You can multiply the number of hours you're making money if you farm out jobs and skim money from the top. Stop giving information away. If there's going to be a quid pro quo, ask up front. When you make a pitch, never give away all your stuff. For instance, tell them you have a dozen strategies but detail only one.
Students are still powerful.
It is possible to call up nearly anyone and get information from him or her, if you say you're a student. Most of all, I learned that you can make consulting work an engine of social change, not solely an opportunity for self-advancement. For graduate students, however, consulting might be the ticket to an intellectual career beyond the university's vaunted halls. I finished my dissertation last summer. Yes, yes, your faculty advisors and teachers will tell you how they slaved in grad school and didn't have fun and how your time is better spent in the lab or the library than having fun on Saturday.