How to Earn Extra During your Freetime!
January 22, 2009 by lynetocampo
You may need an extra income.
For some creative individuals out there, maybe these ideas are too basic. Yes, they are. But I have tried these before and up to now. I can see the earning potential of some ideas below which I want to share with you.
I am not a pro on this and I stopped earning extra when I decided to focus on raising kids and career. I just want to give some ideas I have in mind for the sake of having something useful to blog about this moment.
1. Tutoring Math and Science subjects / homeworks to gradeschoolers. Before I started working (I’m referring to the 8-5 work sched), I was already tutoring 4 gradeschoolers from different levels. I could have earned PhP400 per hour then but I slashed the charges into half since my pupils were relatives and I did it in my house plus the sessions were as per my own scheduling. And that was way back in 2002. Now, tutoring fees range from P120-P200 per hour per head depending upon your caliber as a tutor.
2. Thesis Consultation. This might demand most of your time. My first client paid me P5000.00 for four thesis frameworks I made, actually it was not plain consultation… I ended up actually making the frameworks, from thinking of a good thesis title, researching, up to encoding. It was in 2005, and the pay out was equivalent to P1250 per framework. It was not bad for a beginner like me during that time.
3. Desktop-printing. I charged my clients P5/bond paper for black-and-white text only-documents and P10/bond paper colored-text-only-documents. Since I was using deskjet printer, I seldom accepted printing jobs with a lot of images and photos because they would be ink-consuming. Now I don’t do this anymore because I choose to just take a rest and be with my kids after work.
4. Video-making from Digital Photos. I attempted to earn money from creating video from digital photos before. I made a lot of these from my own collections of photos of my family. I 2007, I made one for a colleague’s wedding but I decided to just give it to her for free, as a wedding gift to her. Afterall, I enjoyed while I was doing it since it’s one of my hobbies. Normally, photo studios and professional photographers in our area would charge a client P1,500 - P2,500 per video cd or dvd made from 100 digital photos.
5. CD or DVD burning. If you have a PC with CD/DVD burner, you can earn PhP50.00 per cd or dvd for burning 10 songs of your client’s choice.
6. Designing Customized cards. It’s also among my passions designing invitation cards and thank you cards like the one below.
sample of my custom-designed card
