# Side income plans **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 8, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-income-plans/692643 "2014-07-08T15:45:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-income-plans/692643/21 "2014-07-09T22:23:33Z")
Photography. Enough to fund the habit…of buying photography equipment. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-income-plans/692643/22 "2014-07-09T22:26:05Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > When I was first teaching, I made more money doing concrete or “honeydipping” during the summer than I did teaching. I gotta ask: What’s “honeydipping”? I did a google search and the first result was [this](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=honey%20dipping). That just seems like an odd way to make a little extra cash, is all I’m saying. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-income-plans/692643/23 "2014-07-09T22:33:26Z")
When the economy nose-dived I started doing content writing (aka McArticles, such as eHow and similar) to pay the bills. Worked really well because I could make $100 plus per day without leaving the house, never mind getting dressed. Areal slob job. And that dumb little gig led to a $30,000 book contract. But the content writing market has largely dried up (this is a good thing because eHow et al totally pollutes the internet with ignorant crap) and I’m back to my regular business full-time. But it worked great while it lasted. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-income-plans/692643/24 "2014-07-09T22:37:01Z")
I’ve done writing, graphic and photography work before here and there. It tends to find me, I don’t actively pursue it. Side jobs I purposefully have taken on have been pet sitting (for all kinds of critters, not just dogs) and doing retail store inventories. Both of them were good second incomes - while the inventory company did have some jobs that were mandatory, for the most part I was free to pick and choose which assignments I wanted. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-income-plans/692643/25 "2014-07-09T23:02:46Z")
> [@armedmonkey](#): > > I gotta ask: What’s “honeydipping”? I did a google search and the first result was [this](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=honey%20dipping). That just seems like an odd way to make a little extra cash, is all I’m saying. I _think_ it’s emptying septic tanks. I’d personally love to come up with a way to make about $100 a week, but I’m not sure what I’d do that’d be worth the time since I already am gone from the house 7am to 6pm between the hours of and commute for my real job. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-income-plans/692643/26 "2014-07-10T00:32:14Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > When the economy nose-dived I started doing content writing (aka McArticles, such as eHow and similar) to pay the bills. Worked really well because I could make $100 plus per day without leaving the house, never mind getting dressed. Areal slob job. And that dumb little gig led to a $30,000 book contract. > > But the content writing market has largely dried up (this is a good thing because eHow et al totally pollutes the internet with ignorant crap) and I’m back to my regular business full-time. > > But it worked great while it lasted. Oh my god was it ever! I was making six hundred a month at one point for a few months. And then that buyout on my old articles! But yeah crap. I still make money on some older articles I wrote for Demand Studios. The problem is that every idiot thinks they can write. And they can’t. They just fucking can’t. At least not stuff that people really want to read. What book did you write? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![slowlearner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@slowlearner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slowlearner)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-income-plans/692643/27 "2014-07-10T01:03:49Z")
My full time job is servicing irrigation systems, my side job is the same. It’s weird these days because I make more part time on the side but I need my full time job to qualify for Obamacare. The real question here is who pays taxes on their side work? I wouldn’t dream of it, I’m a rank old outlaw… ---
**Author:** ![MareIt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MareIt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MareIt)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-income-plans/692643/28 "2014-07-10T01:14:02Z")
For many years a needed income supplement was farm-sitting. It is like house-sitting but with horses and other various animals (mostly dogs, cats and chickens). It was generally $50-$100/day to stay at nice house with their animals and do chores twice a day while I otherwise continued to live my life. I never kept track, but some rough math indicates that my busiest year was probably $7k+. Then I got ‘old’ and started to prefer my own bed and dropped down to only 2 clients who were also good friends. Then I got my own animals and it was too much of a PITA to pack up me and them to go stay elsewhere for a few days and now I am only a farm-sitter of last resort for those same 2 friends. These days, I am down to less than $500 a year. Staying in my own bed is worth every penny! ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-income-plans/692643/29 "2014-07-10T03:08:16Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Oh my god was it ever! I was making six hundred a month at one point for a few months. And then that buyout on my old articles! > > But yeah crap. I still make money on some older articles I wrote for Demand Studios. The problem is that every idiot thinks they can write. And they can’t. They just fucking can’t. At least not stuff that people really want to read. > > What book did you write? > > 🙂 Yes indeed! I’m still getting quarterly payouts for some of my McArticles - those I didn’t give up rights to. And thank God I used a pseudonym for all that content crap I wrote. Four books all told including the one that came about as a result of my Demand Studios affiliation, but I’m not telling. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-income-plans/692643/30 "2014-07-10T03:45:34Z")
> [@armedmonkey](#): > > I gotta ask: What’s “honeydipping”? I did a google search and the first result was [this](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=honey%20dipping). That just seems like an odd way to make a little extra cash, is all I’m saying. Hey, supply and demand. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-income-plans/692643.md?page=1)