I’ve found a great way to make some extra cash to help pay for my flying.  It’s not a network marketing thing and it doesn’t require any type of selling. It’s a little something called ChaCha. Bare with me here…

Online Research with ChaCha

ChaCha is one of the coolest things I’ve ever discovered. Pull out your mobile phone and send a text to “ChaCha” (242242) and ask it any question you want.  Here are some that people have asked today:

• What is the chart called that’s used to calculate mortgage payments
• Who is Barbies new boyfriend?
• What time does the Indy 500 start today?

Other questions have been a little more trivial.  It’s amazing what people want to know.  I have to think some are being asked by a bunch of guys at a party.

So, go ahead and give it a try right now.  It’s free (unless your provider charges you per text). Maybe I’ll even be the one to answer your question.

Honest Work-at-Home Income.

So, now I can sit on my computer in my free time and answer questions for ChaCha.  Each question I answer pays me $0.20. It’s not much, but the hours are VERY flexible and the work can be done anywhere I have my laptop and a wireless connection (even the beach or the local FBO).

ChaCha is looking for people to help answer questions as ChaCha Guides.  You’d be an independent contractor (not an employee).  You’ll have to go through a series of tests to make the team and apparently only 1 out of 10 applicants get accepted.  But, if you’re learning to fly, you’re probably sharp enough to make it as a ChaCha Guide.  What have you got to lose?

I found I could answer about 20-30 question per hour.  If I do that for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week, that comes to over $200 a month.  It’s not going to pay the mortgage, but it’s extra money that only takes a couple of hours per day and you can do it in your PJ’s.

Want to give it a try?

Just go here: Become a ChaCha Guide and when you’re asked who referred you, put in my email address “adams411 @ gmail.com” (remove the spaces).

This is something you can do while you’re studying for your oral exam or playing with a GPS simulator on your PC. I’m loving being a ChaCha Guide and it’s allowing me to fly without killing the family budget.

I know it’s a stretch, but you can buy a Cessna 152 for about $15,000.  You’re only 75,000 questions away from owning one outright.  Seriously.  You can do that in about 3000 hours of idle online time.

Here’s some media expose for ChaCha:

Wall Street Journal

Forbe Magazine

New York Times

LA Times