What's your side job?

[avbug]

I also play the guitar, and fortunately I'm so poor at it that people actually pay me not to play. If I actually tried to play publically, I'd have a front row audience of young women screaming at my heels...and holding their ears in pain as they scream at me to quit and go away.

I'm waiting for the hype on stronger cockpit doors to go away so I can start marketing my Bears in the Cockpit" program again. I've already got half a dozen fitted with epaulettes and bars, and I'm running out of things to feed them. I've had to dig into my mouse reserve, which leaves far less to paint with, ergo, nothing to earn money to feed the bears.

Boeing gets twenty five billion to lease 767's to the USAF (when the USAF didn't even want them) on a congretional mandate...bears are very cheap by comparison...not that there is any comparison, literal or implied, of course. All that money, and nothing of value to spend it on. It's just not fair.

I'm thinking that after each company gets done spending fifteen to twenty five grand to put a closet door in an airbus that will stop a drunk sailor swinging weighted samsonite and semtex, I'm going to market a door sized poster of Bin Ladin without his beard and a punk hair cut. It won't stop attackers, but it will give crews a fighting chance; the attackers will have to shield their eyes in shame and horror at the sight, and it just might buy some time. I figure eight or nine hundred bucks a poster is probably a heck of a bargain, considering the cost of the door. Any investors?

 

[nascarnuts]

Several years as a starving regional F/O I picked up a small route of coin operated photo studios. I could service them at anytime as long as it was 2x @ week and made about $4000 annually.

 

[avbug]

In all seriousness, mice aside, I don't have a side business, but have worked a lot of side jobs while flying, to pay the bills. In past years, I've cleaned supermarket floors, cut logs and trees, built structures and dug ditches, worked in a rubber stamp factory, turned wrenches, packed parachutes, hauled skydivers, towed banners and gliders, worked in a greenhouse, worked in a candy factory (okay for the first week, then you can't stand the smell and begin to think you'll get diabetes just looking at the stuff), was an armed gaurd servicing ATM's for a while, dispatched for a local Sheriff's office, took calls as an EMT, substitute taught high school, sold things on the internet, flight isntructed (still do a little), worked in a gas station, was an unarmed gaurd at an industrial site, taught groundschools, taught martial arts, and a few other things as well. Anything to pay bills.

Probably no different than most (there aren't many full time flight instructors who don't have extra work to make eating possible, I suspect). Always at least two jobs, often three.

There's always that dream of being the guy who invents the automatic egg peeler/slicer with the prewarmer non-stick surface that also doubles as a music box and can opener, but that's farther down the road. So is writing that symphony...

 

[LRplt]

I just started in with a network marketing company this last month. Now I am already making as much as I am flying. It takes a fair amount of work but is well worth it. If you are interested check out my website. www.prepaidlegal.com/go/abergstedt
IF you have any Q's I would be glad to answer them.
281-481-6029

 

[LR25]

Heavy jet mechanic, experimentals and classic cars.

I used to tow banners but I dont want to get in trouble with the airline. You never know when your going to drop one on a road due to a failure or something and make the 6:00 news.

 

[Dieterly]

Male prostitute

 

[AWACoff]

I fly jumpers on the weekend and barback a few nights a month. I recently had an interview with Family Video (midwestern chain) for a manager position. I was not qualified to be a manager due to my lack of supervisory experience. Apparently having a 4 year degree and supervising the safety of peoples' lives does not qualify one to rent movies. Pathetic. I also volunteer at the Humane Association. Beats dealing with PEOPLE barking at you all day, eh?

 

[rk772]

I turor high school math and also do ACT and leap prep. for the math sections. $20 to $25 and hour. The Saab only paid $19 and hour.

 

[TurboS7]

I take the kids to the park while my wife teaches violin lessons at $50.00 per hour. I also try to sell all my days off and get as much OT as possible. Lately that hasn't been working out so great. Backup-doing Annuals but that can turn into a royal pain in the neck if you get the wrong people.

 

[MAK]

Spend my spare time in the mortgage business. With the low interest rates we've been enjoying in the last few years, there is a frenzy of people who want to refinance their homes.

 

[Icarus]

Buy rental property. Good long term investment & make some $$, even while you're away from home!

 

[ASAFOE120]

Well I'm in my 6th month of reserve now and still not breaking gaurantee. With a family to support, it was either get a second job or get a divorce. So needless to say, I am now employed in my second profession. PIZZA TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER.
(well i did it in high school and college so i was experienced).
Before we got short on FO's i thought that was my main job and flying was part time.

Oh well, just my 2 cents!!

ASA FO E120

Save drivin' I mean flyin ooops

 

[abexpilot]

Are any of you guys/girls out there realtors?

 

[Simon Says]

This takes a little start up capitol, but if you are frugal you will be able to pick up the tools for less than $300. (or you might already have them). Most of the cost is a table saw, electric sander, and jig-saw.

Anyways I build and sell Canoes. It is fairly easy to get plans off the internet, or even at a wood store if you live in a big city. My first canoe took about 100 hrs to build and the materials cost about $400.

Now it takes me about 40-50hrs and I have got the cost down to $300. It is a lot of fun building them, but sometimes a little difficult to sell because I have a zero budget for advertisement. A nice wooden canoe goes for at least $2000. Some people dont even use it to go canoeing, but use it as a decoration piece.

Try it if you are motivated and like to work with wood, but you better stay out of my market. I do have a canoe mafia to come out and break your knuckles if anyone tries to move on my market.

 

[C172Guy]

Have any of you ever tried any of those internet marketing programs or anything like that? I thought if I could do something like that, than that would be a good way to get me through flight training.