Second job: revistied

About a year and a half ago, I posted a thread here about getting a second job. I wound up remedying that situation by changing jobs, however with my current situation, I need some extra dough in a bad way.

For those who aren't aware of our situation, we had an unexpected pregnancy pop up, and unfortunately we had no health insurance. The only way I could get coverage was through work, but where it's a small company with not many employees, it's rather expensive. A family plan for an employee, spouse and one child is roughly $180/week. Yeah. However, you pay a month ahead and when you start coverage, you're behind. I'll try to keep from ranting here but to "catch me up" They'll be taking $324.xx from my check until the end of August. Baby will be here in early October.

Momma bear has been getting any extra overtime she can, but she's very pregnant, and very tired. We're both stressed and worried about money. I know that if I'm working more, we'll see less of one another and that will make things rougher, but I need to know a legal way to earn as much additional income before there's a baby here and we're all short on sleep.

In my current gig, I'm a Glazier. I wake up at 5ish and get home at 5ish. Not a ton of time for a brick and moarter job. So I guess I'm looking for "additional income" more than a second job.

I don't have much tools to work on my own cars, so other people's are out of the question.

I have to borrow a mower to mow my yard, so I can't mow other yards.

I also have no truck to haul said mower, so I can't haul junk.

I've started a blog, but those take time to take off, so that's not very feasable in the short term.

No one close buys plasma.

I don't have enough liquid assets (cash) to buy a car to flip.

I tried helping someone bale hay. But, I was sick the night before, and really shouldn't have tried, but I made it three hours before I was puking and had to call it quits and head home. They haven't called me back.

You guys are always able to think outside the box and show me something I could have never thought of.

For once, the enabling is a good thing!!

GO!

If your background allows it, tutoring....teach kids to read at a Sylvan Learning Center or similar. Easy work, reasonable pay

Depending on your car you could do pizza delivery. Work dinner rush and most of the day Sunday or Saturday. Inside doesn't pay as well, but you could prob get a few hours a night with it. Do it till the baby gets here then get out. Career delivery destroys cars.

UPS or fed ex centers near you? See if they have anything part time in the evenings.

Home depot or Lowes may have a slot you can get into, your construction ish job will help you get in the door slightly above their starting rate. They always need evening and weekend help.

SWMBO has done clickworker to get some extra cash. if you've got a computer and some time at home, you can make some decent cash without running out to another job. You get tasks like fact checking, etc. that may take 5-30 seconds per task. You get a few cents or so per task, but it adds up.

You have the University in your town. The hipsters should be rolling in right now. Get a part time job soon,as they will all be gone soon. Hit the pizza places, loved working in bars too. (fun but bad) Bonus if you can cut your grocery budget by eating at work.

Find something - anything - you can do on the side for cash...and incorporate!

If you play your cards right, your biggest gain will come not from the $$ you generate from working your side-job, but rather from the tax write-offs. Find a good accountant who is good with small business and they can really help you out.

Feel free to PM me and I can give you more details.

Amazon Mechanical Turk is what I've been doing for this purpose. The pay rate isn't great, but I started turning my evening "stare blankly at FB/forum" time into Mechanical Turk time, and I'm clearing probably $6-7 a day with about 45 minutes of non-serious effort. For controlling how much time I put into it and how seriously I want to do it, it's not a bad option. The best part is that pay goes into Amazon Payments and not PayPal. You can use the balance to get necessaries from Amazon, or you can transfer into your bank - transfers to US banks happens same-day.

Most of the tasks on there are things like academic surveys, or judging the NSFW-ness of images, etc.

Get started at www.mturk.com. Like all things, there's a forum that will help you maximize your time on there at www.mturkforum.com.

Pete, PM sent.

Spinout, I've tried that avenue, and the only one that is even close to working with my hours just hired two drivers. A friend of mine who works there however says these new guys are idiots and won't last. This place closes at 9PM and most closers are out the door by 10PMish. Which would allow me to go home, shower, and go right to bed. The other places (major chains, Dominoes, Papa Johns etc.) stay open past 11PM and they get out at well after midnight.

I can't do that, you can't be sleepy on a construction site, or behind the wheel since much of my time is also spent delivering materials.

That Amazon thing is intruiging, I just may look into that. With the baby comming, that can go towards diapers and the like. Thanks for that.

Thanks again all for the input.

I've driven for and managed a few of the national chain pizza joints. Dinner rush was usually 5-8 or 9pm depending on the night/promotions/current business needs. When managing all but my 3 closers were out by 9. When I drove, the other closer and myself would often throw the third closer 10$ each to do most of the closing work and get out of there so we could make more, and do less of the in store crap.