Trying to keep this short and to the necessary details, I'm in a bit of a pickle and getting really stressed out about it.
-I'm living in a rural area in TX outside a town called New Waverly with max 3mbps downstream internet from AT&T.
-One car between me and my partner, who works 12 hour shifts - so I'm stuck at home most of the time.
-I need to be helping provide and making extra income, but most remote jobs want at least a 10mbps downstream internet speed.
I feel like I've checked countless job board websites but found nothing that could fly. I don't have a college degree, so anything requiring any kind of degree is out.
Brief history: We were living with my partner's father in Houston for a bit before the whole being gay thing came to a boiling point and we needed to get our own place ASAP. With us suddenly being out, we needed a lot of necessities and opened a few lines of credit to furnish the apartment. About a year later, his stepfather's health went into a steep decline so we moved out of Houston to live in his grandparent's empty house (they passed away in the early 90's). Just before the move, our car was totaled as a result of an 18-wheeler's tire blowing out and flying into our car and underneath us, causing us to lose control. We had to get a new car, and the bill ended up being over $100/mo not including an insurance hike. We're currently barely keeping our heads above water with late fees from bills from when we had to get our own place, on top of the significant hike on our car note/insurance. I had to leave my job when we moved out here, but I really need some sort of significant form of income :/
Off the top of my head? Drive your partner to work, and pick them up from work - this gives you options. Looking up New Waverly... if you're OUTSIDE a town with only 1,000 people, I'm guessing no bus service.
Start applying for jobs back in civilization, I honestly don't know what you could do out in such a rural area, outside of farming or landscaping or something.
Trying to keep this short and to the necessary details, I'm in a bit of a pickle and getting really stressed out about it.
-I'm living in a rural area in TX outside a town called New Waverly with max 3mbps downstream internet from AT&T.
-One car between me and my partner, who works 12 hour shifts - so I'm stuck at home most of the time.
-I need to be helping provide and making extra income, but most remote jobs want at least a 10mbps downstream internet speed.
I feel like I've checked countless job board websites but found nothing that could fly. I don't have a college degree, so anything requiring any kind of degree is out.
Brief history: We were living with my partner's father in Houston for a bit before the whole being gay thing came to a boiling point and we needed to get our own place ASAP. With us suddenly being out, we needed a lot of necessities and opened a few lines of credit to furnish the apartment. About a year later, his stepfather's health went into a steep decline so we moved out of Houston to live in his grandparent's empty house (they passed away in the early 90's). Just before the move, our car was totaled as a result of an 18-wheeler's tire blowing out and flying into our car and underneath us, causing us to lose control. We had to get a new car, and the bill ended up being over $100/mo not including an insurance hike. We're currently barely keeping our heads above water with late fees from bills from when we had to get our own place, on top of the significant hike on our car note/insurance. I had to leave my job when we moved out here, but I really need some sort of significant form of income :/
Sorry to hear this. Let's start with some big pluses.
You're alive.
You have another person (another man?) who loves you and is there for you thick and thin.
You have the internet.
So this means you have next to jack for money, but you need an education to get money. But you have to pay for an education to get an education or go into debt. But you can't do that, ring around the ring.
Let's start with something, you-can-have-an-education through the internet. These are free for your own use.
A. Coding, start with basic coding languages, skill up, and work on personal projects and then contract for hire work and network with people through message boards and here. I don't know what people do for this to get started, but at the very least learning the coding and making a portfolio and volunteering places to get experiences with coding to build a portfolio is an option for a young person.
B. Business and mathematics, start with those courses and focus on them. You want sales, marketing, some psychology, and strong mathematics and economics courses and accounting if you can. Copywriting is also a strong focus.
That will give you a good base, but you need to be able to focus and take the time to acquire the actual discernible skills.
I would recommend some authors:
Seth Godin, he's a marketer you can look him up on Podcasts and get his books at the local library.
Words that Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear by Frank Luntz
I recommend those two with any good marketing course, read and listen to those two talk on youtubes and so forth. I'm saying this to you as a person to person, you need a foundational 21st century education. This means that you need technical skills and interpersonal skills as well as hard computer skills.
So take sometime and breath, you can get an education with some effort. You need to read a lot. There's works such as the Harvard Business Review and a lot of the old Peter Drucker books are still reputable. You need to get out and talk to people in your local area that can provide for you to take over some aspects to work for a business.
I would start with moving, I agree being in BFE is stupid unless if you're starting an online business. But you have no capital and no real form of an education.
I would suggest this, though, for now. Find some magazines and make a pitch for an article discerning "Gay in America" and use yourself as a gay man as a brand to delve into some of the more topics that gays have to deal with in society and ways of explaining it to straight people as well as families dealing with gay issues in conservative issues and so on. Your scars can be exploited, but you need to be careful in how things are written and how to express yourself.
I would start with writing an email immediately to the editors for something like Salon or Slate or NYT. People who want to publish your work and are going to give you $100 or so. That should tide you over somewhat if they accept the pitch. Set up a Blog on blogger or something and write a few decent topics of note and then set up a twitter account. It would take you an afternoon, then you can use the blog posts as a start to show people you're at least some what serious about writing.
Here's a few topics:
1. How touch it is to be gay in a conservative world
2. What it's like to be young and gay during the great recession and being working class
3. People on this board ranging from Gaymers who are willing to talk about experience as other people to network with online to write about a particular subject ranging from LBGT issues and differences. In say the challenge that a bisexual woman faces versus say that of a gay man.
4. Write for other subjects that interest you without requiring too much research and some questions for a few people without the need for chitty-chatty-ness.
Network your ass off, set up a Facebook account and Linkedin account. Network with people on this board who are in your area, network with people who are on your city council and anything. Meet people and learn how to talk to people. There are youtube and seminars for free online, ask and people will point you to them.
You don't have the time to really screw around. You need a stable job in an area where you can afford and to alter your living arrangements in such a way that will allow you to thrive. I am sorry in that I cannot really give specifics on how to solve this, and many these are platitudes. But you need cash right now? Use your resources to bring in some money via what skills and knowledge you have right now.
Maybe you need to start a side business and use craig's list to offer your services as a farm and for some cash, and then write on the side for extra scratch. But you need to begin education and experience cycle. You need to surround yourself with mentors and people who are much smarter than you are to guide and advise you throughout life.
You will make a lot of mistakes, but you cannot afford to make any significant mistakes.
Education and work experience and relationships. That is your golden trifecta. You would do much better in a more pro-gay area that provides jobs and low cost living. Then entertaining community college to get something like IT degree from a reputable community college or a nursing degree while working and learning as much as you can.
But altogether you location forces you to rely on the internet, but you cannot exploit the internet other than writing proficiently about your personal life and talking to people about issues that affect people in a fringe way that people in the mainstream want to read and relate to.
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-I'm living in a rural area in TX outside a town called New Waverly with max 3mbps downstream internet from AT&T.
-One car between me and my partner, who works 12 hour shifts - so I'm stuck at home most of the time.
-I need to be helping provide and making extra income, but most remote jobs want at least a 10mbps downstream internet speed.
I feel like I've checked countless job board websites but found nothing that could fly. I don't have a college degree, so anything requiring any kind of degree is out.
Brief history: We were living with my partner's father in Houston for a bit before the whole being gay thing came to a boiling point and we needed to get our own place ASAP. With us suddenly being out, we needed a lot of necessities and opened a few lines of credit to furnish the apartment. About a year later, his stepfather's health went into a steep decline so we moved out of Houston to live in his grandparent's empty house (they passed away in the early 90's). Just before the move, our car was totaled as a result of an 18-wheeler's tire blowing out and flying into our car and underneath us, causing us to lose control. We had to get a new car, and the bill ended up being over $100/mo not including an insurance hike. We're currently barely keeping our heads above water with late fees from bills from when we had to get our own place, on top of the significant hike on our car note/insurance. I had to leave my job when we moved out here, but I really need some sort of significant form of income :/
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Start applying for jobs back in civilization, I honestly don't know what you could do out in such a rural area, outside of farming or landscaping or something.
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Sorry to hear this. Let's start with some big pluses.
You're alive.
You have another person (another man?) who loves you and is there for you thick and thin.
You have the internet.
So this means you have next to jack for money, but you need an education to get money. But you have to pay for an education to get an education or go into debt. But you can't do that, ring around the ring.
Let's start with something, you-can-have-an-education through the internet. These are free for your own use.
MIT Coursewate
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
ED X
https://www.edx.org/
Coding:
https://www.codecademy.com/
Learn Python the Hard Way:
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/
The areas I would focus on are:
A. Coding, start with basic coding languages, skill up, and work on personal projects and then contract for hire work and network with people through message boards and here. I don't know what people do for this to get started, but at the very least learning the coding and making a portfolio and volunteering places to get experiences with coding to build a portfolio is an option for a young person.
B. Business and mathematics, start with those courses and focus on them. You want sales, marketing, some psychology, and strong mathematics and economics courses and accounting if you can. Copywriting is also a strong focus.
That will give you a good base, but you need to be able to focus and take the time to acquire the actual discernible skills.
I would recommend some authors:
Seth Godin, he's a marketer you can look him up on Podcasts and get his books at the local library.
Words that Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear by Frank Luntz
I recommend those two with any good marketing course, read and listen to those two talk on youtubes and so forth. I'm saying this to you as a person to person, you need a foundational 21st century education. This means that you need technical skills and interpersonal skills as well as hard computer skills.
So take sometime and breath, you can get an education with some effort. You need to read a lot. There's works such as the Harvard Business Review and a lot of the old Peter Drucker books are still reputable. You need to get out and talk to people in your local area that can provide for you to take over some aspects to work for a business.
I would start with moving, I agree being in BFE is stupid unless if you're starting an online business. But you have no capital and no real form of an education.
I would suggest this, though, for now. Find some magazines and make a pitch for an article discerning "Gay in America" and use yourself as a gay man as a brand to delve into some of the more topics that gays have to deal with in society and ways of explaining it to straight people as well as families dealing with gay issues in conservative issues and so on. Your scars can be exploited, but you need to be careful in how things are written and how to express yourself.
I would start with writing an email immediately to the editors for something like Salon or Slate or NYT. People who want to publish your work and are going to give you $100 or so. That should tide you over somewhat if they accept the pitch. Set up a Blog on blogger or something and write a few decent topics of note and then set up a twitter account. It would take you an afternoon, then you can use the blog posts as a start to show people you're at least some what serious about writing.
Here's a few topics:
1. How touch it is to be gay in a conservative world
2. What it's like to be young and gay during the great recession and being working class
3. People on this board ranging from Gaymers who are willing to talk about experience as other people to network with online to write about a particular subject ranging from LBGT issues and differences. In say the challenge that a bisexual woman faces versus say that of a gay man.
4. Write for other subjects that interest you without requiring too much research and some questions for a few people without the need for chitty-chatty-ness.
Network your ass off, set up a Facebook account and Linkedin account. Network with people on this board who are in your area, network with people who are on your city council and anything. Meet people and learn how to talk to people. There are youtube and seminars for free online, ask and people will point you to them.
You don't have the time to really screw around. You need a stable job in an area where you can afford and to alter your living arrangements in such a way that will allow you to thrive. I am sorry in that I cannot really give specifics on how to solve this, and many these are platitudes. But you need cash right now? Use your resources to bring in some money via what skills and knowledge you have right now.
Maybe you need to start a side business and use craig's list to offer your services as a farm and for some cash, and then write on the side for extra scratch. But you need to begin education and experience cycle. You need to surround yourself with mentors and people who are much smarter than you are to guide and advise you throughout life.
You will make a lot of mistakes, but you cannot afford to make any significant mistakes.
Education and work experience and relationships. That is your golden trifecta. You would do much better in a more pro-gay area that provides jobs and low cost living. Then entertaining community college to get something like IT degree from a reputable community college or a nursing degree while working and learning as much as you can.
But altogether you location forces you to rely on the internet, but you cannot exploit the internet other than writing proficiently about your personal life and talking to people about issues that affect people in a fringe way that people in the mainstream want to read and relate to.
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