I need money

[moonlight]

I'm making $28K at my paper. Could be better; could be worse.

Other than looking for a new job, can anyone give me an idea or two on making more money? I do stringer work when I can but I'm not in an area where stringers are needed a lot. I'm just looking for suggestions to make some more cash on the side.

Oh, and please don't tell me to get a part-time job at McDonalds. That's not what I'm asking about.

 

[JayFarrar]

Sub at the local schools.
If you work in the evenings and days off during the week, you can make some decent side job money. Most places pays at least $75 a day.
Make sure your boss is okay with it first, but it likely won't be a problem as long as you don't bang one of the students.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Some friends of mine run a court-reporting firm. I've been proofreading the transcripts for 'em for 10+ years. It pays 25 cents a page. I can do 60 pages an hour on average. Not a bad side gig, depending on how much they need me to do.

 

[Tom Petty]

dealing crack still is profitable, isn't it?

 

[Jeremy Goodwin]

dealing crack still is profitable, isn't it?

I hear there are some great house by the Bakersfield airport

 

[Tom Petty]

dealing crack still is profitable, isn't it?

I hear there are some great house by the Bakersfield airport

four star, my friend. four star.

 

[spaceman]

emperorsclub.com

 

[hockeybeat]

In all seriousness, see if you can hook on as a temp proofreader. Where I am, proofreaders can pull in $15 to $28 an hour, and you can pretty much work around your newspaper schedule.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

In all seriousness, see if you can hook on as a temp proofreader. Where I am, proofreaders can pull in $15 to $28 an hour, and you can pretty much work around your newspaper schedule.

Yeah, I do mine at home! Just pick it up, they tell me when to bring it back, and I do.

 

[Rhody31]

dealing crack still is profitable, isn't it?

Crack is so 1990s.
Meth is the best and most profitable. You can buy everything legally over the counter, then cook it up and make huge profit.
Duh.

 

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

dealing crack still is profitable, isn't it?

Crack is so 1990s.
Meth is the best and most profitable. You can buy everything legally over the counter, then cook it up and make huge profit.
Duh.

Just don't blow up your house.
My suggestion -- buy an old U-Haul truck and cook it up in the back of that. Should it blow up, you only lose whatever you got in the truck.

Seriously, what kind of companies do some of you guys proofread for? I've heard of some trade mags paying pretty well.

I'm in the process of going over a children's book, but it's not paid. Maybe it will lead to something else.

 

[BigSleeper]

Pimpin' ain't easy, so that's out.

It may not be for you, but I always suggest contacting a temp agency (express, Kelly, Manpower, etc) in your area to explore options. I've turned to them many times over the past 15 years, and have always found something, at least for me, decent. Last part-time gig I had was working weekends as a mold technician for four months in a kayak plant. That was a blast.

 

[playthrough]

For a quick-buck fix...if you're in or near a big city, look in the yellow pages and find companies that put on casino nights, the fake-money things for corporate parties and the like. Those companies hire regular folks as dealers and pay cash on the spot. I used to do that quite a bit, pulling in $50 or so for 3-4 hours work once or twice a month (and maybe a dozen times in December, when everyone has holiday parties). Other dealers for the company I worked for were teachers, lawyers, bankers, you name it. Super-easy money for making fun of drunk people splitting 10s against a dealer 6.

 

[Joe Williams]

Sad.

Used to be, an editor-in-chief would be embarrassed to have staffers scrounging on the side, all over town, to make ends meet. These days, they don't blink an eye and would love to have more outsiders subsidizing their journalists.

 

[Tom Petty]

dealing crack still is profitable, isn't it?

Crack is so 1990s.
Meth is the best and most profitable. You can buy everything legally over the counter, then cook it up and make huge profit.
Duh.

actually, chief, meth is so 1980s.

 

[BigSleeper]

Sad.

Used to be, an editor-in-chief would be embarrassed to have staffers scrounging on the side, all over town, to make ends meet. These days, they don't blink an eye and would love to have more outsiders subsidizing their journalists.

Gotta make a living. I'm getting my forklift certification this summer. No shame in being prepared.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

I've heard telemarketing scams are quite lucrative.

 

[Trey Beamon]

Depending on what you're doing, $28K ain't horrible. I made about half that at my last gig.

 

[ServeItUp]

Bookstores need shelvers and sellers in the mornings. Makes for long days but, in the words of Jimmy Malone, what are you prepared to do?

 

[Tom Petty]

Bookstores need shelvers and sellers in the mornings. Makes for long days but, in the words of Jimmy Malone, what are you prepared to do?

not picking on you serve, but being able to write those words with a straight face is exactly what's wrong with this ****ing profession.