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Step 13Tutoring
This is an expansion on step 12.
You can tutor people in a class you're good at, but oftentimes there is less money potential. Expect to talk to the appropriate teacher to see if you can get some extra credit in their class for tutoring in that subject.
Industrial arts teachers are generally less likely to give extra credit than other teachers, and might not let you do after school shop. Of course, if your shop teacher does have an after school shop time, then find out who is struggling in that class and offer to help them. If someone just can't work a scroll saw but you are good at it, offer to do all or part of their scrolling after school in exchange for something.
If it's a cash fee, make it a small one. Otherwise maybe you can get them to do a lot of your sanding (my 8th grade shop teacher made us sand everything by hand, till it was "smoother than a frog's hair split five ways").
If you're helping people with schoolwork that they'd otherwise be failing, don't ask for big payments. That's bordering on extortion. But enough for a Big Mac is reasonable. Or maybe have them bring a Big Mac to tutoring. That would be fair.
A five course meal, on the other hand, wouldn't be. Use common sense, and be a good person. If word gets around that you'll help people with trig or lathe work or whatever, people might actually come out of the woodwork (no pun intended) and offer you things to get you to choose them to tutor next. Accept these offers, but don't get greedy. Don't deliberately make people compete, because then it's just bribing, not fair compensation.
Rishnai
You can tutor people in a class you're good at, but oftentimes there is less money potential. Expect to talk to the appropriate teacher to see if you can get some extra credit in their class for tutoring in that subject.
Industrial arts teachers are generally less likely to give extra credit than other teachers, and might not let you do after school shop. Of course, if your shop teacher does have an after school shop time, then find out who is struggling in that class and offer to help them. If someone just can't work a scroll saw but you are good at it, offer to do all or part of their scrolling after school in exchange for something.
If it's a cash fee, make it a small one. Otherwise maybe you can get them to do a lot of your sanding (my 8th grade shop teacher made us sand everything by hand, till it was "smoother than a frog's hair split five ways").
If you're helping people with schoolwork that they'd otherwise be failing, don't ask for big payments. That's bordering on extortion. But enough for a Big Mac is reasonable. Or maybe have them bring a Big Mac to tutoring. That would be fair.
A five course meal, on the other hand, wouldn't be. Use common sense, and be a good person. If word gets around that you'll help people with trig or lathe work or whatever, people might actually come out of the woodwork (no pun intended) and offer you things to get you to choose them to tutor next. Accept these offers, but don't get greedy. Don't deliberately make people compete, because then it's just bribing, not fair compensation.
Rishnai
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