Find an unemployed carpenter and form a partnership to do “bathroom and kitchen remodels”. I would imagine that this is how companies like “BathFitters” get started: if you can offer complete remodel services from floor to ceiling and everything in between, at attractive prices and with one-day or two-day guaranteed service, then you’ll have business coming out of your ears.
The trick is to be able to plan and estimate your work well enough that you can offer fixed prices and short schedules that attract people because they know in advance exactly what the work will cost and how long they’ll be inconvenienced. Of course, you’ll have to be able to accept the risk of:
1. Estimating your prices and living with the quotation you deliver to the customer—you might lose money sometimes.
2. Estimating and living within the schedules that you promise, with penalties incurred if you miss dates.
3. Still not being able to find work sometimes—there will still be dry spells, and being swamped with work sometimes.
If your only experience (and desire) is to work at a comfortable pace at a fixed and steady rate of pay… then good luck to you. Those days are ending, as you can see.