Good (legal) temporary jobs/ways to make quick money

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I want to go on a trip. I have enough for the ticket but I need to make some extra money in the next month or two to make up for it. My job is only about 30 hours a week, so I have extra time. Ideas?

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

u have a college degree? be a temp paralegal!

can you type 60+ words per minute? be a legal word processor!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

YES! I CAN! I EVEN DO LEGAL RELATED WORK! YOU'RE A GENIUS!

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

wait tables or bartend at a trendy, expensive bar/restaurant/club.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

No waiting/bartending experience.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

Ok, so how do I become a temp paralegal?

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that sounds like a great job! $26-28/hour. That's like top-level graphic design wages these days.

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

there are a zillion legal temporary/placement agencies in NYC -- like kelly, tmp-hudson, update legal, etc.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

Now, if you can type but don't really no shit about Excel or Powerpoint, is that just something you should figure out on the job and keep quiet? Like, will you get canned and bitched at if you pretend you can do it and it turns out you can't? Or will someone just train you in 5 minutes?

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

Do the medical experiments that pay thousands of dollars actually exist? Supposedly that's how Robert Rodriguez financed his first movie, but all I've ever seen are "FREE ASTHMA MEDICATION!!!" ads.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

I know/knew a guy who decided to stop working and make a living from medical experiments. The ones where you make the big bucks are not my idea of a way to make a living -- you stay in their custody for weeks at a time and sometimes take high doses of psychoactive medication.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

I did 2 of those in college. They were awesome. Catheters in your arm so they could get blood out of you every 5, 15, 30 , 60 , 90, 120 minutes to track the speed of medicine going through you, having to save all your urine from one day, nasal washes... but you get a free thermometer, free meals and cable and a couple of thousand for your time.

― h0t h0t h0rsey (Carey), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

Most of the legal temp sites I've looked at say you need more of a legal background than I have.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 15 April 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

I nearly went in for medical testing last year -- it was like $2500, no drugs involved, pretty much just getting a couple MRIs. Unfortunately, they'd erected any number of minor barriers to participation. Just random stuff to screen out desperate sorts, things like doing a phone interview, a drug test, going in several times for administrative purposes -- basic easy tasks that would ensure people weren't just wandering in off of the street for money. And so but yeah, one of the most depressing moments of my year was when I realized that these little hurdles were enough to make me lose interest: apparently I have the dedication and attention span of a junkie.

― nabiscothingy (nory), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

I need quick ways to make money that don't involve me going through agencies, which I've realized is a tremendous waste of time and energy (but that's another show). Actually I may have landed a steady part-time thing and I'm supposed to call in today to find out.

― jody the country girl doll (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

you stay in their custody for weeks at a time and sometimes take high doses of psychoactive medication.

In fairness, that sounds like quite a sweet job!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

can people answer this for the UK too?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to know about temporary, one off uk jobs, if you see. I almost signed up to be an extra but they wanted me to get photos done professionally which worked out at 40 quid or so. Otherwise I'd have done it.

― Alix with an i? (alix), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

yes, please answer this for the UK.

99% of all jobs - temp, permanent, whatever - seem to require a ridiculous amount of experience. even the most unthinking admin jobs! and where do people gain experience if they can't get the job in the first place because they don't have any? incredibly frustrating.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, I am in exactly that position. The answer, btw is volunteering, but how the hell are you supposed to find time to volunteer when the only jobs you can get are crappy catering ones which pay minimum wage which equals working practically every hour you are alive just to make enough to pay the rent and the bills, let alone finding enough money to buy food and other luxuries like shampoo with, eh?

― Alix with an i? (alix), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Chatroom moderation is a cushy job - not well paid but working from home, selective hours, and you are *encouraged* to chat to friends and browse ILE while working.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Oh how much do mods on ILX get then?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

$50/hr

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 15 April 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Working in a UK temp agency: the biggest demand round here at the moment is for HGV and forklift drivers, especially for night shifts. There's also plenty of factory-line work about, unless (like us) a large factory in your area has just laid everyone off and shut down.

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 16 April 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

$50/hr

Plutonian hours.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 April 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

hahahahahaha! Because Pluto is farthest away from the sun, right? Sorry, I just find it funny because that's a joke that I wouldn't normally understand, I think. Not sure why but I got it quickly enough to make me snort!

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Saturday, 16 April 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

So, what's the best temp agency? I'm unemployed, and don't want to get another real job. Is Kelly generally good? Manpower?

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Sunday, 17 April 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

The best temp agency is the one I work for, natch. Unfortunately, we only have two branches, so unless you live near here you're stuffed.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 17 April 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

manpower has the best name!

― Volker Schlöndorff (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 18 April 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

what kind of third-shift job can i get if i don't want to be a janitor or rent-a-cop security guard? nobody i talk to ever has any third shifts available.

― Volker Schlöndorff (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 18 April 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

[science pedant]
Pluto orbits the sun once every 250 Earth years, but the length of the Plutonian hour is determined by the period of its rotation about its own axis.

As it turns out, Pluto rotates once every 6.4 Earth days, so in fact, one earth hour equals 6.4 Plutonian hours. This factor of 40 difference may or may not effect the efficacy of the joke as Ned intended it.
[/science pedant]

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 18 April 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

[language pedant] AFFECT the efficacy [/language pedant]

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 18 April 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

Third-shift jobs: stripper, 24/7 tech-support, grocery store clerk

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 18 April 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

As it turns out, Pluto rotates once every 6.4 Earth days, so in fact, one earth hour equals 6.4 Plutonian hours.

Wait, don't you mean that one Plutonian hour equals 6.4 earth hours and not vice versa?

― Lingbertt, Monday, 18 April 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I mistyped -- one hour on Pluto is 6.4 hours on earth. Otherwise, the 40 ~ 250/6.4 argument wouldn't make sense.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 18 April 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

some pedant you are!

― Lingbertt, Monday, 18 April 2005 07:31 (twenty years ago)

Third-shift jobs: stripper, 24/7 tech-support, grocery store clerk

how about all three at the same time? i could sell condoms and provide assistance to guys who need help putting them on. customer support, indeed!

― Volker Schlöndorff (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 18 April 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

I have a fair bit of work that I can pay ILXORs to do - completion in the next 96 hours. Email me - mostlyconnect @ gmai...

― Gravel Puzzleworth, Thursday, 5 January 2012 20:45 (fourteen years ago)

emailed you

― Lamp, Thursday, 5 January 2012 20:57 (fourteen years ago)

what kind of work?

― reconstituted pork offal slurry (get bent), Thursday, 5 January 2012 21:44 (fourteen years ago)

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