How could I turn a pink slip into a shovel and dig my way out of losing a source of income.
Write down 20 ways that come to your mind. Be willing to get creative.
Here are only 20 of perhaps a million ways you might be able to dig out. Consult a competent Attorney to make sure you are complying with all laws and regulations so you do not hit any snags.
- Hold a Garage Sale for Some Instant Cash and Get rid of Unwanted Items
- E-Bay or Use Similar Selling Sites to Sell some of your more Collectible Items
- Work for a Temp Agency
- Consulting
- Start a Shop and sell Your Favorite Things
- Work for Yourself Doing the Same Type of Occupation you Were Doing
- Etsy or Similar Craft Sites
- Set Yourself up as a Consultant
- Home Lessons of Some Sort
- Start an Online School Teaching the Same Type of Thing You were Skilled In
- Work Online
- Find Time Consuming Chore that People Hate to Do and Do it for Them
- Become a Founder of a Non-Profit
- Develop a Product
- Invent Something
- Find Something that is Not Being Done and Do It
- Start a Visitation Service for the Elderly for Busy Families who Need to Fill in for Loved Ones
- Companion Service for Lonely People who Just want to Talk and Tell their Problems to a Confidant who will Listen (Just getting it off their chest)
- Start Your Own Tour Guide Company in Your Town
- Offer to Wash, Scrub, Polish Kitchen Floors or other Partial Cleaning Jobs that People do Not Want to do for Themselves
Pink slip refers to the
American practice, by a
personnel department, of including a discharge notice in an employee's pay envelope to notify the worker of his or her
termination of employment or
layoff.
[1] The "pink slip" has become a
metonymy for the termination of employment in general. According to an article in
The New York Times, the editors of the
Random House Dictionary have dated the term to at least as early as 1910.
The phrase most likely originated in
vaudeville. When the United Booking Office (established in 1906) would issue a cancellation notice to an act, the notice was on a pink slip ("The Argot of Vaudeville Part I" New York Times, Dec. 16, 1917, p.X7.) Another possible etymology is that many applications (including termination papers) are done in
triplicate form, with each copy on a different color of paper, one of which is typically pink.
In the
Chilly Willy cartoon, "little Televillian", Mr. Stoop, tells Smedley that if he's disturbed while reading show scripts, he would be forced to pink slip Smedley, (which Smedley doesn't know the meaning of) and yells at him, " It means...you will be fired!".
In the
UK and
Ireland the equivalent of a pink slip is a
P45; in
Belgium the equivalent is known as a C4.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slip_(employment)
