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Q: How do you make money on the side here in China?

The interesting thing about living in China is running into people that have a main job, such as teaching ESL, or whatever but many of them also have side jobs as the opportunities present themselves. 

 

Usually things like, tutoring, modeling, appearing in a advert /grand opening, acting, bar tending and more. 

 

I make money on the side by helping my wife with her IELTS/ESL school. I just help host some of the events and teach the kids fun things like how to carve a pumpkin, how to make gingerbread houses... stuff like that. I do it once every few months to help her with marketing.

 

Do you make money on the side of your main job? What do you do? 

 

9 years 13 weeks ago in  Business & Jobs - China

 
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Ha ha RobK wink.

 

Helping your wife out is not exactly making money on the side. She has to pay you from her profits...... you would have it anyway when it goes into her bank .

 

I have been offered work on the side.  A company wanted me to design a specialist machine for them, but when I really thought about it, it would have really been a full time job for a year or so.  It was a big machine !!

 

I like my leisure time too much.  The less time I can spend working the better.  Of course, more money would be nice, but spending time with the family is nicer.  Please don't tell my wife that.... she want's the money .

Robk:

Actually, some of the parents pay me directly for the events and some classes. 

 

But if she makes more money then I make more money... so it's all good. I can't do it too much though.... bad flashbacks. 

 


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ScotsAlan:

Flashbacks?

 

Sounds interesting.  That will be filed away for a slow week question.

 

"Do you have life changing flashbacks?"

 

Then again, that's just the sort of question to attract the ex Navy seals.

 

"YEAH MAN. I get FLASHBACKS. You got a problem with that you COMMIE PUNK "

 

( Just for the record, I do respect ex-servicemen and women. The above was a dig at the copies )

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Former service members... NEVER Ex-service members.

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Nah, ex is ok.  I'm one.

 

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ScotsAlan:

Technically me to come to think of it. But I left during basic. Long time ago.

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I swing trade the stock market and work online - not tutoring. I'm not completely opposed to tutoring, but I have not tutored or worked an English teaching side job for three years. Kindy would be fun. Hmmm

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I used to give private lessons when I was a teacher, usually charged around 300 per students per class, sometimes 3 or 4 students, easy money, they only expect to chat with you in most cases, I have met nice people who are now my friends and speak fluent English (rare enough to be noticed).

 

Have done some modeling, I am blonde, blue eyed, tall and athletic, the stereotype Chinese have of Caucasians. There are actually shirtless photos of me and a famous Chinese female model online (she is naked from head to toes in it, well censored though, can't see any private part, doesn't break the law), hope my future wife never sees it.

 

Trade, buying stuff abroad, back home or in HK, selling it on the Mainland, advertising through Wechat or else, you won't believe how easy it is to sell overpriced foreign branded beauty products, watches, ashtrays, handbags, shoes or clothes to middle class Chinese who are still having a hard time to travel outside the country thanks to the shitty Chinese passport.

 

Now I earn enough with my current job to not have to find ways to make extra bucks, I succeeded to get myself out of the ESL teaching game though still working in the ESL field but in another position (where I don't have to teach) that is higher in the ladder and no that's not DOS (I hate those guys), basically my job ranges from being a middle man between FTs and the management to sending some students to continue their studies overseas (usually in the Big5: US, Canada, UK, Australia, NZ, or else), registration with the educational institutions, dealing with the visa BS at the embassies (means I get their passports in hands, good trust here), and other legal things ... quite easy, much better paid than teaching and gives me the opportunity to travel to different cities and provinces in Mainland China.

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When I was teaching, I also did consulting. I eventually ended-up working full time for the same people. I met my boss in an elevator... If you have an engineering degree and/or can design stuffs, there's a lot of well paid opportunities. I also wrote a small technical book, it took 8 months, gave me 20k RMB.

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I bend over

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My whole life here is "side money."  I don't have a full-time job, but I've got enough part-time  teaching(12hrs/wk for ~15,000/mo)  to get by.  I've turned down a few of the one-off, so-called face jobs: including pretending to be a chef in a mall, greeting people at a restaurant, and judging English competitions. I was even offered a small movie part, and I am not a handsome fellow.  It goes to show that there are a lot of these things out there, and I assume, people willing to do them.

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12 hours a week for 15k RMB is pretty nice deal. 

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Yeah, I lucked into the gig.  I teach a writing course for 400/hr.  It's great, and I get a little mental stimulation, as well.  The rest are lessons for friends' kids.  I require they have 4 kids per class so I make a little money and they save a little.  Mutually beneficial.

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i don't have time for side jobs :(

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I havent done a side job in almost 3 years. I wont actively search for them but if something lucrative comes across i wont turn it down. Last one i did was one on ones with a CEO of a smaller firm. 350 an hour 5 hours a week. Just go to a coffee shop and chat. I would have continued if I didnt move. He was cool.

Where I am now there isnt alot of opportunities. No one speaks english and they all kinda just leave me alone around here. Which suits me just fine. But again if something fell into my lap i probably wouldnt say no.

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I teach part time two days a week at a middle school, 13 classes a week, 200 RMB per class + 50 RMB each day for cab fare, so that gives me an extra 10,400 RMB a month. This spring and last summer, I recruited undergrad and graduate students and sent them to colleges in the Los Angeles area. The student's parents pay me to do this and to "look after" their child, and the college also gives me a percentage of their tuition every semester. I want to expand on this particular side gig and turn it into a business on it's own and work out agreements with high schools in city and the rest of my province, it's easy and very profitable. Oh and this past summer and probably again this winter, I had 3 of my students live with me at my house every day for 2 weeks, to get a full "immersion English" experience to help improve their English faster and expand. I charged each parent 2000 RMB per day  (Which is substantially less than the costs of a round trip ticket, accommodation, etc if they were to send them on trip one of those school arranged trips to America, or another country). I have a 3 bedroom house and it was easy, we watched TV all day, cooked pizza, ate chocolate, played football, watched more TV (American TV...albeit, some with Chinese subtitles, but I digress). So I made a quick 84,000 RMB for two weeks of work from that gig. I'll probably do it again for one week right before or after Spring Festival. Also recently, the past 2 months or so, I studied and got into FOREX trading as a side gig

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I hear you can't really make any money off that FOREX stuff.... does it work at all? 

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You totally can man. I already have and I wish I had learned about it sooner. Better than the stock market and relatively easy to do once you actually learn how it works, what to look for, and learning all the lingo. People who don't make money, either can't read their charts or just didn't do enough research beforehand to learn how it works. Granted there will be times you lose money of course, but you'll learn as you go and get better.

 

If you wanna do it right, and actually make some money, then you have to take the time to really learn about it and it does take some time. Everyday for a month I would spend time with a notebook writing down notes as if I was taking a class in business school. You can totally do it to. There's even sites that you can sign up with a demo account, and practice trading with fake money, using the real time market and see how you do, and if you would have made a profit..then once you get the hang of that, you can jump in and do it like a pro. If you wanna learn about it, I would recommend this website: http://www.babypips.com/school/

 

It will teach you everything you need to know. It'll seem totally overwhelming at first, just with all the new terminology, but just hang in there and it will pay off. I wanted to do this as a back up plan and a way to quickly and easily make and save money no matter where I am. Good luck! If you have any questions let me know. wink

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hello, everyone, our company wants an intern to help us on marketing issue. If anyone interested on it, please contact us.  Thank you very much.

 

Requirement:
Male
Master of Chinese;
Good communication skills;
Age between 23-30;
No working experience required;
Report date is1st of March

dongbeiren:

So the anon. accounts have to make new screennames now... troll alert

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DrMonkey:

It's not a place to do advertisement, promotion, etc. Use the job section for this.

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coineineagh:

is Master of Chinese a university degree or the title of a Martial Arts achievement? if it refers to slave ownership, you might find who you're looking for in the 19th century.

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Inrership?Na I can always get better paid than intership do with the time learn the woeking experience also.Never will go do intership.A slaver job.

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well, it rhymes with Figaro...  angel

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