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My wife is a part time dental assistant (two days a week) and on the side she is also the executive director for the Florida Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. Its basically the 'local' chapter of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry.

Her work is mostly administrative such as organizing trade shows, membership, finances, etc. She performs 90% of her functions from our home office and a couple times a year she has to go away for several days to run and organize one of the Seminars at a nice resort here in Florida.

The internet is great for allowing her to do a lot of her duties without being connected to the phone since we also have a 3 year old daughter to take care of.

Now if I was in your situation I would love to invest about $10K into some fabrication equipment (lathe, mill, TIG welder) and fabricate neato auto accessories and sell them via the web and e-bay.

My advice would be to suggest that you think about what you are really good at or enjoy doing, and seeing if it is something that you can do on the side via the internet or any other interesting way.

For example, could you become a consultant to construction companies? I have lost track of how many companies I have worked for where a consultant was hired just to come in, look around and issue a report to management about how things could be run 'better'.