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I need help.
If y'all have any ideas on freelance or very flexibly scheduled jobs for me, please send them. I have exhausted any possibility of assistantships at UIC* and schools with instructor/classroom assistant positions at CPS appear to have no interest in me either.
Can't do anything that's scheduled M-F 9-5 as a) I have to do observations at schools and they are only in session from 8:50-3 -- yes, Chicago has the shortest school day in the nation; and b) our classes start at 5 and we actually cannot be late as lates add up to absences and you can only have 2 of those, they make you drop the class or "you cannot pass it" with a third absence.
*yes I still apply for any that come up that I qualify for but they get over 100 applicants per spot and I've only even gotten an interview for 1 of the zillions I've applied for
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damn, i wish i had some ideas for you. sorry i'm no help, but i hope you find something soon. i love that photo too, btw.
Phone surveys. No selling, just pestering people and convincing them to answer questions. I did it for awhile. Evening hours and weekends, pays minimum (at least the job I had did).
You wear a headset attached to a phone, sit at a computer that displays the survey questions, punch in the number for the answer, and call from a provided list. It's not as monotonous as it sounds--sometimes the respondents are pretty interesting.
It is a bit hard on the voice, and I had mental blocks about roping people into 200-question surveys--"only a few minutes of your time", yeah right--but it helped pay some bills and it was easier than waitressing. I found my job through a temp agency; look for market research firms. There were a lot of college students working beside me. It's very flexible. Good luck! :-)
Market research companies pay good money to hear your opinion, there's one called Adler-Wiener, they do focus groups out of the Hancock building, and I know there are others.
1. sell your photos (you take amazing photos, i think with a bit of bloggy promotion, people would buy them)
2. see if the university has an ESL program and try to tutor international students (i.e. proofread their assignments/papers). The pay isn't great ($15/hr at my school) but it's flexible..
Maybe some kind of online content moderation? Flexible hours, all you need is a computer, an internet connection, and a working grasp of the English language. Pay is usually decent.