Earlier this week I read a post at Mr. Money Mustache calling his blog Advanced personal finance. And I can agree. I feel like when I read a lot of posts at places like Get Rich Slowly or Wisebread, they’re already things I’m doing (not that they’re not awesome sites). I feel like when I…
I figure it’s time to follow up on how my Side Hustle Your Way to FinCon actually went… especially since side hustling is for everyone. Seriously – everyone. Check out this list. Pick something. Get on it. Back in March, I decided I was going to attend FinCon – a conference “where money and media…
Side hustling is terrific. It’s a way to pick up some extra dough to make lean times a little less difficult, to bulk up your savings, to pay down your debt or even to dip your toes into the self-employed world while still holding onto all the perks of your day job. I’m a big…
**This is a sponsored post. That doesn’t mean it’s not a cool app.** I am always on the lookout for new apps that help you earn money or rewards, but what about an app that helps your make money while you’re doing something dull? Like commuting? That’s where Instant Rewards comes in. Before leaving work…
Martin’s guest post last week about what you can learn from his best summer job really got me thinking. As someone a whopping decade removed from Martin (which is ridiculous, because plenty of days I still feel like I just graduated from college… and then I do something crazy like try to go out drinking…
Sometimes you just need to make a few bucks quickly. When your back is to wall though, it can be hard to know where to start looking. Here’s a glimpse at a few unique gigs that fit around the regular 9 to 5 grind that most people have going. 1.) Become a Mascot – did you…
The following is a guest post from Martin of Studenomics, where he helps you conquer your fears as you master your finances and try to get through your 20s without missing a party. The other day my youngest brother was telling me how he had a full-time job lined up for the summer. He is…
In case my first post on How to Make Millions as a Mystery Shopper. Not! didn’t quench your thirst for knowledge about this side hustle, you can check out this guest post over on Vosa for more details about how to get into this side hustle yourself. For the past three months I’ve been working…
Sometimes in life, you accidentally knock up your wife, while trying to pay all the medical bills for your teenager with cerebral palsy on a high school chemistry teacher’s salary only to find out you have a terminal brain tumor and crappy medical insurance. When that happens, turns out a few great money lessons abound.…
Check this out over at Vosa.com as part of the Make Money Monday (M$M) Series! I am not an artist. I had to take some art classes in college and barely scraped by with mercy B’s every time. I do, however, love Pinterest and I’m pretty tramadolhclnorx.com good at achieving success with some of the…
As if I weren’t ill adjusted to normal life enough from my days at sea, once I left ships, I joined the circus. The days honestly all started to blur into one of two types over the following weeks and months I was out with them. Except travel days. We lived on a train…
I realize I advocate some crazy ways to pay off debt, like going to work on a cruise ship… and that life seems way out there to some of you. But one of my favorite kind of posts to read is 24 hours in someone else’s shoes… so today I give you 24 hours in…
Seems to me, the hardest part of side hustling is getting started. If you can’t make rent, want ways to save for that awesome vacation or are just trying to buy a flipping couch, here are 114 ways to get ‘er done! Get paid for public speaking. Turn your own forms for budgeting and organizing into…
Now that you’re familiar with a few of the ways I’ve side hustled – eBay, substitute teaching and mystery shopping – let me let you in on the one that makes the most money. I work overhire in theaters. Do you want to know why you probably don’t? Because that last sentence was industry speak…
So I have a confession to make – I have wanted to teach a college course as an adjunct for years, pretty much since I finished up my first Master’s degree in 2008. I keep hearing that it’s a particularly rough path and I have definitely applied for at least 500 adjunct jobs to no…
Recently I signed up for this awesome looking service called TaskRabbit, but I haven’t had much luck picking up any tasks yet. My pal Michelle over at Fit is the New Poor, however, is the TaskRabbit master, and she’s agreed to tell you what’s up. Five months ago, when I started my personal finance journey,…
One of my favorite things to do is feature guest bloggers from outside the personal finance blogosphere who happen to be nailing it with some aspect of their finances. ElizabethAnne is a mom blogger who side hustles by using her artsy side. She makes really cool paracord bracelets and sells them using Facebook. What the…
Sometimes I feel like a really inefficient side hustler, which is not entirely inaccurate, but writing the last few posts, and this one, reminds me that hasn’t always been the case. Whereas substitute teaching was definitely my first side hustle (oh, that’s a lie actually, I think pet sitting my neighbor’s cat when I was…
The other day I wrote about how mystery shopping won’t make you a millionaire, but today I wanted to write about a different side hustle that does have the potential to rake in some real cash – substitute teaching. If you work 9-5 Monday-Friday, you’re out of luck in this category, but if you…
Some side hustles really seem to rake in the dough, even to the point where people turn them into their full time jobs. Mystery shopping is not one of these side hustles (although Kyle at The Pennyhoarder did do it full time for a while with ridiculous results – but his entire website is pretty…
I read something over at Debt Discipline, it was an interview with a personal finance blogger who has been around for a few years now and pointed out that his favorite blogs had started to change. When he was first starting out he loved basic finance tips from places like The Simple Dollar, but since…