1001 Ways to Make Money If You Dare (141 page)
879 TEACH WOODWORKING.
Many home improvement stores run monthly classes on how to build handmade wooden goods. Take a page out of their books and turn your garage into your very own hammer and nail classroom. The corporate big-shots can do it — why can't you? Just be sure you can handle talking and demonstrating at the same time. Otherwise you might come out of the class a few digits lighter.
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880 TEACH OTHERS HOW TO TEACH.
Want to teach, but have no idea what? Teaching others how to teach solves that problem. How to create a syllabus. How to control a classroom. How to put together a lesson plan. You're good to go. You may even be able to save yourself time by having your students grade each other's work. Be careful, though. If you don't have confidence in your teaching ability, your students will eat you alive.
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881 BECOME AN AP TUTOR.
More and more students are trying to save money on college by receiving college credits their senior year of high school. Help them out and take some of that “saved” money for yourself. Shouldn't be too hard. You've probably taken most of these classes already anyway.
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882 READY A STUDENT FOR COLLEGE.
Do you remember being a freshman? Scared, unsure what to expect, low man on the totem pole. Make sure the student you take under your wing doesn't go through the same things you did. Instead, for a fee, teach them all they need to know to make it through their first semester. With advice ranging from not signing up for an 8
A.M.
class to how to get into a senior party, you'll be a priceless asset to your little freshman.
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883 BE A CAMP COUNSELOR.
Remember camp classics like
Bug Juice, Salute Your Shorts
, and
The Parent Trap
? You can enjoy all the fun of summer camp, make some bank … and be the one in charge! Sounds like a great way to spend the summer. Find your counseling job at
www.campchannel.com/jobboard
.
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884 TEACH SUMMER SCHOOL.
Come on. You know what summer school is all about: hot, stuffy classrooms, disgruntled students, and lazy lesson plans. Why not take this knowledge and use it to get yourself a summer job. You'll be able to sympathize with your students as far as being stuck inside on a humid summer's day is concerned, and they'll love you for it.
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