I just lost my job - again. Any suggestions for a 59-year-old IT guy?

[riderinthestorm]

10. Can you build and design basic websites? I've had this idea forever and always meant to pass it on

My husband is a professional horse rider/trainer.

There are many, many trainers and smaller barns who don't want to hire a big bucks designer. They simply want a basic page that lists their rates, accomplishments, locations, specialities etc. and how to contact them. They don't want to pay to have it "managed" since most won't be changing it very often but they want it to have a website to put on a business card or have a webpage come up when someone searches for their name.

We had our/my husband's website done by a friend who specializes in this and knows horses but you wouldn't need to know horses per se. The trainer/barn would presumably provide you with photos to use and/or hire a pro to take photos (trust me, all of us horse nuts have LOTS of photos).

You can easily "advertise" your services by going to the 100 plus local (big and small) shows in your area that occur during the year by posting flyers on their "sales" bulletin boards (all shows have them - its how a lot of horses get sold) or hitting the local barns and posting flyers. If you're savvy with social media you could also throw in some "coaching" tips about how to push their name up for Google searches etc....

Horse sports are still very much of technological backwater since many trainers aren't in the "big leagues" but can make a living teaching beginner- intermediate riders/horses. Also in my experience most trainers don't create their own web pages and don't have the skills to do so but for a few hundred dollars (? not sure what the going rate is, we bartered), it would be a service that most would jump on.

I would guess it would be the same for dog trainers too....

Feel free to pm me and I'd be happy to point you in the right direction on how to locate local horse competitions if you're interested.