Lets create jobs today. Really. What can you do in your own community to actually create jobs?
No matter where you live on the planet I'll bet an additional job or two would help considerably.
So lets figure ideas and hopefully solutions. Mahalo and Mahalo Answers are vast intellectual resources with a huge number of people with the minds and capacity to do this.
Any ideas would be appreciated no matter how big or small.
Lets solve the problem of unemployment.
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Everyone has there own community they live in. Mine is 60% retired.
Do the elderly in your area need a delivery service? Organize local children for this task. Do they need lawn care? Same answer.
How about organizing a drive for old computers and teach local children to repair them and share the profits?
Go to a town hall meeting and find out the local complaints, bad pothole here drains need cleaned there. Organise a repair crew for the small tasks. Most small towns cannot keep up, and have a budget that could spare a little for there own community.
Open a small recycling center, nothing huge.
A handyman service for people on a fixed income.
This is a good question and I think if people look around there own community they will see what is needed and find a niche. I will add more.
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Keeping the money circulating in your own local area supports your local businesses and, therefore, will create new jobs.
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I go out of my way to support small businesses. About once every week or two I get dinner to go from one of my favorite family owned restaurants. A couple of them are now closed one or two days per week, so on the days they are open, all the folks craving their food pack the places. It is comforting to see.
One local, independently owned, frozen yogurt shop did meet their demise this summer. Fortunately, the shopping center already has a new tenant set to remodel the space and a couple of adjoining ones too.
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What happens when everyone decides to keep things local?
Then no one from out of your town is doing business with the companies located there, and half of them will go bust. Every little town becames an isolated little economy unto itself, and much poorer for that.
A good way to head back to the Middle Ages I'm afraid.
Spending your money locally will in the medium run positively effect the local economy.
But does it create jobs or just sustain them?
100% agree, stop going to Pizza hut all the time, hit up the local pizza guy! (His pizza is usually better anyways)
In my small hometown, the chains came in, wiped out a lot of local vendors (including ones that were around for 60 years), and then went bankrupt themselves. Out of around 5000 people, a third are unemployed. With no income, everyone stopped going to restaurants, movies, etc., which now means half of those venues will be going under as well.
So while I agree with @philipy that having an isolated economy isn't the way (after all, corporations do make more jobs available when they first open), I agree with @drmatt that there needs to be more support of local businesses so that if something happens to the corporations, a region isn't left high and dry.
• salesperson - someone who can find me more work with new clients
• advertising manger - to make sure my name pops up in the right places
• kitchen assistant - someone who can help me work faster on the jobsite
• office manager - follow up with past clients and pursue repeat business
• accountant - to manage all this money and pay my employees!
These are things that ANY entrepreneur could hire for (substitute personal assistant for kitchen assistant, perhaps... and then, of course, they should hire a chef! LOL)
There are a bunch of reasons why I haven't done this, though:
• I don't want my business to get bigger than i can handle by myself
• It would be hard to keep all those people busy
• I don't need a full days' worth of everyone's time
• taxes, reporting and all that "Human Resources" stuff becomes overwhelming. I want to cook, not mess with all that!
I could use an employment agency, but their overhead is very expensive, and I lose the economy of scale. There's not enough incentive for me to go to all that trouble.
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I'd suggest if you do have work people could usefully do for you, in times like these maybe you can find creative ways to get people without work in as needed.
Maybe even something like kitchen staff that come with you when you have a big job, and get paid in food as well as cash. I think these days plenty of people are glad of any little part time job, or ways of getting an occasional treat like a restaurant-quality meal for spending an evening helping out.
I urge you to expand it seems to me you have the drive and ability. A part-time job is still a paycheck for an otherwise unemployed or under-employed individual.
Otherwise great job! creating one job even if it is just for yourself is fantastic and sets a great example.
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M$So i would follow his ideas and will create an organization with small investment and thereby helping unemployed. This will include petty jobs(we think it so)
like marriage arrangements, paying utility bills, providing servant maids, arranging for baby sitting, nursing and cooking, buying medicine for elderly people if they are handicapped and charging a small fee which grows in large later. Hope this will have a huge impact on unemployment locally.
Hope this helps.
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Fantastic! This is a perfect example of "at your doorstep" fixes for unemployment. I congratulate the person you mentioned we could all take this advice and "never ignore small work".
The combination of community service and job creation in the community service field is amazing.. I love it.
thanks for your +ve comments. it really works.
I know it should be the POLICE doing it but I mean a company that isn't trying to meet a quota. The police in my area will go 90mph right by me in a 65 zone and tailgate, if I go 80 in the same zone, and I keep a safe (4 car length or more distance) I get pulled over.
I get people cutting me off left and right, people tailgating me (which I make eat my brake lights MFER!) and just people speeding and jumping lanes (as in cutting off a person to cut off another person just to pass the second person.
A Government based (cant really ask people to make this be paid out of pocket) for English lessons. Here in Florida, as an American Citizen, I get people pissed off at me for not speaking Spanish....then they get my order wrong and think I am still supposed to tip them >.< (I may look like I eat anything but EWWW Uncooked Onions on my taco! You out yo mind!)
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I say we shoot their cars anyways.
I have been in 3 accidents
First time I rear ended a lady who slammed on her brakes at a yellow light (she was legally supposed to go but thank you no fault Florida!)
Second time I was speeding some guy tried to merge in front of me (there was NO one else on the road) I wasn't going to slow down for him and he hit my back side (I made him barrel roll). Neither of us got fault cause he "said someone else hit both of us" (I think he was drunk).
The final time was when I was making a right hand turn and couldn't see so I edged forward and someone clipped the front of me (apparently Its my fault for going over the line).
I'm not sure many folks would appreciate a "traffic rat" but it is a good idea for another job to add. They even could get paid by commission as long as the violator was proven wrong and actually paid the fine.
About the language .. well asking the govt. to fund more jobs is self-defeating in this case. I want to create private sector jobs.. but govt. jobs would do if you could provide a means to fund them continually.
BAD DRIVERS... I've always thought it would be good to deputize people who've never had accidents and have impeccable driving records, and give them a way to identify the jerks. like a paintball gun. If your driving sucks, i shoot your car with a paintball gun, and log the date/time/location/infraction on a website.. cops can pull you over whenever they get around to it, look up what happened, and decide if it was ticketworthy.
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M$Another one that we have been working on is handyman specials. My boyfreind is a great carpenter and he has been bidding the lowest possible on ever job he binds on just to help others out.
One other one thta use to be around for years then dissapppeared, is now coming back and that is doing other peoples laudry and running erands or doing shopping for others that can not get out or just do not have the time to do what needs to be done. Cleaning is also another great income and can make for great jobs for several people.
This photo is soo cool and my boyfreind made one of these about 2 years ago for an elderly lady.
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Bookkeeping
Errands
Marketing
Web Design
Childcare
Housekeeping
Personal Assistant/Business Assistant
Pet Care
(Insert Here)
Sometimes that few extra dollars part time for people will keep them afloat!
To keep businesses going-Shop locally!
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M$1) Capitol to pay the new employee
2) Work for the employee to do.
To create jobs from newly started companys, two things are required:
1) Capitol to start a business
2) Work for the employee to do.
Ok, so we have Capitol, and Work, how can we get both of these?
For work to occur, a customer needs to be getting something from the business, this happens when a customer has money to purchase the goods or service. so Work = Customer spending money.
For capitol, a business needs to be profitable. More profit = more money = the ability to hire new employees (only if there is work to be done).
So the answer is MONEY. More money in the hands of companys, and more money in the hands of customers.
There is one simple way to do this. CUT TAXES.
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Sales taxes, for instance, can be changed by the city, and state.
If your city has a low business (transaction privledge tax) tax rate, and a low sales tax rate, more companys will want to open a business there (because it costs them less).
Also peolpe that live in your low tax rate city will have more money to spend because sales taxes are lower (a low state income tax rate also helps with this).
People are also more likley to make your region a destination to make larger purchaces if they know they can save ~5% because of lower sales taxes.
The ironic thing is that when this is done the governments tax recipts usually grow because of the increase in business.
I was trying to get ideas on how to create jobs and the ones you gave are interesting. How would you get things started in your community?
Great ideas.
How can you do this in your own community to create jobs?
Running for office locally will increase your chance of being able to lower taxes and complete your plan to create jobs in your neighborhood but you will first have to be elected in your local area and than pass the needed tax cuts and succeed at actualizing new business friendly programs to attract business to the area and help them succeed to the level of creating new jobs in the area... but what could you do in your neighborhood that would rely on your own creative ideas within the system currently in place there that would have a more immediate impact?
If you are asking what an individual can do starting today to create jobs, then options are limited.
I would suggest 3 things:
1) Support business by spending money
2) Start a business of your own (must service a new or under served market)
3) Work to attract other new businneses to your area, sell your area, be specific, and advertise what makes your community great. Businesses want to locate where there is a competitent, available workforce, in an area that the employees will want to live. Blogs, forums, twitter, and social media in general is an excelent way to accomplish this.
Fof fun she has a group that meets at a local coffee shop for knitting and spinning. The group also supports local yarn and fiber suppliers. (Creating demand for local jobs)
Finally she sells her yarn and hand made goods online as well as at local faires while partnering with other friends who are crafters that make jewelry and dolls. (Supporting local faires & helping friends sell wares)
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I know its not a cure by any means but we can start with people helping people. =)
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I forgot this one, Go to your local town hall and see what kind of services you can provide that will allow them to acquire state funding help or grants. We had a gentelman that was in charge of crime prevention ( Crime Watch ) And he received state funding. So did the town.
A lawn service that specializes in preparing lawn equipment ( mowers, tillers,weed eaters ) for winter storage, Most small community's have a mini storage, so advertise helpers for helping people to store there belongings. Nobody likes to move things into storage most people who offer to help don't show up. LOL
Expand the lawn care into snow removal and salting sidewalks. ( winter work )
How about a local photo company that goes around and copies old family photos and enhances them and puts them on dvd's. Also convert VCR tapes to DVD. Record local sports events. Create advertising for the local sponsors of the teams.
@buttonpusher this is a great answer. Thank you.
How about creating a What Not shop? ( second hand store ) Find a local spot that is empty and offer a percentage of the profit for rent or go thru your local churches and allow a tax deduction for the owner. A maintained building is better than an empty one. Allow people to bring in things on a commission or donate. If there is enough room. Set up a small day care also
for low income families and go for state funding or grants.
How about a local pet service that will take care of your pets while on vacation or during an emergency when you have to leave.
Going to your local business and brainstorming ways for them to expand and create jobs.
A local yard cleaning crew. Give coupons for the first hour and try to get people motivated in cleaning up there yard. ( Seinor discounts ) Plus a bonus of any recycleable materials.