*Car Maintenance

Whether you are a mechanic or not, there are still things that you can do to help people keep their vehicles up. Cleaning the interior and exterior of a vehicle is a job that some people hate doing, but they love a clean car. You may also be able to do basic upkeep tasks, such as oil changes and other fluid checks and top-offs.

*Yard Service

If you have a green thumb, you can help people keep their yards looking beautiful year-round. Even if you aren’t so proficient at plant care, you can still mow yards, weed yards, and for homes with pets, keep them free of pet waste.

*Childcare

Those who enjoy caring for children can offer childcare services and if you’re a good childcare provider, you might find yourself over-loaded with referral business. This is a wonderful way to earn some extra cash on the evenings and/or weekends and parents will be thankful to find someone that they can trust their most precious little ones with.

*Pet Sitting

If animals are more to your liking, you can start a pet sitting service for people that are going away and need their animals to be taken care of. There are even some people who take their animals to a “day care” while they work and if you are eithr unemployed or would be willing to do this for other shifts than what you are working, you can help to ensure that people who want their animals cared for while they work have somewhere to take them.

*Tutoring

Now that the school year is underway again, there are going to be plenty of students who could use tutoring in one or all of their academic subjects. If you are well-educated in one or more of these and have a knack for teaching, you can make decent money for tutoring sessions.

*Crafting

Having a crafting hobby can gain you some extra money. Make the items that you are good at and sell them at craft shows, holiday bazaars, or even online.

*Direct Sales

Becoming an independent representative for a company, such as Avon or Mary Kay, that deals in direct selling is something that you can do in your free time and make some extra money. Be sure and choose a company that you respect and really like or it will be much more difficult to sell your products. Often, you can even run your business right from your home computer.

*Writing/Editing

Blogging and writing online content is something that you can do in your free time, if you enjoy writing and are proficient in spelling and grammar. There are also many professionals and students who might need to use the services of an editor on their papers.

*Photography

If you have camera equipment and are interested in photography, you can do many things with this skill. One of the ways that you can earn money with your camera is to take photos for real estate agents, who are often too busy taking care of other aspects of their business to make this a profitable way for them to spend their time.

*Typing

If you are a good typist, being both proficient and fast, you can earn money doing data entry, typing college papers for students, and performing other services from your keyboard.

There are many ways that you can earn a bit of extra money by doing odd jobs. The above are just some suggestions. Think about what you like to do, what you are able to do, and what you are willing to do. Chances are good that you’ll come up with something that you can offer as a service to others.

Do you clip your nails at work?

Living in the cube environment, not only is the sound disgusting, but also those nails can fly over a cube wall like a guided missile. Realizing that I was under attack by the new guy in the cube next door, I quickly had to cover my coffee and Danish to prevent contamination, while trying not to get my eye put out!

Do you have a desire to bond with your coworkers?

Take a good look around the office. What percent of these people come in with a hang over? Now take a good look at the working moms who either have their home nanny cam on their screen all day, or are on the phone screaming at the babysitter. Then there is a percentage of office workers either looking for a relationship either to replace the one they have, or for one to have on the sly. Do not be naïve; there are always some in every office. Then there is the group who live to stampede the hallways to the vending machines every morning and load up on 4000 calories to make it through to lunch. Do not forget the brown-nosers, or the ones who are just miserable human beings. These people do not want to bond with you. Nor do they want to come in ½ hour early every day to meet with you on a spiritual level. There will not be group hugs, or “sharing”.

Are you a “Holiday” person?

Are you on Hallmarks’ mailing list for every conceivable holiday on this planet? Do you use your attic to store all your “office” decorations? Have you been banned from any dollar store for scaring small children while grabbing every hokey decoration in the place? Do you buy Santa hats for all your coworkers and beg them to wear these fuzzy, fun filled hats every day from Thanksgiving until Christmas? Do you have 30 Christmas sweaters with matching earrings? Do you insist Christmas carols be played for 8 hours a day, every day? Perhaps living in Cubeville is not for you. Have you considered a job at Macy’s?

Is your voice mail greeting longer than the Gettysburg Address?

When another resident in Cubeville has the misfortune of having to call you, do they have to suffer through the following:

“Hello. You have reached Ms. Kimberly Suzanne Washington-Castrogiovanni, Senior Executive Administrative Assistant to Ms. Evelyn Grace Worthington-Warrington, Vice President of Research and Development in the Department of Complete Insanity, because by now you have left your phone and run off screaming due to the length of this voice mail greeting, but if by some chance you are still there, you may leave a message at the tone and I will gladly return your call just as soon as I finish my other call or return to my desk. Just leave your name, number, the time and a brief message, oh and have a great and blessed day! We have all heard them and have wanted to climb right through the phone and rip their lips off! Why do they do it? Is it a plot by our enemies to drive us insane? It is no longer a drive; it’s more of a short putt…

Does your entire family call your cellphone nonstop all day?

Do you have the most annoying ring tone you could possibly find? Despite answering it 50 times a day, you still forget where you left the phone and have to fumble finding it, while the rest of Cubeville is subjected to the ring tone of the Dukes’ of Hazard? Must your relatives call you at work and ask, “What ya are you doin?” to which you must reply, “nuthin”? Yes, we all know that you are not working, how could you be when you are on your cellphone all day.

Are you coffee making challenged?

The drink of choice in Cubeville is coffee. A rule of the community is, if you take the last cup, make another pot of coffee. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? It has taken the Cubeville community years of training to make sure all of the citizens are completely trained in the art of pouring a pot of water into the coffee maker and putting fresh grounds in the basket. No excuses, no lapses in memory, no burning pots left on, no office fires!

Do you bring your daily spending money with you every day?

Do not expect to be getting loans from the citizens of Cubeville. We no longer fall for that one. If you cannot remember to bring your own lunch or your lunch money, have the adult in charge of your supervision put it in your pocket before you leave home.

Are all of your relatives involved in any of the “work part time from home and make millions” selling schemes?

Cubeville has a no littering policy pertaining to those brochures advertising worthless junk that we already have filling the rooms of our homes. We have all been exposed to those folks that have either a mother, daughter, husband, 3rd cousin, or neighbor who wants you to hustle more Avon, Mary Kay, Amway, gift wrap, cookie dough or other stuff on your unsuspecting coworkers. Do not do it, you will quickly be shunned in Cubeville.