<p>fiddler in a bluegrass band who plays once a month at a gorgeous outdoor venue for low key folksy folks.</p>
<p>College counselor (part time!) in our public high school, or per diem person for infant day care, like when regular staff are sick. I love to hold babies and feed babies, and don’t mind changing their diapers.</p>
<p>SI photographer would be a great job.</p>
<p>Emilybee, how did you get into de-cluttering and home staging? Were you in real estate?</p>
<p>Though I have done things in my community, I have also not worked for 25 years, due to some caregiving for family with health issues. Job possibilities are limited.</p>
<p>However, the part-time jobs section of craigslist is fun and I got a few interviews the last time I tried: doing inventory for a pop-up card business started by some students, working the desk at a homey assisted living facility with lots of community volunteers, coordinating volunteers at a food pantry, and managing an evening bluegrass music school. I did not think of any of these categories on my own and obviously there is no pattern. I just randomly applied to whatever appealed to me on the p/t list.</p>
<p>I would also consider babysitting (care.com)/nannying or pet care (several sites).</p>
<p>I did the parttime 401(k) administration gig for a number of years (and VH, I worked for one of those big benefits consulting firms back in the day, pre-kids).</p>
<p>If I could get paid a decent, regular wage for my fabric art/creative exploits, I would be thrilled beyond belief. I have started doing quilting for a women’s shelter through our synagogue, am doing a couple of unpaid commissions for our synagogue as fundraisers, joined the board of directors, and am about to rewrite their website (which I did for my previous employer). When I have the time, I am going to make lap quilts for my sibs out of some of my mom’s clothes.</p>
<p>I’m not a parent but I couldn’t help but answer this question. I would love nothing more than to make YouTube covers of songs/music for extra pocket money. It’d be great: spending Saturdays playing drums, saxophone, a little singing, recording all of it on Audacity, upload…then chill out for the rest of the weekend. Man would I love that work. 
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<p>I used to make jewelry as a hobby when I was a stay at home mom, and I would sell my stuff at the PTA fundraising auctions (profits went to the school, of course). I toyed with the idea of turning it into a business, but it seemed to me that I’d probably end up just making whatever turned out to be my most popular designs over and over again. What I enjoyed about making jewelry was the creativity – I wouldn’t want to be a worker in my own jewelry factory, making the same earring design twenty times a day.</p>
<p>I once read a book about turning your hobby into a business that made the point that when you’re a small business owner you’re the CEO, the accountant, the sales and marketing department, the admin, the cleaning staff, the delivery guy, and everything else, not just the person who bakes the cupcakes or whatever your business is technically about. You have to be sure you’d like doing all that stuff.</p>
<p>I found my current job through volunteering for a cause I care about. I would highly recommend this for anyone who isn’t in immediate need of income and just wants to start working towards an interesting career some day. Volunteer at a small organization that needs help, and you’ll find the place where your skill set matches their needs. Even if they don’t end up hiring you, you could very well find something at a similar group who will value the experience you acquired with the first group.</p>
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<p>Currently, I do shoot professional and semi profession models almost every weekend when the weather is nice. </p>
<p>Just thought of my dream part time job. I would be a butterfly “farmer”. I started “raising” Monarch butterflies (and a few other varieties) in my yard this year and am loving it. I love checking on them each morning and watching their progress. Once they form the chrysalis it is like Christmas morning when they finally emerge. My family is starting to call me the Crazy Butterfly Lady.</p>
<p>Are you planning to sell your butterflies? Have read about having them released after weddings instead of pelting couple with grain. </p>
<p>^^^Lol no, but maybe there is a future for me. I am just doing it for fun. The numbers of Monarchs has been declining so this is my small contribution.</p>
<p>@takeitallin I had no idea you could even do that ! I am off to google it </p>
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<p>I just dropped off 30 tee-shirts and $400 at a woman’s house. She is making a full-sized quilt. I think they make great gifts for kids that have recently graduated. They own all kinds of tee shirts. This woman lives in my neighborhood and has a newly emptied nest. I met her at a craft fair. </p>
<p>My new part-time job is buying and selling Villeroy & Boch china. I’m learning every pattern made and then using e-bay to learn what pieces are rare. I just bought a butter dish on craigslist for $100 two weeks ago and sold it this morning for $329. I enjoy the research, the creativity of taking nice pictures and writing good listings (ads), and the great people I’ve met online, many of whom are repeat customers. </p>
<p>“Currently, I do shoot professional and semi profession models almost every weekend when the weather is nice.”</p>
<p>You’re very lucky. I wish I could do that but I don’t think my wife would be so enthusiastic.
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<p>Personal trainer - I’d like to instruct fitness using boxing, martial arts style training plus weightlifting and group fitness classes and I’m really getting into nutrition now so that would be a nice add on. </p>
<p>I don’t go for it because I have an irregular schedule at work and this is a field that demands discipline from clients to show up and I may be the one unable to be on time or present at all. And I hate early morning workouts.</p>
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<p><em>Raising hand</em> I did and it was my ideal “retirement” job but boy, is it ever hard work at the holidays. I had no retail background whatsoever but somehow got a management job a few weeks before Thanksgiving. The next 6 weeks or so were a stressful blur although I did survive. I decided it would be much more fun just to be a part-time associate and even though the holiday seasons were still very tough, I had a ball.</p>
<p>Be warned that the discount is very seductive; you will always spend more than you make (well, I sure did 
). I left after about 4 years and I still miss the great team I worked with. However, I have all the cookware, cutlery, flatware, dinnerware, linens and electric appliances I will ever need to remember them by </p>
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<li>College application reader</li>
<li>Williams Sonoma/Sur La Table</li>
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<p>D and I used to play a game when we were out driving: name the color of that car. One of us would point at a car, and we’d go back and forth and come up with names for the paint color. Then it occurred to me – that is actually someone’s job – to come up with names of paint colors! So that’s the job I want, because I can’t imagine it would actually be a full time job.</p>
<p>When the kids were little, I worked one holiday season at Crate & Barrel and it was a lot of fun- because people come to buy and are happy. And I love the gear. But it was exhausting. Had my own box-cutter.</p>
<p>Dreaming? I’d like to be a part-time, very selective chef for dinner parties. Love to cook. Can make a wedding cake. But part of the dream would be people pursue me, I’d be in complete control and no one would be fussy. Thinking of starting a food blog.</p>
<p>I do two part-time things for the U now. </p>
<p>I worked at Barnes and Noble in college and it was a great PT job–I’d recommend it to anybody. Oh, and the discounts are excellent!</p>