How about combining all the above work and make even more money? This is where virtual assistant (i.e. VA) comes in. Virtual assistant is a big industry right now and many people are getting a chance to work at home by becoming a VA. You can get paid in almost immediately for your first job. [...]

Besides helping out businesses with phone tasks and website management, you can find many other ways to help out local businesses. Put your office skills to the test to become an office temp.
You advertise your office skills to businesses in your area and offer to fill in when they need it. You may end up [...]

Along the same line as an appointment scheduler, you can open an answering service. What you will do is take after hour calls for businesses. This can be a bit harder depending on what you offer your clients.
You can simply offer to take messages and deliver them immediately if they are urgent or you can [...]

With an extra phone line you can start an appointment scheduling business. What you do is offer to take incoming appointment calls for local offices. You will have to be able to answer the phone during business hours. You may also wish to offer extended hours.
You will need an appointment book for each client. You [...]

One of the tedious tasks of office work is typing up documents. Many offices are quite busy with other work that typing gets pushed aside until it piles up. Many offices do not have a person whose job it is to type up documents.
You can put out an ad or go around to local businesses [...]