Earning extra cash on the road... How?

[speedwings]

Hello all. I'm about to be hit with another student loan coming to full maturity and I really need a way to make additional money when I am on the road. It's doesn't have to make me much money, just something to give me a boost at the end of the month. For example, I just got off a 4 day trip where I sat in the hotel room the 2nd and 3rd day. Before that, I flew a 15 day trip where I actually flew 9 of the 15 and again, the rest sitting in the hotel room.

What's out there? What are you guys doing on your down time at home, or on the road? I'm very lucky to have a flying job right now, but I didn't get a much needed raise a few months ago and I'm hurting.

Thanks!

JW

 

[Deftone45075]

One likely option is a dot.com. You can manage it while your away if you have a laptop.

You could find everything you own that you don't really need and sell it on ebay.

 

[Ismokedya]

There is always prostitution.

 

[oilcanbland]

You could start your own home (motel) based business. If you had a laptop, that would give you something to do. There are a few different types of businesses that you can start on the web. I have just posted a website about this very subject, that you might be interested in. Check it out at http://www.start-your-home-biz.com You can also email me at [email protected]

 

[flydog]

Sell the following items from your hotel room on E-Bay

- Towels
- Batteries from remote control
- Lightbulbs
- Coffee
- Soap, lotion, mouthwash (you can make nice gift baskets)
- Toilet Paper

If you really want to earn some cash when you first check in call room service right away and tell them the TV is missing. These usually fetch $25-$50 a piece on E-Bay and the missing TV will be charged back to the last pilot who stayed there.

Best of luck

 

[Tri-holer]

I personally think the prostitution thing is a winner. I mean, the company is already paying for the hotel room so anything you make is pure profit.

 

[Flying Illini]

Become a pimp. You get to wear cool clothes and wear lots of cheap jewelry. You could pimp out your FA if applicable, or just the guy who flies in the seat next to you.

 

[Flying Illini]

I just thought of another one...

You could do what Sylvester Stallone did in his movie, "Over the Top." Arm-wrestle for money. You could even rig up a weigh-lifting device in the cockpit so you could train in-flight. Just a thought!

 

[WrightAvia]

there is two choices...

One...pray for a miracle....like winning the lottery or getting into an incident, where you can get yourself a big settlement worth millions of dollars in a civil court judgement.

Or Two...hope that in your next life that you pick an avocation that once you start it, that you can make enough money while doing it, to pay your student loans on the wages of such an avocation.

 

[SushiSlayer]

AMWAY!!

just be sure to tell your mother you sell crack that way she'll still have some respect for you.

 

[Smoking Man]

If your airplane has catering and you are not wanting to get caught you can skim off the top on soft drinks.

Now set up shop in the lobby, or on the street corner. Soft drinks and pretzels for half price. This is your hook, now you lay down the trap for Amway.

If they diss you on the Amway, you still have the sale of the soft drinks.

 

[EagleRJ]

You could hold a tip jar as you stand in the cockpit doorway during deplaning.

Or, take up aerial photography. Put up ads in the cities you fly into, and if anyone asks about the low-altitude circling, tell them ATC's radar was down so you had to fly the full procedure.

 

[ACE]

Become a porn star

 

[Immelman]

Eagle,

I like the tip jar idea man! I buy a cup of coffee, juice, cookie, you name it, and the high school kid working there has a tip jar, for what, getting me a cookie!!?

When flying as a 121 pax, I'd be happy to throw a few bux into a cockpit tip jar after a really nice landing, ahead-of-schedule arrival, or just keeping the pax informed of what was going on in the flight and being a nice crew - yeah!!

I don't mean this to be a condescending thing at all - I just think pilots (given the state of things) should get spare $$ before the kid working at the coffee shop.