by Hope
Evidently I’ve gotten a pretty good reputation as a substitute teacher. I’m now booking 1-2 days a week – woot, woot! After taxes, I bring in about $69 per day. And I’ve finally worked it out with my day job so it doesn’t mess too much up.
I’m only taking regular sub jobs on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This leaves the rest of the week open for calls with clients. For teachers I have subbed for before, I’m taking note of their planning periods, so if they do need me on a day when I have calls, I can make sure their planning period and my call schedule are aligned before I take it.
It’s a win-win!
And I do really enjoy subbing. Even those classes where I actually have to teach, I can get my work done during the planning period and lunch time.
I think if things were different I might even consider going back and getting a teaching certificate. But I think all the red tape and standards would be very discouraging to me. I’m much more of a do my own thing, my own way kind of teacher. From what I’ve seen, the school systems do not encourage or appreciate that style…which I do understand. But that would take the joy out of it for me.
I’m still hoping to pick up some side gigs on Rover.com but no bites yet. I think that may be something else I explore someday…boarding dogs at my home. I would need a fenced yard for that. But maybe someday…
Hope is a creative, solutions-focused business manager helping clients grow their business and work more efficiently by leveraging expertise in project management, digital marketing, & tech solutions. She’s recently become an empty nester as her 5 foster/adoptive kids have spread their wings. She lives with her 5 dogs in a small town in NE Georgia and prefers the mountains to the beaches any day. She struggles with the travel bug and is doing her best to help each of her kids as their finish schooling and become independent (but it’s hard!) She has run her own consulting company for almost twenty years! Hope began sharing her journey with the BAD community in the Spring of 2015 and feels like she has finally in a place to really focus on making wise financial decisions.
That’s great. Focus on your strengths and stop trying to diversity.
I’d give up on Rover (there doesn’t seem to be any demand, and you don’t have a fenced yard.) Focus on your business and the subbing. Maybe try to do an extra day or two of subbing per month instead of hoping for clients on Rover.
To be clear, I think it’s great to have several jobs/sources of income. But not too many, unless it’s truly passive income, and Rover isn’t.
You seem to have two good income streams these days, so focus on them.
I am an adjunct professor. Last year I had 4 jobs/income streams: 2 teaching jobs, doing my DH’s books, and ESL examining. I had been doing the strict minimum at the examining job for 3 or 4 years, just to keep my accreditations current. There was constant conflict with my regular teaching jobs, and that one always got short shrift.
I just gave that examining job up. I know I won’t lose any income, because that will allow me to put my time/energy towards the other 3 more lucrative jobs.