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Does anyone making decent money $50k+/yr and got a low paying part time job?

I hold two jobs at the moment (technically I make $42k or so at my internship) + night job at an apartment complex to pay rent. Yeah, it's stressful, but it's manageable. I can see myself taking on an evening/weekend job my first few years out of school to build up some savings.
 
Originally posted by: sygyzy
Osurum and QBM - What do you guys do at your secondary jobs?
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1. Decorative concrete work on the weekends
2. Stock coolers for a friend's store seven days a week (1 hour/ day)
3. Sell repos for Greentree, AHF, Vanderbilt MTG etc..
4. Do repair work (waterlines and some electrical) for theproperties my wife manages.
 
Originally posted by: sygyzy
Osurum and QBM - What do you guys do at your secondary jobs?
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I'm on call one night/week for lockouts and resident concerns (mostly noise complaints and maintenance related concerns), one weekend a month for the same, various administrative tasks, help out the office staff from time to time, help out the on-campus Residential Life staff with events and training.

Gotta love student jobs that you get to keep through grad school. 😀
 
Originally posted by: Orsorum
Originally posted by: sygyzy
Osurum and QBM - What do you guys do at your secondary jobs?
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I'm on call one night/week for lockouts and resident concerns (mostly noise complaints and maintenance related concerns), one weekend a month for the same, various administrative tasks, help out the office staff from time to time, help out the on-campus Residential Life staff with events and training.

Gotta love student jobs that you get to keep through grad school. 😀
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College has lockouts? How does that work?

<---too dumb to go ...well not really but anyway
 
Originally posted by: notfred
I can find much more fun things to do to keep myself occupied than to work at a crappy low paying job.
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A second crappy low paying job has allowed me to do many things I probably would not have been able to.........
 
I currently coach both freshman and varsity boys basketball at the local high school. With the amount of hours we put in, both in season and during the summer, the pay comes out to roughly $1.00/hour. But, I do get free use of the weight room.🙂
 
I was doing a full-time engineering internship at a semiconductor fab one summer in Orlando, and I was working the doors at a dance club for as many hours a week as I could get (~38 hours to keep me from being full time).

I did 8am to 5PM at the fab, went home and slept an hour or two, got up, ate and got ready, and then went off to the club for a 7:30PM or 9PM start. The club shut down at 2am, but we'd stick around to get everyone out and we'd help to clean up and haul the bottles to the crusher. We'd be out by 3am easily. I'd go home, shower, screw around, watch TV, then go to bed for a few hours before getting up to do it again.

Partway through the summer my manager had me cashing out the receipts, dropping the money in the safe, and walking the receipts over to the other building. It would take me until about 4am.

I'd usually get a couple of nights off each week from the club, and the weekends were off for the other job. I'd sleep when I could.

I met lots of people, learned a whole lot, and had a great time. It was the best summer of my life up to that point.
 
I work 40 hours a week at a regular job. And I started working 20 hours at compusa/goodguys about 2 months ago. But I'm probably going to quit in the next month or so. I went to work there because I used to work at good guys 4 years ago and w/ comission I was making decent money for retail ($15/hr+).

Now they're only paying me $12, which is about 1/3 of what I make at my regular job. It's not worth it IMO. Not enough time spent w/ the gf or my friends. You can make all the money in the world, but if you don't enjoy it.... =/
 
Originally posted by: notfred
I can find much more fun things to do to keep myself occupied than to work at a crappy low paying job.
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I am so short of time and am so exhausted all the time, I would be miserable if I came home from my 40hr/wk job and had to work more.

I could definitely fit it in on the weekends, but I would screw over my family and friends and would be an outcast.

On the other hand, I do know people who make decent money where I work, and still work evening and weekends for department stores and places like that.

Never be too proud to take a lower job.
 
I've actually started thinking about getting a second job for the weekends/nights partially for the extra money as rent in nyc is just plain ridiculous. don't really know where to start as i work from 830-630 at my normal job, and i don't see any other jobs that will let me work later that that and still allow me to get up to work the next day...
 
I work 40+ hrs a week and volunteer for Habitat for Humanity lately - sure it's unpaid, but I'm not required to be there and it's a great feeling knowing I'm helping someone out. Plus it's awesome to see the house take shape (I work in a research position and it's sometimes I don't see much progress).

I actually look forward to going out there to help every night after work. I'm kind of bummed out because it's raining today and we'll probably take the night off - at least it'll give me a chance to do laundry 😀
 
Originally posted by: edro13
Originally posted by: notfred
I can find much more fun things to do to keep myself occupied than to work at a crappy low paying job.
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I am so short of time and am so exhausted all the time, I would be miserable if I came home from my 40hr/wk job and had to work more.

I could definitely fit it in on the weekends, but I would screw over my family and friends and would be an outcast.

On the other hand, I do know people who make decent money where I work, and still work evening and weekends for department stores and places like that.

Never be too proud to take a lower job.
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I wouldnt do it as above.....I need time that isnt spent working....know friends who work 16+ hrs days and they are rarely free
 
Iwork full time for as an engineer at a TV station
I also work part time doing sports and music productions.
My part time gigs kill me, it's tough work.
But the pay is great ($300-350 a day)

I try to limit my part time work to one day a week.
 
When I first got hired out of college, I was getting paid fairly low for the work I was doing and I was supporting two of us because my wife was a full time student. I originally applied for a early morning and weekend job loading boxes at a Fed-Ex faclity. The facility was litterally 30 seconds from where my full time job was.

I was basically "hired" but things fell apart when they were just doing formal check up on references. They called my current employer and my boss freaked out. "You can't moonlight on us. We don't support that." And she wouldn't fill out the paperwork for Fed Ex.

So instead of doing that, I delivered newspapers every morning for close to a year to the tune of $800 a month plus tips without them every knowing about it.

Within a year I was making over $5000 more than when I first started so I dropped the paper gig.

It sucked. I had to get up at 4:30 to deliver the papers in any and every type of weather possible. Sundays were even worse. That was a 6 hour job delivering 250 papers that were over 4 pounds a piece.

But it paid the bills and I came out a much more humble person for it.
 
Originally posted by: vi_edit
When I first got hired out of college, I was getting paid fairly low for the work I was doing and I was supporting two of us because my wife was a full time student. I originally applied for a early morning and weekend job loading boxes at a Fed-Ex faclity. The facility was litterally 30 seconds from where my full time job was.

I was basically "hired" but things fell apart when they were just doing formal check up on references. They called my current employer and my boss freaked out. "You can't moonlight on us. We don't support that." And she wouldn't fill out the paperwork for Fed Ex.

So instead of doing that, I delivered newspapers every morning for close to a year to the tune of $800 a month plus tips without them every knowing about it.

Within a year I was making over $5000 more than when I first started so I dropped the paper gig.

It sucked. I had to get up at 4:30 to deliver the papers in any and every type of weather possible. Sundays were even worse. That was a 6 hour job delivering 250 papers that were over 4 pounds a piece.

But it paid the bills and I came out a much more humble person for it.
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how did you find these jobs? newspaper ads and such? even during HS and college, when i worked at my local movie theater, and my library, i was referred by a friend.
 
funny since im considering the same thing now, i work a 40 a week and it's barely enough to pay for the mortgage, car payments and student loans i have, i'm also paying for my wifes tuition since she is a full time student, i have several interviews coming up for part time work, so ill be working 60 hr weeks soon so i can have a little cushion and fun money once in awhile.
 
how did you find these jobs? newspaper ads and such? even during HS and college, when i worked at my local movie theater, and my library, i was referred by a friend.
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The Fed Ex building just had a big green sign in front of the building one day "Hiring NOW! Check inside!". And I did. 🙂

The newspaper just had a little section for route carriers listed in the classifieds employement section. I called, got interviewed the next day, and was delivering the day after that.
 
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