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Anyone have a job for supplemental income?

Abby12

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Hi

Just wondering if anyone has a second job or side job to support their diamond habit or just for extra spending money?
If so what kind of job? :bigsmile:
 
We don't need my income to support our lifestyle, but I work because I love my job. I'm an English professor in a community college.

I don't buy a lot of jewelry, but I'm currently wearing my dream ring, which I wouldn't have gotten if I didn't work. We mainly use my income to sock away extra savings, pay for trips big and small, and to sponsor homeless dogs on death row to help get them rescued. And books. I buy lots and lots of books.
 
Your spending priorities are very similar to mine, Haven!
 
Lady_Disdain|1350262319|3285252 said:
Your spending priorities are very similar to mine, Haven!
I don't find that surprising at all! ;))
 
Yay for the puppies!!!!!! I love animals!!!! I have a dog that i adore!!!!
 
I would love to have a 2nd job just to pay off my student loans even faster. Unfortunately, there are late nights and weekends that crop up every so often that would interfere with a 2nd job that required me to fulfill a certain number of hours or hit deadlines. After the loans are paid off, I guess my current income would be a supplemental income. Hubby's income covers the home and his car. Whatever is left over goes into savings.
 
how timely. I, too, wondered if all PSers were independently wealthy, or had other means of procuring so many jewels! I'm not (or I wasn't) a jewelry person until I stumbled upon this site! ::) Now I dream of diamonds. . . but, my current job is as a stay at home mom, which is emotionally rewarding but financially not so great (ha!). In a few years, hoping for a job like Haven's. Til then, I'll have to just look and drool.
 
I don't have a second job, but I work enough overtime that it sometimes feels like 2 jobs! I have had one weekend off since we returned from holidays in July. This weekend I worked 20 hours. I can't pass up the opportunity to do the things Haven describes - extra savings, more holidays, covering the expenses of our foster animals, and books! Plus bling, of course. :naughty:
 
mama_monkey|1350274967|3285358 said:
how timely. I, too, wondered if all PSers were independently wealthy, or had other means of procuring so many jewels! I'm not (or I wasn't) a jewelry person until I stumbled upon this site! ::) Now I dream of diamonds. . . but, my current job is as a stay at home mom, which is emotionally rewarding but financially not so great (ha!). In a few years, hoping for a job like Haven's. Til then, I'll have to just look and drool.
most of the ladies here married a fifty rich man... ;))
 
My wonderful husband worked a second job at Subway to pay for my diamond's setting.

Not saying what he does now. ;)
 
I usually don't have a second job but I picked up a tutoring gig once a week after school for this year. My husband would love for me to get a job during the summers when I'm off, but it's hard to find something for just 7-8 weeks. No one wants to hire anyone on such a temporary basis.
 
I only have a "second job", on the weekends and occasional random graveyard shifts. Its' paycheck goes towards everything, including bling , bills and tuition. I intend to always keep this or a similar job, even when I am out of school. Sure, there will always be a need for money, but mostly I hold this job because I like to keep busy. The more free time I have, the more I browse the Internet, go out with friends, or visit the mall... And the poorer I get.

I used to have 3 jobs.. And the most hours I've clocked in one week was 83 hours.

It's doable, but it takes getting used to. Slowly add more hours to your day. And forget about cooked meals, a tidy house, or regular laundry days. I don't think anyone can do it, but if you like to keep busy anyway, you can always try it. You can always quit ;)

I know many people who have day jobs, and pick up a few graveyard shifts here and there at another job.
A lot of my nurse-coworkers do 3 12 hour shifts at one place, then pick up another one or two at another place.
It's very common amongst nurses, I think... Or at least amongst my coworkers :)
 
Until I started graduate school I did have an additional job. I was doing family intervention work on the side. I had to cut down on that for school, and I don't really have any active cases right now. It was good money to support my savings (and by savings, I mean bling habit).
 
Haven, we have a similar system - we both work because we want to.

We could maintain our lifestyle on either's earnings - mortgage, bills, a comfortable amount going into savings - but we're both pretty conservative in general and wouldn't want to give up the second savings padding, and it's extra play money.

Jewellery is my hobby and I have a few nice pieces and DH has a nice watch, but those are exceptions to an otherwise very average lifestyle - we don't have fancy cars or a lavish house, our tastes in home decor run toward metal art and wooden welcome bears and we don't care for designer accessories... my one gripe is that we can't travel as much as I'd like because it's difficult to match schedules, hopefully things will adjust as we settle in more.

Our parents paid for college, for which I will be eternally grateful - we definitely couldn't live as we do if we had monstrous student loans to address.
 
Dancing Fire|1350279155|3285381 said:
most of the ladies here married a fifty rich man... ;))

Hey DF,
How would you know if most of the ladies here are paying for their own baubles, rather than relying on the man? :naughty:

I have an unpaid volunteer teaching job twice a week. I do it because it is a subject that I love, even though sometimes the children try my patience. :cheeky: Other than that, I work outside the home in a profession that gives me a lot of mental and emotional satisfaction, and fortunately, it pays well enough to maintain my home, family, retirement savings, separate savings and still afford discretionary spending.
 
monarch64|1350291544|3285409 said:
Not saying what he does now. ;)

Okay, now I'm curious.
 
amc80|1350319591|3285644 said:
monarch64|1350291544|3285409 said:
Not saying what he does now. ;)

Okay, now I'm curious.

That sort of phrase is usually synonymous with "public office" in my neck of the woods. But I have no idea about Monarch's DH!
 
I don't right now, but I am hoping to some day get my feet into the wedding planning business, so at some point I plan on starting to pick up some "Day-Of Coordinator" duties that I can put on a resume/in a portfolio. My sister's best friend is getting married in 2014 and has sisters to help with planning, but they'll obviously be *IN* the wedding, so I've offered my services for her wedding, as well as another friend who will be getting married sometime in 2013. So not really for (much) income at the moment...but the experience of coordinating with vendors will be invaluable in the future!
 
I was reading this thread and thinking that it didn't apply to me... but it does! I've recently become an online travel agent. Every year, I book these group cruises for friends and family. The travel agents we work with (there have been a few) are always clueless and I end up doing a lot of the work. So now I can book everything, guests can come to me directly with questions, and I get some commission :)
 
When I lived in Chicago I was a real estate agent nights and weekends, in addition to being a compliance officer in the financial industry during the day. The money was certainly nice, but more than anything I just love being busy. Now that I'm in KC I ended up going back to school to finishing the accounting requirements to sit for the CPA because I couldn't stand just having one regular job. (Yes, I know I'm a little crazy... :cheeky: )
 
Yssie's post made me realize I should probably share some more info, lest I sound like I just happened to marry a very wealthy man who takes care of everything. :cheeky:

The fact that my job is all extra income now is a combination of many factors, the determining one being that DH and I have both been extremely lucky in life. We were both born to middle class American families who supported us in very important, though not financial, ways. Our parents didn't pay for us to go to college, we did that on our own, but both of us lived at home for several years afterward to pay off our undergrad debt. (How lucky that this was an option!) I attended excellent public K-12 schools that gave me so many advantages, and ultimately led to academic and professional opportunities I never would have had otherwise. (My last employer paid for my entire second master's degree, for example. Talk about more luck.) While we are by no means any better off than your typical Middle American family, we realize that we have been afforded so many advantages simply by being born in a certain time, place, and socioeconomic level.

Add to this tremendous luck the fact that my parents' miserable financial life scared the hell out of me and made me determined to live as financially sound a life as possible, and there you have it. OH, and the fact that my childhood home would have been the perfect poster ad for Hoarders, I also have an aversion to acquiring too much stuff, which keeps expenses down.

Our life looks very modest on paper--1600 sq. ft. home, two Honda Civics, nothing fancy in the house, etc. But we are tremendously happy, and so so so lucky that we get to do nearly all of the things we want to do with our TIME, which is, of course, the most important thing any of us have at all.

All that being said, I did work very hard starting out, and had SO MANY extra jobs for so many years. I worked multiple jobs in undergrad (R.A. for free room and board, usher for the theatre house, Jimmy Johns delivery driver, Blockbuster Video maven.) I worked multiple jobs in addition to every FT job I had for the first 8 years of my post-college life (Sunday school teacher, community college adjunct, grad school adjunct, summer school, personal trainer, private English tutor, Saturday gifted teacher.) For two years straight I worked 7 days a week: FT high school teacher, adjunct CC instructor (9 hours a week), Saturday teaching in the gifted program, Sunday school on Sundays. It was insane, but I wanted the experience and the extra income. This is now my third year of working only one FT job and nothing else. It feels like I'm merely a part-time employee! Frankly I have no idea how I worked all those jobs for all that time, but I did it, and hopefully I won't have to do it all again!
 
Great stories!
Has anyone had any success with any online jobs?
 
In the last year I've done a few days here and there for a friend's company. She had a 1 person corporate event planning business, and needs help keeping up with computer stuff occasionally. So I come over to her house, work on her laptop, and hang out with her about 1 day a month. Doesn't give me a ton extra, but I've used the "extra" to update my wardrobe and buy a nice handbag.
 
Abby12|1350327917|3285740 said:
Great stories!
Has anyone had any success with any online jobs?

I don't but my cousin and a friend teach online classes at the University of PHX which works great for them since they have full time jobs too.
 
My husband and I do not have jobs for supplemental income. His income allows us to live comfortably. I am working on finishing school and once that is completed, I will be working. My income will be considered supplemental, it will go towards savings and fun things.
 
I teach in my artistic specialty outside of owning a business with my husband. Depending on how the business is going that month determines if it is truly supplememental income or not :lol: I get a much higher hourly wage as a teacher, but could never put together enough hours to be full time. I teach mostly workshops, or summer camps, that kind of thing.

But I would teach anyway, just cause I love it, and to keep my own skills up, and to keep me involved with the community. We call it found money because we don't factor it into the budget and if we can it goes straight into a savings account.
 
Skippy|1350415278|3286468 said:
Abby12|1350327917|3285740 said:
Great stories!
Has anyone had any success with any online jobs?

I don't but my cousin and a friend teach online classes at the University of PHX which works great for them since they have full time jobs too.


More than half of SO's business comes from the internet. He owns a small business and sells his goods and services via his website, amazon, and ebay. My other friend made a decent secondary/supplementary income off of ebay sales, as well. She purchased items in bulk, and would sell them on ebay. Find an item that is in abundance in your local area, that may not be in abundance throughout the states. My friend's niche is for those "inspired by" designer bags. Those are very very common here in LA, and all her sales were to the middle states where, I'm assuming, there aren't any alleys that sell them? Nothing illegal, of course, they're not knock offs. But higher quality leather goods.

I also have another friend who scours the internet for deals and special discounts, or doubling up on coupons.. to buy designer goods. She also frequents our designer outlets here in SoCal, and doubles up using coupons. She makes a good supplementary income by selling these items on eBay. I understand that there aren't Christian Dior, Burberry or Coach outlets everywhere, and she just takes advantage that there are multiples here. She, of course, actually loves those goods, and buys them for herself as well.. and will sell the ones that she tires of, too, to clear closet space and bring in more $$.

I also know of someone (friend of a friend of a friend….) who practices via the internet. She's a psychologist, and does therapy sessions through Skype for clients that she's already met/practiced on in person, who are away on business trips or whatnot. Her primary practice is in her clinic, but she *does* occasionally meet with clients online.

I also know of someone (friend of a previous professor) who tutors american sign language via the internet. . to people ALL over the world.


Lots of opportunities out there, you just gotta find what you'd like to do, and what would get business!
 
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