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Ask Slashdot: Money-Making Home-Based Tech Skills?
New submitter ThatGamerChick writes "I'm a stay-at-home mom, but I'd like to be a work-at-home mom. I've done a few writing gigs, but I'm not a really good writer and cannot charge the fees needed for it to be worth my time. I'm just looking for something that I can teach myself in a few months and start taking small projects and working my way up from there. I've found that PHP, HTML and CSS to be the most demanded skills on sites like Elance, but the talent pool is flooded with overseas workers and Americans with so much more experience than me. Even when I was offering writing and virtual admin services on Elance I was having a hard time against them. So I'm asking here, because I think most of you may have a good insight on this type of thing as an employer of freelancers or as the freelancer themselves." What success have you had, either working from home, or employing those who do?
Yes. I'm not really into mobile, but I'm sure there are a lot of opportunities there. But you'll need knowledge not only of the language, but the specific kinds of apps that are needed in the world.
Here we go, another FSF goon so socially inept that he assumes the rest of the population gives a damn about his autism enhanced pet peeve. Go back to your oscilloscopes and hipster slide rules. The rest of us have a life to live and enjoy.
Yes, it's unoriginal and probably a piss poor idea, but it's hardly because the $99 you pay will put her in the poor house or that you chose an iDevice as the target of your idiotic anger instead of the roughly 10 BILLION other devices that are the same way.