15 Practical Things You Can Do To Benefit From Unemployment

Source: Kuza Biashara

Are you tired of sitting at home with your papers and making numerous applications with no response?

You can turn your unemployment into a blessing in one of the following 15 practical ways.

1. Keep feeding your mind

Keep reading books, magazines, newspapers and online articles. These will help you keep up with the latest trends and equip you with new ideas as well.

2. Bring your creativity to life

If you are creative take a leap into freelance work. This can include: selling art merchandise, manicure services, working online, and venturing into agri-business.

3. Volunteer

For example, you can offer to teach at your local primary school. Better still, you can volunteer at local children’s home or join an NGO working in your area.

You might be lucky to get an NGO job or better still you can set up your own organization.

4. Enroll for a short course

You can enroll for a course in photography, graphic design or even you can enroll for guitar training. More training and exposure improves your ability to cope with various challenges in life and makes you more employable.

5. Start exercising, it eases anxiety

The more anxious you become, the more confused you are likely to get. To prevent this, start exercising. You do not have to go to a gym to keep fit – you can start out by jumping rope or jogging early in the morning.

6. Attend events, conferences and local meetings

Do not take public meetings for granted; even the Chief’s baraza meeting. Adopt the good habit of attending all relevant meetings being held in your neighborhood.

Carry a small notebook and a pen for note taking. Who knows, you might even be nominated to work as a youth leader.

7. Try to make money out of your strange talents or abilities

We all have our fair share of unique abilities. Actually, singing badly is a talent that you can utilize. For example, you can start recording some videos and share them on YouTube.

Gradually, your YouTube channel might grow and you can actually make money from it – through Google adverts.

8. Share your wisdom

There are many websites that give you an opportunity to share your knowledge with the world such as Ezine Articles Directory and Hub Pages.

Some like Hub Pages, can bring you some passive income in addition to giving you a perfect spring-board into blogging.

9. Take advantage of Amazon Kindle

This is a good opportunity for people who can write to a mass audience. You can create a nice book (about 20 pages long), post it on Amazon Kindle platform and start earning some royalty revenues from it when people buy it.

The more eBooks you share on Kindle, the more you can earn.

10. Teach foreigners your local languages

Foreigners would like to learn a few of our local languages. By starting a website that trains them on some of the languages that you are well-versed with, you can keep yourself busy and even start earning a decent living from it.

11. Sell some services to people in your neighborhood

Baby-sitting, security, home-tuition and masonry (mjengo) services are just a handful of services that you can offer in your neighborhood at a small fee. Make yourself useful and some money too.

12. Talk to your role models

Identify that person and send them a polite email asking them about how they got started down the path. They might share some worthwhile information with you.

13. Join helpful religious programs

Join a local church, mosque or temple. Enroll for self-help and self-development courses. You can even take courses in simple topics such as anger management or Karate.

You can use this training to start an online coaching program.

14. Join a Sacco and start saving

Join forces with your buddies and start contributing small amounts of money. Save what you make from your side-jobs. If all goes well, you can even start borrowing loans to venture into bigger business opportunities.

15. Tour various tourist hotspots

This is the best time to visit all those awesome areas in your neighborhood. Start planning for hiking escapades with your friends. Take many photos and keep sharing them on Facebook and Twitter.

Slowly, more people will want to join your club and you can even start a tours and travel company!

You don’t have to think too hard to succeed in life. All you need to do is look around your life for the small opportunities that exist and capitalize on them to build an empire of sorts.

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