Struggling Family - Looking for additional income - Advice?

0/10You had me going until the "pretty good money for a 28 year old."The amount of money compared to your age ceases to be relevant once you have a kid.

Start a business on ebay or amazon... buy low from china and sell high online. its easy to find where to buy a product. difficult to choose one however. good luck and sorry to hear about your situation.

Didn't read the whole thread, but read that you are an accountant. It's tax season, do you have the qualifications/ know how to do taxes for people?

Try looking for night security guard work. You'll do nothing and get paid. Craigslist is a good site to look for part time jobs.

Pizza delivery, bartender, waiter, bouncer, security guard are all good ideas.

[quote]ha, almost had me! wrote:

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You had me going until the "pretty good money for a 28 year old."

The amount of money compared to your age ceases to be relevant once you have a kid.

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Check your facts sir, I said "decent" money. Why would I maks all this up and waste my time typing it on to a message board?

Scrapping and farm hand are not bad ideas. While my wife does shoots on the weekend I have our son, so again it will have to be work I can do in the evenings. I'm going to post to CL tonight and see if that gets any hits while I'm looking at other possibilities. A lot of good ideas here I hadn't thought about. Thank you all, I'll nail something down and hopefully quick.

Firstly, you can not take on too many extra hours. Then you risk losing your real job (too tired, oversleep) and sacrifice your health.

Secondly, you can't ruin your relationships with your wife and son.

If you look on craigslist, you can certainly find a job. It may not be desirable, but there are plenty of jobs. Bartending may be good. Friday and Saturday nights. I've always found it better to walk into a place, too, rather than submit an online application. Harder to say no face to face. Amazon has a thing called mTurk, which is basically taking surveys for money. Maybe this is something both you and your wife could do in your spare time. And it is on your time.

Where can you save money? Cable, phone, eating out? Anything you could sell on ebay?

One-on-one. Lay down $100. Race 5 km. Winner take all.

Stop going to the doctors of death.

Deliver newspapers in the morning. That's usually 700 to 1200 a month and they are always looking for someone

Online tutoring at one of the established sites is a decent way to work your own hours online.

Ebay fees are a killer and shipping is a pain but you can get some cash selling things you don't need. I prefer craigslist

I'm sure you already have done this but go over your bills again. Use Netflix instead of cable or dish. Use a Trac phone. You'd be suprised how cheaply you can eat if you plan it right. Check with your auto and home insurance on lowering your coverage.

Good luck. It will get better.

Not sure how much you need but put your name out to tutor students at your local library. If you get about 10 kids, charge $20 or $25 an hour depending where you live and that's an extra $10,400 (13 grand at $25 an hour) a year at 10 kids and $20 an hour tutoring each one once a week. Best of luck, hope you get some good advice.

1. Oil Fields of North Dakota. As of 2 months ago anyone with a college degree (any degree) could find a job that paid $100-$150k with full benefits. Took about a day. Not sure what the situation is now with Obama shutting down the pipeline and killing the price is oil, but go look at Haliburton, Midwest and Schlumberger.

2. Ask for a raise. Sounds like you're worth it with the hours you put in. Especially now as you are indispensable this time of the year and could be leaving in a couple months anyway.

I was going to say tutoring, but people already beat me to it. Some families with $$$ are willing to pay a decent per hour price to get their kid competent.

"The pizza gig is a good idea. Hadn't really considered that but it is certainly something to inquire about. I need something NOW, even if it is $10 an hour."

I suggest it because I did it. Right after college I got into a cc debt due to a major car repair.

The good thing was I did it knowing I just had to do it long enough to pay off the credit card, so I knew it wasn't a permanent part of my life. Good luck.

You're way off. Halliburton and Schlumberger just announced huge layoffs, (HAL's about 7K.) and the Bakken oil patch in N.D. is getting hit hard. Guys making the big dough were driving tanker trucks. With crude prices so low it doesn't pay to explore/drill for more so capital expenditures taking huge cuts and with the Keystone XL pipeline getting vetoed yesterday by H'O-bama it will get worse up there.

Best bet for this fellow's situation is to move to Chicago to get a better paying job which shouldn't be hard with accounting experience and there are also more medical specialists there to assist your child.

get rid of all other expenses. phone, cable, internet, car,.gone. alt transport to work. sell the car. if you're living too far that you have to drive, move.

you getvthe idea.

I'm sure you've thought of this, but you could sell the truck and get a car unless you really need a truck. (I'm assuming you meant truck by 99 Chevy, you didnt say what your wife drove.) With a 37 mile drive to town for work or your wife's shoots doubling your gas mileage could add up quick.

Towson exile wrote:

Firstly, you can not take on too many extra hours. Then you risk losing your real job (too tired, oversleep) and sacrifice your health.

Secondly, you can't ruin your relationships with your wife and son.

He needs some quick money. He's not committing to this 2nd job for 10 years. He's not in any danger of ruining his relationship with his family.

You could, with the truck, pick up tow/haul jobs on the weekends moving hay, or any other goods locally. My grandfather had a 98 GMC and he hauled two pallets of Pepsi products across town, from plant to plant, each load $100-250 in his pocket, and often had back-hauls (taking a load back to where you came from, often empty pallets). Quick way to ramp up a few grand on the weekends if you can get doing things quick, or hauling fragile goods, assuming the places you'd look to haul for are open Sundays. Or you could help a farmer out, and either do work on the farm requiring a truck or loan him the truck for the weekends or nights for a decent price.

My brother-in-law has a 93 civic and he hauls bread for many restaurants in his hometown overnight, which earns him a few grand a week. The hours aren't good but he's taking a cheap efficient passenger car and using it to earn him money. Hope this helps