1001 Ways to Make Money If You Dare (146 page)
910 CREATE STUDY GUIDES.
Do you know what the green light in
The Great Gatsby symbolizes
? There are thousands of students who don't have the time or the patience (or maybe the brains) to figure it out for themselves and will gladly pay you for your wisdom. Make a website and start selling.
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911 TEACH STAND-UP.
If your repertoire is limited to knock-knock jokes, sit back down. But if you've got what it takes to nurture the next Letterman, step right up. Check with local comedy clubs and continuing education centers — or start your own comedy academy.
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912 TRANSCRIBE LECTURES.
This can be a very valuable service for students who have learning disabilities or who are unable to make a class. Some professors will let you put a tape recorder next to the lectern, but others object to recordings.
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913 GIVE SURFING INSTRUCTIONS.
Spend your days teaching tourists to hang ten. It's like getting paid to go on vacation. We feel it is incumbent upon us to mention the one minor drawback: sharks with razor-sharp teeth. Check out the National Surf Schools & Instructors Association (
www.nssia.org
).
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914 GIVE LESSONS IN SPEAKING “AMERICAN.”
Pack your bags and grab your passport because you're Bangalore-bound. Companies in Asia place a huge emphasis on speaking “American” English, so you can actually get paid for teaching people to imitate your nasally Midwestern accent.
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915 TEACH UNSKILLED LABORERS.
There will always be a demand for unskilled labor, but you can help train people so they can further their careers. And you never know — the experience might come in handy in your own career.
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916 EDIT SCHOLARLY PAPERS.
Academics are often very smart people — but just because they've discovered that the deterioration of the thingamawhatsit is directly related to the onset of meningoencephawhatever doesn't mean they can write a coherent sentence about it. You'll have to be a lot better at the scholarly jargon than we are, though.
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