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?

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Isn't that job great

[joelletoon88]

I would love to do the same as what you are doing now and be able to really find myself survive on the additional income. But then again there probably be too much set backs and risks to be laid out for such an attempt. How did you actually start doing this and what are your considerations when you take up the offers? I attempted and you can of course read it at http://sgbrandedbags.com/ how be great if you give me some advise too!

Funny

[SmallFurryCreature]

A lot of /. kiddies posting that the Monty Python crew is to old when the same complainers whined for Futurama to come back just so we can have yet more episodes of Bender learning he cares and promptly forget it again. The same people who probably also think that Family Guy is funny. I heard that somewhere in the endless seasons they hide one joke, and that is the entire joke.

So, the old farts are at it again eh? Good for them, god knows we need some comedy that you know, has actual jokes in it, not just... I got no idea what Simpons of Family Guy has, they might be series like the A-team or Knight Rider, once you thought they were great, then you grew up and will kill to hide the fact you once liked them.

But Monty Python has survived that. Only the wannabe elite snobs who hate anything that is popular are against it because if everyone gets the joke, then they ain't special anymore.