If you can write a letter or tell a logical story, you can create your own profitable information product. You can also get someone else to create your information products for you, if that's what you want. From Your Pickup' . . . Your 'office' can be at a table in a corner of your kitchen, den or bedroom. Most types of information products can be made inexpensively, a few copies at a time, which allows you to test with a low investment.
Low investment means low risk.
With little or no overhead costs, you and I have the advantage in that we can make money on low-budget publishing projects where the big publishing houses would lose money. You can gradually expand into larger scale self-publishing, developing and selling your products to libraries, bookstores, mail order catalog houses, wholesalers, distributors, even through your own dealer network. Since you can start in your spare time, on a 'shoestring' budget, there's no need to give up your present job. You can learn and grow as you go, perhaps to the point that you can quit your job and be your own boss. Now I didn't say this business is a lazy man's way to easy money that requires little effort on your part.