Corporations taking over side hustles seems to be screwing over people, since they take such a large cut and flood the market for that hustle.
But the ones I’ve personally seen people do that work pretty well (in USA) are:
Stay at home mom watching another kid (legally dubious depending on state/situation. But I ain’t no narc.)
A neighbor of my mom’s sends out a menu saying what she plans on cooking each night for that week, and for $X will deliver you some as well (Legal in Utah due to special laws, other states could be dubious. )
People who go pick up free furniture that is pretty trashed, and then refurbishes it and sells it. Or people with trucks who are like “Will deliver furniture for $30 in X area” is also pretty life saver for people without cars/trucks. Was able to get a super cheap/nice coach because of this.
People who just flip free stuff or stuff from thrift stores without doing any improvements annoy me greatly though. We broke and you’re just driving up the price!
None of these generate a ton of cash, but I like that they take very little up front cost, aren’t disruptive, and mostly take labor.
So what side hustles have you seen work out?
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Photographer seems like a good one. I’ve a friend who works four days a week, and occasionally fills in the extra day or weekend with a quick professional photo shoot.
Edits in the evenings while rewatching movies.
It’s pretty chill. That one day off actually earned them more than if they worked five days a week, even if they only work it once in a while.
Stay at home mom watching another kid (legally dubious depending on state/situation. But I ain’t no narc.)
Wtf is u talking about?
Running illegal home daycares is a thing
why would a person watching a child or two be considered a day care?
Getting paid for it crosses a threshold I’ll bet
do baby sitters register? i never heard of this.
Are y’all spit balling here or do you have an actual example to substitute this claim?
Try googling it. It my state day cares must be registered and it looks like there’s lots of regulations. If there is any government funding you can bet your britches there are inspections.
we are talking about a specific fact pattern here. OP made unsubstantiated allegation, you are not willing to produce any evidence either…
day care business is heavily regulated, you are stretching applicability of these laws to a mother baby sitting another child.
people do nany share all the time with out having to check with in daddy government lol
also… wtf are you talking about “government funding”, is this government funding in the room with us right now?
when does government “fund” child care? at best they give you few grand of pre-tax income to be used for it in the world where it starts at 20K🤡
My state will subsidize child care for parents under a certain income. Nobody is saying anyone will get in trouble for babysitting family members. You could simply Google it and save yourself some typing and a whole lot of embarrassment
“For instance, most states and territories do not require an in-home child care provider to be licensed if they provide care on an occasional basis, provide care in your home, or are related to the children in their care.”
That is why I gave the “it depends”
So a baby sitter baby sitting and the home of the child is completely legally fine. If you are doing it at your own home, or watching unrelated children, it can be iffy.
That’s why I said it depends on state/situation.
the fact pattern you provided mother watching another child with her own… i don’t think that would quality anywhere but i did not check all the rules.
if they are running something resembling a commercial operation that would be a different story.
It fully depends on if you’re doing it at your house, or the house of the child you are watching, and the state.
But the rules don’t matter as long as no one is a narc!
“For instance, most states and territories do not require an in-home child care provider to be licensed if they provide care on an occasional basis, provide care in your home, or are related to the children in their care.”
Which my thing “might” break.
Knife sharpening. Not hard to learn how to do it decently, and hard to find someone who can do it decently. The equipment is not too expensive either. 40$ for a good coarse stone (you will need one!!!) And 40$ for a decent combo stone of medium and fine. You probably want a good flattening stone too.
DONT use amazon, all of the stones there are scams. A good coarse stone is a Naniwa lobster 220. A good combo stone is the KING KDS 1000/6000.
organising violence against the state.
I’ve already said too much.
If you’re willing to do that for the US state, there’s certainly money to be made.
Scrap metal. I always leave my scrap metal out on trash day next to the trash can. A guy in a pickup will come around and get it. I would have to save it up for years for it to be worth a single trip, but he’s getting a full load or two every day. I’m sure I’ve lost out on a few hundred bucks over the years.
I’m sure if you started an electronics recycling company or a clean out business you could get people to pay you to take their stuff.
Ex con neighbor started a junk hauling business after he couldn’t get hired.
Dude was making it but was definitely busting his ass daily. Ended up needing to expand and get another trailer.
There’s a dude in our town that has a lot where everyone dumps their scrap metal and he takes it to recycle. It’s pretty rad since our local trash service won’t take it (even though they dump everything together, including recyclables, at the transfer station to be hauled off to the dump out of town).
My side hustle is real estate photography. Very flexible timing and I already had all the equipment. If I didn’t already own the equipment I wouldn’t have done it.
Good excuse to buy a drone.
You have to have a license to do that in the US. It’s not super hard to get but not as easy as just buying a drone.
I know here in Canada if a drone is 250g or under, you don’t need a license. I’m pretty sure that maby of the camera-drone manufactuers make variants that are just under 250g to make them more accessible.
The DJI Mini Series comes to mind. They are great little drones.
The license is for commercial purposes:
What you can do with your pictures and video is limited without it. You can’t even donate such pictures to a school or non-profit or something. Basically if someone could make money doing it, you can’t without a license.
The weight of the drone has nothing to do with selling the media.
If I ever picked up a side hustle, it’d be basic editing. ChatGPT has displaced the ghost writer but it can’t polish its own turd.
Editing ChatGPT generated content sounds soul crushing tbh.
I think the thing that would keep me sane is that I’m fascinated in trying to figure out how a single AI-generated paragraph can be accurately detected.
But yeah, the common permutation of multiple pargraphs, the first starting with reaffirm/validate/reiterate is downright obnoxious.
‘I’m sorry to hear you’re having such difficulties with editing ChatGPT-generated content. It can be challenging and even frustrating at times, but with’ lol
Only fans. /s
Why /s? I feel like this is the perfect example if you can get away with only doing it part time. I have an aunt who does foot stuff on there and seems to do pretty well
For ugly people like me.
Fair. I mean same, it’s not for everyone.
What kind of shape are your feet in tho?
The only one I’ve heard of working really well was 3D printing copyrighted material that is usually way overpriced. Board game pieces, figurines, etc.
Honestly, 3d printing and selling designs online is a good side hustle I’ve seen, but they can’t be straight up copies of someone else’s work.
A little bit of legally dubious action to pay the bills and siphon money from billion dollar companies never hurt nobody!
$50 dollars for THREE, UNASSEMBLED, and UNPAINTED minis? Yeah man, I ain’t gonna question why the texture of your warhammer minis are different. Game on.
Furnace/water heater replacement.
Can low water pressure in the whole house be attributed to a bad water heater?
Low water pressure is usually a sign of low water pressure.
Perhaps your pipes are too wide.
Only if you have good pressure on cold water but weak pressure on hot.
Whole house suggests an issue with the supply line, for example an old galvanized pipe which is filling with rust deposits.
Bad PRV (Pressure Reducing Valve). They only last so long. If you have high water pressure (over 120psi) coming in they last a few years tops. If that’s the case, get one with 2 diagrams and it’ll last you 10 years at a minimum.
No.
Ours was exactly that, the oulet and inlet pipes in the tank corroded badly. Cold pressure fine, hot pressure was flow restricted
European here without education for a plumber, just barely scratched the profession for a few years.
Low water pressure occurs in bigger complexes with a pipe to small for the consumers. The water pressure in suburbans and cities comes directly from the local water station.
If you have issues with this, there are special armatures for low water pressure.
The cheapest improvement is replacing the water disperser with a current one.
Other then that, one could install a pump to improve the water pressure, but these things are expensive and have high maintainability costs due to pumping drinking water, not water in a heater pipe.
There are lots of states that will straight up ban you from doing this without a gasfitter ticket.
I wish I had some good ones but I’ll be watching this thread.
What I can say is that anyone on youtube that’s got a channel dedicated to a particular hustle is no longer making their money doing that hustle. They are an influencer now.
Oh yeah all the influencer side hustles are straight trash.
My friend if you actually made $1000 a day working 2 hour, you wouldn’t be uploading here my dude!
My wife does the furniture flipping thing. I don’t think we make any money on it — but we have much nicer furniture than we could afford otherwise and between reselling the items we get rid of the low prices we pay for the incoming, we’re certainly not spending money on it, either, and that’s counting the cost of renting trucks to move it around.
how is nobody afraid of bedbugs?
We don’t fick with upholstered furniture for exactly that reason. Tables, dressers, cabinets.
Maybe if you live in an area with mostly SFHs so bugs can’t spread as aggressively? I’d never take furniture off the street. I’d rather sleep on bare floor than deal with bed bugs.
Well getting nice furniture from a hobby sounds pretty chill regardless!
Every now and then my eyes pop at the cost of new furniture.
Dog hotel. I’ve a dog. I take in other dogs when their owners are on holiday. Walking 2 dogs isn’t much more work than walking 1.
Taking on one extra dog for a few days seems like the easiest, most chill way to make a little money on the side if you are careful about which dogs you take. Those people who sit 4+ dogs at a time are insane but must pull in a good bit of money.
That makes sense! If they are similar to my dog, I probably wouldn’t notice that much, and if they provided the food and stuff, I wouldn’t need to charge much.
Mate at work has made a fair bit of money off crypto
Tech support for elderly.
I don’t want to start it yet because of the obligation and enjoyment of free time. Once it starts reputation is everything, especially with the demographic.
You need patience, kindness, and a general enjoyment in helping others.
Have seen the need. And will increase as time goes on.
Support extending to personal traxjing sessions as well as just fixing basic shit.
One day.
The thing about IT for older folks is you have to be up for conversation too. Most of the customers I have only get out for church, so if I come out to see them it might be the first conversation they’ve had in days.
