This is changing time in American history. One time dream to work with government to help nation and community is being crushed with irresponsible actions taken by state politicians. According to SEIU blog, the unemployment rate has touched 7.9 up 3 percent from last year.

The furlough effect on state employees has made families to look for alternate jobs for weekends and has changed their day to day priorities. The weekend prayers, kid痴 games and family get-together are being postponed to find small work at Home Depot / Wal-Mart and other graveyard jobs to cover lost pay.

The 10 percent pay cut has forced many families to look for budget cuts and save money for rainy days.

Extra Income on Furlough Friday's

This great question is in every state employees mind. How to compensate 10 percent pay loss due to Furlough Fridays. Many state employees are looking for weekend jobs, such as insurance and property agent, brokers and some handy jobs at companies looking for weekend manpower.

Some are exploring their carpeting, gardening, painting and sports skills to take small jobs on weekends to compensate the pay loss. In this economy 10 percent pay loss is huge. The fact that we pay 90 percent of our salary for mortgage, insurance, tuitions and groceries, no wonder extra 10 percent pay loss has resulted into anger in affected State workers.

How to earn Extra Income

There are many ideas which can one use to leverage on personal interest to build some extra cash. The ideas may vary from Childcare/pet care to home business, creative writing skills to small consultancy jobs. You need to find the niche on which you can work. There are some jobs which can be adopted to generate the extra cash on furlough days or on weekends.

Jewelry Making and selling online

You may be surprised that how many make good earning by selling home made Jewelry online on eBay, Amazon, craigslist websites. You just need creativity and interest in this job. Building website and portal is easy. Especially at eBay, which lets you build website through their Integrated tools and allows you to sell for nominal fees. You need to create a good website, with logo and promote through friends, families and some marketing by email/pamphlets.
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Extra income through Pet Care

This is another job for which people are not available. The demand for these jobs is on weekends and when people go n vacations. IF you love animals or birds, this is great source of making income and also helps you to relieve the stress.
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Extra income through Child care

Becoming a licensed child care need some courses to be completed, these courses are available through community colleges. Once you get license you are legal to operate a day care from home. Typically a small day care can host 5-7 kids. Although you will need a helper to help you out. The full day care charges vary from $700 - $1000. Considering these charges it does generate handsome revenue. This job does require extreme care and safe environment for kids. Also you need to take a liability insurance to operate a day care. Read More Curtsy About.com

Become a Freelance Writer

The web world is still in infancy stage. Every day thousand of domains and website go live. Most of the websites don稚 have content and are looking for web writers. If you have interest in writing and can spend 1 or 2 hours for writing small articles or key-word based writing. There are many webmasters and companies looking for article writers. The typical article ranges from 300-500, 500-700 and 700- words. The rate for writing article depends upon 2 cent word to $10 article for 500 words. If you can churn out 50 articles in a week that can assure you 300-500 dollars.
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Handyman Jobs

Well no job is small. You will be surprised how much people spend in doing pain jobs, tile fixing/replacing, tree trimming or fence fixing. Even if you get couple of orders on weekends, it can generate decent income. For some of the jobs you might have to partner with to take heavy loading.

Virtual Jobs

These days many companies and small time business owners are looking for virtual help. It can be making sales calls, handling accounts etc. Look for virtual jobs on Web, you will be surprised to know how many of brick and mortar jobs are being scheduled as virtual jobs.
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