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Mariuguana dealing. If start really small just among your pothead friends by the way you work yourself up the drug dealing ladder it may be legal all over the Nation!

 
Quez said:
How about MMA/self defense training for seniors? You can spend years creating this system so when you enter the demographic you will be an expert. I'm not talking about your typical MMA, but a version specifically for old people. Not only will they benefit from the exercise, but they will also learn valuable defense methods customized for the elderly body. Like how to do a takedown without breaking a hip. How to use a cane as a weapon, etc.
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Take out dentures and use them like brass knuckles.

 
ChiefD said:
If you are a mechanical type person, be a handyman. It's an under filled niche because most contractors don't want to do small jobs. And I'm talking simple jobs like:

recaulking bathtubs

replacing electrical sockets

cleaning out garages

changing faucets

--Stuff like that---

You want to do jobs where you are in and out in a couple of hours, because EVERYONE can afford to pay a guy for a couple of hours. Set your rates at $40-$50/hour, and you will be busy as much as you want to be. If you don't feel comfortable with a particular request, just pass on it.

You can also get liability insurance for pretty cheap, so you can cover yourself there. You really only need to bill about 4 hours a day to make a decent living.

20 hours/week x $50/hour = $1000/week. Take out your expenses and you are in the neighborhood of $600/week take home. Decent amount for a part time job.

I had a business plan for this a few years ago. Thought about doing this myself, except I based it on billing at least 6 hours a day.
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That sounds like a good gig to me. I love doing home improvement stuff.

 
Something with cooking. Find a niche and do small private catering gigs or orders (BBQ, cakes, etc.). Or become a life coach. It's all the rage now.

 
gianmarco said:
Something with cooking. Find a niche and do small private catering gigs or orders (BBQ, cakes, etc.). Or become a life coach. It's all the rage now.
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Maybe a new thread ...does anyone here actually have a life coach? What a bunch of bull####. Anyone of you ever meet someone that declares they are a life coach? Nary a sane one amongst the bunch.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
gianmarco said:
Something with cooking. Find a niche and do small private catering gigs or orders (BBQ, cakes, etc.). Or become a life coach. It's all the rage now.
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Maybe a new thread ...does anyone here actually have a life coach? What a bunch of bull####. Anyone of you ever meet someone that declares they are a life coach? Nary a sane one amongst the bunch.
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I have been told I would be a good one by some clients, but I can't grasp my head around it. I'll stick with personal training.
 
MAC_32 said:
Binky The Doormat said:
gianmarco said:
Something with cooking. Find a niche and do small private catering gigs or orders (BBQ, cakes, etc.). Or become a life coach. It's all the rage now.
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Maybe a new thread ...does anyone here actually have a life coach? What a bunch of bull####. Anyone of you ever meet someone that declares they are a life coach? Nary a sane one amongst the bunch.
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I have been told I would be a good one by some clients, but I can't grasp my head around it. I'll stick with personal training.
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A paid mentor. I can't imagine why that wouldn't work. Altruism for a hefty price.

Why not go into sports management?

 
It would work, but I would not be happy about doing it. It's fine when my sessions are based around exercise, but change the basis and...man, I don't know.

 
Not that I'm in a position where I want to do this, but aerial photography using a quadcopter drone is in its infancy and when done right can produce video and photos that haven't been dreamed of. The technical skills to do it right is something few will posess. And there will be a market for this kind of video / photography for showcasing real estate, golf courses. Seems like something that one person could start on their own and make some bucks.

 
Brony said:
Not that I'm in a position where I want to do this, but aerial photography using a quadcopter drone is in its infancy and when done right can produce video and photos that haven't been dreamed of. The technical skills to do it right is something few will posess. And there will be a market for this kind of video / photography for showcasing real estate, golf courses. Seems like something that one person could start on their own and make some bucks.
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Now this is interesting.
 
moleculo said:
Brony said:
Not that I'm in a position where I want to do this, but aerial photography using a quadcopter drone is in its infancy and when done right can produce video and photos that haven't been dreamed of. The technical skills to do it right is something few will posess. And there will be a market for this kind of video / photography for showcasing real estate, golf courses. Seems like something that one person could start on their own and make some bucks.
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Now this is interesting.
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There will be drones buzzing all over the place soon. People may pay for this type of imagery for a brief period, but it will surely be taken over by the big boys.

For the places you can't zoom into real time, I am sure you will be able to click a spot on a map and an amazon drone will be hovering there in minutes.

 
moleculo said:
Brony said:
Not that I'm in a position where I want to do this, but aerial photography using a quadcopter drone is in its infancy and when done right can produce video and photos that haven't been dreamed of. The technical skills to do it right is something few will posess. And there will be a market for this kind of video / photography for showcasing real estate, golf courses. Seems like something that one person could start on their own and make some bucks.
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Now this is interesting.
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I believe it's illegal until the FAA sets up a licensing system for UAS'es in 2015.

 
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Quez said:
moleculo said:
Brony said:
Not that I'm in a position where I want to do this, but aerial photography using a quadcopter drone is in its infancy and when done right can produce video and photos that haven't been dreamed of. The technical skills to do it right is something few will posess. And there will be a market for this kind of video / photography for showcasing real estate, golf courses. Seems like something that one person could start on their own and make some bucks.
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Now this is interesting.
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There will be drones buzzing all over the place soon. People may pay for this type of imagery for a brief period, but it will surely be taken over by the big boys.

For the places you can't zoom into real time, I am sure you will be able to click a spot on a map and an amazon drone will be hovering there in minutes.
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I hear what you are saying, but by your logic, no one would have a photographer photograph their home since Google Street View, aka The Big Boy, already does this.

I have no idea what kind of industry this aerial photography will turn into, but as we see with NFL and the Winter Olympics, these overhead mobile cameras bring a different perspective that wasn't possible years ago. The technology to do so is now within an amateur's budget and capability.

 
I work in franchising. We have a majority of our franchise candidates in the 50-65 range. Most people these days opening franchised small businesses are retirees or soon-to-be retirees, many of them with healthy retirement accounts and net worth. Not to say that you need to spend 10 years investigating buying a franchise, but there are literally thousands of business models that are franchised. Plus, you would not necessarily need to spend 10 years learning a hobby or skill and try and make it into business.

 
Sarnoff said:
moleculo said:
Brony said:
Not that I'm in a position where I want to do this, but aerial photography using a quadcopter drone is in its infancy and when done right can produce video and photos that haven't been dreamed of. The technical skills to do it right is something few will posess. And there will be a market for this kind of video / photography for showcasing real estate, golf courses. Seems like something that one person could start on their own and make some bucks.
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Now this is interesting.
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I believe it's illegal until the FCC sets up a licensing system for UAS'es in 2015.
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I think the smaller "drones", which are being talked about here, are just classified the same as a remote controlled hobby plane, aren't they?

 
The people I know who work in breweries or own breweries make me never want to get into that side of beer. The guys who own breweries, while it's awesome, work insane hours. I know you're not looking to retire, but you'd probably be working a lot more then than you are now, and it's not all sampling beer and making test batches.

The guys who do the grunt work....no thanks. Have fun spending 16 hours on a Sunday sanitizing kegs and working the overnight brew shift. Not for me.

 
You can't use drones for commercial use. There will definitely be a market, but this is a costly hobby with rapidly changing technology. I work with a guy that messes around with these things. His goal is to be able to offer it to land clients once it becomes legal. It's pretty cool, but like I said I think there will be a window.

 
Quez said:
You can't use drones for commercial use. There will definitely be a market, but this is a costly hobby with rapidly changing technology. I work with a guy that messes around with these things. His goal is to be able to offer it to land clients once it becomes legal. It's pretty cool, but like I said I think there will be a window.
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Is there a difference between a 'drone' and a remote controlled copter? I would think a drone implies a self-guiding aircraft.

 
Worm said:
Sarnoff said:
moleculo said:
Brony said:
Not that I'm in a position where I want to do this, but aerial photography using a quadcopter drone is in its infancy and when done right can produce video and photos that haven't been dreamed of. The technical skills to do it right is something few will posess. And there will be a market for this kind of video / photography for showcasing real estate, golf courses. Seems like something that one person could start on their own and make some bucks.
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Now this is interesting.
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I believe it's illegal until the FAA sets up a licensing system for UAS'es in 2015.
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I think the smaller "drones", which are being talked about here, are just classified the same as a remote controlled hobby plane, aren't they?
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Commercial use violates the law. Including the quadcopters that you stand under and supervise by sight at the location itself.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/15/faa-halts-mans-drone-photography-business-over-regulations/

http://droneflyers.com/talk/threads/faa-ban-on-aerial-photography-from-drones.340/

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/03/14/faa-grounds-local-aerial-photo-business/

Mr. Ected said:
Quez said:
You can't use drones for commercial use. There will definitely be a market, but this is a costly hobby with rapidly changing technology. I work with a guy that messes around with these things. His goal is to be able to offer it to land clients once it becomes legal. It's pretty cool, but like I said I think there will be a window.
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Is there a difference between a 'drone' and a remote controlled copter? I would think a drone implies a self-guiding aircraft.
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Both are banned for commercial use.

Anyone can operate a RC plane or helicopter or any other small flying device, up to a certain size, up to a certain height in the sky. But the minute someone else pays you to do it, you're violating the FAA rules.

 
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I vote for the fishing guide. Figure it out, you have time. How better to spend a few days a week then out on the lake. We used a guide on a lake in AR several years ago. He does it part time and makes about as much a year as his full time job (fireman).

Boat, fish finder, get some knowledge...you can do it!

 
I vote for woodworking. Hard to make money I think. But it pretty damn rewarding to build something with your hands.

 
How about restoring old cars and selling them? I've been working on fixing a rust spot on my car this week and it's not that hard. I watched a couple of YouTube videos, borrowed a grinder off my neighbor and I think I'll be able to do it myself fairly easily. I think you could make a lot of money by flipping cars.

 
jwp said:
How about restoring old cars and selling them? I've been working on fixing a rust spot on my car this week and it's not that hard. I watched a couple of YouTube videos, borrowed a grinder off my neighbor and I think I'll be able to do it myself fairly easily. I think you could make a lot of money by flipping cars.
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Absolutely, I have a friend that has made a nice living doing this as his full time job since college.

 
moleculo said:
Godsbrother said:
Every homebrewer, including myself, dreams of owning/running a microbrewery. The problem is there are TONs of microbreweries now and while there is always room for another, you better be damn good at it and have something that differentiates you from the rest, especially if you are just brewing beer (i.e not running a brewpub).
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At this point, I think the market for craft breweries is pretty saturated, unless people can figure out how to compete with B/M/C on price and distribution. I'd be really scared to pour a lot of money in to opening up a new label right now.That being said, I wouldn't be opposed to working for an existing brewpub for a salary - I think that's more the direction I'd be comfortable going.
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You don't need to bottle the beer. That immediately takes a huge chunk of the competition out of the equation. Find a really nice corner of the world that you would like to live and put a brewpub there. Good atmosphere, good food, good beer...it will be successful.

Most of the brewpubs I know sell so much of their beer that the thought of distributing to bars is totally out of the question.

 
Saw this today about the drone business issue..

Commercial Drone Pilots Cheer Judge Finding Against FAA

Aerial photographers, surveyors and filmmakers who want to fly small drones in U.S. airspace are able to rejoice after a judge dealt a setback to efforts by federal regulators to rein in use of the unmanned aircraft.

Raphael Pirker, who had been docked $10,000 by the Federal Aviation Administration for using a drone to shoot a promotional video, won dismissal yesterday of the fine for reckless flying. An administrative law judge determined the FAA had no authority over small unmanned aircraft when it imposed the first-ever such fine on a drone operator. The FAA today appealed the decision.

Patrick Egan, who had run an aerial photography business until the FAA said such operations weren’t allowed in 2007, said his e-mail box was filled with applause by people who want to use small unmanned planes and copters. Pirker’s victory is a setback for the FAA, which holds that commercial drone flights are prohibited until it writes rules governing their use.

“Thousands of people are going to be out flying,” Egan, who is an editor at the drone-news website sUASNEWS.com, said in an interview. “I’m going out flying today. I’m going to go nuts with a big smile on my face.”

The FAA’s appeal stays the ruling, the agency said in an e-mailed statement. It said “the agency is concerned that this decision could impact the safe operation of the national airspace system and the safety of people and property on the ground.”

No Rules

The agency may also have the power to issue emergency regulations restricting commercial uses of small unmanned aircraft if it determines that a flood of unregulated drone flights poses a safety risk.

Proposed regulations allowing flights of drones weighing less than 55 pounds (25 kilograms), which have been delayed for more than three years, aren’t due until November.

World sales of unmanned aircraft, including those used by the military, are expected to total $89 billion this year through 2023, which would make it one of the fastest growing segments of the aviation industry, according to Fairfax, Virginia-based consultant Teal Group.

Patrick Geraghty, the administrative law judge for the National Transportation Safety Board who decided on the appeal, said that at the time of Pirker’s flight to shoot a promotional video over the University of Virginia in Charlottesville on Oct. 17, 2011, “there was no enforceable FAA rule” on the type of model aircraft he used.

Paper PlanesIf he accepted the FAA’s argument, it would mean that “a flight in the air of a paper aircraft, or a toy balsa wood glider, could subject the operator to” FAA’s penalties, Geraghty wrote in his decision.

“This has very significant implications for companies that have been eager to proceed with commercial applications for UAS technologies,” Brendan Schulman, Pirker’s lawyer, said in an interview.

The FAA argued that Pirker’s flight, with a plane made with a foam wing and weighing less than 5 pounds, was “careless and reckless,” putting it under the agency’s authority to enforce flying safety.

Pirker flew under bridges, near statues and over pedestrians, as documented on video he shot that day.

The decision counters the FAA’s assertion, most recently made in an update posted on its website Feb. 26, that there are “no shades of gray in FAA regulations. Anyone who wants to fly an aircraft -- manned or unmanned -- in U.S. airspace needs some level of FAA approval.”

Wolf, ESPN

Even before the ruling, the FAA was struggling to police the commercial use of drones that anyone can purchase online or at hobby shops.

Drones have been used to film scenes in the Martin Scorsese-directed movie “The Wolf of Wall Street” and sporting events for Walt Disney Co. (DIS)’s ESPN. They’ve inspected oilfield equipment, mapped agricultural land and photographed homes and neighborhoods for real estate marketing, according to industry officials, company websites and videos on the Internet.

While the FAA hasn’t issued any permits for commercial drone use outside the Arctic, the agency said in a Feb. 10 statement that it will consider them on a case-by-case basis.

Congress in 2012 ordered the FAA to craft rules to safely integrate drones into U.S. skies by 2015. The agency doesn’t expect to allow all drone operations by then and will instead phase them into the system over a longer period, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta told a Senate hearing Jan. 15.

Hobby Exemption

While flying a model aircraft “solely for hobby or recreational reasons” doesn’t require approval, hobbyists must operate according to 1981 guidelines, such as staying away from populated areas, the agency has said.

Pirker didn’t qualify as a hobbyist, the FAA argued.

Geraghty found the guidelines can’t be enforced, at least for people piloting a “model” plane.

Michael Toscano, president of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, said in an e-mailed statement the ruling underscores the group’s calls for swifter action by FAA to write regulations governing drones.

The agency has the authority to allow limited commercial drone flights already for low-risk operations over farms or surveying power lines, Toscano said March 5 at a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee session in Washington.

Toscano’s association is an Arlington, Virginia-based trade group representing unmanned aircraft manufacturers such as Boeing Co. (BA) and Textron Inc. (TXT)

The Air Line Pilots Association, a union representing more than 50,000 flight crew members in North America, is concerned the ruling may lead to an increase in unmanned aircraft fights that threaten safety, Sean Cassidy, the group’s national safety chairman, said in an interview.

“I don’t envy the folks over at FAA right now having to contend with this,” Cassidy said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Alan Levin in Washington at alevin24@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Bernard Kohn at bkohn2@bloomberg.net Romaine Bostick, Elizabeth Wasserman
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start a dog do do clean up service. You go and clean up peoples yards who have dogs. Later you can the stuff and sell it as flower super grower

 
Mr. Ected said:
Another thing to do is to get a teaching certificate (may not be using the right terminology) for your state, so that you can do substitute teaching. My father was a teacher when he graduated from school a loooong time ago, and when he went into early retirement he started to do substituting. He goes with a couple of towns in his area and he can do it whenever he wants/needs to. If he wants a vacation, he just doesn't accept jobs. He has fun with the kids in school, too. This can be a way to keep yourself occupied while other things aren't happening or are slow.
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this is the leading contender right now. HS level math or physics would be the target subject.

I'm not feeling so good about my current company/division's present direction or leadership. I have my doubts we will be around much more than a few more years. Right now, I'm thinking that if I were to get the pink slip, I will get that teaching certificate and get to teaching. I do like explaining things and helping folks understand, plus that 2 months of summer vacation sounds real nice...especially with school-aged kids.

of course, this would hinge on my wife's budding real-estate career taking off.

 
Have you thought of becoming a professional Bully? The great news is you could live anywhere in the country as long as there is a school nearby

 
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