Any good ideas for side $ (nonflying).

[Badger]

I'm enjoying my PT 135 gig, however it's tough financially to make it. does anyone have any suggestions for making some side bucks but remain flexible for accepting trips.

I'm already doing some CFIing. Anything's game, it's hard to find employers that allow you to decide not to show up because you've got called for your pilot gig.

Thanks in advance

 

[airgator]

If you know how to mix drinks

I bartend a pretty popular bar in town right now and it's not uncommon to walk out with 400 cash and some little Betty you just met a half our ago. The hard thing is thouigh getting your body adjusted to the night lifestyle. I often don't do last call till 4:30 or 5 and by the time you clean up and count all your money etc its a quarter till 7. If you already have a girl though don't bother, I have yet to meet a girl that can handle a realtionship when I don't come home till sunup 4 nights a week.

 

[airgator]

Oh yeah I almost forgot, i also substitute teach sometimes, usually highschool. 70 bucks a school day to just sit there and read the paper isn't that bad.

 

[8sm]

Real nice airgator,

Please stay out of our kids schools and stick to bartending.
Our kids deserve better.

later gator......8sm

 

[HU-16]

Airgator do you bartend at Roxy's on Clematis?

 

[starchkr]

I find it very profitable to spend my late nights and wee hours of the morning "standing" on the street corner. It's amazing what some people would like you to perform.

Anyway, the only thing i could suggest is what you are doing now. CFI'ing on the off times. That's what i did when first starting out at my 135 job. Just keep close track of your hour limits per month, don't put yourself into a position where you instructed to much, and are no longer legal to fly that last 135 trip of the month... you might just find yourself instructing full time again.

 

[COOPERVANE]

Side Jobs

I have been working in catering for 10 years part time. It is EXTREMELY flexible and easy money. Just look in the yellow pages for some caterers in your area and call them. Most just want someone who can clean up well and have all of their teeth. Some want restaurant experience, but it's not rocket science.

My wife and I bartend for one in our area and together make about $200-$300 per shift. Catering pay ranges between $9-$14/HR + tips. Average shift is 6-7 hours and almost always nights and weekends. We pick and choose our shifts as we please and it fits around my flying PERFECTLY.

Keeps me off food stamps!!

 

[sleddriver77]

You could always be a man-whore...... Oh, wait..... You already have a 135 job.

 

[airgator]

Hu-16: yeah it is roxy's, who are you ( a friend of Clint's)?


8sm- perhaps I should elaborate a little on my substitute experiences. I sub at inner city highschools usually LD classes or ESE which means they come to school once or twice a week and don't give a f$&k about anything. In the past month I've had 1 girl threaten to stab me in the throat with a razor blade, have had to call the police on two other seperate occasions, not including a gang fight outside my classroom that ended up sending two teachers to the hospital. Teachers for the classes I teach don't leave lesson plans; the way it works is if no one dies or goes to the hospital it is considered a successful day. So all I have to do is show a movie, let the kids play cards or whatever and keep some kind of order (if possible) and I get my 70 bucks.

 

[A1FlyBoy]

Haven't heard the name Roxy's in a while.... that brings up other memories of the Riverside and the Mile.

 

[HU-16]

Airgator, Yeah I'm a friend of his. I figured that had to be you. How many people fly, bartend, and are a substitute teacher? Not many that I have met.

 

[8sm]

Thanks Airgator for responding,

That is a tough gig, somehow we all need to find a way to help any and all kids that feel left out. I work with a program which gets kids in high shcool their private pilot lic. This kids come from a very tough part of town. Some of them tell me stories that I can not believe. They literally live in a war zone, sometimes sleeping in the cast iron bathtubs for protection from bullets.
You are in a unique position that can make a difference with your avaition background. Bring in some King tapes or some avaition books perhaps some pictures of places you've been too or flown over, pictures of you in the cockpit, thats exciting stuff to someone that has nothing to look forward too. Someone will take an interest, you have alot of offer.

Best regards.........8sm

 

[Badger]

ugh. man whore?

sleddriver77,

I am not whoring myself to my 135 operator. I can't think of many other 'bosses' that would have given me 10 hrs in a King Air 200 to check-out 135 when I had 1300/10. Not to mention the 5 hrs. dual in the Citation shortly therafter.

This is all with typed individuals crying at the doorstep for a shot. It's rare indeed but that's why I'm willing to scrub bathroom stalls to allow me to continue with them if necessary.

Thanks for the Sub teacher/bartender tips, both may be fun in their own ways.

 

[atpcliff]

Hi!

I substitute teach in NE WI. The pay ranges from $95-$107/day. Some days I only have 4.5 hours of work-I have three HS block classes where the teacher tells you to show a certain video, and you sit there and read the paper, and some days I have 7 hours of work with 1st graders who try desperately to suck the energy out of you, after which, I go home to my Kindergartner, and it's almost like work all over again.

In WI you need a 4-yr. degree. In STL, you need 60 hours of college classes after your diploma-the pay is $85. When I left SAV, you needed one (1) college class after your diploma, and the pay varied depending on your education level. In many places you can teach full-time WITHOUT a teaching certification/degree as they are desparate.

Call the local schools/school boards to find out what the requiremnts/pay is in your area. Most places need subs bad.

Cliff

PS-The worst school district I worked in was a small-town, rural N. WI area. The police came in and arrested someone about 2x a week-they arrested a 1st and 2nd grader more than once. My Grade 5 & 6 boys missed classes because they were sometimes in jail, a 10th grade girl was running a prostitution ring with HS and MS girls, etc., etc. We had one teacher come in from Milwaukee Public Schools, and left after 2 weeks, saying it was worse that any school in Milwaukee. The big cities don't have all of the problems.

 

[TDTURBO]

I made a hundred K/yr sell'in cable door to door in the late 80's and 90's while going to Med school then Chiropractic school. I would check out satillite sales, seems like it would fit your needs.