Because I own a pickup truck, it’s possible to take advantage of certain business opportunities. I own a Chevy pickup, an Silverado, which I drive to work and especially for weekends out at the Sonoran Desert. But with the fire season in southern California this year, I know I can get hauling and clean up work there for the next several months. This is money that doubles my income. And the work lasts for up to six months, depending on various contracts and, of course, the fires themselves. I’m not saying I hope for the fires, far from it. But someone has to do the work.
That extra money could go a long way to wiping out some personal debt. We had a family medical emergency a few years ago and aside from the personal pain to my wife and me, we were left with bad credit and big bills. So naturally, I have to look for ways to make more money when I can.
The trouble is I need to take time off from my job here in Phoenix. My employer is an old friend, and we work it out to do it this way from time to time. All good, except the work in California (or Nevada, Colorado, Arizona or New Mexico) involves me working as a subcontractor. So that means waiting for the people up the food chain getting paid. And then there’s there the issue of waiting on insurance claims settlements.
So that means no pay for four, six maybe even eight weeks. How would my wife and me pay our bills over that time? My wife works at home taking care of the kids. There are bills to pay, the rent, truck payments, health insurance, food and old debt. Doubling my income from the fire recovery work would help with all those thing, but I have a timing problem. What I needed is fast cash.
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