Making money as a cook

If you ever get stuck with finding a job one that never goes out of style as well as being always in demand is a short order cook. There is hardly a restaurant in the world that isn’t always looking for a cook. The restaurant owners will often hire you on the spot so that all you have to do is put on an apron, and go straight to work in the kitchen.

You will be required to make light meals, hamburgers, hot dogs, salads and keep the coffee pot full. This is the ideal job when you are between jobs while you are looking for something else. The pay is good enough so many people make a lifetime career out of cooking, and may even become a chef preparing fancy dishes.

Even if you don’t cook restaurants are also looking for busboys dishwashers and waitresses. There are always employment opportunities to be had wherever they serve food.

Making money as a day laborer

Making Money by being a Day Laborer

A fast way to make money and usually be paid for your efforts at the end of the day is a day laborer. This way of making money can cover a multitude of sins ranging from being an agricultural laborer to a stevedore unloading ships. None of these jobs are such that they need a college degree to perform, but what they do need is some muscle. There are many firms that specialize in providing this kind of labor or there is another way of getting a day job just by showing up at an informal gathering of would be day laborers commonly called a shape-up. Here the laborers are hired for a wide ranging variety of jobs.

There are a vast number of jobs available at one of these informal gathering places where one day you might be hired to mow lawns, be a landscape laborer. In the winter you might be hired to shovel snow or drive a snow plow. During the fall you might be hired to rake leaves and clean up people’s yards. Some of the work might involve cleaning up construction sires after the other work is finished. If you have a car the job might be delivering pizzas or running errands. The variety of jobs are endless!

Renting Mineral Specimens for Profit

Not many people would think about renting mineral specimens for profit, but this outlandish idea works. Many offices use mineral specimens for decorations because they are attractive and require little or no care. By renting them the client gains flexibility on what he displays for his customers to view while in his office.

The specimens that are in the most demand are the showy museum grade specimens. These are not cheap, but they can be bought at wholesale prices at the larger gem and mineral shows like the one held every August in the Better Living Enterprises Building on the fairgrounds at West Springfield, Massachusetts. There are several of these large shows in all parts of the country advertised in the Rockhound Magazines. Fine showy mineral specimens can also be bought over the Internet. You can find dealers by typing “mineral specimens” into your browser.

Mineral specimens are nice because they require little or no care, and they can be swapped occasionally between between clients to keep something fresh before your clients customers eyes. Fine mineral specimens are also great conversation pieces.

One of the most effective places to display mineral specimens is in a glass topped coffee table where they are safe from pilfering or handling. These tables are usually custom built, but you can include the special tables or cases in the rental charge.

Renting Indoor Plants for Profit

How to make money by renting indoor plants is perfect for someone that has already built a clientele by cleaning the insides of buildings. This can take the form of an additional service your company provides going beyond the usual cleaning services. It also provides an additional income stream to your existing business.

The necessary plants are available from your local wholesale greenhouse or nursery. This leads to yet another business called “Interior Landscaping” where you can charge an additional fee for maintaining the plants once you have rented them to the client.

This maintenance includes watering and pruning them on a regular basis. It also includes providing attractive containers to hold the plants that are available through wholesale florists. The containers from most greenhouses and nurseries leave much to be desired, and you can even charge an additional monthly fee for the new container.

To find clients for the service you can tell your existing clients about your new service and additional clients can be readily found in any place that contains offices or other commercial operations that could use a touch of color.

Making $1,000 selling donuts

If you don’t think there is money in donuts you probably haven’t had your Tim Horton’s fix for the day yet. For those that don’t know what a Tim Horton’s fix is it is coffee and donuts at one of the Tim Horton’s donut shops that cross Canada and are coming into the United States. In Canada there are over 2,800 of these shops with an additional about 600 shops in the US. To be honest we haven’t had our Tim Horton’s fix lately because they haven’t moved into our neck-of-the-woods yet, and we miss our fix!

Some of the best donuts we have ever eaten were served off the coffee cart that used to come to our office in Manhattan every morning. These were donuts made by the coffee break man’s wife. He used to start with one hundred dozen of these donuts every morning and had none left most of the time when he went home. This was over 50 years ago and the price per donut has risen greatly over the years. At that time he charged 25¢ apiece for the donut’s. Not bad, he started with 1,200 donuts at 25¢ apiece meaning he grossed $300 a ay from the donuts alone or $1,500 a week. The cost of the donuts was less then $100 per day meaning a net profit of about $200 per day.

The secret of success in the donut business is not to scrimp on the ingredients. If you do this to increase the profit on your donuts the customers will go elsewhere in a hurry. There is a chain of donut shops that tried this tactic, they are not around anymore!

You can buy all the equipment required to fry donuts and make coffee at a restaurant supply store whether you are going to open a single store, a whole chain of stores or sell your donuts from a coffee cart.

Making a $1,000 from donuts

If you don’t think there is money in donuts you probably haven’t had your Tim Horton’s fix for the day yet. For those that don’t know what a Tim Horton’s fix is it is coffee and donuts at one of the Tim Horton’s donut shops that cross Canada and are coming into the United States. In Canada there are over 2,800 of these shops with an additional about 600 shops in the US. To be honest we haven’t had our Tim Horton’s fix lately because they haven’t moved into our neck-of-the-woods yet, and we miss our fix!

Some of the best donuts we have ever eaten were served off the coffee cart that used to come to our office in Manhattan every morning. These were donuts made by the coffee break man’s wife. He used to start with one hundred dozen of these donuts every morning and had none left most of the time when he went home. This was over 50 years ago and the price per donut has risen greatly over the years. At that time he charged 25¢ apiece for the donut’s. Not bad, he started with 1,200 donuts at 25¢ apiece meaning he grossed $300 a ay from the donuts alone or $1,500 a week. The cost of the donuts was less then $100 per day meaning a net profit of about $200 per day.

The secret of success in the donut business is not to scrimp on the ingredients. If you do this to increase the profit on your donuts the customers will go elsewhere in a hurry. There is a chain of donut shops that tried this tactic, they are not around anymore!

You can buy all the equipment required to fry donuts and make coffee at a restaurant supply store whether you are going to open a single store, a whole chain of stores or sell your donuts from a coffee cart.

How to make $1,000 picking and selling cherries

The average cherry tree will produce five or six bushels of cherries during the average growing season if properly cared for by pruning and spraying. The recent price for cherries in the local supermarket was about $3.99 per pound. Two years ago the author stopped at a roadside stand in British Columbia that sold strictly cherries. The owner of this stand was an old man who originally came to Canada from Portugal as a young man.

Just as I entered the stand a terrific thunderstorm broke out leaving me stranded in the stand while hailstones the size of cherries rained down. Lacking anything better to do I started a conversation with the owner. He looked absolutely like he was broke, and was trying to eke out a living by selling cherries.

What he proceeded to tell me really raised my eyebrows, and made me realize this man was in reality a multi-millionaire all based on his cherry business. He sold every cherry he could grow in this small non-descript roadside stand. What he actually had out of sight in the Fraser River Valley was an orchard of 518 cherry trees. At the time he was asking $3.95 per pound for his cherries. Now it doesn’t take a mathematical genius to figure out his orchard was producing around 2,850 bushel per year. At around 50 pounds per bushel amounts to about 142,500 pounds at $3.95 per pound or $562,875 gross. This little man was clearing over $200,000 per year just from cherries he sold by the side of the road.

You might not have a cherry orchard in your back yard, but there are plenty of cherry growers that will allow you to pick cherries for them, and pay you in cash. They will also allow you to pick cherries for a fee low enough so you can make some money. Like many other businesses tell the owner of the orchard what you are doing and he will offer you a much lower price for the cherries.

To be most effective you should have another person in the act like a wife or other family member so you can devote all your time on picking cherries. The season is short usually lasting less then a month.

There are many places to sell cherries, one of the best is at a farmers market another is from the side of the road. The ideal situation is a roadside stand on a busy highway. With a stand you can sell a wide range of fresh organic produce.