Side Jobs/Business

[mcjohn]

Nice web site tahansen. Nice T-Shirts heading270. Very creative.
Here's something that may be a little interesting - My wife is going to a training program in June to become an etiquette professional. You know like those books "Mrs. Manners" etc... The program gives her all the curriculum and info to start up your on program/school. She then hopes to open a shop with a store in front that sells all kinds of retro goods for adults and kids and then have the classrooms for training in the back. She says she wants to have a job where she can always bring her kids (she's pregnant with 1st)

What do I do on the side?
I'm a bell attendant at a snazzy hotel (or as the guests sometimes say 'Bellboy' or 'Bagboy')uke:
I'm currently laid off, and sitting around stressing about my next move in aviation. The new flight school, where I was just hired, is dead for the winter, so I'm going out to Kansas to get my CFII and MEI. Hopefully that will give me a better student load back home (NC) so that I only have to go back to bell hoppin part time.

 

[NTXPilot]

Nice stickers.

 

[THE Flying Ace]

You can always do Amway. Or now they called it Quixtar. LOL

 

[Superpilot92]

I drive part time as a Limo driver. Make good money for a side job. Meet alot of people. Tips are good. Also I work when I want and around my Flight Schedule.

 

[Lostdog65]

haha... so i should head out to the airport and find the "nastiest" lookin' 402 and make a zillion stickers of that???? I'll get right on that...

Well then...head over to Sac Mather (MHR) some morning and snap one of the 402's on the ramp there! Try N2613B or N36908. Both are pretty worn but get the job done...in other words...she ain't pretty but she can fly!



Eric

 

[Fugawe]

An old airline Capt told me years ago to make sure you always have something on the side (for income/investments) -- wish I'd listened 10 yrs ago.

As the airline shakedown, draw-down, furloughing, etc began it's current cycle, many are scrambling for the 'something on the side'. Doesn't seem like a big deal to the 20-somethings with lots of earning years ahead of them, but it is for many others.

Guys/gals began doing all sorts of stuff: mortgage brokering, car sales, plane sales, auto-body repair (met a 777 CA who started a Dent-Master franchise), bounce houses, real estate broker, flipping, stock trading, etc, etc.

Tough to do some of these things if you fly a regular schedule. It's easier to do something you can do from almost anywhere with a phone and computer.
Also, the lower the start-up costs and investment, the easier it might be.

But...nothing that is free or cheap really works, and there is NO get-rich-quick plan.

A couple things I do know that work for many are:

http://optioneer.com/
--Fairly simple index option trading program. I've made over 30% annualized the past few years, and I'm very conservative. I've done over 50 trades, and lost on 2 of them. Knew nothing about this stuff before trading with them. It is NOT day trading. You trade your own money, using your broker. Optioneer is simply the info source to help you make trades.

http://waterfrontresortinvestments.com/
--Not flipping. Investing in waterfront (mostly) developments, holding for appreciation, then selling or leasing. Co has strong record. The 'bubble' has never crushed this type of investing.

I ain't selling anything -- you do what you want. If you're serious you'll find something that works for you. If you're not, you'll poo-poo most any idea that pops up and you'll flounder along for years whining about what shoulda/coulda been.

Fugawe

 

[Deltoid]

I have been involved in the Computer IT industry for years while I was learning to fly and getting time and ratings. I even got my B.S. in computer science, I never put my eggs in one basket. Once in the airlines I went on to get many IT certifications widely recognized and required in the industry and still freelance to this day to keep in it and make side bucks.

In addition I became a Notary for my state and got certified to do loan signings which can been done at any venue for example people's houses on a contract basis. Minimal financial investment involved.

I never trusted this industry and never will.

Deltoid