Can you earn extra money?

[Anonymous]

sign up on rover. If you work from home it’s so easy to have a dog around, especially if you already have one. My friend is making $40/day keeping a dog overnight and $35/day for dog day care or $15/30 min walk. Keeping one dog and walking another nets her $50/day cash. She can bump that baseline up or down as her schedule allows, but $50/day is 18k per year, plus it forces her to get away from her desk for walks. After using rover initially her clients started texting and paying her directly, so she doesn’t pay a cut. She says it pays for her families two vacations a year and she’s los 10 lbs! She can be picky and takes older, calm dogs who are easy.

[Anonymous]

It's not a real income supplement, but I futz around with various online sites and shopping apps to earn "extra" money that I use for splurges outside my regular budget. Most of it gets put into a vacation account and it lets me extend or add experiences to planned trips (I could afford the vacation anyway, but this way I put more in savings and feel less guilty about spending.)

I use mturk and swagbucks for surveys and use ibotta, shopkick, and fetch for shopping. It's not a lot of money (maybe $50-75 a month), but it's also not a lot of time commitment and I can do it while I watch TV.

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Anonymous wrote:" I seel on eBay, Craigslist, and at kids' consignment sales. I make a few thousand per year depending on how motivated I am and what merchandise I have.

Me too. I make about 10k a year."

Do you resell stuff that other people have given away for free? If so, you are loathsome.

Even if she did, there's nothing loathsome about that. When you give something for free, you don't put restrictions on its use. THAT would be loathsome.

Exactly. Not loathsome at all. Extremely smart."

Smart? No, disgusting. When i post giveaways on my community list serve, its to give back to others to make up for those who have been generous with me. "Take what you need" does not mean "Load up the car with everything so you can resell it." Just like putting out stuff labeled for a charity pick-up doesn't mean it's okay to swoop in and take it all before the charity shows up. Both are loathsome behaviors.

Way to give away something for free but put restrictions on it. Do you do that when you give gifts, too?

You should probably spell that out on your next post. Free is free, my friend.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope, I'm a government lawyer, and getting permission for outside employment that would be worth it (meaning, not a Starbucks barista on weekends, which wouldn't cover chlidcare after taxes in my bracket) is impossible, and it would mean admitting to many layers of bosses that I need money. (I am doing fine but not great, but that embarrassment factor would be a huge deterrent.)

I'd have to cut costs.

Absent running into someone while on the job say at a local Sbux, how would they even know? Is anyone checking to make sure none of their employees are out walking dogs or waitering for a catering company? The right hand doesn’t talk to the left in the govt yet govt employees are always terrified of going against dumb rules.

So you’re one of those people who think rules don't apply to them?

I mean I don’t care if they apply or not. I’m at FDA - I don’t need some ethics bureaucrats telling me what I can and can’t do. I know my job enough to know I wouldn’t pick up a side gig for any medical company, editing articles for medical journals etc. But if I want to work for a catering co 1 weekend a month at a wedding, I don’t need some bureaucrat saying no just bc he can or just bc it’s easier to say no than to research it, approve it and do the appropriate paperwork — which I’ve seen happen before.

So clearly yes, the rules don't apply to PP. Thanks for confirming!

[Anonymous]

original dog walker here

I walk 2 dogs AM and PM (separate locations) $15 for a 30 minute walk each.

It's cut into my social time for sure but I make it work.

The extra money and exercise are very helpful.

[Anonymous]

The oldest profession when kids are in school and husband is at work but sadly craigslist stopped the personal section so not doing that anymore.

It was amazing how many men would get a hotel room at your request and pay you handsomely to visit during "lunch"

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Anonymous wrote:Nope, I'm a government lawyer, and getting permission for outside employment that would be worth it (meaning, not a Starbucks barista on weekends, which wouldn't cover chlidcare after taxes in my bracket) is impossible, and it would mean admitting to many layers of bosses that I need money. (I am doing fine but not great, but that embarrassment factor would be a huge deterrent.)

I'd have to cut costs.

Absent running into someone while on the job say at a local Sbux, how would they even know? Is anyone checking to make sure none of their employees are out walking dogs or waitering for a catering company? The right hand doesn’t talk to the left in the govt yet govt employees are always terrified of going against dumb rules.

So you’re one of those people who think rules don't apply to them?

I mean I don’t care if they apply or not. I’m at FDA - I don’t need some ethics bureaucrats telling me what I can and can’t do. I know my job enough to know I wouldn’t pick up a side gig for any medical company, editing articles for medical journals etc. But if I want to work for a catering co 1 weekend a month at a wedding, I don’t need some bureaucrat saying no just bc he can or just bc it’s easier to say no than to research it, approve it and do the appropriate paperwork — which I’ve seen happen before.

So clearly yes, the rules don't apply to PP. Thanks for confirming!

why do you even care?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:" I seel on eBay, Craigslist, and at kids' consignment sales. I make a few thousand per year depending on how motivated I am and what merchandise I have.

Me too. I make about 10k a year."

Do you resell stuff that other people have given away for free? If so, you are loathsome.

Even if she did, there's nothing loathsome about that. When you give something for free, you don't put restrictions on its use. THAT would be loathsome.

Exactly. Not loathsome at all. Extremely smart.

agreed. not loathsome at all. strange that PP would think that....

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Anonymous wrote:Nope, I'm a government lawyer, and getting permission for outside employment that would be worth it (meaning, not a Starbucks barista on weekends, which wouldn't cover chlidcare after taxes in my bracket) is impossible, and it would mean admitting to many layers of bosses that I need money. (I am doing fine but not great, but that embarrassment factor would be a huge deterrent.)

I'd have to cut costs.

Absent running into someone while on the job say at a local Sbux, how would they even know? Is anyone checking to make sure none of their employees are out walking dogs or waitering for a catering company? The right hand doesn’t talk to the left in the govt yet govt employees are always terrified of going against dumb rules.

So you’re one of those people who think rules don't apply to them?

I mean I don’t care if they apply or not. I’m at FDA - I don’t need some ethics bureaucrats telling me what I can and can’t do. I know my job enough to know I wouldn’t pick up a side gig for any medical company, editing articles for medical journals etc. But if I want to work for a catering co 1 weekend a month at a wedding, I don’t need some bureaucrat saying no just bc he can or just bc it’s easier to say no than to research it, approve it and do the appropriate paperwork — which I’ve seen happen before.

So clearly yes, the rules don't apply to PP. Thanks for confirming!

why do you even care?

Simply because I can't stand people who thing the rules don't apply to them. They suck at being human.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope, I'm a government lawyer, and getting permission for outside employment that would be worth it (meaning, not a Starbucks barista on weekends, which wouldn't cover chlidcare after taxes in my bracket) is impossible, and it would mean admitting to many layers of bosses that I need money. (I am doing fine but not great, but that embarrassment factor would be a huge deterrent.)

I'd have to cut costs.

Absent running into someone while on the job say at a local Sbux, how would they even know? Is anyone checking to make sure none of their employees are out walking dogs or waitering for a catering company? The right hand doesn’t talk to the left in the govt yet govt employees are always terrified of going against dumb rules.

So you’re one of those people who think rules don't apply to them?

I mean I don’t care if they apply or not. I’m at FDA - I don’t need some ethics bureaucrats telling me what I can and can’t do. I know my job enough to know I wouldn’t pick up a side gig for any medical company, editing articles for medical journals etc. But if I want to work for a catering co 1 weekend a month at a wedding, I don’t need some bureaucrat saying no just bc he can or just bc it’s easier to say no than to research it, approve it and do the appropriate paperwork — which I’ve seen happen before.

So clearly yes, the rules don't apply to PP. Thanks for confirming!

why do you even care?

Simply because I can't stand people who thing the rules don't apply to them. They suck at being human.

I get that in some circumstances - but the situation above doesn't seem like a big deal to me.

[Anonymous]

Back on topic-one easy thing to do is check for incentives your health insurance offers. I get $50 for filling out a health survey annually, and additional money for meeting up to 3 health goals. Sure blue cross-I can login and tell you I didn’t feel high stress levels for $20.

[Anonymous]

I day trade. Mainly at open and lose at work and check it during work. Make around 5k a month.

[Anonymous]

I lobby full time and have a side lobbying client (my full time employer is fine with it.) Last year I made 100K extra with the side gig.

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Anonymous wrote:Sell blood.

Are you joking?
How much can that make?

plasma - about $200

red cross does not pay you for that

No, you sell it to companies, not the red Cross. Know lots of people who did this to earn money in grad school.

[Anonymous]

Know a fed who works part time as a "brand ambassador" to earn extra money on the weekends. Basically sells for a local distillery at farmers markets.