Go over any news site, blog you will see the entire space filled up with Recession, crunch, layoffs, unemployment. Thought I might try to help here, with my “2 cents” (in literal terms, as can’t afford in these times to spend more)

1. Starting a web site

Yeah, I know you might have already guessed it. But it is just not writing “TOP 10″ or “TOP 15″ things the way I am doing right now.

Check them out - http://unemploymentality.com/

I just loved the way John Henion and Tania Khadder have set up the entire site.  Very creative and catchy.

2. Stand up Comedy

I don’t say being an artist is everyone’s cup of tea, but surely if you have the panache go for it. There are so many things going wrong these days and surely you will get your punchlines and subjects from the turmoil. Layoffs, wall street bonuses, white house comments, recession news, company bankruptcy — there is no dearth. BTW, I came across this video by George Carlin, which is worth a watch.

George Carlin – Who Really Controls America

3. Buy and Sell Gold

I was extremely shocked to see these signs while walking down to my office on the Wall Street. Bunch of guys with all funny messages strapped around their body, trying to send a message on/ around Wall Street.

We Buy Gold

4. Blogging

On common, now don’t complain that this should have been on the TOP at #1. When I was reading about blogging, I was trying to understand the whole SEO and stuff. Somewhere I read that you can become famous and attract readers, if you can create controversies .. Don’t know if I will support that, but makes sense to me. The following blog is making some noise these days. People are putting all adjectives for them, but I found them quite funny. Check it out .. http://dabagirls.com/ (Dating A Banker Anonymous)

5. Business around cars

Uncle Sam wants you to buy a car — Whoa, this sounds great to me. America runs on cars (hmm, Dunkin Donuts will not agree) but yeah I really liked that idea. If people get cars, they will travel and money starts pouring in. Think about any business around cars then.

Garage, rental businesses more like Zipcars, accessories around cars might work.

6. Being Patriotic

I really liked the video below, even if Thomas L. Friedman would disagree to make his Flat World, around again

http://money.cnn.com/video/#/video/news/2009/01/30/news.costello.013009.cnnmoney

Well, what one can do is gather list of all the products, services, materials which are consumed in United States but produced elsewhere, fire up the patriotic feeling amongst fellow Americans, and when local businesses start pumping up, they share revenue with this guy who generated the patriotic feeling

7. Joining Meetups, Social Networking sites, Business Networking Sites

Well I thought about this and whether it will be helpful. What I realized is you anyways have nothing to do. And what you can definitely do now without spending any bucks is make contacts, connections. After all it’s all networking and personal connections which matter. Be it Satyam Computer’s Mr. Raju scam or Madoff’s ponzi scheme — nothing gets executed without a connection. I am not suggesting to build connections right now, and then be tomorrow’s Madoff, but the emphasis is more on Networking. As we know most of the successful companies originated around similar times. So go for it, and try to find your business partner.

8. Act and make films – Concentrate on home entertainments

Because Netflix is going to help you there .. apparently when everyone is reporting losses, they are posting profits, because they feel recession is good for home entertainment.

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