Making "Extra Money": C/D

It depends on how out of work I am at the moment. Also transportation costs/commute time factor in-- why take a train, bus, and walk an hour each way for 3 hours of work? Finally the rate of pay and duration of work is the mitigating factor--if it's $50 for matting a couple of pictures at home, I'll take it. If it's $50 for a couple of hours of pouring concrete, no thanks.

How much is your time worth?

Also, when is the extra work? If it's staying on for a hour or two after a working day, I'd do it - most evenings are a write-off for creative purposes after a long day at work. However, if you gotta go in on a Saturday (assuming yr a desk jockey)...

I think it is kind of depressing bcz somehow those extra 4-5 hours a week feel like murder, and I start calculating wages/minutes which all seems very depressiing. "The last 20 minutes of dealing with these shitfucks has earned me ~$2.40. If someone offered me $2.40 to do THAT, I would say no, so why am I saying yes to this?" It makes looking at the clock wax slowly all that much more painful.

I guess it depends on whether you're logging in more hours at your normal job, and if those are OT hours as well. I'd be loath to come in on a saturday for regular wages. If it's contract work, I try and make sure the pay comes out around what OT pay would be at my regular job.

I've been doing this for years through the writing work, essentially -- in fact I'm working on a review right now. I think it's well worth it but it helps to be in a situation where I'm not working at a second office, but from home.

The latest offer I got was on a per-item/listing rather than hourly rate. If I work well it might be worth $15-20/hr for maybe 4-5 hours a week. But I'm afraid I'm just going to zone out and then realize I'm only earning McDonald's wages.

I'm such a money-grubbing type that I almost always say yes. However the only times it's come up for me so far, the money offered for the extra work has been so much above the rate of pay of my normal job (around 3x higher) that I just couldn't turn it down, although it currently means that one of my days off is taken up doing the other job so I'm working 6 days a week. I don't think I've really regretted it so far. Any time I feel down about the lack of free time etc., I just think of the money and it's enough to make it all worthwhile for me personally.

i make the decision mainly on whether i think i'll enjoy the work or not.

i wouldn't work another hour a week at my day job, i make enough at it to get by and it's fine as work, but 35 hours is enough.

I've had a second job (and sometimes a third) almost all of my adult life for one reason or another. This year it's because I'm working a high prestige/low pay job as my 'main' occupation, so I don't mind doing the extra hours at a casual job. A lot of times I enjoy the variation and working with different people. This year it has let me pay off (and cancel) my credit card, get ahead on my car loan, get a proper 'emergency fund' organised AND save for a one month trip to SE Asia in January. Yes it would be nice to have my weekends free sometimes but I feel like the second job has been worth it.

Unless the work is fun or otherwise intrinsically rewarding, it's a total dud. Yr time is worth far more than a few extra soul-draining bucks.