Isn't it strange that however much you earn, it never quite lasts until the end of the month? Many people need to earn 'a bit on the side' to pay for extras or just to pay off debts.
Of course there's always babysitting or the usual bar or shop shifts at weekends, but you can't always get that kind of work and, anyway, who wants to do yet more childcare when you've been doing it all week?
In fact, there are loads of ways you can make some extra cash, often with a minimum of time and effort. It's just a question of looking around, asking friends and thinking laterally. What are other people doing? What skills do you have you could sell elsewhere? What things do you have in your home you could make money from? If you sit down and think about it, you might be surprised at how much you could make. And many money-making pursuits will happily fit around childcare work.
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