First posting, but I've been lurking for weeks now.
I am an IT consultant - a salaried employee of a VAR who gets sent out to various customers to do installs, troubleshooting, etc. for high end computer networks. I recently came across an ad in the "gigs" section of Craigslist asking for something in my line and on a whim answered it. I haven't gotten the details yet, but I thought I'd ask the Mustachian community: is this a good or a bad idea? As far as I know, this is not one of my companies customers, so it's not like I'm directly taking business away from them, and the money they are offering ($1000) would not be worth my companies time. And if I did take it (and maybe other stuff that comes along) - what is the best way to handle it? I've done small things like PC repair before where people have just paid me some cash, but if it was going to be any appreciable amount of money I would wnat to declare it - but then you start getting into all sorts of other record keeping, etc. that might make it just too much of a hassle.