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Originally Posted by disneysteve
So what? How many threads have there been here where the suggestion was made to get a 2nd job to help get out of debt? Lots of things listed so far could qualify as 2nd jobs even for someone who has a good career.
I'm a physician with a 6-figure income. Despite that, I sell on ebay and half.com. I've had sales of about $800 so far this year without really even trying. In the past, I've made $1,000/month when I was really working at it.
I do a lot of medical surveys and market research programs. I made over $1,000 doing them in October.
My wife used to do cake decorating. She just did it for friends and family and didn't charge nearly enough but still got $30 or so per cake. She could have sold many more cakes but wasn't in it for the money.
My brother-in-law had a good job with a major bank but in his spare time, wrote a book (about saving money, actually).
None of these things bring in enough to live on, but they definitely help, and for someone in trouble with debt, they could be the difference between making it and not.
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I understand Steve, however I think selling on eBay or Half.com, or baking cakes can be more of a labor of love, and it can be fun....and these things can provide a windfall of $$.
But we're not really talking about those types of endeavors here, are we?
I thought the theme of this tread is to make money with a list of jobs, and I say this more as a need then a fun thing. I suspect you do the eBay dance for the fun of it, and as a consequence, this fun happens to make you some money, and same for your wife's cakes.
But for someone that needs more income, needs to augment their too little day job income, those jobs listed may well be a good stop-gap, but I would consider most of those (if not all) to be a terrible long term solution.
For those needing to make more $$, sure go ahead and walk a few dogs, but also do this: go back to school and learn some new skills that will lead to a lot more pay and security. I'd rather spend time doing homework after dinner for several months or a few years then to use that time to make chump change and burn through time we can never get back.
I too make will into the six figures, and I often do the eBay selling dance myself, as I find it fun and it can be addicting, and I dare say entertaining too, but do I need to do this to make extra money? Not at all. My brother in-law does well too, and he has the eBay addiction really "bad"...he buys unused Mary Kay and Avon products and then sales them for a termendous mark up, so he does between $500 and $1,000 every month, but for him this is sport, and entertainment. He "games" it, and the haggling, the bargaining to him is much more valuable then the actual profit, or so it seems.