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submitted 10 hours ago by Grumpy404@piefed.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I think i want to earn money to gain experience but i also dont feel ready for a job?

I clearly dont want to get a job yet plus theirs nothing really near me, and i have year round allergy's.

Im just wondering what ways i should look into to earn money from home or online. ive tried survey sites but there the worst. I would get a job at McDonald but im unsure, and my parents are overprotective and worry.

Also is there a better place to post this at, or is here fine?

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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 3 hours ago

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[-] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 hours ago

I'm in my 30s and I don't feel ready for a job. Work sucks, I'd rather chill at home all day and do whatever I want, but unfortunately I got bills to pay, I live alone and I like my little apartment. Also, I spent 2 months at home on medical leave last year and the toll it took on my mental health was incredible. As much as I hate working, I need something to get me up and out of my home and around other people (and I hate people).

I would seriously consider trying to get at least a part time job. Growth is painful, but you can't become a better person if you never push yourself forward and do the hard things.

[-] muse@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 hours ago

If you can mail packages, sell unwanted things on auction or marketplace sites. That can give experience with marketing, sales, packaging, shipping, customer service, inventory, bookkeeping, and estimating the value of items.

If you can't ship anything, then you're limited to something digital (software, books), or to be fulfilled elsewhere (t-shirt prints).

Someone that has always inspired me is Paul Alexander. He was paralyzed from polio at age six and spent most of his life in an iron lung to breathe. He went on to become a lawyer and wrote his memoirs by holding a stick in his mouth and tapping on a keyboard.

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 25 minutes ago

Paul was a G.

[-] LambeauLeap@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 hours ago

If you're able bodied then I think it's time for you to go outside and see that leaving home for a job a few times per week can be very good for you

[-] CTDummy@piefed.social 58 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

You should talk to a therapist. Your post history is consistent in going between wanting to go your own way and dealing with your parents because you’re financially dependent on them due to being on SSI. All the question posts are just bordering on procrastination.

I think i want to earn money to gain experience but i also dont feel ready for a job?

This is what I mean. You’ll never feel “ready” for a job until you get one. No matter where you are there will likely be low skill, low barrier to entry jobs going. They’re shit, they pay fuck all but they’ll pay more than SSI. More importantly you’ll learn some important skills. Namely being accountable to people who aren’t related to you. You’ll probably appreciate the additional income. You’ll probably lose the job because out in the real world you’ll quickly learn that people will only accept excuses for things a few times until they realise it’s a recurring thing.

You’ll then realise “oh shit, not being entirely broke all the time is pretty good actually” and then you can look towards upskilling and/or going back to school. Move out of your parents and let them worry about their hobby~jobs and messy house. Start worrying about your own life. More importantly start doing shit, fucking it up and learning from it. Anyone who told you they immediately knew what they were going to do with their life and didn’t make any mistakes as a young adult is lying or had a trust fund.

[-] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 hours ago

I didn't realize this was the same person from this post on c/autism where they basically asked the same thing. They need a lot of help especially since their family seems to view having any discussions as a bad thing to be avoided.

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 13 points 10 hours ago

I'm not sure where you're located or if they do this there, but here I've seen job postings for people to look at and confirm driving violations from seat-belt and phone use cameras. They advertise it as especially good for disabled or otherwise home-bound people, and I'm guessing it has a fairly low skill ceiling.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 hours ago

Of the ones I'm aware of, most jobs that can be done from home require strong (professional) writing skills. I know this isn't a job application, and I recognize that English might not be your first language, so this may not be relevant to you.

Some tips based on your post:

  • Apostrophes are almost never used to make words plural. (Allergy becomes allergies)
  • There, they're, and there are different. "There" is like "where" and "here" (note the spelling). "They're" = "they" + "are" (with the ' symbolizing the missing "a")
  • Adding apostrophes to your contractions (don't, I'm, ...) goes a long way in making your writing look professional.

That said, you might be able to look for data annotation jobs, or even potentially transcription jobs. Video game play testing could also potentially be an option, but I'm not sure where to start looking there.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 4 points 8 hours ago

transcription jobs. Video game play testing could also potentially be an option,

I once had a housemate who made his living doing medical transcription, and for him it was unreliable work, annoying, and I'm pretty sure, dreadfully boring. But maybe it would help a lot if it was only part-time.

No expert here, but what I've read in the past is that video game testing can also be dreadfully boring, having to exhaustively explore potential issues by repetitive testing and such. Literally everything that's fun about video games is removed when you're a tester...

[-] fulcrummed@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

In Australia school age kids (early/mid teens) often do “work experience” in their school holidays or after school. They approach local businesses they might have some kind of interest in learning and spend that time unpaid and helping out. You get exposed to how a business works, prob have to do the boring or messy scut work, but that’s part of it; and when they finish up if they had a good attitude and were productive and worked hard - it can many times turn into a part time job. At the least you could get a written reference from them about your time there, and use that to start building out your CV and help you get a job elsewhere. It’s also great for helping you work out what you might like to do moving forward. At the least if your home dynamic isn’t always great and your folks can be a bit overprotective - it’s a structured way for you to spend some time out of the house that they may find more reasonable and be more comfortable with than your going out and just getting a job. They need to transition into you getting older and more independent too.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

EDIT: Just saw the allergy thing. I guess that makes this moot, but leaving it anyway in case you have good meds. There are also masks you can buy to cover mouth/nose when you're outside. Cyclists with allergy problems use them to be able to compete.

You could do Rover, if you're an animal lover.

Just getting paid to walk your neighbors' animals in your residential area. I have used about a dozen different people over the last ten years, all of whom lived within a mile or so of where I live.

And you'd be getting exercise, which will help you with your mental health.

[-] Grumpy404@piefed.zip 5 points 10 hours ago

I wish, also thank you for noticing my allegerys, infact i do take meds but i may need to switch. For some reason dogs scare me specially big ones. Ive never had a pet either so im unsure how well i could handle it.

But either way thanks.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

No worries.

I have them too. I take those quick-dissolve Claritin tabs and, for me, they thankfully work really well.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 hours ago

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[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

Can't say I'm an expert, but so far this seems like the most realistic response, as cringe-worthy as some of these jobs are. Alternative jobs can be dreadfully boring by comparison, including video game testing.

[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 9 hours ago

i want to earn money to gain experience but i also dont feel ready for a job?I clearly dont want to get a job yet plus theirs nothing really near me,

No, You need to turn that around: First get a real job and then look if you can work it from home.

Otherwise nobody would trust you to do the job at all.

(Being that spoiled doesn't help either)

this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
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