Have you considered becoming a video game streamer? You can work from home on your own schedule, maybe even become a GOG affiliate. Hard work and a dedicated fanbase (even if it is a small fanbase) goes a long way.

This profession is a hit or miss, and most of the time, is a miss. For every streamer that does well, and by "well" I mean just enough to make a living out of it, everyone else probably struggles to get a few dozen of viewers.

While you don't really need much to start a channel, it's a huge personal investment that will consume a lot of your time. Not a safe option for income. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone.

Funny you should say that, since I could say the very same about my country. Does more than half of your country's population still have their toilets in the backyard? :P

Go to the army.

There are plenty of jobs around, just move out of your hometown. You could be an Elf in Lapland. I'm considering pursuing same career path.

This looks like a good job. :D

Hospitality or the food service industry is not a bad way to go, if you enjoy having people enjoy what you do. I spent 11 years as a sous chef and manager of a pub 'n' grub in my rather small city, and it was very rewarding.

It's hectic, but it's a decent living, as long as you never mind not having weekends off, and can handle the pace. Not to mention, it's great being able to flex your creative muscles a bit, have something go on the menu and have people enjoy it, ask for it, and even ask for you to make it specifically.

I ended up going into manufacturing after, but only until I can save up a bit of cash to open my barcade/meatball shop, but I really appreciated my job and the people that made that job worth waking up in the morning to go prep for.

Besides, people need to eat, and people like to go out, so it's another profession that you'll almost literally never go hungry doing.

Perhaps I'm just very lucky then. I've made a healthy living from freelance writing for about 15 years. Even better, throughout the entirety of that time my work has mostly been producing niche content, focusing on topics I'm familiar with and enjoy writing about.

Like any vocation, how much you get out of it depends on the level of effort you're prepared to put in, along with how adaptable you are working to client briefs. Also, given most content these days is destined for online audiences, there's a plethora of agencies and SEO companies around looking for writers. It's not all about getting more hits and clicks to generate advertising revenue.

It is possible to get decent rates just starting out as a freelance writer, if you're prepared to hunt around, but the level of pay you can command obviously increases with experience and demonstrable quality, pretty much like in any line of work. Opinions can differ as to what "decent" rates are, though, plus the language you're writing in and where the content is being published, will also dictate rates to some degree.

I saw someone in another forum bitching about €20 for a 500-word article being derisory, that they "wouldn't switch the PC on" for what they considered to be such a low rate. Fine if you're a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist I suppose, but for mere mortals like the rest of us, I think that's a fair rate.

I can usually knock out a quality, well-researched 500-word piece in less than an hour, covering topics I'm familiar with. A minimum of three or four of those a day, five days a week, that's a pretty decent level of income where I live and with minimal overheads. I often do a lot more, but at the same time, I don't flog myself to death and like to enjoy my free time.

If the OP is confident writing about their interests, hobbies and experiences, or something they're knowledgeable about, freelance writing can be a very good opportunity to generate an income from home. Full-time, part-time, or just for a little extra income.

You're being too modest. I know that IRL you're Danielle Steele. :D

Definitely not the sort of thing you just "jump" into expecting it to sustain your lifestyle immediately. Certainly something to potentially try as time permits, going in with the knowledge that it's a hobby that might yield a return at some point but that point is going to be far off from the start.

A lot of the "streamer successes" glamorize it too much, glossing over the realities of people who move on to do it full time very likely having cushions from day jobs (or other means) to fall back on while making the transition to having it become their sole avenue of income.

Damn! How did you find out? It took me ages to build this alternative persona and pseudonym.

First thing,get a soapbox and stand in the street and make promises that you will help all and kiss all babies and shake all hands.
Get into Politics....back stab the leader,get his job then retire on $500k + pension.

I meant you can´t make a living from writing short stories and novels :) Actually, you can, but you have to write a lot, before you even can balance your losses. I think it´s not a good advice for BeatriceElysia to try to make a living from that.

Yes, that kind of writing is an entirely different kettle of fish. I've a few good novels in me, but the time and work that would need to go into them, just wouldn't pay the bills.

I was streaming regularly in the late spring for about 2 months, and very rarely got over 3 viewers at a time, streaming popular/unpopular games, posting on neighborhood discords, it didn't matter.

Twitch is saturated and so is Youtube. I wouldn't recommend trying to make a living off of streaming at all. When I go back to it in another month or two, it's going to be purely as a hobby with no intention of ever making a living, kind of what I did in the spring but with no hallucination of making a steady money income or even having more than 2-3 viewers a stream.

As far as the OP.... I really don't know Croatia that well, and I know jobs don't pay well, but perhaps you could get a job on a farm as a farmhand. It would be hard work, but you'd always have access to food and water. I mean this with all respect too, as you are very unskilled and live in a small community.

My first job was on a farm. I loved it, but it *is* hard work.