Hello
First post here. Found this site by chance over the past week looking for ways to make money from home. Very happy to find this site, so big thanks to Jon for creating and maintaining it, and all the great contributing members.
I suffer an illness preventing me from leaving the house. My wife is the breadwinner in a stressful job earning an average wage. My income until recently (due to selling all my belongings on eBay) has been £0 for about 2 years. Not leaving the house, not having my own income/contributing to the bills & feeling useless, leads to some bad depression on top of already being ill.
Those bad feelings are compounded when I used to earn a lot of money through working in software development for the entertainment industry and even running two successful businesses.
The path to regaining my health and life back, is in sight. And now I have found this site, I hope to put the knowledge to good use to make some money so I can relieve some of the pressure on my wife.
I have all day, everyday, for a good few months (we are moving abroad next year) to start earning some money. But, I want it to be serious money. I'm doing surveys, clicksites etc, but for just pennies mostly.
I've successfully applied (thanks to this site) to the following:
Leapforce
Isoft
Appen
Lionbridge
I just have the tests for those to do now. Working in IT & software development in the past, I'm hoping to stand 'some' chance. Thanks Jon for the Toolkit for the above links, and to another member for the Isoft link in a thread on here.
I'm also on User-testing and What Users Do. User Testing has given me $23 in 3 days. What Users Do £8. Small money to some, but it made me feel great
Sorry this is a long 'Hello'. One more thing I want to add....
Matched Betting: I've read the threads, watched the videos on PA, seen the success stories. I do believe it works, no doubt there. As I mentioned, I recently made some money off eBay, a good amount. However, I am SO SCARED to touch it!!!! My bank account has been £0 for two years, and now it's looking good. I
could start this with say, £200, but I'm so nervous that I will do something wrong. I have seen a couple of post from people on here who've messed it up. I've sold all my things to get some spare cash, I'd hate to lose some of it by making a silly mistake.
I consider myself a smart person, but have never understood betting/gambling and have no interest in sports! I've been reading @ Jammie Anderson's posts, thread and blog, saying that a few hours a day has netted him £'ssss. I have all day, everyday stuck at home. I'm excited by the prospect and nervous in equal measure! :-\
Thanks for reading and thanks again to Jon and all the great members for this superb place to discuss earning money from home. Sorry for the long intro post
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