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Life is hard these days. At the brunt of the recession, many people find themselves jobless; not because they lack the skills, but simply because the companies themselves are cutting on costs. If you find yourself on the chopping board, you lose your job, plain and simple. But that also means that you suddenly have all the time in the world.

So, what do you do with all the free time you now have? Understandably, a lot of people will use it by spending more time with their respective families. A number of you will probably spend most of their time and energies towards finding a replacement job. But, let's be realistic. Until we get away from this recession, finding new jobs will prove to be very difficult.

Why don't we set up small businesses instead? In all likelihood, it will be incomparable to the salary you used to have. But it's something, at the very least. The cost of living will still continue to come, but it must be buffered somehow.

Take me, for example. I have now made up my mind to go back to a hobby that I had started as a teenager. I used to make wonderful wood carvings, but slowly stopped when I started growing up. After all, there were more important things to do. But for now, I have returned to my hobby, and I have decided to make a few extra dollars by selling at craft shows.

It has never been easier to look for craft shows to sell my wares than in this Internet age. There are a lot of listings for upcoming events online. Finding the next show's schedules and venues is just a simple matter of searching for them using a browser. It doesn't give me much income, yes, but at least the money still trickles through even with the financial crisis.