If you had a lumpsum of R40k which you would need to start generating income immediately, assuming you had the following at your disposal: a car, a laptop, internet connection, etc.
What business would you start or method would you follow?
Projected income requirements & time allocation are as follows, for the first 3-6 months no profit is required but you'll have limited time, needing to plan, prepare, and operate outside of a standard business week. Also, there's no defined time, when you need to start generating income then it needs to be by the end of the same month.
For the following 8 months, you'd need to bring in R15k a month profit with no time limitations outside of 6.30am - 7.30am & 5pm - 9pm.
and R30k per month on a monthly basis thereafter with no time limitations outside of 6.30am - 7.30am & 5pm - 9pm.
Trading etc. is not an option. A regular job could be an option but you've applied to a hundred positions with no luck - I'm in an obscure position which is not that common locally - while the skills are great, the job title isn't easily transferable for local job requirements.
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Checked the rules - Add enough info on posts for redditors to understand why the post is being made: note - I previously avoided the circumstances because i didnt want it to sound like a vent session but here goes: I'm likely going to lose my job within the next 3 - 6 months. I'm not going to get into specifics here. I've got 6 months of expenses saved up which I can stretch over that 8 month period of "R15k per month" mentioned above. I'm also likely going to be a single mom within the next 2-3 months, not due to circumstances within my control but because my SO has one on the way. Not with me. Downscaling is not an option because we're already on the outskirts of the locations which is pretty much as low as sanely doable. I have no family of my own and no one to lean on to support or assist me. I have no social life or friends - my chat with myself shows up first on my frequently contacted on WhatsApp if you think I'm being dramatic here. There's no one. Just me. I've been trying to save my job but my mental health is at an all time low and I'm currently subject to micromanagement which comes from the top down and this past week there was just a situation where i needed to think about what I was doing with a work task and I won't be afforded that time to think because I had a couple (less than 10 if my memory serves me correctly) bad days last year due to personal circumstances and two really bad days in January 2023 (I didn't make a mistake, just didn't reach my target for that week due to a personal circumstance) and any time I take too long for something, the business views it as time wasting and i just can't come up with the words to explain that i took 17 minutes to think about a actively think about and review a situation before doing something which could affect someone else negatively. It was not a time-sensitive decision that needed to be made besides reaching a target for how long its supposed to take to click the buttons on a form. This is not the first time something like this has happened so it isn't coming out of nowhere and I understand the company's lack-of-humanness-stance here. It's corporate. It's a cutthroat world. Nothing I can do to change it but suck it up & deal. We had some org changes over the past few years and the company isn't what it used to be - to the extent that there are trending LinkedIn posts to "make (company) great again".
I've tried applying for teaching jobs online and have not gotten in at any companies yet. I've registered on freelancing platforms but have gotten no jobs yet. My LinkedIn profile & CV are up to date and I've submitted easily 100 individualized, customized, personalized, job-specific applications over the last 6 months with not one single interview or feedback email yet. Short of the realization that if I just go before I get fired that my kids will still get a decent payout which feels like it's gonna be worth more to them at this point, but knowing that i can never let them tell that story, the R40k that I can afford to set aside to generate income is my only hope. I've gotten no sleep tonight trying to think of how I'm going to make it work but it just seems like all the doors are closed and there's no way out right now.
Adding as well that the R40K will be coming through next month and there will be another approx. R40K in November if I can stick it out for that long without getting the boot.
What business would you start or method would you follow?
Projected income requirements & time allocation are as follows, for the first 3-6 months no profit is required but you'll have limited time, needing to plan, prepare, and operate outside of a standard business week. Also, there's no defined time, when you need to start generating income then it needs to be by the end of the same month.
For the following 8 months, you'd need to bring in R15k a month profit with no time limitations outside of 6.30am - 7.30am & 5pm - 9pm.
and R30k per month on a monthly basis thereafter with no time limitations outside of 6.30am - 7.30am & 5pm - 9pm.
Trading etc. is not an option. A regular job could be an option but you've applied to a hundred positions with no luck - I'm in an obscure position which is not that common locally - while the skills are great, the job title isn't easily transferable for local job requirements.
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Checked the rules - Add enough info on posts for redditors to understand why the post is being made: note - I previously avoided the circumstances because i didnt want it to sound like a vent session but here goes: I'm likely going to lose my job within the next 3 - 6 months. I'm not going to get into specifics here. I've got 6 months of expenses saved up which I can stretch over that 8 month period of "R15k per month" mentioned above. I'm also likely going to be a single mom within the next 2-3 months, not due to circumstances within my control but because my SO has one on the way. Not with me. Downscaling is not an option because we're already on the outskirts of the locations which is pretty much as low as sanely doable. I have no family of my own and no one to lean on to support or assist me. I have no social life or friends - my chat with myself shows up first on my frequently contacted on WhatsApp if you think I'm being dramatic here. There's no one. Just me. I've been trying to save my job but my mental health is at an all time low and I'm currently subject to micromanagement which comes from the top down and this past week there was just a situation where i needed to think about what I was doing with a work task and I won't be afforded that time to think because I had a couple (less than 10 if my memory serves me correctly) bad days last year due to personal circumstances and two really bad days in January 2023 (I didn't make a mistake, just didn't reach my target for that week due to a personal circumstance) and any time I take too long for something, the business views it as time wasting and i just can't come up with the words to explain that i took 17 minutes to think about a actively think about and review a situation before doing something which could affect someone else negatively. It was not a time-sensitive decision that needed to be made besides reaching a target for how long its supposed to take to click the buttons on a form. This is not the first time something like this has happened so it isn't coming out of nowhere and I understand the company's lack-of-humanness-stance here. It's corporate. It's a cutthroat world. Nothing I can do to change it but suck it up & deal. We had some org changes over the past few years and the company isn't what it used to be - to the extent that there are trending LinkedIn posts to "make (company) great again".
I've tried applying for teaching jobs online and have not gotten in at any companies yet. I've registered on freelancing platforms but have gotten no jobs yet. My LinkedIn profile & CV are up to date and I've submitted easily 100 individualized, customized, personalized, job-specific applications over the last 6 months with not one single interview or feedback email yet. Short of the realization that if I just go before I get fired that my kids will still get a decent payout which feels like it's gonna be worth more to them at this point, but knowing that i can never let them tell that story, the R40k that I can afford to set aside to generate income is my only hope. I've gotten no sleep tonight trying to think of how I'm going to make it work but it just seems like all the doors are closed and there's no way out right now.
Adding as well that the R40K will be coming through next month and there will be another approx. R40K in November if I can stick it out for that long without getting the boot.
