Help with a few extra income suggestions

Tucker

Hi

I hope I am not being too forward in asking for a bit of help with some suggestions for me to explore.

I am a male single parent. I currently work full time thanks to some flexible working from my employer.

I work around the kids school times mostly and manage to make up my hours with some home working and working longer days when my ex partner has the kids.

My emploment is moving to another who's taking over our work. Whilst I have protection of pay and some flexible working my travel to work time is increasing. I have opted to reduce my hours to make life easier as maintaining full time hours is going to become even more difficult.

I am trying think about and look at ways I can generate a bit more income from home. I have capacity to dedicate some of my time to something home based.

I was hoping to tap into any experience on here and get some pointers on the sort of things I could explore? Can any of you offer me any suggestions or things I could look into?

It would be a great help if I can learn from anyone with a bit of experience in this area.

Many thanks.

Flyonthewall

If you can do some work from home can you not suggest working from home more rather than reducing your hours? That'll most likely bring in more income than anything else.

Other options though are using survey sites, selling on ebay (either your own stuff or buying and reselling as a business), writing a blog, writing reviews etc. There are various options on the forums if you have a read through and see what sounds good to you.

asajj

Hi Tucker, there are number of things you can do and all of them are explored in forums.
I'd read and see what would fit you first as the similar questions are asked several times.

Everyone uses number of websites to generate extra income, survey websites, Swagbucks, Clixsense etc. Each of them has their dedicated thread. At the end it will depend on the time you are ready to sacrifice.

I would suggest to start with some survey companies. However don't forget that it takes time to reach a reasonable income from all of these. Better to set up realistic targets.

Tucker

Thanks

The working from home part is something the new employer doesn't embrace. It's not something they currently do, so the opportunity for that doesn't look good.

I have read a bit about surveys. It sounded like you have to alot to make any income from it.

The ebay selling interests me for sure, although thinking of a product etc is the tough part

asajj

For Ebay, there is an Ebay sub-forum. It might be better if you are thinking to buy to re-sell (requires you to register as a business with HMRC).

For surveys yes you are right, if they would replace your income or have equal levels, everyone would be doing surveys instead of working

At the end it is to "boost" your income not replace it and become rich

caitchbee

You might want to look at WSE jobs if that interests you. Threads on here for Appen, Lionbridge and Leapforce.

Tucker

caitchbee wrote: »

You might want to look at WSE jobs if that interests you. Threads on here for Appen, Lionbridge and Leapforce.

I don't know what WSE jobs are? Can you enlighten me?

Ghost_2005

Tucker wrote: »

I don't know what WSE jobs are? Can you enlighten me?

Web search evaluation. These pay around or just above minimum wage and are much better paid than doing online surveys etc.

You usually need to be able to commit at least a minimum of around 10 hours/ week.

If you can get your head around the mathematics of it, match betting is the most lucrative home working option. There's a section for it on MSE and you definitely need to understand how it works before you dive in.

caitchbee

Ghost_2005 wrote: »

Web search evaluation. These pay around or just above minimum wage

It's more than "just above". Often dependent on the exchange rate of course but "just above minimum wage" is misleading imo

Ghost_2005

caitchbee wrote: »

It's more than "just above". Often dependent on the exchange rate of course but "just above minimum wage" is misleading imo

Disagree. In my experience there is a range of extra work in these jobs - learning updated guidelines, attending webinars etc. - all of which go unpaid.

If you sit down and actually consider the time you spend on a job like this and include all the ancillary stuff then I think it pays just above minimum wage.

It is still a solid, reliable work from home opportunity (which is rare) and a better payer than most jobs of this type.

Catwoman1975

Ghost_2005 wrote: »

Disagree. In my experience there is a range of extra work in these jobs - learning updated guidelines, attending webinars etc. - all of which go unpaid.

If you sit down and actually consider the time you spend on a job like this and include all the ancillary stuff then I think it pays just above minimum wage.

It is still a solid, reliable work from home opportunity (which is rare) and a better payer than most jobs of this type.

Also no travel time or costs, no work clothes or shoes to buy. I recently returned to work outside the home, after many years of working from home, and was shocked how much it actually cost me to go to work in time and money.

Swings and roundabouts really