose's income could be dramatically affected by a worsening economy.

Just make sure your avocation-to-vocation idea is compatible with a post-peak world and is something you can do long term.

[I_Like_Plants]

That's just it, Lore, it has to be something with a very low hassle factor yet earns money.

If I were reallly good at a musical instrument, no problem, instead of hitting the ATM I'd just go "busk" somewhere. I'm, while I've been told talented, very much a noob and don't sound that great.

I have some drawing ability, there are certain techniques for doing quick portraits that are taught by the pros who work at the fairgrounds, and I have a book by one of them. There are a couple of other books I plan to send off for, not expensive, one's $12 and one's $15. I can go out and earn money now, doing that, just on raw talent, but sitting down and doing the exercises and work out of the book would help me a lot.

Money's short enough that I may go out and do some drawing this weekend, gotta eat! Drawing people feels like work and feels scary to me, but maybe it becomes more fun after I'm more used to it. I know it *is* fun actually observing people as if I were going to draw them, noting shapes of body, all the different constructions of face, etc.

I'm torn between working on an instrument, which would be from starting from ground zero for me, or getting my ass out there and drawing, which I have the "chops" to do now.

[Madpaddy]

I like cooking and my wife likes making jam and does some painting as well. We hope to sell some jam, veggies and homemade greeting cards at the local shop this summer.

[MaterialExcess]

I have been playing the guitar for 20+ years now. I have given up on becoming a famous rock star and am now working on writing music instead. One good song is all it takes to be set for life. Even if I go nowhere (most likely outcome), I will still have a lot of fun doing it. The thing about music though is it takes many years of practice and hard work to become any good. If you get into it only for money, you will not last very long.

[I_Like_Plants]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MaterialExcess', 'I') have been playing the guitar for 20+ years now. I have given up on becoming a famous rock star and am now working on writing music instead. One good song is all it takes to be set for life. Even if I go nowhere (most likely outcome), I will still have a lot of fun doing it. The thing about music though is it takes many years of practice and hard work to become any good. If you get into it only for money, you will not last very long.

[mekmek]

There is a busker who works different locations in Sydney on a rotating basis playing guitar and making a good living. That's now though, when there is cash around. Just wonder how he'll go when things get tight.

There is a rather famous musician in Australia called Deborah Conway. She used to record for the major labels, then a few years ago she produced a CD herself. She now goes around Australia playing with her husband at parties. She just asks that people buy something like 20 of her CD's. I was at one of those parties. It was great.

Will be interesting to see how music and musicians fit into a world in energy descent. You'd have to think it will get more decentralised and more controlled at the grassroots level rather than by corporations.

[I_Like_Plants]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mekmek', 'T')here is a busker who works different locations in Sydney on a rotating basis playing guitar and making a good living. That's now though, when there is cash around. Just wonder how he'll go when things get tight.

There is a rather famous musician in Australia called Deborah Conway. She used to record for the major labels, then a few years ago she produced a CD herself. She now goes around Australia playing with her husband at parties. She just asks that people buy something like 20 of her CD's. I was at one of those parties. It was great.

Will be interesting to see how music and musicians fit into a world in energy descent. You'd have to think it will get more decentralised and more controlled at the grassroots level rather than by corporations.

[mlit]

I think they are opening a 'Whores On Command' store near me they are popping up like flies.

[I_Like_Plants]

You guys are pretty inexperienced in the American Way Of Life, (everything a commodity) if you gotta open a store, heck, whores are all over the place where I live, there are some really scary bars around here and occasionally even the nice places get some of the overflow.....