How Teachers Can Turn Summer Side Gigs Into Year-Round Work

By Guest Blogger Joyce Wilson

While there is no doubt teachers are some of the hardest-working people around, the nature of their job affords them a significant amount of time off. A couple of months every summer, plus a couple of weeks at Christmas (along with various holidays and breaks) means they have time to pursue a side hustle to increase their income. Let’s take a look at a few summer side gigs for teachers that they can also work into their schedule during the school year.

Home Workspace

If you are going to pursue a side gig as a teacher, you should set up a dedicated workspace at home. Designating a specific area where you will work helps you focus and avoid the inevitable distractions that come with working at home. Setting consistent office hours will help with this as well. If your family knows you are working when they see in your workspace at a particular time everyday, they are less likely to interrupt you.

Make sure your workspace has all the equipment you need. Invest in a good laptop computer to start and add what you need as you get into your specific job.

Tutoring

Take advantage of your natural skills as a teacher and set up your own tutoring business during the summers and after school. You could focus on students in your own community who need extra help in your area of expertise; you’ll have a natural market with students at your school. You can also tutor students online through a service such as Wyzant, which matches tutors with students looking for help. Another hot area is test prep. If you have expertise in preparing students for the ACT or SAT, for example, your services will be in demand.

Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL)

There is no shortage of people who want to learn English. If you are good with languages, this may be a great opportunity for you. Local agencies in your community may offer classes, and you can also teach online. VIPKID is an industry leader in teaching English online, for example. You can set your own hours, and because you are teaching kids on the other side of the world, their schedules often match your off hours.

Selling Lesson Plans and Classes Online

As a teacher, you already have a stash of lesson plans you have put together for your classes. Guess what? Other teachers are looking for new lesson plan ideas. Why not package your plans and post them in an online marketplace for teachers?

You could also put your knowledge together into an online course and sell it on a platform like Udemy. The great thing about selling plans and classes online is that once you have put the information together, any income you make from it is passive (not directly tied to continuing time and effort from you).

Freelance Writing or Blogging

If you have writing skills, you can start your own freelance writing business. Whether your focus is magazine articles, website copy, business writing or more, there is boundless opportunity online. You can set up your own writing website or you can sign up for Upwork, which offers freelance services to a large audience.

Also consider starting a blog if you are passionate about a specific subject. While this won’t be an instant payoff in terms of income, consistent blogging over time will attract advertisers and build a loyal audience who will buy information products you create. Use a resource like Smart Blogger to get started.

Any of the ideas listed above can pay off for teachers who want to extend a summer side gig throughout the year. A little online research can turn up dozens of other ideas, including gigs like driving for Uber on nights and weekends or renting out an extra bedroom on Airbnb. You are only limited by your imagination.

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	We're going to make the best ant killer that there probably is. We're using boric acid, it usually comes in an unmarked white container. You can get it at a pharmacy, in our area you can't get it in a pharmacy anymore, you can only get it in the pest control section at the hardware store. Ace, Home Depot etcetera.
	First we mark our containers as "Poison," We even  mark the spoon, so nobody uses this. Using one teaspoon of sugar, table sugar, and one squirt of Hot Shot or boric acid. It's boric acid, no matter what it's called. One squirt of powder. Then a few drops of water. Stir it up real good. You're going to make a paste. If you spill remember it's poison, so you want to make sure you clean it up. It has sugar because the ants are going to crawl from all the neighbors, they're going to turn all your poison you just made covered with black ants, or whatever color ants you have, and they're going to carry it back to the queen.
	Therefore, the whole colony will eventually die, but they are going to come from the neighbors, they're going to come from all over, so don't be surprised. It's kind of fun watching it all turn black, when they come and get it. I use a Gatorade lid. A large Gatorade lid or medium, whatever you have. Then I use the spoon I mixed it with and pour a little bit into the Gatorade cap. Some people use an index card or a piece of paper. It's better if it's a paste. Then you just go and put it, I like to put this inside the cabinet where the ants can find it, the pets cannot, and children cannot.
	So I put it into the cabinet and close it up. I also put the leftovers in there too, and just leave it. It eventually dries up, and then you have to make another batch or take a screw driver and scrape it off and leave the powder. It actually is more potent then. Keep doing this until they are gone. For my area it is about 3-days, twice a day, morning and afternoon.    This one would be fine outside, in a place where cats are not going to go and get it. In my video I made it wrong by putting too much water in it. Do not put the paper cup you mix with under the water, put the spoon under the water to catch 2 drops, then pour in and stir to make paste.    So I hope that everybody learns from this, and has great success and fun watching all the ants come and get it. I have been using this since 1995. It works!  'Tracy Elman' Bennett is a local SCV Realtor. She has listings worldwide. List and Buy with Tracy AskELMAN.com (661)527-3777  Real Estate Made Easy! DRE#983101 HomeSmart NCG, Inc.

 

History of Fighting, Martial Arts and more

Tracy Elman:	Hi, I'm Tracy Elman and this is Irvin Burton.
Irvin Burton:	Hi, how you doing?
Tracy Elman:	Irvin is an amazing trainer in self defense, kickboxing, boxing, martial arts, and more. Tell us about the history of how all of that originated.
Irvin Burton:	Well, you're talking about the history of martial arts right?
Tracy Elman:	Yes, (affirmative)
Irvin Burton:	Well, martial arts started ... It's been alive as long as man has been alive. It's been on every continent in the world. Everywhere from the Americas to China, to Africa. It's been everywhere, even in places like Europe, Asia, Japan. You name it.
Tracy Elman:	What year was that?
Irvin Burton:	Well, they found evidence of it as early as 4,000 B.C. They've shown pictures on pots in Egypt with boys boxing with boxing gloves on. There's word of 2,500 B.C. where they have wrestling in China. 3,000 B.C. they've got [Pancration 00:01:18], which is the Greek version of MMA. They've got all sorts of things going on. It's been around for thousands of years.
Tracy Elman:	That's fascinating. Boxing? Is that the same?
Irvin Burton:	Well, boxing's a little different. It's evolved mostly into the sport aspect, but boxing itself has been around for thousands of years as well. It's actually older than most martial arts that we are familiar with. It's older than karate, it's older than kung fu, it's older than certainly a lot older than TaeKwonDo. It's older than most martial arts in existence today. It's pretty much been around since the dawn of man.
Tracy Elman:	Wow. Kickboxing? How did that arrive?
Irvin Burton:	Well, kickboxing's arrival was different on pretty much every continent. If you're talking about, let's say, China on the Asian front, kickboxing evolved ... Let's take China for example. Kickboxing evolved from basic boxing and using a lot of techniques, using the feet, a little more exotic than the traditional boxing. They used it. China had a different understanding of boxing. To them, boxing meant the use of all limbs, not just the hands. Chinese boxing was really called ... They used to call it the law of the fists, also known as kenpo to be exact. Chinese kenpo was known as boxing. They used everything. They used the back of the hand, the elbow, the forearm, the head, the knee. That was boxing to them. That was Chinese boxing.
	If you look at the French, the French had their own form of boxing called savate that evolved in the 1800s. Their form was evolved to make sure that basically they didn't get arrested during that time period. You had a minimum five year sentence for hitting anybody with a closed fist, so they evolved their own form of kickboxing known as savate to avoid charges. Most of the sailors who had to fight a lot used their feet. That's what they did. They used their feet. They didn't use their hands. The most they used their hands to block and [inaudible 00:04:03] out of the way so they wouldn't have to worry about jail time.
	In this day and age I teach to a wide range of people, primarily I am teaching to kids, kids kung fu, kids martial arts. They love that. When it comes to adults, I tend to focus a lot more on fitness and/or fighting. It depends on who I'm training with. I've focused a lot on fitness kickboxing, fitness-based boxing, even some martial moves in there added in to spice things up. I've also come in and used self defense training as part of everything.
Tracy Elman:	Tell everybody how they can reach you and be in your classes.
Irvin Burton:	Sure, yes. You can reach me on Facebook. [Tiger Crane 00:04:59] Martial Arts & Fitness. Ampersand. Not and. Tiger Crane Martial Arts & Fitness or you can reach me directly through my phone number, 661-993-8621. The email address is sifu.irvin.burton@gmail.com.
Tracy Elman:	Great. This is Tracy Elman, REALTOR® from HomeSmart Tracy@tracyelman.com. You can go to AskELMAN.com (661)527-3777 for all your real estate buying and selling needs. Again, it's been a pleasure meeting with you Irvin.
Irvin Burton:	Thank you.
Tracy Elman:	Thank you for watching.
Irvin Burton:	Pleasure being here.

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'Tracy Elman' Bennett is a California licensed Realtor DRE 00983101 since 1988. Her designations include: MRP, Green, SRES®, CIPS. 

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