Supplemental Income

[CityChic]

Where do you get supplemental income? DH is currently unemployed (and looking) and I work FT Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm.

What ideas are out there for work at home, evening and other types of supplemental income?

[KatWrangler]

My husband worked as a stocker at Vons in Southern Cal. He worked nights.

I had heard someone say once her husband worked at a hospital at night deliverying mail and patient charts throughout the hospital.


PS - Oh how he hated stacking those tiny cans of cat food and the tiny jars of baby food. I still kid him about that. He would come home and his hands would be all cramped up.

[ChetMC]

Ideas

We know a couple of people who've worked nights processing cheques. I also know several people who paid their way through school cleaning at schools or hospitals.

Delivering flyers or newspapers. That's usually done early in the morning.

Teaching classes (either out of your home or approaching your local rec centre). Somebody in our neighbourhood used to teach a spanish class at the community centre across the road from us, and it always filled up the first day of registration.

I've also known a lot of people to take jobs waiting tables, particularly in bars. If you're good at it you can make a lot of money in tips. My brother actually knew a physiotherapist who was working in his field by day, and waiting tables at a restaurant/bar evenings and weekends to pay off his student loan.

[Belleweather]

I've thought about doing online transcription from home in the evening -- you pretty much have to have experience in health care or the legal field to get the good jobs, and you've got to have a computer that meets their specs. But the pay is decent. There are also some phone jobs you can get that allow working from home in the evenings.

Etsy/Ebay are options. So are consigning crafts with other stores in your area -- I sell homemade soap and lipbalm on consignment through a retail store in my town. They take 30% off the top, but all I have to do is drop off soap and pick up what doesn't sell. I'm going to try to do something like that with jewelry as well.

Trying to sell lessons, tutoring or physical labor on Craigslist (not that kind of physical labor!!) would be an option. We hired a guy for $30 an hour to help us move because our friends fell through on us.