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?

Comments

Have you considered webcam work?

[owenferguson]

If you are even marginally good looking, you can make more $ doing that then any type of brain work. I write for a living online, but would gladly give that up and just do cam shows, were I female & decent to look at...

Astroturfing for Elance?

[Gothmolly]

Nice subtle slashvertisement for Elance.

Prostitution

[kawabago]

A lay at home Mom.

Phone Sex

[Frosty Piss]

Phone sex is something ANYONE can do, and you don't have to meet the client. Pays well, and you can even do it while changing the baby or stirring the pasta sauce. You could even charge more for doing it while taking a shit if you find the right clients!