Money, as t'were.
Dec. 1st, 2006 12:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
demiurgentI'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.
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.
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Date: 2006-12-08 04:10 pm (UTC)Just a note to add to that. Joining GAF is free, of course, but they get their cut once you've put in a bid, and that bid wins a given freelance job. Say, if you put in a bid of $80 to do x number of articles, and your bid gets selected by the guy who wants the work done, you end up paying $8 to GAF via PayPal. Of course, you end up ahead at the end of the job when the $80 gets released to you from escrow through PayPal.
Of course, there are some providers that just use GAF as an entry point to attract freelancers to longer-term work that doesn't go through GAF at all. The work I just finished up with one guy being a case in point -- I wasn't even the winning bidder on that job, but he contacted me and we worked out a direct paypal arrangement.