Money, as t'were.

[demiurgent]

I'm better off, financially, than a lot of people I know. But things get tight. We all know that. And they've been getting tight more often, lately. Nothing to scream or panic about, mind (and this is not a funding/call for help drive or anything.)

My New England spirit says "I should get a second job." But my day job provides me with many benefits that require the flexibility of going in and working on machines when it's needed, which makes taking alternate work unfeasible. (I can't very well work a convenience store job only to have to leave it to bring the mail server back to life.)

So. Is there a reputable part time online job out there that people can recommend? The kind of thing I can do in spare hours just to pad income a bit, without abrogating my responsibility to my school (and maintaining the flexibility I need to, oh, drive to Ottawa every couple of weeks and make kissy noises with Weds). Obviously, I've seen all the scams you have. And tee shirts beat me savagely, so I'm not looking at doing that again any time soon. So I will harness the power of the internet for help, and junk.

Comments

[kjc007.livejournal.com]

Hi!

You could:

• Sell things on eBay (stuff you own or sell for others & take a percentage, at least 20%)
  
• You could sign up for http://www.guru.com, http://www.writers-editors.com, and/or http://www.e-lance.com and bid for writing jobs and/or editing jobs (the important thing is to bid regularly, not to necessarily win jobs - the more regularly you bid, the more jobs trickle in, the more bids you're likely to win and the work you get)
  
• You could seriously hustle some writing gigs - pitch ideas for stories to comics magazines, gaming magazines, etc.
  
• I have no idea which sites are reputable, but there are article trees out there that pay you half of whatever your article(s) posted on their websites get from click through advertising; if you add a link in ever article back to Websnark (or a web page in which people can find out how to hire you to write), you can get more jobs that way
  
• If you're willing to write copy, you could pick up copywriting jobs off Craig's list (and the sites above - elance, guru, & writers-editors)

[mishamish.livejournal.com]

Damn... okay, there goes my suggestions.

My work here is done.

[pvenables.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest the selling of your editing/writing skills as well although I didn't have helpful URLs to supply. So instead I'll just point upwards at kjc007's response.