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Suddenly it looks like I'll be doing pretty well financially. I get paid decently at my current job, but it's nothing to brag over. It could and should be more.

I've spent a lot of time trying to supplement this. On Monday, I was called by two places. One was a part time job I applied to weeks earlier. The other was completely out of the blue.

I interviewed with the former today and I think it went extremely well. They are a small company that builds web sites for small businesses. They've developed their own CMS that handles a lot of the actual coding... so I mostly would just be designing and implementing sites according to client needs. Seems relatively simple and I should be hearing back for sure in a few days. They talked to me like I have the job already, though.

The latter was a friend of a friend. Her company needed someone to change things on their site since their last developer disappeared off the face of the planet. I was recommended to her. Pretty simple stuff: adding rows to a database to add content to the site. The thing was that their last developer apparently couldn't figure this out and was in the process of creating static pages. It made no sense; while they didn't provide the database login, but it was easy to find within the site's files.

I really lowballed the price for this, saying about $15 an hour. I did it in about 1 and a half total (including time just talking with people), which is obviously not much money. She called me back and let me know that this was grossly underpriced and that their last guy wanted $125 an hour and had a minimum of 8 hours. So she put me in at $100 an hour and rounded it up. I got $200 for what was essentially 45 minutes of real work.

Too bad that won't be more common, but I am their go-to guy now. Even a couple hours a month with them would be nice.

So we'll see what happens. I can use the money.