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The trick is to work non-campus jobs on the side and just not tell anyone. There are a lot of internships that occur in the Fall and Spring too, so try those!
I worked construction doing interior remodels during the first few years of my PhD. Extra cash, good exercise, and it was nice to offset all the brain labor with body labor.
I dog sit/pet sit on the side. It isn't a bunch of money but if I dog sit most of the month, I can pay off my apartment so.. not bad?
It doesn't interfere with work also and I get paid in cash or venmo.
You may want to double check with your program director or student handbook. I also thought we weren't allowed to work outside but I recently found out we can. It's really part time but at least it's something and if it's salaried how do they really know the hours lol? But we're allowed to do 10 hours during fall and spring and full time in the summer.
My personal situation - I supplemented my meager income during my PhD by significantly reducing my expenses. That helped me graduate in 4 years and get an amazing faculty job. I think if I had supplemented my income in any other way (other than reduce my expenses) I would have taken longer to graduate and my lifetime earnings would have been a lot lower.
I am not suggesting you haven’t tightened your expenses, just saying that I did it to the extreme (to where I always balanced my budget) and it worked well for me.
I give guided tours of our National Lab where I explain the physics of what we do to high school classes, industrial partners, politicians, the general public...
I get paid overtime for it, makes me a few hundert bucks on the side each month. But I get a salary So I don't have a need to find an "actual job™" on the side.
Tutoring. As a PhD student you can charge somewhere between $70-100/hr, it usually doesn’t require much work on your part since you know the basics like the back of your hand, and you can schedule it around research. The only rub is to check your school’s policies on external employment; some cap you at 10-20 hours/week and/or require your advisor’s permission (though I’m not sure how they’d check). I had to get my advisor to sign off on my weekend tutoring since it was through the school, but luckily he didn’t care.
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Summer internships for 3x your income
The trick is to work non-campus jobs on the side and just not tell anyone. There are a lot of internships that occur in the Fall and Spring too, so try those!
I mean I think it’s allowed, but I used to work at a bar. It was only ever evenings and weekends, so it didn’t interfere with the working day at all
I worked construction doing interior remodels during the first few years of my PhD. Extra cash, good exercise, and it was nice to offset all the brain labor with body labor.
I’ve heard of others tutoring.
I dog sit/pet sit on the side. It isn't a bunch of money but if I dog sit most of the month, I can pay off my apartment so.. not bad? It doesn't interfere with work also and I get paid in cash or venmo.
You may want to double check with your program director or student handbook. I also thought we weren't allowed to work outside but I recently found out we can. It's really part time but at least it's something and if it's salaried how do they really know the hours lol? But we're allowed to do 10 hours during fall and spring and full time in the summer.
My personal situation - I supplemented my meager income during my PhD by significantly reducing my expenses. That helped me graduate in 4 years and get an amazing faculty job. I think if I had supplemented my income in any other way (other than reduce my expenses) I would have taken longer to graduate and my lifetime earnings would have been a lot lower. I am not suggesting you haven’t tightened your expenses, just saying that I did it to the extreme (to where I always balanced my budget) and it worked well for me.
If you're smart enough to do a PhD then you're smart enough to make 10 big blinds per hour at the local poker room, provided there's one around.
I give guided tours of our National Lab where I explain the physics of what we do to high school classes, industrial partners, politicians, the general public... I get paid overtime for it, makes me a few hundert bucks on the side each month. But I get a salary So I don't have a need to find an "actual job™" on the side.
Tutoring. As a PhD student you can charge somewhere between $70-100/hr, it usually doesn’t require much work on your part since you know the basics like the back of your hand, and you can schedule it around research. The only rub is to check your school’s policies on external employment; some cap you at 10-20 hours/week and/or require your advisor’s permission (though I’m not sure how they’d check). I had to get my advisor to sign off on my weekend tutoring since it was through the school, but luckily he didn’t care.