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Perhaps none of you can even help, but it's worth a shot, yes?

As I said in the Chatterbox, I lost my job this weekend.
.. and well, I'm moving across the world in less than a year ._.
I need to make between 3-4k, to be comfortable, and not scared, considering I could end up in a small town with low rent, or London where rent is high o.o
We won't know where we're moving till I get there...

Now, the dilema:
As you should also all have noticed from the Christmas thread, Gaughan is coming to visit me this Christmas =D
However this means I cannot look for a new job. It would be unfair to him to have to stay home, and for my new employer to take time off then
Soonest I can look is mid-January. Not so many are hiring, and that leaves me with about 6 months.
So till then, I've came up with an idea.
Sell stuff online.
First things that I already have and need to get rid of [I have a few guitars, vintage clothes that don't fit, etc.] and then start making things to sell.
I was thinking to start out with an Ebay Sellers account first, since it's easiest, and then perhaps get my own site up, an on google, and such...

I have a few ideas as to what to make..
..I'm being taught how to screen-print in the spring so it'll be easier to pump out mass-quantities of things, but I was thinking eco-friendly [because everyone loves eco-friendly] bookbags, cards, prints [silk-screening, and photography], jewellery, and a few clothing commisions [since it's very time consuming, and difficult when you can't try things on people for fit].
I can also get those sorts of things [minus the clothes] put into local art shoppes if I can produce fair quantities [Like, at least 5 of each thing in the same design] through my Mum and friends that work in those shoppes, and other acquantences.
Starting out just hand-painting things.
I'm also thinking about going into ceramic decopaging, with vintage plates, and teacups, and such.

... do any of you think I'd do okay? D=
My favourite artist, Eleanor Grosch, sells 50 editions of each of her prints for $40. I calculated it out, and with all her prints currently out, that's $78,000. She started out doing gig posters, and I've just recently delved into that with my theatre group.
I don't plan for that, I'm just hoping for 4k.
Do you think I can do that in 6 months, running my own bussiness [sort've]?

If anyone is interested, I ave sites with the sort of things I'd make.
Oh, and here's the t-shirts I recently designed for my theatre group [over 60 kids]:
http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/7241/frontandbackbi0.jpg


er..
Yeah Dx
Thoughts? Ideas?

Well, I could lose money.
Ebay account costs $$, and if I start to make things, purchasing supplies costs $$.

To sell things costs money. They charge on your sales, something like 5% and then there's a [I believe it was] $1 listing fee, even if you don't sell anything =S
There was another fee too I've forgotten.
I'm just worried I'll get screwed out of my money that I already have so little of.

My boss said I'd asked for too much time off, and it wasn't working.

Actually, I was never even given a chance.
I asked for one weekend off, about 3 weeks ago, and a few evenings off in the past few weeks, which shouldn't have been a problem at all, since I don't usually work evenings.
.. it wasn't working because the moron gave me one 4-hour shift a week, and complained she couldn't fit me in any more.
How's one supposed to learn and get the hang of something like an entirely different till system at 4 hours a week?
I shake my head at the whole thing.
I came in earlier in the day to collect my paycheque, and she said I had to come back later and have a chat since I'd asked for alot of time off over christmas.
I said to her, "Er.. I told you specifically I'd be around all christmas, and the week that everyone's still in school, I could pull a few more shifts-" but she cut me off, quite rudely, and said, "Yeah, whatever, just come by later."
At that point she'd already fired me, it didn't matter that she was completely wrong. There was nothing I could do.
When I came back that evening, a new girl was working there. She'd already hired someone else before evening firing me.
She gave me a free drink. The new girl made it, and asked about 3 times if it was soy milk or regular. I told her specifically I'm lactose entolerant.
I leave.
Go back to improv.
Drink it behind stage, still getting over the shite feeling.
15 minutes later I feel horribly ******** moron didn't use soymilk.

When I got home later I ended up on the bathroom ******** floor, in pain.


I loved the job. Hated my boss. She was rude. She was impatient. I was never given a chance. I came home crying a few times because she was so ******** rude.

I don't want to go back there. I'd love to work in another coffee shoppe, ut not one she's at.