Increase income in the workplace
If you’re lucky enough to still be employed, you can increase your income in one of the following ways:
- Check the possibility of working overtime or ask for a raise.
- Check the option for additional vacation days and travel refunds,.
- Check whether there is a component that you can add to your responsibilities and job in exchange for a salary increase?
Create a new source of income
- Make a list of your abilities and skills so you can focus on the appropriate area of employment.
- Get help from friends, acquaintances and family in search of another job.
- Read the “wanted” sections on the Internet and in the printed press – maybe a certain job will catch your eye.
Additional part-time work
There are jobs that allow flexibility and can be done as a second shift. For example::
- Housework: ironing, folding laundry, washing dishes, cooking, baking (cakes, challot, malawah, jahnoun and more)
- Computing: typing jobs, printing, answering surveys, proofreading, translating documents.
- Digital and marketing: content writing, social media marketing, video editing, graphic design.
- Mailings: distribution of newspapers, distribution of flyers, distribution of mail, couriers.
- Instruction / Early Childhood: Babysitting, After school day-care (Tzaharon), creative / cooking class, story time, Torah class, adult instruction in the fields of Internet and computer use, providing private lessons.
- Safeguarding: security, house security, animal protection (dogsitter).
- Sales: sales promotion from home, setting up sales stalls (popsicles, soft drinks, homemade pastries etc.).
- Cleaning: car wash, office/residential cleaning.
- Handicrafts: sewing, knitting, clothing repairs.
- General: inventory in stores, exam supervision (matriculation, college, university), makeup and hairstyles for events, gardening work.
Reduce expenses and build a budget
Wise and responsible financial conduct, including mapping all expenses and incomes, building a budget and acting according to it, can save us thousands of shekels a month.
Want Paamonim volunteers to help you through this process, and walk them step-by-step until you improve your expenses-income balance? Fill out the application form, and together we will go through a process at the end of which you will save thousands of shekels a month.