Posted on Sep 21, 2016
What have you done to earn extra cash while in or out of the military?
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Side jobs, working from home, small businesses...what ideas do you have for our community to put a little extra dough in their pockets while still holding a full time job?
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I've done all sorts of things to earn extra money, hired out as a handy man, designed and installed computer networks. when times get tough its almost anything for a buck mindset. Survive!
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Sir, I was a flex officer for a security company, they realized that I was in the Army and that this was secondary and were very good about it. I would work on Friday night and saturday
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I know that this will sound like blasphemy, but I'd suggest living within your means. Taking on extra work, worrying over money, and all the other ills of living beyond one's means only serve to diminish the life you're trying to lead. Is that fancier car or home worth the time lost when you might have been enjoying what you do have? And when you consider the benefits of extra income, consider how much of it you'll get to keep. Back in the late 1950's when two income families began to appear, all of the added income was lost in clothing, etc. for the working wife plus the costs of child care and increased taxes. In the decades that followed, family income replaced individual income as the standard of wealth and quality of life suffered in inverse proportion. Think about it.
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COL Lee Flemming
Lol, you are right --- blasphemy! But seriously, some may want the additional income to save for a child's school, for a retirement or to supplement a fixed income.
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MSG Garth Vinson
I always used my off duty employment as a stress reliever. I am a professed gearhead and would find things that I enjoyed as a part time employment; sort of like being paid to do your hobby. I worked in an airplane factory, built dunebuggies, made sailboats and many other fun jobs.
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When I first went back in we had taken a pretty serious pay cut. I continued to run my credit restoration gig for a while. My wife took it over when it got to be too much. It gave us a few extra bucks. It also made me the person people felt inclined to ask about the ways in which to best manage their credit.
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SPC Erich Guenther
What most people do not realize here with credit management is that it touches just about everything. Car and Home insurance rates, Mortgage rates, Car Loan rates, Credit Card offerings in the mail, Deposits Utilities require to start service, etc. So good credit management can also reduce your annual cost of living to an extent.
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SFC Christopher Perry
SPC Erich Guenther - Not so many years ago this was not the case. These days, you are correct it pretty much seeps into everything you do.
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