Stage managing can be a difficult job to balance with anything else. The hours are long. You don’t always know exactly when you’ll be needed. And you may be nomadic – out on tours, cruise ships, or hopping contracts to where ever the next place is that might hire you. And early career stage management…
I don’t know if you guys have noticed, but my blog income has actually been doing pretty ok the last few months. One of the little money lessons I’ve learned during this time is it’s ok to spend a little money to make money. It’s kind of like how, for me, spending $10 a month on…
During my last bout of unemployment, I broadened my search for ways to bring in some extra income and found an app called Pinata. If you live in the New York/New Jersey area and have weird bouts of free time you might like to turn into some money, you might like Pinata. Pinata is an…
Today I’ve got a terrific guest post from Courtney at Rover.com, another great site to add to your list, hustlers – especially if you ❤ dogs. Imagine this: You’re in need of some extra cash to pay off some debt. You’re looking for side hustles which could be a good fit for your current lifestyle, but…
Side hustlers aren’t born overnight – in most cases. In my opinion, they’re often birthed out of frugal overload and even then, it can take a lot of tries to get it right. After I hit my frugality limits trying to pay off student loans, it was time to figure out how to bring in…
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m generally pretty fascinating by Uber and Lyft. Until I manage to get my act together and do some driving for them myself, here’s a guest post from Andrew over at Rideshareowl about why being an Uber driver is an awesome side hustle! Unless you have been living on another planet…
I’ve written a few times about how my main side hustle outside of stage managing is substitute teaching. What I don’t think I’ve written about is how much I dislike it. Besides the fact that teaching is totally not my thing and I’m not a huge fan of kids, substitute teaching is incredibly, mind-numbingly dull…
Let’s back up a little and assume that you’re just starting college. You’re trying to balance all your theater classes, along with those pointless other classes to make you well rounded, mandatory hours in the scene shop, and rehearsals. College is tough. Here’s a hint, the real world is worse. Here are a few things…
A few weeks ago we discussed the different times it’s totally ok to use your emergency savings and judging by the replies I got – most of us have tapped our emergency savings at one point or another. So you’ve finally gotten through the emergency: your first paycheck is in from your new job, the…
Today I’m featuring this great guest post from Shaunta Grimes of Going Reno. She blogs about “the good life for the rest of us” and I’m really digging her 31 days of self-sufficiency series she has going on right now! There are so many things you can cut down on permanently or temporarily to get…
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…
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…
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…
Profile I am twenty-nine years old. I work as an assistant production manager and my yearly salary is $52,000. I live in NYC, aka the most expensive place on earth, and am still often wondering why on earth I left my last job where room and board were part of my salary. Saving & Spending…
Doesn’t all of this talk of side hustling make you want to take action? And isn’t it easier with a GOAL? Well, if you were thinking of going to FinCon, let me provide you with one: Want to join the SIDE HUSTLE YOUR WAY TO FINCON competition? The first person to raise $1500 side hustling…
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…
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…
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…
Struggling with debt? Here are a few methods to help get your Pete under control and on his way to the curb. 1.) Snowballer – this is Dave Ramsey’s extremely popular method of ranking all of your debts from highest to lowest, start with the lowest one and direct all the extra cash you can find…