How can I make additional money?

greensalad

La_escocesa wrote: »

If you're crafty make things to sell. (If you're not crafty I bet you can still do it with youtube tutorials etc.) Things on Etsy/notonthehighstreet sell for quite the mark up!

NOTHS costs £500 to join and they take a considerable cut. You would most definitely want to be an established business before venturing onto that site.

Maysie

What skills do you have? Could a site like http://www.peopleperhour.com/ make you some extra?

AnotherJoe

yasmin2 wrote: »

Thanks for the suggestion but love my current one;) despite the awful hours.

Can you get a variant of it with better hours and more money? Or more certain hours which would make space for another job?

Realistically you are not going to make a lot of money by filling in around a job with uncertain hours by making bangles or whatever as crafts. Only other thing that occurs is, something eBay or similar internet based, buying and selling, maybe you have the time for that, but its Catch 22 because if you start making any significant profits HMRC will be on you much faster than they would with say Google UK or Apple or similar as you are an easier target, they actively monitor this stuff now.

Bottom line its your choice to be in this position, and you have to trade off your love for the job with the financial consequences and decide which comes first. Is your employer exploiting your love for the job?

Fair enough if it turns out the current job comes first but if that is (say) 95% of your income, then adjusting that will make the biggest bang for buck by far and anything else will be in the margins and likely insignificant.

yasmin2

AnotherJoe wrote: »

Can you get a variant of it with better hours and more money? Or more certain hours which would make space for another job?

I don't want to say what my job is as that would definitely give me away in case anyone I know reads this site. But the nature of my job is last minute and unsocial hours are a given so am actually in the process of trying to get more hours which won't be an issue.

But in general I think it's an interesting point.. I spend a sig amount of time at my job - one that I love and can't imagine leaving and it pays £x per hour. Sometimes I say it doesn't even feel like my job:j.. Would I give it up for a job that pays more but gives me no job satisfaction.. I am not sure that I would but does that make me any less DFW.. Nope, most definitely not!!!

ERICS_MUM

yasmin2 wrote: »

I don't want to say what my job is as that would definitely give me away in case anyone I know reads this site. But the nature of my job is last minute and unsocial hours are a given so am actually in the process of trying to get more hours which won't be an issue.

But in general I think it's an interesting point.. I spend a sig amount of time at my job - one that I love and can't imagine leaving and it pays £x per hour. Sometimes I say it doesn't even feel like my job:j.. Would I give it up for a job that pays more but gives me no job satisfaction.. I am not sure that I would but does that make me any less DFW.. Nope, most definitely not!!!

Sounds like asking for more hours in your current job could be an answer ?