Let’s start exploring opportunities in New Zealand…
If you are looking to add a few extra dollars to your weekly pay cheque or even to eventually replace your pay cheque totally, then you will be looking for some business opportunities or part-time jobs.
Let’s call these opportunities.
Part-Time Jobs
Obviously part-time jobs are in abundance in New Zealand.
You will see plenty of part time jobs advertised, but also there’s plenty of opportunities to get a part-time job that never ever be advertised.
Sometimes it’s really just a matter of being as proactive as you can.
My daughter recently left school and is doing a year before she starts potentially doing university. And so she needed some work. Instead of scrolling through the various websites looking for what jobs are advertised, instead she searched for the types of jobs that she wanted online. Her passion is teaching and music and the arts. And so she contacted four local companies that did work with children. And from those four emails that she sent out, she ended up being offered three part-time jobs.
Sometimes it’s not sitting there waiting for the opportunities to pop up, but instead you need to go and reach out and find those opportunities yourself.
So those are part-time jobs, which effectively is working for somebody else on an hourly rate. The good thing with that sort of work is when it comes to proving your income for the likes of a mortgage application it’s relatively easy as you have payslips.
The key to this is, if possible, to use a permanent part-time or full-time role rather than the casual contract. Or if you are using a casual contract, having some commitment for minimum hours as that’s what a lender will look at when seeing whether they can include that income in the mortgage assessment.
Business Opportunities
Regardless of being able to use it for lending purposes, any extra income is going to be welcomed into the household as you can use that for paying off debt, for investing so you have a larger deposit, or investing in other business opportunities to earn a long-term and sustainable income.
So looking at business opportunities, there are thousands available, and so it’s really a matter of looking at what suits you and your personality, and of course, your budget. Some of the opportunities are very affordable and even free to start with, whereas others have an upfront investment required. Generally, if the investment, if the opportunity is free or low-cost, then it will require more of your time, whereas some of the opportunities that are more expensive to enter into take very little time and can even run on autopilot.
On this website, I have chosen to talk about the opportunities that I have some experience in. These are things that I have done or are currently doing, and so I have a pretty good knowledge of how they work. I also never entered into any of these without doing my own research on them, and that should illustrate that these are genuine business opportunities, not random startups where there’s very little opportunity for somebody like you or me to make any money.
You will also notice that I don’t hide behind emails or facades, and you can contact me directly to discuss any of these opportunities that you may be considering. I will always give you honest feedback on how they’ve worked for myself and what you need to do to make sure that they work for you.
Just so you know for myself, these business opportunities are not my primary occupation. My main occupation is as a mortgage advisor and financial advisor, and these are some things I’ve done on the side and in some ways have done to test the opportunities to see if they will work for other people, as we certainly get asked a lot by mortgage clients that are looking for additional ways to earn income.
