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If you love exploring the undersea world with thousands species of exotic fishes, hundreds kinds of corals and hundreds marine species then you enjoy making money as a scuba diving instructor. But first things first, before you can teach scuba diving lessons you have to be a diver first and foremost. You can be a diver by, first taking up open water diver course, then advanced course, the rescue diver course, then dive master course and finally dive instructor, absolutely in that order. You will need to spend money on the courses and equipments ( rent or bought). Equipments such as buoyancy control device, regulator, swim mask, snorkel, fins, booties and wet suit plus resort accommodations. The open water course is familiarizing yourself with the basic equipments and practicing within a controlled body of water like a swimming pool before venturing out to the open sea. Then you take practical and theoretical exams to be certified as an open water diver. The advanced course entails nigh...

Tourist guides are most often than not, the travelers first contacts in a foreign country. To be a successful tourist guide you must have excellent communication skills and preferably knows two foreign languages aside from English. Multi-lingual guides make ten percent more money. You also must be presentable, friendly, punctual and articulate. Aside from language proficiency, you must take a seminar sponsored by the Department of Tourism to get accreditation which is a requisite to secure a permit to work as a tourist guide. After you get your permit associate yourself with travel agencies. They serve as your booking agents. They give you your clients and returning travelers. Your fee should be based on one flat rate for the whole trip. Ask your customers for a deposit which is approximately1/3 of the package cost of the tour to confirm their reservations. This will protect you in the event that individuals cannot make the trip for whatever reason. Just like any field of endeavour, yo...

You don’t have to study formally a second language. If you are lucky enough to grow up in a family where Spanish, Russian, Italian, German etc. are spoken aside from English, then you are very much qualified for the job. Translators are in great demand in hospitals , schools and calls centers. Also in companies doing business overseas, for specialists who need foreign publications translated as well as foreign language schools. You could command top dollar depending on your fluency and the complexity of the material to be translated especially if it’s a sophisticated business translations involving scientific and technical translations. You can also give private lessons in a foreign language at you home. You can charge by the hour per student. Even if you have fulltime job you don’t want to give up you can give classes in the evening and free-lance translation of books and articles can easily be done on weekends. Run your classified ads in the literary or trade publications, scientific...

Consignment means people give you merchandise and get paid only if and when you sell the merchandise. By means of advertising in classified ads, you invite people to bring used items such as clothing, dishes, unmatched silverware , children’s toys, small appliances without paying out a cent until you have made the sale. Tell them how much you are willing to pay for the items and the terms of until when you are going to put them up for sale. Give them the option to claim those items back if they are not sold within the limited time. Usually, in consigning, u can have a markup profit of ninety percent from these items. You need a place to display the goods particularly a large room in the commercial district. Just scout for lower rental rates so you can have lower overheard when you have just started your business. You need lots of shelves and racks, corrugated boxes to hold clothing and inexpensive pipe racks to hold items like coats, dresses and suits that can be hung on hangers. You d...