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23 Jan 2015, 10:49 am

Anybody have well-paying night-time job suggestions for someone who can't drive and is afraid of dogs?

Tutoring seems to be usually meagerly paid since it's other broke students who need it.


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23 Jan 2015, 11:06 am

For tutoring, what are your skills? From your name, I take it that your main skill is math. You could tutor junior and senior high math students (the parents of the students would pay for the tutoring). :)



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23 Jan 2015, 11:56 am

MathGirl wrote:
Anybody have well-paying night-time job suggestions for someone who can't drive and is afraid of dogs?

Tutoring seems to be usually meagerly paid since it's other broke students who need it.

For the most part, you're probably correct... but, I did get a couple of good tutoring offers in my programming and statistics courses from students older than myself (I was in night classes in my 20's, they were probably in their 40's). They're probably fewer and farther between than broke college students (as I was at the time).



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23 Jan 2015, 12:07 pm

BlueYellowBrownGreen wrote:
For tutoring, what are your skills? From your name, I take it that your main skill is math. You could tutor junior and senior high math students (the parents of the students would pay for the tutoring). :)
I'm not actually good at math, it's just something I enjoyed doing when I first signed up to this forum (I was in high school at the time).

Yes, mature students looking for tutoring are very few and far in between.


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23 Jan 2015, 5:19 pm

A couple of years ago, I was able to get $20 an hour tutoring kids in the NYC public school system. This was a program funded by the US federal government. It was for disadvantaged kids.

Perhaps there's a similar program run by Canada, or by Ontario.

Maybe I could ask a friend of mine who lives in Mississauga. She's a speech-language pathologist.



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23 Jan 2015, 5:49 pm

MathGirl wrote:
Anybody have well-paying night-time job suggestions for someone who can't drive and is afraid of dogs?

Tutoring seems to be usually meagerly paid since it's other broke students who need it.


Tutoring is usually unpaid or paid at a very low wage.. :|

Otherwise I've known places I've delivered to in my job to always be hiring receptionists, even at night. We have a gal around your age answering phones in dispatch (among other things) from around 5 til midnight. I've seen them at the rail yard working from 8 til 2 checking in drivers and answering in phones. There's plenty of simple cashier jobs out there too hiring nights, but you mentioned well paying. I guess it depends on your skill set and what you want to do.


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23 Jan 2015, 7:30 pm

I've gotten $20 an hour tutoring. I did not have any previous experience tutoring. I don't see why you can't get $15 an hour easily. Or maybe more in Ontario, because the minimum wage is higher in Ontario than in virtually all states in the US.



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23 Jan 2015, 7:58 pm

$20 for an hour's tutoring is reasonable. Mostly, I teach my students how to take proper notes in class, how to write essays from textbook material, and how to solve algebra and trig problems.

Most of them seem to either (1) catch on fast, (2) already know how to do the work, or (3) just need a little encouragement and affirmation.


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15 Feb 2015, 1:33 pm

Sorry for the late response, as I just came across this thread. One thing you might explore is looking into becoming a model for art classes. If you're at ease being nude in front of people, but don't want to deal with the seamy side of being a stripper, this could be an option. Most colleges have figure drawing classes. The hardest part is maintaining a pose for a good length of time.


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15 Feb 2015, 1:45 pm

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There are a few girls in my area who work as strippers while in school to make extra money. I have been considering this for a while - I have a "model body" (tall, very skinny and fit), love dancing, like showing off my body/being naked in front of people, etc. I am really not sure what else I can do to make extra money considering my schedule is completely full between 10 and 5-6 pm every day, so I can only expect to get any sort of extra job in the evenings. I have two questions, though:

1) Is it possible to be a stripper/club dancer without having to talk to guys while on the job (i.e. just dance and perhaps some nonverbal gestures)? I can come off as normal until I start talking verbally to people.

2) Is is dangerous future career-wise? Can people find out that you were a stripper and have it impact your future prospects? I would like to become a child therapist in the future so I'm sort of concerned.

I make very little money now so I really would love to find a way to make more if possible to afford things like speech therapy and laser eye surgery. :(


IDK if guys at a strip club care so much about how normal the strippers are....in that case I think looks are much more important than social skills. But I think it would be difficult to have such a job if you weren't willing to have any verbal communication since from what i have observed the strippers do come up and talk to customers who come in(I was at a strip club once). As for career wise it is possible some employers or whatever would be turned off by a history of being a stripper....though I think its totally stupid, if someone is ok with doing it and even enjoys it I don't see what is wrong with making money that way. But I do not think it would totally prevent you from moving forward career wise...but maybe not something you want to make a point to put on a resume, not that I agree but I guess it is a position that has a little more stigma than say being a waitress.

Also though might want to watch out for bad and/or shady management....since that can exist in that field and they might try to take advantage and what not. So just remember if you did get that kind of a job that doesn't make any kind sexual harrasment from management or customers ok....so don't put up with anything like that. Not saying that would happen but some people seem to think if you're ok to strip then you're fine with unwanted touching/contact so if you do it make sure and find a place that enforces rules and doesn't have shady kind of management where they treat the strippers like low-life garbage.


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22 Feb 2015, 11:16 pm

Basso53 wrote:
Sorry for the late response, as I just came across this thread. One thing you might explore is looking into becoming a model for art classes. If you're at ease being nude in front of people, but don't want to deal with the seamy side of being a stripper, this could be an option. Most colleges have figure drawing classes. The hardest part is maintaining a pose for a good length of time.
I think I would prefer a stripper job to this because it's physically active and engages other senses. I like active jobs.

Still reading the comments here and still thinking about it…


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