MY BOGGY BLOG: find your way through the murk

Paid to Read

My twin 13 year olds are pretty lucky in the job category. About a year ago, they stumbled on a great opportunity, to read manuscripts for a local publisher and get paid to give their comments about it. We heard about this opportunity from someone at church. They will get a manuscript every few months, have a month to read it (usually fiction) and send in their review. They get $80 for each review. "Do you know how many hours I had to babysit when I was your age to make that kind of money?" I said to my daughter.

She argued back that $80 today wasn't like $80 back then, so even if it was the same as, let's say, $50 when I was a kid, I would have had to babysit about 40-50 hours to make $50!

This is pretty good money for a 13 year old. And wouldn't be bad for a 40 year old, either! I'm jealous!

And then there's the decision of how much they should save and how much they can spend. I'll save that topic for another day...