Second sources of income/second sources of employment

[Helix]

Is there anyone out there who has a second source of income/employment while working as a f/t teacher? I make enough as a teacher but I need to get my debt paid down and possibly consider another career path in the next couple of years, preferably self-employed. I am going to work some nights/weekends from home after classes. My health has gone down the toilet...I am hypertensive with ulcers and need to consider a "way out" if I don't find a happy medium in academia.

Any advice/thoughts/reflections?

[motiv8r]

You could work as a private tutor. The fact that you are a teacher gives you a qualification, especially if you teach the same grade as your client is in.

You would have to work in the students' homes, most likely.

I'm guessing you would have middle school and high school kids as clients.

Other than that, what do you like to do (or dream of doing) in your spare time? That might give you clues about possible ways to work for extra cash.

[Helix]

I already have the second source in place. I will be working it up. It's not tutoring, it's in the fine arts.

[hweber]

Helix,
What will you be doing?

[Cybrus]

Summer school teaching is great, if you choose the right class. You tend to make a bunch of money (like double dipping, depending on if your salary continues 12 months of the year), and if you choose a reach ahead class, the students are really motivated.

Other than that, yes, tutoring, but you have to choose a topic people want tutoring in :) I tutor math, which means I am very in demand, as that appears to be an area that not only do students struggle in, but parents care enough about their grade in the subject to get a tutor. You wont find too many science or history tutors - partly because parents don't view it as important, and partly because there isn't "tricks" to it, it's just reading and understanding.

[merrynl]

You wont find too many science or history tutors - partly because parents don't view it as important, and partly because there isn't "tricks" to it, it's just reading and understanding.

There is more to science than reading and understanding.

[Boxcar]

You can do things like eBay. You buy things wholesale or make a deal with a company. Then, you start a store, have auctions, and manage it all.