What extra ways do you make $$$?

[Rab]

So, Im going to put this out there cause perhaps one of you may have a valid suggestion for (legal) ways to earn extra cash.

I am a proud dad of 4 kids, work at a full time job and guess what, I would like to earn a little extra income. I want to put about 10 hours a week into something that is worth my time. I am done looking through newspaper and online classifieds add for ideas. I am just looking for some creative ideas. I already work from home anyways, so something I can do at home would be ideal.

To be honest, Im not truly comfortable putting this out here, however this is the only "community" I belong too. I dont have facebook,myspace or twitter. I dont do much else online but DDO. What ive noticed about most ppl who play DDO are generally great ppl. So, I thought Id put this out there.

I am not looking for "Get rich quick " or multi-level marketing type schemes.

And, really... only serious replies are requested here please.

For those who are considering replying thanks!!

Feel free to private message me if you prefer.

Rab

[Aethene]

Try picking up some night school classes.
Being a continuing education teacher pays prety good, the responisibilities are lean, and the time commitment is small.

As a side bonus: college girls.




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[Deaths_ward]

I pick locks and various other services for my Uncle when he needs it. He's a repossession agent by the way, otherwise known as the "Repo-Man". So try and find a family member that needs help on the job, and offer it for a cheap price.

[Kistilan]

My father is in his mid-50s and purchased a riding lawn mower & trailer so that he could go to houses around Northern Michigan & cut lawns in the summer. The same idea could be done with a truck & plow + snowblower & shovel in the Winter.

Another option, one I am currently pursuing, is get something like an electrician certification & keep current. Craigslist/Advertise your for-hire at a slightly cheaper rate than typical -- work from home electrician, plumber, etc at $XX/hour -- free estimate on work site! Typically you can bank on this as there's always a wiring job to be done (especially this year with all of the stimulus money pressed into high efficiency & green energy resources). Wiring Solar Panels, Tankless Heaters & Solar Showers or Single-Point waterheaters are a big thing this year.

[Lymnus]

Ref high school games.
I get 196 for a Junior Varsity and Varsity game. That's not too bad for two and a half hours of work.

[spyyder976]

Substitute teacher? But if you want to work from home and have some fun while you do it, there are folks who make money with card games like Legends of Norrath and Star Wars Galaxies TCG (both from SOE), selling cards, loot cards, and event passes for cash. You can build up quite a collection cheaply and win boosters and promos and loot cards during tournaments and get stuff in bulk off the trading area and resell/trade it for more/better stuff. Lots of folks are making lots of cash doing that, doing transactions via paypal, and it's perfectly legal and not against SOE policy!

[sephiroth1084]

I you're good at English, Math, Science or History you could see about doing some tutoring either privately or for a company such as Kaplan or Princeton Review (I work occasionally for the former).

[captain1z]

Are you computer savy?


- Post signs offering to do peoples taxes around tax time. Charge $25 a head and but a copy of quicken turbotax. Average time is 15 mins per tax claim and the computer does ALL the work, just gotta enter the numbers it asks for and even tells you where on the W4 to find em. Most people never do their taxes because it seems like a big deal and its not. If you offer to do it for them u will get a lot of business. If you wanna offer a free estimate it would also help to attract customers and Turbotax will do that for you as well.


- Offer to help create Resumes or print up business cards or print signs for people. Price it according to the difficulty of the job.


- With the right equipment you could transfer VHS tapes to CD. That old wedding tape or vacation video now transfered to disc.

- create a paypal account and offer to post or purchase items on Ebay for those who dont, wont or cant make purchases. Take cash, money order or check and just deal with any problems that might come up as if it were your own.

- do you have the space to pet sit. Many people cant travel because they have noone or no where to take care of their pets while they are gone.



just a few ideas. Also....... got any comic books in your basement?

[VKhaun]

Make a website about how to earn money on the side. Charge $50 to tell them 'your secret' and describe it vaguely, but with a great deal of positivity. When they pay up, have them make a thread in the Off-Topic forum of their favorite video game.

Sounds like a joke but it's done all over the internet. Work-at-home sites will take your $X and then link you to a job hunt or resume posting site and tell you to label yourself a typist. There are sites for making your home run on solar/wind energy for 'free', and when you pay them $50 they tell you to buy the stuff, install it yourself, and ask the government for reimbursement. I'm not even kidding, people fall for this stuff every day, and pay up for something big that's just a web page saying 'go do it'.

You can even set up accounts with certain middle-man sites,where people who have clout on the internet in various ways, can create advertiser accounts there and browse all these scam type sites like yours. They find one for their audience, say they run a forum about evironmentalism. They grab that one about solar panels and advertise it for the person who owns and runs that scam site and set the link up through the middle-man site so the site and the advertiser get a cut. You make say $20 isntead of $50, but it's all intangible, you have no materials, so getting hundreds of sales through people that know people and giving them a cut, is better then getting a trickle or none at all.


For 1,000,000 plat on thelanis I'll tell you the #1 site.
YOU COULD GET RICH QUICK :O

[Grosbeak07]

Become a consultant. Charge people $50 an hour to tell them what they should do.

I know a guy whose wife is a "Life Coach". She makes a fortune.

[VKhaun]

Become a consultant. Charge people $50 an hour to tell them what they should do.

I know a guy whose wife is a "Life Coach". She makes a fortune.

I know a girl online who spent time as a 'sex coach' and made good money. No, she was not a prostitute, she was fully clothed and spectated. This kind of thing works if you have the people skills, but it takes a lot of time and drama to really keep it going.

[Thailand_Dan]

Make a website about how to earn money on the side. Charge $50 to tell them 'your secret' and describe it vaguely, but with a great deal of positivity. When they pay up, have them make a thread in the Off-Topic forum of their favorite video game.

Sounds like a joke but it's done all over the internet. Work-at-home sites will take your $X and then link you to a job hunt or resume posting site and tell you to label yourself a typist. There are sites for making your home run on solar/wind energy for 'free', and when you pay them $50 they tell you to buy the stuff, install it yourself, and ask the government for reimbursement. I'm not even kidding, people fall for this stuff every day, and pay up for something big that's just a web page saying 'go do it'.

You can even set up accounts with certain middle-man sites,where people who have clout on the internet in various ways, can create advertiser accounts there and browse all these scam type sites like yours. They find one for their audience, say they run a forum about evironmentalism. They grab that one about solar panels and advertise it for the person who owns and runs that scam site and set the link up through the middle-man site so the site and the advertiser get a cut. You make say $20 isntead of $50, but it's all intangible, you have no materials, so getting hundreds of sales through people that know people and giving them a cut, is better then getting a trickle or none at all.


For 1,000,000 plat on thelanis I'll tell you the #1 site.
YOU COULD GET RICH QUICK :O

A buddy of mine did something similar and ended up getting busted by the feds. He took out classified ads offering get rich quick secret for $5. When he would receive a check, his "secret" was to take out ads in papers offering "get rich quick secrets". He didn't get any jail time, but he had to pay back the money and pay a hefty fine.

[cardmj1]

Here you go.... http://www.elance.com/

Basically, this is a site where companies with projects seek contracted workers to do the work instead of hiring someone they will need to fire later. All kinds of work in several fields. It's pretty self explanatory. Look under new job postings

[captain1z]

Become a consultant. Charge people $50 an hour to tell them what they should do.

I know a guy whose wife is a "Life Coach". She makes a fortune.

I was actually a market consultant for 1 year specializing in retail video game marketing and trends and billed clients for $200 an hour. The info was valuable to investers and some business owners and I made a good deal of money just for the knowledge I had and some light research now and then. I still get calls every now and then from some of the larger "big box" retailers looking to grab a larger portion of the gaming market.

Why do they still call me? Because I only charge $200 an hour. Trust me when I say thats a bargain as other consultants are charging much more. At $50 you may get some business but you will lose a lot as most investors or businesses who have a clue know that that rate is to good to be true and is likely some sorta scam.

Also in order to acquire my services you need to go through a firm that provide you a list of available consultants who might fit your needs. My field is very specific.

[sf2000]

If you live in city,its likely gonna be hard to make $$$...unless you found a "ponzi" things where you try to be on floor...But if you leave rural and closer to an agricultural area...this is could be a very good opportunity to try to make contact with farmer and find job in agricultural sector.If things keep worsening in the economy,farmer will rule the world!And you may made alot $$$ by selling food and save alot because you dont have to buy some!USA and world goes into survival mode ...think that mind!The EMP nuke is planed if S&P goes under 666.Everything will reset,poor and rich may be side by side under NWO martial law!

[Mockduck]

Quick money can also be had by going to your local job bank. Manpower, Inc and the like. It's a good way to make short-term cash, I've found. That, or plasma, but that's not for everybody.

Otherwise, consider things like selling on eBay, fixing up computers, running errands for rich elderly folks, etc.

I would not suggest podcasting, it doesn't pay....

[Cowboy]

Dont know if your handy with tools if you are. little flyers printed up on your pc dropped at houses around you letting them know you do handy man stuff. one of the things I do and Concrete work for extra cash.

[Borror0]

I heard some good out of ChaCha but never tried it myself.

Alternatively, make a website and put ads everywhere.

[AlphandOmega]

I cannot stress how easy this can be. It is so simple you will be making money before you even know you did anything. Sad part. Tell all you friends friends friends etc then everyone is doing it and watch your cash crop dry up but no worries after the cyberyne collect multi colored purple curcle stem caps for a trippy full plate of food.

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