Well, my paying internship will end in a week, and then I’ll have until August before I will have a steady source of money (hello, student loans!).  It can be tough to find a summer job around here in the best of times, as the area is filled with college students returning home for the summer. Add that to a recession, and there’s not much available.

Also, I have a part-time unpaid internship and a certain huge accounting exam to take this summer, so a job that requires a certain number of hours a week won’t fit into my plans. Instead, I’m going to see if I can get by on making some money online, and maybe sewing some costumes for people.

My goal is to try to make $15 a day, on average. That will at least cover my automatic investments each month, and hopefully a few trips to Starbucks!

Right now, I have an account with Associated Content, which pays okay money for writing. I make about $12 a month from them now without writing anything, just from receiving page view bonuses.

I also just signed up for this site called YouData. They let you put in information about yourself, and then you get paid to look at ads that are targeted at you. If you’re in a shopping mood anyway, it’s actually kind of fun. So far the ads I’ve gotten to see are actually for stuff I’m interested in. Right now it seems like the amount of ads they have available are pretty low, which is why you should sign up, because the more people they have looking at their ads, the more advertisers they can attract, haha. I do get a small referral bonus if you sign up using this link, but only if the people I refer actually make money on the site.

I’m interested to see how it goes, because advertisers won’t stick with it if people aren’t actually buying anything when they click through to their site. And if someone is sitting on their computer trying to make a few cents from clicking ads, they’re going to be hyperaware of spending any money. I’m going to give it a shot and see how it goes. It may be an extra dollar a day.