So many of us are looking for extra ways of making money in order to make ends meet in difficult times. Consequently we have done some research and assembled ideas that should prove useful in such circumstances.
Medical transcribers
What does a medical transcriber do? They transcribe audio recordings created by doctors and other healthcare professionals into reports that are easy to read. It’s useful to have appropriate training because of the need for accurate transcription of complicated medical language, you can often get trained on the job. And you work in pleasant surroundings in very comfortable modern offices or in many cases in your own home.
You can expect to earn around $17.26 per hour and many employers will allow you to slot the work into evenings and weekends.
Mowing the lawn
Here’s a very simple job – mowing lawns and blowing away leaves – you can do and advertise in your neighborhood because there are always people looking for a service like that. If you possess the equipment, all you need are a few leaflets run off in your local quick print shop and you should find the enquiries coming thick and fast. A great way of making money at times to suit you and if during your working week you find yourself in a stuffy office, this can prove a real antidote – and you can expect steady if not high returns.
Virtual Assistants
Many business people have cut down on office staff and are looking for help with transcribing letters and reports. The Internet has made so many of these jobs possible because it is so easy to photo or scan in a written example to be typed on to a file and emailed back together with many other tasks such as appointment setting, booking hotels and other travel arrangements and buying supplies.
Customer Service
Do you like talking to people? Helping to solve their problems? In that case a part-time stint as a customer service representative could be ideal for you. Because so many of the customer service agencies work on a 24/7 basis, they are always looking for people to work some of the more anti-social hours which their full time employees will tend to opt out of. The pay is around $15 an hour and there are good opportunities forecast for the next few years.
Dog walking
Do you like animals? Are you looking for a bit more exercise? And of course you are looking for new ways of making money. Let it be known around your part of town that you are available to walk their dogs and you should find a lot of doggie owners beating a path to your door.
Cash in the basement?
Who knows what junk may be found in your basement, attic, or closets that believe it or not are treasures to someone else. Have a garage or yard sale over the weekend and what you can’t sell then, advertise on the net.
