What is a good way to get a part time job that pays more than minimum wage?
Need to pay the rent, but don’t want to spent all my time doing that. Answer: There are quite a few ways to make a few bucks without devoting a lot of time. Depending on where you live, there should be some fringe jobs available. I’ve done various odd jobs here and there myself without resorting to working a minimum wage gig. You can try to find work as a waiter at a busy restaurant. The baseline pay will be minimum wage, but the tips should compensate you really well. A good restaurant on a busy night will get you hundreds of dollars, easy. I also have a buddy who delivers pizzas part time. It’s a real job, and he pockets most of the tips. He manages to easily pay his rent. Of course, a car is required if you want to deliver food. Sometimes you’ll see weird one-off jobs in the newspaper. One summer when I was a college student, I delivered phone books. The trick was to find apartment complexes and drop off 100 books at a time. There is also the ebay “thing”, which pays the rent for a
