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Successful Moonlighting For Geeks?
Lawksamussy writes "Having just bought a really old house that's on the verge of falling down, I'm now trying to find a way to pay to fix it up. I have a great job in software development that pays the bills, but I'm looking to earn some extra cash in my spare time. Whatever I end up doing has to be reasonably lucrative (or at least have the potential to be so), not require any specific time commitment, and be doable equally well from home or from a hotel room. I'm also keen that it should be sufficiently different to my day job to keep my interest up, so the most obvious things like bidding for programming projects on Rentacoder.com, or fixing up neighbors' PCs, aren't really on. Above all, it should appeal to my inner geek, otherwise my low boredom threshold will doom it to failure before I even start! So, I wonder if any of my fellow Slashdotters run little part-time ventures that they find more of an inspiration than a chore... and if they are willing to share what they do and perhaps even how much money they make doing it?"
Don't read the title too fast. "Mooning" isn't what's being asked.
Reasonably lucrative, no major time commitment, can be done at home or a hotel room. Hmmmm...think, think, think.
Have you tried an ad on Craigslist? Make sure to post a picture of yourself, along with your "rates". Good luck!
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
There is always prostitution...
I hear that pays well
and be doable equally well from home or from a hotel room
Amateur porn site project perhaps? :P
should appeal to my inner geek
If "inner geek" is its nickname, he should definitively find some appeal to this project.
Have you considered getting into home renovation? Granted, you won't be able to do it from most hotel rooms, but I understand there is a growing market for those services in your immediate area. It would certainly be different from your day job.
"Everyone needs to run a software company."
Are you based in India? :)
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a really old house that's on the verge of falling down
Soap. Make and sell soap. Sell rich women their own fat asses back to them.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Or investing in a bit aftershave, a bath, some flowers, and marrying a carpenter?
Dear Slashdot,
I consider myself fairly well off but just spent beyond my means, making me like most of middle class America. I'm now looking for a get-richer-quick scheme, preferably that can be done at home sitting on my ass, and whenever I want. It must also appeal to the inner sense of superiority I give myself at my day job... but it must NOT be like my day job.
Sincerely,
R.A. Tracer, Jr.
Yeah, but it is the insane ones that makes it worth all the waiting!
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Sounds like you should run for Congress.
"That which does not kill us makes us stranger." -Trevor Goodchild
Or investing in a bit aftershave, a bath, some flowers, and marrying a carpenter?
I thought the females in construction were all concrete masons and electricians. That is those that aren't "laborers" that get to wave the flag for $35 an hour since they take such good care of the foreman's flagpole.
--- Justin Dearing http://www.justaprogrammer.net/ We're just programmers.
... so can someone please create a idalsolikeapony tag and place it on this please.
Seriously--there are not many legal options that meet your requirements.
I'd suggest you take a little trip down to the "bad" part of your town and start talking to the guys you see standing around on the street corners. I'm sure one of them would be more than happy to help you set up a franchise of your own.
This ain't rocket surgery.
Or, start up some web servers at your place and host content for some twisted yet legal sexual fetish. Or sell autographed pictures of your mom.
Okay, so I'm really not helping at all. I myself have earned extra cash repairing laptop hardware, cleaning up horrid computers running windows, and the occasional assisting of installing legal copies of OS X on the purchaser's PC. Mostly connected through word of mouth, so I don't advertise or anything like that.
If you have well built software programming skills (with your previous code as proof) you would be surprised about the people who want a program to do x, y, and z and will give you a nice check to do so. I've done that 4 times in my free time, all with lawyers who a relative knew of.
If you still have your foreskin, you can play "guess what's in the foreskin pouch" where you hide a random item by enclosing it with your foreskin. Not sure how much cash you can get from that - betting perhaps.
Well if it's money you are after I know of this man in Nigeria who has come into a large amount of money, and needs to transfer it off shore for Tax Reasons. You will get 50% if you let him use your bank account. All he needs is your Name, Bank Account Details, and SSN. It is all perfectly above board. I know because I read it in an email.
Mod parent up +1 Helpful.
I'll chip in $10 for the video.
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....A Lumberjack?
(Ok, so a part time one)
Our six core services
?
Profit!!!
Great going, but how did you manage to find this guy's old tech?
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And my GF is a nympho
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Somehow, that picture just makes me shudder! :)
What I'm describing is a boom industry
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Well this is slashdot, so yeah a female needing aftershave would make sense.
--- Justin Dearing http://www.justaprogrammer.net/ We're just programmers.
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