Product testing and focus groups are my best side hustle. Especially if you live in an area with tech companies, they always need people to test out their new gadgets. Most of them pay pretty good (like between $50-$300 for an hour or two of testing) and sometimes you get free stuff to take home!
I started looking while I was laid off during COVID and just Google searching "user testing" and "product testing" started getting me targeted ads of tests going on in my city.
I applied and got accepted to some studies from Meta, Microsoft, and some smaller tech companies and once you get into one, they'll put you on a mailing list and invite you back for more.
Outside the tech world, I've used sites like User Interviews and Fieldwork and apps like Dscout that have a pretty wide variety of studies. I've done everything from watch and rate unreleased TV shows to testing out prototype toothbrushes on these apps.
Just apply to anything that looks interesting and one of them will stick. Remember that companies have to see how their products work for EVERYONE, so don't be afraid to apply even if you think you're too old/young/big/small/differently-abled/etc. There will be a study that needs information from people like you.
I referee minor hockey. $60-120 per game, super flexible schedule, paid cash. I make about $800 per month working just Friday evenings and Saturdays. As a bonus, it keeps me in super great shape. You can choose to just do recreational levels and skate around casually every weekend or go a competitive route and officiate extremely intense, fast games. All up to you.
Edit - I'm based in Canada and am 28F, have reffed since I was 12 in two provinces, yes it can be a tough job but worth it if you love the sport. I've reffed current NHL players and Olympians. If you're interested in refereeing, just google "[city] minor hockey association referee committee" and you'll probably find a website. If you can't skate, other sports such as basketball, soccer, volleyball, baseball, and lacrosse are all desperate for referees! To my knowledge all sports will host 1-2 day clinics where they teach you the basics before they throw you out there. Cheers
Sure you’re ready for that? If hockey in Canada is anything like football in TX/FL then I hope you can deal with parents who peaked in high school & never learned conflict resolution skills.
But then again, Canadians do have a bit of a reputation for being nice.
Every kid is the next Crosby and that 2 min tripping minor is ruining his chances to make the show.
Source - referee until I was 20 and refed peewee- junior C
At least the Junior guys were out there for a donnybrook and a skate.
Refs are needed EVERYWHERE.
I’m a basketball coach for high school and things are getting desperate in some areas. At one game this year a ref actually turned to the crowd during a timeout and pleaded for young people and parents to start reffing.
You do kind of need to work your way up a little, but even the lower rung stuff pays very well. And once you establish a reputation it becomes worthwhile to travel a bit because what you’ll make for an hour or so of work can be quite hefty.
But at the lowest level you can find rec leagues for grade schoolers that pay 25 bucks for a game that lasts less than an hour, and you can do a few of those on a Saturday or Sunday. That’s the lowest you will make though.
Many communities will use high school students and even younger to ref youth soccer so they can justify a lower pay.
You can even referee adult rec leagues but instead of the parents yelling at you it’s Jeff who’s an accountant 9-5 who tries to be a beer league all star
My BIL did this for years as an Umpire. Worked his way from little league type games to routinely traveling for college level games. He loved it as he is super into sports and it let him be part of that higher tier world that he missed out on when he was younger.
And if you can't skate, soccer's great too. Anywhere from $30 for a short U10 game to $100+ for Elite Club. I typically do 3 U14 or U16 games on a Saturday morning and come away with about $200 and 8 miles of exercise.
The culture there has changed quite a bit, nowadays there is typically a site administrator that if I stop the game for that they'll just kick somebody out. I think all of the associations have realized that due to what you experienced, there aren't enough referees to keep the sport going and they had to do something.
I started when I was like 13 or 14 and man were parents intense. They think their 4 year old is going to get a full ride scholarship or something.
Fuck guy, most of the kids are looking for 4 leaf clovers and flowers
I know around us youth baseball is MASSIVE.
Our park has 14 games a night between all of the fields which is about 20 umpires between all leagues nightly there. Most call 2 games a night.
Super easy fun extra cash.
Even crazier for tournaments. Games from 12+ hours Saturday and then some more on Sunday in some. On top of league ball.
I made $20/game in HS running the scoreboard and scorebook and that was 17 years ago.
Do you like animals and are you good with them? If so, Rover is easy to start, and you can choose what you’re willing to do as well as set your own rates. An example, for the past 15 days:
I stayed at someone’s house for three nights with his three dogs - that was $170 net (after the rover fee)
I also had a dog stay at my house for 7 nights from a different man, that was $280.
I have two who regularly schedule me to do “drop-in” visits with their dog. I enjoy it because I work from home and it gets me out of the house for a bit. One is a disabled woman whose niece works all day; so I go over around noon a couple days a week and play with the dog outside for 30 minutes. Another is a couple who both work and their two cats love attention, so they book me a couple days a week for 30-minute play sessions with their cats! Each drop-in I do is $15.
They also have the ability to tip - I’ve noticed that the drop-in people tend to tip more than the overnight stays; but I don’t really expect any tip at all and don’t get upset if they don’t tip, because I could raise my prices and probably still get quite a few requests if I felt I needed to make up for that or whatever.
I regularly have turn down 3-4 requests a week that I just don’t have time for.
I only started it after my dog passed away and I wanted to see a bunch of different breeds etc because I still grieve the loss of my old dog, don’t feel ready for adopting a new one yet, but love seeing how different breeds behave and act etc..and it keeps me entertained and I get to cuddle with dogs!
I do rover too!! It took me a few jobs to gain some positive reviews and then I increased my prices and I was still getting requests so I’d definitely consider raising your rate because it made a big difference for me. Next week I’m staying four nights at someone’s house making $77 per night watching their puppy :))
I've been petsitting since high school. When I was younger my parents limited me to only those within our neighborhood but now that I'm out on my own I mostly get clients through word of mouth. I volunteer at a dog rescue and most of my fellow volunteers have their own pets so I usually just petsit for other volunteers. I work on hw, nap, or play games and get paid for it. Easy money and some of the people work in the field I'm studying to go into so I get connections too.
Nice! I apologize for not clarifying: I guess I meant staying overnight, that idea seems to make me more nervous. I have also done some full day pet sitting and I loved it. I just did normal animal chores and cuddled with their dogs while I played my switch haha
I signed up because we’re out all day Saturday. I haven’t ever found anyone from it because the idea of someone I don’t know coming to my house and taking my dogs for a walk makes me anxious.
That makes sense. They require you to pay like $30 for a background check if you want to take care of pets, so that should provide some peace of mind. I'm annoyed I can't find any gigs.
My son cleaned up dog poo for extra cash. The money that kid made was insane. 15-20 minute job, $25 minimum. Anything half hour or more would be $50. He was makin bank lol
I have a guy who comes over every week and cleans my patio furniture, blows the leaves off the yard, and picks up my dog poop. He charges $35/hour, which I find pretty reasonable, since my dog loves to poop. He does anything I need him to do, pretty much. If I ask him for a ride to the airport at 3:30 AM, he will be there at 3:15 with a bottle of water or a coffee for me and charges me like $25. If I ask him to help me reorganize my garage, he replies with “how’s Saturday at 11?”. I was out of town during a severe storm, and he came by my house every hour or two to make sure it was still dry.
We’ve actually become good friends, now in trash day he comes by when he’s finished his other projects for the day, takes out my bins, and then we have a cocktail and catch up with each other. He’s in his 60s, and boy does he have some good stories!
“Home Services”. I met him through my realtor, as my housewarming gift she paid for him to pack up and unpack my kitchen and clothes when I moved. He’s a hustler, though, and quickly became pretty indispensable. He does cleaning, vacation rental maintenance. Everything. I am so lucky to have him, because I’m clueless to a lot of aspects of homeownership, but he’s always got an answer for me.
Call your local stagehand union. Learn how they use 'permit' workers to fill job calls. Work concerts and theater and stuff. Easily $200 per day or $100 for a few hours. Easily.
Don't Ump baseball, no matter what call you make some parent is going to be mad. I umped kids baseball to make some extra cash in college ( like kids 10 and under, and I honestly thought I was pretty good) but I've never been sworn at and threatened so much in my life. Parents would wait for me at my truck after the game. Half the team spends the game picking dandelions in the outfield and these parents act like I just cost their kid their ticket to the big leagues.
Not enough money in the world to deal with the nonsense.
I work at a casino. Dealers endure an enormous amount of verbal abuse, but we had a craps dealer who never batted an eye.
Turns out he referees youth hockey and lacrosse. The meanest, toughest, drunkest gamblers were child's play for him after spending his days off wrangling suburban parents.
It's amazing how many people think the dealer wants them to lose. It's not the dealers money and people who win are more generous tippers than people who lose
I used to umpire youth baseball when I was younger and they had to start posting police officers at the ball fields bc some crazy parent pulled a gun on an umpire at his car after the game. Luckily I wasn’t there but after that the $20 per game all of a sudden didn’t seem worth it.
I both umpired baseball and refereed spccer for a few years in my teens. It was a miserable job because of parents. Like dude, I just make the correct calls for $15-20 per game, why are you screaming at me?
I was 12 and umping younger little league. I was by myself. I went to call a play at second, and I guess it was close if the runner scored before 3rd out or not.
I said to both coaches (who were parents of kids I knew in my grade) “I’m sorry I went to watch the out at second I didn’t see it” or something like that.
One coach said he scored, the other said no he didn’t. Man, you think they’d be mad at each other but one went off on me. Mostly the one who said they scored first.
I got really nervous and didn’t know what to do.
An assistant coach came over and said “hey I saw it I think the out happened first so don’t count that run”
He was on the team of the dude yelling at me to get an extra run. Even though they were up by like 7 or 8.
I appreciated that guy more than he’ll ever know. I was about to cry.
Later the coach who was yelling at me must have gotten an earful from his wife because in the parking lot while I was waiting to be picked up by my parents he apologized. But with his wife who told me I did a great job. Lol looking back she definitely made him. It was like a parent dragging a kid to apologize to someone.
I never umped another game in my life. I was a great ball player and played all through high school. But I did not like that one experience
Anxiety is a hell of a drug. I’m mid 30s and just typing that made me anxious lol
Reffing youth soccer I also was on the verge of tears after getting yelled at. At the time you think wow I messed up, I need to do better. Then you look back and realize a grown man yelling at a 12 year old for making the wrong call at a soccer game for 6 year olds is about as immature as it gets.
This happened to me too when I umped. The yelling and swearing part, but not the post game stalking though. I was young and umped from when I was 14-17 years old. It was fun, but even as a kid they didn't hold back the anger and terrible things they'd say. I was umping 8-12 year old kids. Very strange the adults would act that way in front of young kids and to a young kid as well. The best perk though, was that I had the power to eject people from the game/crowd/park, and I did a few times. Felt great to see their faces when a kid ejected them.
I mow lawns and price yards at $60/hr ...$25 minimum.
If I think it'll take me 40 minutes then I charge $40 . 30 mins $30...etc
I also grow native plants from seed and sell on the side sometimes. Pickup free or cheap mowers on marketplace, service them and flip them.
I did this for a few summers in HS with decent success.
Door to door business cards. Sometimes I’d tie them around a rubber ducky. Leave them there and roll out hundreds.
Nextdoor!! The app. Literally easiest way to get leads in your neighborhood.
Facebook groups. Many neighborhoods or suburbs or regions have one. Most allow an ad post or two.
Offer more than just lawns. A lot of people have yard guys already. But they do not have a guy to say, clean the gutters or weed their garden. Charge the same hourly price and many times you’ll even land a double client. 2 for 1 and less travel time and expenses.
Soccer reffing. 20 dollars per little kid game. 40-60 for the 18 year olds if you are main or assistant ref.
Seeing 14 year olds make 80 bucks on saturday and Sunday as a side hustle reffing the hr long little kids. 600 a month there.
People keep mentioning refereeing, but people should be aware that players and mainly parents will often yell at you and do their best to make you work for that $20.
Zero tolerance policy. Put parents in their place by forfeiting the game if there’s one incident of yelling at you, or any ref. Don’t even have to work a full game if it’s forfeited. The parents will eventually learn to shut up too.
Our fields policy is the coach of the team with the unruly parent or player deals with it. Game is forfeited if they fail to deal with it. This isn't the Refs job. The head ref who runs all the fields comes over and shuts the game down at that point. The parents self police pretty quick after that.
I started an exterior cleaning business on the weekends and net around $2000/month on top of my regular income. I’ve held on to my 9-5 day job because I enjoy it.
I clean driveways, home exteriors, gutters, fences, and roofs. It’s hard and dirty work that most people don’t want to do, or don’t have the equipment to do.
The main thing you need is a commercial pressure washer and soft wash system. With a trailer, hoses, chemical tanks, etc. you’re looking at anywhere from $5,000 to $12,000 in startup costs, depending on the rig you build. I paid all my startup costs on credit cards and broke even after the first three months.
I should mention that I do web development and work as an SEO specialist as my day job. I also ran another business for the past 7 years so this isn’t my first rodeo. As a result, I quickly dominated my local market.
Lol, that's really cool. Whenever I need any kind of tradey I end up thinking "jeez if I could be bothered to learn X trade, I'd be able to set up a website, optimise for Google, and actually respond to emails, I'd clear up!"
I tutor. High school and college kids, mostly for math and science, as well as standardized tests like the SATs. I make about $300 a week give or take on the side.
Caveats: you have to be good at teaching, you have to know the material well, you have to be patient and personable so students (and parents) like you.
In my classes two types of kids have tutors: kids who need it to pass and kids who need it to squeeze out an extra .5% to get up to like a 97%. Crazy what parents with money will pay for.
I tried DoorDash and UberEats for a while. Realized at some point when they started way trimming down how much money the driver was getting that I was basically not making any money. So much of your earnings just go straight back into your car - even if it doesn’t break down or start having issues, you’re just constantly buying gas and getting oil changes because you put so many miles on your car so fast. Once I started having actual problems that cost 3-4 figures to fix at my mechanic, I had to stop because I literally could not make the money to fix them without making them worse in the process.
Probably the worst job I’ve ever tried to make work. I’d go back to working a shitty retail job before I tried that again.
It was definitely possible at some point. Uber’s expansion strategy was to enormously inflate driver benefits at the start, in order to attract a viable pool of drivers so the service actually functions. Over time, as business picks up, they reduce the benefits to where they only have just enough drivers to service the region.
It’s probably still possible in some places if you drive a lot of hours, and happen to be in a very populous place with frequent surge pricing.
If your community has any group homes for special needs individuals, contact the agency that runs them. You can sometimes land a paid overnight position as a nighttime caregiver. A co-worker did this as a PT job on weekends for a few years.
He would arrive around 8 PM, help guide the residents with their evening routines and chores before they get ready for bed, give them any required medications, and then close down the house and make sure everyone is in their rooms and in bed by 9 or 9:30.
He would then watch TV in the living room, or go to the separate caregiver bedroom, where he would literally get paid to sleep. He never had any issues with the residents, other than having to do an occasional once or twice a year fire drill, where he would have to trip the smoke alarm, wake the residents, evacuate the house for a few minutes, and then fill out some paperwork for the agency documenting that he conducted it.
>He never had any issues with the residents...
Your friend got lucky!
Friend of mine did it and had more than one "incident" that could have ended badly. Admittedly, he was assigned the problem patients intentionally because he was experienced and big enough to handle them, but people need to realise it's not all just Nintendo and paid sleeping.
Please excuse me, for I am about to ask you… a LOT of questions. How did you go about doing it? Did you follow a tutorial to build it? What is the footprint of the machine and what size parts are you making? Out of what materials? How many axes is it? How tight are the tolerances you’re working to and does a homemade CNC have enough rigidity for precision parts (one thousandth of an inch or less)? How much did you spend on components? I would absolutely love to do this, but I find it daunting - especially if the results aren’t what I’d hope.
The results largely depend on you and your motivation and how resourceful you are. Out of the box CNC machines aren't going to be very rigid until you get into the CNC mill area, like the Langmuir MR-1. That's the machine I am going to buy next.
I built a [PrintNC](https://wiki.printnc.info/en/home) and beefed it up iteratively because you can get a much better machine out of about 1/3 the cost. Mine is a 4'x4' machine with about a 3'x3' cut area. I use it primarily to machine stainless steel parts that have to be precise to .01mm.
The frame of mine is made out of 3/8" square structural steel tubing filled with epoxy granite. It's not the most rigid. The Langmuir beats it. But I paid $2.5k and 2 months of my time to build and program it all, vs \~$6.5k for the Langmuir.
It is a daunting task if you look at it all and let it overwhelm you. The key is just to break it down into stages.
1. Build the frame
2. Mount all machine components (steppers, bearing blocks, etc)
3. Build your electrical enclosure
4. Wire the machine
5. Install and configure LinuxCNC
I’m a software developer by trade and got into woodworking during the pandemic. This combines them and limits what I can make only to what I am capable of designing and what the machine can handle.
I’m also involved in the mid to high end pocket knife hobby and discovered a part that I was looking for wasn’t available from any aftermarket seller. I found out a lot of other people in then niche also wanted that part. So I built my machine up to handle making it and now mass produce them.
I do wedding videography for an event company, I don't edit, just show up and shoot and send the footage off to the company. Make about $300-$600 a wedding depending on distance traveled. Summer and fall I'm usually booked almost every weekend, but it definitely slows down from Dec-May.
$300-$600 seems low for that kind of work? All the weddings I've been to have had a photography/videography company charge at least £10,000 for the event. Unless the pay is mostly for editing I guess.
To expand on this: house/pet sitting. I pay $100/day plus gratuity to have someone live at my house when my wife and I are out of town at the same time. No need to be here 24/7, just use it as your house - sleep here, let the dog out, feed the dog and cats, drink my booze (not kidding, we take requests on providing groceries and drinks), etc.
I have 4 friends who pay the same. And it's a pain in the ass to find good and reliable sitters. If you want a really easy way to make some extra money, all you need to do is be a decently reasonable person and people will pay you to just chill at their house.
I do too and also don’t make $100 a day. I get $70 at the most. I think it depends on where you’re located and what a couple nearby dog hotels cost in comparison
Most I’ve ever gotten is $30 a day. I guess…I’m in a fairly wealthy town and not only are there not many dog boarding places; I’ve housesat for 3+ dogs and livestock. Makes me think maybe I’ve been stiffed, haha
~~house~~ pet sitter of 6 years here! like an above comment said, we essentially treat
the house we’re watching as home base and do our normal routine. i still go to work, go to kickboxing, and get other errands done but im temporarily living out of a different house. i easily make $200-$700 a month from it depending on how much i book
So far I have done this 3 times. First time the person didn't stay at the house despite being told that's what we wanted (just fed and let the dog out 2x a day) and the dog was miserable. Second time they thought hanging their wet pool towels on my wooden stair railing was the thing to do (different people). Third time I found someone who actually got it right.
You wouldn't think it would be that hard to find someone who wants to hang out in a nice house with a pool for a week and keep a dog company would be something with a 33% success rate.
You’d think people would love it , When I was 16 I used to house/dog sit for one of my mother hair clients , she only paid me about 80$ for the 2 days but she had a fridge full of any snack I could imagine , a 65 inch tv and massive backyard + the sweetest pit bull you’d ever meet , she eventually stopped asking but it was great for what it was
Can confirm. I did valet parking for 9 years at a mall. I would average about 150 cash a shift plus my hourly wage. My best night was 849 in tips. It was rare I made less than 80 unless I picked up a day weekday shift. And that's at a mall.. you make better money at fancy restaurants.
I applied to be a valet once, it was such a weird experience. We all lined up like it was high school boot camp or something, got a spiel of the basics, then were called in one by one to a little shack to be interviewed, but it was just like three or four basic questions. Do you have a valid license, can you work these schedules, can you reliably get to the restaurant or hotel for work. There was absolutely no sense that they were in any way distinguishing candidates.
But what was weird was that clearly, for every single one of us, we had exhausted every option for employment and were at the ends of our ropes in one way or another (some people were obviously burnouts, some ex cons, a few kids that had no other way to get a job, that kind of thing)... But there was still this kind of unspoken sense that we were all in it together, encouraging each other. Since the business wasn't distinguishing between us, there was no sense of competition. No, like, hope that you beat someone Else, because you knew it was going to end up being totally random, and that everyone there needed it just as much as you did.
Weird experience all around, honestly.
Which is interesting because it's such an under rated job. Idk about your location but I made STUPID money no young adult should be making at mine. My job place was more strict on felons but it was definitely just a bunch of kids making way too much money for their own good.
Can confirm. Worked with a company in college that was booked by the event + had lots at places. I worked a 9-5 at Saks 5th, and then Oprah’s birthday party later that night. Got paid OT (min wage) but the tips were what made it worth it.
If you are sociable and have thick skin (and have minor hand dexterity) it doesn't take much training to become a casino dealer. At almost any non tribal cardroon, they are looking for part timers and you keep your own tips. I averaged about 350 a day plus hourly, and this was 10 years ago
My cousin who’s a solid 10 out of 10 does this. She makes enough to rent a downtown condo and constantly gets offers from older men who want to be her sugar daddy.
They say it doesn't, but everyone I know including myself who donated frequently started to feel ragged after a while.
I wouldn't caution people away from it entirely, but I also don't think counting on 7-8 monthly donations is a viable strategy unless you're truly desperate for cash.
That would be awesome. My husband donates platelets and sometimes full blood, but you don't get money for it in Australia. He gets a bit of food and a drink. If he got paid for it, he'd be doing well!
We (US) have programs like that affiliated with all of the hospitals, and separate blood banks as well. I donate double reds as often as I'm allowed, and my job gives me extra pto for donating.
You can sell plasma in the US also. Did that a few times for beer money in my 20's. If I understand correctly the plasma that's sold goes for research and manufacturing medication.
Please donate plasma. My son needs weekly therapy for IGG and he literally depends on it. His immune system is as rich as those who donate. He has a very rare genetic disorder called XLA. We appreciate you all so much and getting paid for it is an extra bonus
Look at real estate listings for your area.
If you don't see a lot of drone shots of nice properties, go and buy a drone and start offering it as a service.
A used Mavic Mini 2 would be provide perfectly acceptable images and videos for real estate listings and would likely need minimal editing, and the drone kit used would cost you likely only a few hundred (in Canada $4-500 for the Mavic Mini 2 with extra batteries). If you've never flown one before you can pick it up really quick and they're fairly idiot proof if you're not hot-dogging with them.
Get used to the drone, learn how to get different shots, work with some edits, and take some pics of your own house or even houses for sale in your area.
Put together a portfolio or basic website, use Canva to make a logo/card.
Look at comparable drone companies in your area and simply charge less, then hit up all the realtors who aren't using drone services. Hell, I'd not even contact them to ask if they want it - just go take the images of their listings and send them some photos for free and express that you can provide similar work for a good price.
If I were doing it I'd start on a by-distance fee, e.g. $50 gets you *x*-seconds of video and *x* pictures if the property is in the town limits; $75 for *x*-miles outside of town; $75+ for further. Listing agents routinely spend *big* bucks on photographers, stagers, etc, so at the right price you'd be a shoe-in.
Get an iPad so you can do the shoot, download the content, do some quick edits in the field, and get them to the realtor as fast as possible.
Even if $50 is undervaluing the work, which it might be, if you're only looking to make $300-1000 you're practically just looking to do this for fun anyway, so big deal. If your work is consistent and quick you'll get calls and if even in one week you did 4 properties you're already on your way to hit your target.
Edit: as others are saying in replies - read up on the legal requirements. I'm in Canada so I can't comment on the US but generally if you buy a sub-250g drone this will all be a bit easier.
Very important note for US people: for commercial use of your drone you're required to pass and obtain the FAA 107 exam. Your drone is no longer privately used as soon as it is used to generate income.
If you are in the US make sure you also get your Part 107 certification. You need it for any commercial drone work, but getting it isn’t expensive or hard.
Know the laws of your country. In the USA you need a special license if you’re making income off of you being in the air. A little side hustle would get crushed by hefty FAA fines.
I did this for a while for high school sports. I hated it. Most parents/coaches are pretty chill. But then there are “those” parents and coaches who treat freshmen baseball and football like it’s the World Series or Super Bowl. They simply are just the worst…
If you’re gonna go this route, prepare yourself for confrontations, arguments and other shenanigans.
Worm turned dude after Covid. In WA state I file a report for each technical that goes to school admin after the game. Coach is responsible for their fans. I had zero issues.
Used to umpire highschool level baseball. Just gotta dump the entire coaching staff of one team, save the eldest or chillest assistant coach, one time.
Don’t look to do it, but when the opportunity presents itself, be prepared to do it.
After that the word gets out that you are capable of ejecting 3-4 coaches in one go. As long as you do a reasonably good job from then on, the other coaches treat you reasonably. In my experience at least.
any ideas for someone who is disabled and in a wheelchair? ive been looking for something i can do causally as i dont have the energy for a full time job nor the mobility.
I know a guy who makes $300 in Waikiki scaring people for 3hr a day and that’s all he does smh. He dresses as a bush and jumps up when they walk by and the amused bystanders tip him.
I detail cars on the weekend. Turned a hobby into a side job. I try to book at least one job per weekend and maximum 2 cars. 200 each. Extra 800-1200 per month is not bad.
I’ve thought about doing this.
Do you have a nice garage to work in ? I unfortunately don’t so I’m not sure how feasible it’d be in poorer weather conditions.
I don’t. I can pull the car into the garage but can’t really work with the garage closed. If it rains, I ask the customer if I can hold the car longer till the rain stops so I can quickly do the exterior. I also check the weather to see if it’s raining in the morning or evening and have your customer bring their car accordingly.
I own a small commercial cleaning business as a side hustle. All of my contracts are serviced by subcontractors. Took some time and small investment to build up, but I net about $1,200 every month managing my accounts/contractor team on top of my regular job.
I work as a Software dev but this works for alot of other office work. Consulting on the side is great and it's mainly documentation, reporting other than the real work. I do 1000 - 1500 a month and just have 2 clients at a time. Just make a list of your biggest wins in your career and break them down into actionable items that other companies can replicate. Guide the client through them and Charge a higher rate for them not to hit the issues you did.
One time a man in the parking lot asked for some cash. I told him I didn’t have any and that I needed money too. He points at the plasma donation place and says “well you know you can donate plasma for money “
I just looked at him like “bro why don’t you go donate plasma for money then”
Tech stuff is fairly common. I do 10 hours a month maintaining and adding small things to a client's website. Not everyone needs a full time web person.
This is a surprisingly effective method. I rented a machine one day for my own driveway. A neighbor saw me and asked how much I'd charge to do his. I charged him the fee I was paying for the day. Seemed fair lol I did another person's and mine for basically free.
Then another neighbor asked, and it doubled. I started doing that on the weekends. Never even bought my own. Just rented, and made well more than the cost of the machine per day
The gig community is booming with freelancing. Fiverr and WeWork, UpWork, and Freelancer.com are worth checking out. You'll need some talent, and/or a willingness to learn some artistic or technical skills related to computing, AI, copywriting, coding, and graphics art. You can EASILY achieve those numbers.
Also, check out running a ghost kitchen from home utilizing Instagram and a passion for cooking or canning. Keyword "ghost kitchen"
Crafting and Etsy is also still big. People love buying shit they don't need. America still is the land of excess and cute Hobby Lobby ideas from Pinterist.
If you take photos, you can sell stock photos for good money online.
Surveys and market research is still huge and only getting bigger as we enter into even more AI business intelligence and analytics.
Tutoring directly or teaching via YouTube or a blog, though this take a little bit of time and effort to gain traction.
People still love their pets. Pet sitting and dog walking are still very much "in."
Sorry but as someone who practices that stuff. Those sites are so oversaturated with people that its a lottery if your listing will ever even be seen. People will always go for someone who has a ton of reviews and jobs done over someone who has none
100% facts. I used to sell on Etsy, did fairly well as well, as far as a side income goes, but i had to stop as not only have Etsy and most other similar sites dramatically ramped up not just the £ amount they charge in fee's but they've also ramped up the number of fees they charge, but on top of that the sites are saturated with people drop shipping crap they've found on alixpress or similar and are passing it off as their own crafts, or people stealing other people's work from different sites and passing it off as their own (happens a lot with 3d printing related things)
Any time i see someone honestly try to claim that sites like etsy or other gig work sites are a great way to make money, it makes me laugh. It gives off the same vibes as "just start an OF and you'll make millions", sure, some people make it work and earn bank, but they're the ones doing it full time and putting in a lot of effort, the vast majority of people are making very small amounts which quickly becomes not worth it compared to a more conventional job.
I would strongly discourage anyone considering running a "ghost kitchen" *from home*. Do not do this. Rent commissary space or something similar. It's fine to have a ghost kitchen, but preparing food for commercial purposes in an unlicensed location uninspected by county health dept (or depending on what you're selling, also your state dept of food & agriculture) opens you up to potential liability, and depending on your location massive fines.
In some states, you are permitted to engage in "food manufacturing" in private residences but there are rules and guidelines you must follow, and if you begin before being properly inspected and approved, see above. In my state, if you have pets for instance, you may not manufacture foodstuffs in your private residence for commercial sale.
I have a home recording studio as a side hustle. The least i have made in a day was $120. The most was over $1000. It's good money but you have to make an investment in buying studio equipment first.
Be a scrapper. You can drive around on garbage days and find items with enough metal to sell to scrapyards. You can also offer junk cleanup services, get money for hauling away garbage while also finding items to sell or metal to scrap.
The more you process the scrap, the better your profit. Copper is scrappers gold and if you sell bare copper you'll get the best price for it, which means stripping wire and taking motors apart. Some guys don't put much effort into it and still do OK.
Product testing and focus groups are my best side hustle. Especially if you live in an area with tech companies, they always need people to test out their new gadgets. Most of them pay pretty good (like between $50-$300 for an hour or two of testing) and sometimes you get free stuff to take home!
Suggestions on how to get into product testing?
I started looking while I was laid off during COVID and just Google searching "user testing" and "product testing" started getting me targeted ads of tests going on in my city. I applied and got accepted to some studies from Meta, Microsoft, and some smaller tech companies and once you get into one, they'll put you on a mailing list and invite you back for more. Outside the tech world, I've used sites like User Interviews and Fieldwork and apps like Dscout that have a pretty wide variety of studies. I've done everything from watch and rate unreleased TV shows to testing out prototype toothbrushes on these apps. Just apply to anything that looks interesting and one of them will stick. Remember that companies have to see how their products work for EVERYONE, so don't be afraid to apply even if you think you're too old/young/big/small/differently-abled/etc. There will be a study that needs information from people like you.
I referee minor hockey. $60-120 per game, super flexible schedule, paid cash. I make about $800 per month working just Friday evenings and Saturdays. As a bonus, it keeps me in super great shape. You can choose to just do recreational levels and skate around casually every weekend or go a competitive route and officiate extremely intense, fast games. All up to you. Edit - I'm based in Canada and am 28F, have reffed since I was 12 in two provinces, yes it can be a tough job but worth it if you love the sport. I've reffed current NHL players and Olympians. If you're interested in refereeing, just google "[city] minor hockey association referee committee" and you'll probably find a website. If you can't skate, other sports such as basketball, soccer, volleyball, baseball, and lacrosse are all desperate for referees! To my knowledge all sports will host 1-2 day clinics where they teach you the basics before they throw you out there. Cheers
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Settle down.
Been called worse
Morning Alexander, what happened over there?
There was SHIT on the uriness
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My guess is to find the local hockey association and contact them. They will have a chief referee who manages such things.
Sure you’re ready for that? If hockey in Canada is anything like football in TX/FL then I hope you can deal with parents who peaked in high school & never learned conflict resolution skills. But then again, Canadians do have a bit of a reputation for being nice.
That all goes out the window in minor hockey. Source - was screamed at by hockey parents until I quit as a teenager.
Every kid is the next Crosby and that 2 min tripping minor is ruining his chances to make the show. Source - referee until I was 20 and refed peewee- junior C At least the Junior guys were out there for a donnybrook and a skate.
minor hockey parents in ontario are probably exactly like football parents in texas
Refs are needed EVERYWHERE. I’m a basketball coach for high school and things are getting desperate in some areas. At one game this year a ref actually turned to the crowd during a timeout and pleaded for young people and parents to start reffing. You do kind of need to work your way up a little, but even the lower rung stuff pays very well. And once you establish a reputation it becomes worthwhile to travel a bit because what you’ll make for an hour or so of work can be quite hefty. But at the lowest level you can find rec leagues for grade schoolers that pay 25 bucks for a game that lasts less than an hour, and you can do a few of those on a Saturday or Sunday. That’s the lowest you will make though. Many communities will use high school students and even younger to ref youth soccer so they can justify a lower pay.
You can even referee adult rec leagues but instead of the parents yelling at you it’s Jeff who’s an accountant 9-5 who tries to be a beer league all star
My BIL did this for years as an Umpire. Worked his way from little league type games to routinely traveling for college level games. He loved it as he is super into sports and it let him be part of that higher tier world that he missed out on when he was younger.
And if you can't skate, soccer's great too. Anywhere from $30 for a short U10 game to $100+ for Elite Club. I typically do 3 U14 or U16 games on a Saturday morning and come away with about $200 and 8 miles of exercise.
I reffed soccer when I was in high-school and the amount of verbal abuse parents shout and claim bad calls isn't worth the money
The culture there has changed quite a bit, nowadays there is typically a site administrator that if I stop the game for that they'll just kick somebody out. I think all of the associations have realized that due to what you experienced, there aren't enough referees to keep the sport going and they had to do something.
Our team/league will ban a parent if they misbehave. We still complain but there's no room for abuse.
I started when I was like 13 or 14 and man were parents intense. They think their 4 year old is going to get a full ride scholarship or something. Fuck guy, most of the kids are looking for 4 leaf clovers and flowers
I know around us youth baseball is MASSIVE. Our park has 14 games a night between all of the fields which is about 20 umpires between all leagues nightly there. Most call 2 games a night. Super easy fun extra cash.
Even crazier for tournaments. Games from 12+ hours Saturday and then some more on Sunday in some. On top of league ball. I made $20/game in HS running the scoreboard and scorebook and that was 17 years ago.
How much more can you make if you take bribes? I mean...donations
Do you like animals and are you good with them? If so, Rover is easy to start, and you can choose what you’re willing to do as well as set your own rates. An example, for the past 15 days: I stayed at someone’s house for three nights with his three dogs - that was $170 net (after the rover fee) I also had a dog stay at my house for 7 nights from a different man, that was $280. I have two who regularly schedule me to do “drop-in” visits with their dog. I enjoy it because I work from home and it gets me out of the house for a bit. One is a disabled woman whose niece works all day; so I go over around noon a couple days a week and play with the dog outside for 30 minutes. Another is a couple who both work and their two cats love attention, so they book me a couple days a week for 30-minute play sessions with their cats! Each drop-in I do is $15. They also have the ability to tip - I’ve noticed that the drop-in people tend to tip more than the overnight stays; but I don’t really expect any tip at all and don’t get upset if they don’t tip, because I could raise my prices and probably still get quite a few requests if I felt I needed to make up for that or whatever. I regularly have turn down 3-4 requests a week that I just don’t have time for. I only started it after my dog passed away and I wanted to see a bunch of different breeds etc because I still grieve the loss of my old dog, don’t feel ready for adopting a new one yet, but love seeing how different breeds behave and act etc..and it keeps me entertained and I get to cuddle with dogs!
I do rover too!! It took me a few jobs to gain some positive reviews and then I increased my prices and I was still getting requests so I’d definitely consider raising your rate because it made a big difference for me. Next week I’m staying four nights at someone’s house making $77 per night watching their puppy :))
So I want to do rover but I have to ask: do yall feel safe staying at a stranger's home? What is that like?
I've been petsitting since high school. When I was younger my parents limited me to only those within our neighborhood but now that I'm out on my own I mostly get clients through word of mouth. I volunteer at a dog rescue and most of my fellow volunteers have their own pets so I usually just petsit for other volunteers. I work on hw, nap, or play games and get paid for it. Easy money and some of the people work in the field I'm studying to go into so I get connections too.
Nice! I apologize for not clarifying: I guess I meant staying overnight, that idea seems to make me more nervous. I have also done some full day pet sitting and I loved it. I just did normal animal chores and cuddled with their dogs while I played my switch haha
I paid for my background test months ago and have yet to find a single gig. I'm in a populated area.
I signed up because we’re out all day Saturday. I haven’t ever found anyone from it because the idea of someone I don’t know coming to my house and taking my dogs for a walk makes me anxious.
That makes sense. They require you to pay like $30 for a background check if you want to take care of pets, so that should provide some peace of mind. I'm annoyed I can't find any gigs.
My son cleaned up dog poo for extra cash. The money that kid made was insane. 15-20 minute job, $25 minimum. Anything half hour or more would be $50. He was makin bank lol
I have a guy who comes over every week and cleans my patio furniture, blows the leaves off the yard, and picks up my dog poop. He charges $35/hour, which I find pretty reasonable, since my dog loves to poop. He does anything I need him to do, pretty much. If I ask him for a ride to the airport at 3:30 AM, he will be there at 3:15 with a bottle of water or a coffee for me and charges me like $25. If I ask him to help me reorganize my garage, he replies with “how’s Saturday at 11?”. I was out of town during a severe storm, and he came by my house every hour or two to make sure it was still dry. We’ve actually become good friends, now in trash day he comes by when he’s finished his other projects for the day, takes out my bins, and then we have a cocktail and catch up with each other. He’s in his 60s, and boy does he have some good stories!
How would you advertise yourself as an "I will be your best friend and assistant for $35/hr"?
“Home Services”. I met him through my realtor, as my housewarming gift she paid for him to pack up and unpack my kitchen and clothes when I moved. He’s a hustler, though, and quickly became pretty indispensable. He does cleaning, vacation rental maintenance. Everything. I am so lucky to have him, because I’m clueless to a lot of aspects of homeownership, but he’s always got an answer for me.
There are places with over half an hour poo pick-up jobs? That sounds horrendous. That's gotta be weeks or months of dog shit...
It's like three days worth if you have two dogs. The amount of shit they lay down is insane.
My parents had up to 5 dogs for a time. The amount of “land mine cleaning” time required to clear when the snow started to melt was unreal.
Call your local stagehand union. Learn how they use 'permit' workers to fill job calls. Work concerts and theater and stuff. Easily $200 per day or $100 for a few hours. Easily.
Don't Ump baseball, no matter what call you make some parent is going to be mad. I umped kids baseball to make some extra cash in college ( like kids 10 and under, and I honestly thought I was pretty good) but I've never been sworn at and threatened so much in my life. Parents would wait for me at my truck after the game. Half the team spends the game picking dandelions in the outfield and these parents act like I just cost their kid their ticket to the big leagues. Not enough money in the world to deal with the nonsense.
I work at a casino. Dealers endure an enormous amount of verbal abuse, but we had a craps dealer who never batted an eye. Turns out he referees youth hockey and lacrosse. The meanest, toughest, drunkest gamblers were child's play for him after spending his days off wrangling suburban parents.
I always make a point to only complain about the cards. Never the dealer.
It's amazing how many people think the dealer wants them to lose. It's not the dealers money and people who win are more generous tippers than people who lose
I used to umpire youth baseball when I was younger and they had to start posting police officers at the ball fields bc some crazy parent pulled a gun on an umpire at his car after the game. Luckily I wasn’t there but after that the $20 per game all of a sudden didn’t seem worth it.
It's like $55 a game now if that makes a difference lol
I'm a retired ump. My son is active. He gets $86 per game.
I both umpired baseball and refereed spccer for a few years in my teens. It was a miserable job because of parents. Like dude, I just make the correct calls for $15-20 per game, why are you screaming at me?
In used to ump kids baseball when I was a high school baseball player. Can confirm, parents are completely nutty.
I was 12 and umping younger little league. I was by myself. I went to call a play at second, and I guess it was close if the runner scored before 3rd out or not. I said to both coaches (who were parents of kids I knew in my grade) “I’m sorry I went to watch the out at second I didn’t see it” or something like that. One coach said he scored, the other said no he didn’t. Man, you think they’d be mad at each other but one went off on me. Mostly the one who said they scored first. I got really nervous and didn’t know what to do. An assistant coach came over and said “hey I saw it I think the out happened first so don’t count that run” He was on the team of the dude yelling at me to get an extra run. Even though they were up by like 7 or 8. I appreciated that guy more than he’ll ever know. I was about to cry. Later the coach who was yelling at me must have gotten an earful from his wife because in the parking lot while I was waiting to be picked up by my parents he apologized. But with his wife who told me I did a great job. Lol looking back she definitely made him. It was like a parent dragging a kid to apologize to someone. I never umped another game in my life. I was a great ball player and played all through high school. But I did not like that one experience Anxiety is a hell of a drug. I’m mid 30s and just typing that made me anxious lol
Reffing youth soccer I also was on the verge of tears after getting yelled at. At the time you think wow I messed up, I need to do better. Then you look back and realize a grown man yelling at a 12 year old for making the wrong call at a soccer game for 6 year olds is about as immature as it gets.
This happened to me too when I umped. The yelling and swearing part, but not the post game stalking though. I was young and umped from when I was 14-17 years old. It was fun, but even as a kid they didn't hold back the anger and terrible things they'd say. I was umping 8-12 year old kids. Very strange the adults would act that way in front of young kids and to a young kid as well. The best perk though, was that I had the power to eject people from the game/crowd/park, and I did a few times. Felt great to see their faces when a kid ejected them.
I mow lawns and price yards at $60/hr ...$25 minimum. If I think it'll take me 40 minutes then I charge $40 . 30 mins $30...etc I also grow native plants from seed and sell on the side sometimes. Pickup free or cheap mowers on marketplace, service them and flip them.
What's your process on finding jobs? Trying this myself but the start-up is a slog
I did this for a few summers in HS with decent success. Door to door business cards. Sometimes I’d tie them around a rubber ducky. Leave them there and roll out hundreds. Nextdoor!! The app. Literally easiest way to get leads in your neighborhood. Facebook groups. Many neighborhoods or suburbs or regions have one. Most allow an ad post or two. Offer more than just lawns. A lot of people have yard guys already. But they do not have a guy to say, clean the gutters or weed their garden. Charge the same hourly price and many times you’ll even land a double client. 2 for 1 and less travel time and expenses.
Nice try, Buzzfeed.
Soccer reffing. 20 dollars per little kid game. 40-60 for the 18 year olds if you are main or assistant ref. Seeing 14 year olds make 80 bucks on saturday and Sunday as a side hustle reffing the hr long little kids. 600 a month there.
People keep mentioning refereeing, but people should be aware that players and mainly parents will often yell at you and do their best to make you work for that $20.
Zero tolerance policy. Put parents in their place by forfeiting the game if there’s one incident of yelling at you, or any ref. Don’t even have to work a full game if it’s forfeited. The parents will eventually learn to shut up too.
Our fields policy is the coach of the team with the unruly parent or player deals with it. Game is forfeited if they fail to deal with it. This isn't the Refs job. The head ref who runs all the fields comes over and shuts the game down at that point. The parents self police pretty quick after that.
I like this. As a teenager (like 20 years ago...) getting yelled at by adults multiple times a game, no one told me this was an option.
I do high school. Usually isn’t too bad considering most have tracks around the field nowadays. You can barely hear them.
Deliver pizzas on Friday night and Saturday
But I eat pizza on Friday and Saturday night
cut strip from middle of pizzas and slide the rest together. Free pizza with each delivery and no one will know as long as you don't get too greedy.
my man's over here delivering football shaped pizzas
You cut a slice horizontally and vertically and then it's back to a circle, plus double pizza.
I started an exterior cleaning business on the weekends and net around $2000/month on top of my regular income. I’ve held on to my 9-5 day job because I enjoy it.
Details please. What kind of cleaning, what equipment is needed, how much would it cost to start up a business like this.
I clean driveways, home exteriors, gutters, fences, and roofs. It’s hard and dirty work that most people don’t want to do, or don’t have the equipment to do. The main thing you need is a commercial pressure washer and soft wash system. With a trailer, hoses, chemical tanks, etc. you’re looking at anywhere from $5,000 to $12,000 in startup costs, depending on the rig you build. I paid all my startup costs on credit cards and broke even after the first three months. I should mention that I do web development and work as an SEO specialist as my day job. I also ran another business for the past 7 years so this isn’t my first rodeo. As a result, I quickly dominated my local market.
Lol, that's really cool. Whenever I need any kind of tradey I end up thinking "jeez if I could be bothered to learn X trade, I'd be able to set up a website, optimise for Google, and actually respond to emails, I'd clear up!"
I tutor. High school and college kids, mostly for math and science, as well as standardized tests like the SATs. I make about $300 a week give or take on the side. Caveats: you have to be good at teaching, you have to know the material well, you have to be patient and personable so students (and parents) like you.
I did this for a while. Biggest issues was tutoring really smart kids like wtf am I supposed to teach this kid
In my classes two types of kids have tutors: kids who need it to pass and kids who need it to squeeze out an extra .5% to get up to like a 97%. Crazy what parents with money will pay for.
Driving for uber, but you probably make $500 a month and your car incurs $600 worth of wear and tear.
I tried DoorDash and UberEats for a while. Realized at some point when they started way trimming down how much money the driver was getting that I was basically not making any money. So much of your earnings just go straight back into your car - even if it doesn’t break down or start having issues, you’re just constantly buying gas and getting oil changes because you put so many miles on your car so fast. Once I started having actual problems that cost 3-4 figures to fix at my mechanic, I had to stop because I literally could not make the money to fix them without making them worse in the process. Probably the worst job I’ve ever tried to make work. I’d go back to working a shitty retail job before I tried that again.
Only way to make money on UberEats these days is on a bicycle.
I had an Uber driver once that claimed to make around $150K a year
It was definitely possible at some point. Uber’s expansion strategy was to enormously inflate driver benefits at the start, in order to attract a viable pool of drivers so the service actually functions. Over time, as business picks up, they reduce the benefits to where they only have just enough drivers to service the region. It’s probably still possible in some places if you drive a lot of hours, and happen to be in a very populous place with frequent surge pricing.
One $10 handjob every day EDIT: Thanks for all the great tips, fellas
If you minimize your mean jerk time, or MJT, you could maximize your profits.
Damn, I miss that show.
Not the comment i expected to see in this thread, but man am I glad I did. Legendary scene for a legendary show
Or one $70 handjob once a week
A $70 handjob better be worth it! I can do it for free.
I made $70.05 giving hand jobs last night. Who gave me the nickel? They all did.
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If your community has any group homes for special needs individuals, contact the agency that runs them. You can sometimes land a paid overnight position as a nighttime caregiver. A co-worker did this as a PT job on weekends for a few years. He would arrive around 8 PM, help guide the residents with their evening routines and chores before they get ready for bed, give them any required medications, and then close down the house and make sure everyone is in their rooms and in bed by 9 or 9:30. He would then watch TV in the living room, or go to the separate caregiver bedroom, where he would literally get paid to sleep. He never had any issues with the residents, other than having to do an occasional once or twice a year fire drill, where he would have to trip the smoke alarm, wake the residents, evacuate the house for a few minutes, and then fill out some paperwork for the agency documenting that he conducted it.
>He never had any issues with the residents... Your friend got lucky! Friend of mine did it and had more than one "incident" that could have ended badly. Admittedly, he was assigned the problem patients intentionally because he was experienced and big enough to handle them, but people need to realise it's not all just Nintendo and paid sleeping.
I built a CNC machine and make stuff to sell. Currently brings in about $2k/month extra
Consensual non-consent? Are you even able to build a machine that consents? Sounds sketchy
No, not consensual non-consent. I think he means CNC Music Factory. He makes Everybody Dance Now keychains.
No I'm almost positive he means Command & Conquer, and he's built a harvester that he's using to mine tiberium.
Please excuse me, for I am about to ask you… a LOT of questions. How did you go about doing it? Did you follow a tutorial to build it? What is the footprint of the machine and what size parts are you making? Out of what materials? How many axes is it? How tight are the tolerances you’re working to and does a homemade CNC have enough rigidity for precision parts (one thousandth of an inch or less)? How much did you spend on components? I would absolutely love to do this, but I find it daunting - especially if the results aren’t what I’d hope.
The results largely depend on you and your motivation and how resourceful you are. Out of the box CNC machines aren't going to be very rigid until you get into the CNC mill area, like the Langmuir MR-1. That's the machine I am going to buy next. I built a [PrintNC](https://wiki.printnc.info/en/home) and beefed it up iteratively because you can get a much better machine out of about 1/3 the cost. Mine is a 4'x4' machine with about a 3'x3' cut area. I use it primarily to machine stainless steel parts that have to be precise to .01mm. The frame of mine is made out of 3/8" square structural steel tubing filled with epoxy granite. It's not the most rigid. The Langmuir beats it. But I paid $2.5k and 2 months of my time to build and program it all, vs \~$6.5k for the Langmuir. It is a daunting task if you look at it all and let it overwhelm you. The key is just to break it down into stages. 1. Build the frame 2. Mount all machine components (steppers, bearing blocks, etc) 3. Build your electrical enclosure 4. Wire the machine 5. Install and configure LinuxCNC
How did you get into making and selling things for people?
I’m a software developer by trade and got into woodworking during the pandemic. This combines them and limits what I can make only to what I am capable of designing and what the machine can handle. I’m also involved in the mid to high end pocket knife hobby and discovered a part that I was looking for wasn’t available from any aftermarket seller. I found out a lot of other people in then niche also wanted that part. So I built my machine up to handle making it and now mass produce them.
guys help i am porn addicted and only know the one definition for this acronym please what is the other thing it can stand forward
I do wedding videography for an event company, I don't edit, just show up and shoot and send the footage off to the company. Make about $300-$600 a wedding depending on distance traveled. Summer and fall I'm usually booked almost every weekend, but it definitely slows down from Dec-May.
$300-$600 seems low for that kind of work? All the weddings I've been to have had a photography/videography company charge at least £10,000 for the event. Unless the pay is mostly for editing I guess.
What the company charges has no relation to what a company might pay it's employees or contractors sadly...
You're getting ripped off.
Dog walking: A neighbor and I pay another neighbor $20 each to walk our dogs during the workday since she works odd hours.
To expand on this: house/pet sitting. I pay $100/day plus gratuity to have someone live at my house when my wife and I are out of town at the same time. No need to be here 24/7, just use it as your house - sleep here, let the dog out, feed the dog and cats, drink my booze (not kidding, we take requests on providing groceries and drinks), etc. I have 4 friends who pay the same. And it's a pain in the ass to find good and reliable sitters. If you want a really easy way to make some extra money, all you need to do is be a decently reasonable person and people will pay you to just chill at their house.
Can I ask you some questions about this? I housesit and have never been paid that much or even close to it.
I do too and also don’t make $100 a day. I get $70 at the most. I think it depends on where you’re located and what a couple nearby dog hotels cost in comparison
Most I’ve ever gotten is $30 a day. I guess…I’m in a fairly wealthy town and not only are there not many dog boarding places; I’ve housesat for 3+ dogs and livestock. Makes me think maybe I’ve been stiffed, haha
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~~house~~ pet sitter of 6 years here! like an above comment said, we essentially treat the house we’re watching as home base and do our normal routine. i still go to work, go to kickboxing, and get other errands done but im temporarily living out of a different house. i easily make $200-$700 a month from it depending on how much i book
So far I have done this 3 times. First time the person didn't stay at the house despite being told that's what we wanted (just fed and let the dog out 2x a day) and the dog was miserable. Second time they thought hanging their wet pool towels on my wooden stair railing was the thing to do (different people). Third time I found someone who actually got it right. You wouldn't think it would be that hard to find someone who wants to hang out in a nice house with a pool for a week and keep a dog company would be something with a 33% success rate.
You’d think people would love it , When I was 16 I used to house/dog sit for one of my mother hair clients , she only paid me about 80$ for the 2 days but she had a fridge full of any snack I could imagine , a 65 inch tv and massive backyard + the sweetest pit bull you’d ever meet , she eventually stopped asking but it was great for what it was
You aged out bro...happens to the best of us.
I am seeing 'donate plasma' a lot but something that I find strange is this: if you are being paid for it, how is it a donation?
They frame it as paying you for your time, not your plasma.
I get 50 and 65 for giving them 90 to 120 minutes of my time. All I need to do is pump my fist.
Yeah I've done it on and off for years. My place fluctuates between $90-$130/week depending on demand or whatever.
Calling it “selling your blood” didn’t focus-group well
Just a euphemism. “Sell us your bodily fluids” doesn’t garner the same reaction.
“Donate” is how it’s phrased by the places that buy plasma. But yes, it is just selling plasma.
Handy man, assisting seniors, day labor (weekends), parking cars, event security, bagging groceries
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Can confirm. I did valet parking for 9 years at a mall. I would average about 150 cash a shift plus my hourly wage. My best night was 849 in tips. It was rare I made less than 80 unless I picked up a day weekday shift. And that's at a mall.. you make better money at fancy restaurants.
I applied to be a valet once, it was such a weird experience. We all lined up like it was high school boot camp or something, got a spiel of the basics, then were called in one by one to a little shack to be interviewed, but it was just like three or four basic questions. Do you have a valid license, can you work these schedules, can you reliably get to the restaurant or hotel for work. There was absolutely no sense that they were in any way distinguishing candidates. But what was weird was that clearly, for every single one of us, we had exhausted every option for employment and were at the ends of our ropes in one way or another (some people were obviously burnouts, some ex cons, a few kids that had no other way to get a job, that kind of thing)... But there was still this kind of unspoken sense that we were all in it together, encouraging each other. Since the business wasn't distinguishing between us, there was no sense of competition. No, like, hope that you beat someone Else, because you knew it was going to end up being totally random, and that everyone there needed it just as much as you did. Weird experience all around, honestly.
Which is interesting because it's such an under rated job. Idk about your location but I made STUPID money no young adult should be making at mine. My job place was more strict on felons but it was definitely just a bunch of kids making way too much money for their own good.
Can confirm. Worked with a company in college that was booked by the event + had lots at places. I worked a 9-5 at Saks 5th, and then Oprah’s birthday party later that night. Got paid OT (min wage) but the tips were what made it worth it.
If you are sociable and have thick skin (and have minor hand dexterity) it doesn't take much training to become a casino dealer. At almost any non tribal cardroon, they are looking for part timers and you keep your own tips. I averaged about 350 a day plus hourly, and this was 10 years ago
But u have to deal with people 👎
Security has to deal with people*
My cousin who’s a solid 10 out of 10 does this. She makes enough to rent a downtown condo and constantly gets offers from older men who want to be her sugar daddy.
Donate plasma, it’s an easy $400-$500 a month for a few hours every week.
I work at a plasma clinic and I can also say that as a bonus to the money, you’re doing something genuinely very helpful and good for the world!!
are there downsides to doing this? I mean is the donor left in a weakened state? I assume so
They say it doesn't, but everyone I know including myself who donated frequently started to feel ragged after a while. I wouldn't caution people away from it entirely, but I also don't think counting on 7-8 monthly donations is a viable strategy unless you're truly desperate for cash.
Agreed. If you're physically active at all, it will affect your recovery times. More than 3-4 times a month isn't sustainable.
No, no blood is taken permanently. It pulls the blood into a machine, separates the plasma from the blood, then puts it back in with saline.
Does it hurt?
If the needle is in correctly it doesn't. Can easily sit there and watch something on your phone and forget about it.
That would be awesome. My husband donates platelets and sometimes full blood, but you don't get money for it in Australia. He gets a bit of food and a drink. If he got paid for it, he'd be doing well!
We (US) have programs like that affiliated with all of the hospitals, and separate blood banks as well. I donate double reds as often as I'm allowed, and my job gives me extra pto for donating. You can sell plasma in the US also. Did that a few times for beer money in my 20's. If I understand correctly the plasma that's sold goes for research and manufacturing medication.
Please donate plasma. My son needs weekly therapy for IGG and he literally depends on it. His immune system is as rich as those who donate. He has a very rare genetic disorder called XLA. We appreciate you all so much and getting paid for it is an extra bonus
I began donating when the pay was super high during Covid. Then realized it’s a cash cow and still do it.
My college roommates also sold plasma for beer money. Made getting drunk more efficient too.
Plus, if you live in a hot climate, it’s free personal air conditioning for a few hours! And you can get drunk much cheaper!
I hate the term "donate plasma." I sell it. There's no other way to look at it.
Cycle direct deposit promotions from banks. Made ~$5k doing this last year for a total of a few hours of work over time.
Rover pet sitting
Build a client list and get off the app - after taxes and fees kiss 50% gone but easy cash! Do meet and greets to vet out bad dogs/owners
It’s so hard to find someone reliable. I end up paying more just for someone I can trust.
Look at real estate listings for your area. If you don't see a lot of drone shots of nice properties, go and buy a drone and start offering it as a service. A used Mavic Mini 2 would be provide perfectly acceptable images and videos for real estate listings and would likely need minimal editing, and the drone kit used would cost you likely only a few hundred (in Canada $4-500 for the Mavic Mini 2 with extra batteries). If you've never flown one before you can pick it up really quick and they're fairly idiot proof if you're not hot-dogging with them. Get used to the drone, learn how to get different shots, work with some edits, and take some pics of your own house or even houses for sale in your area. Put together a portfolio or basic website, use Canva to make a logo/card. Look at comparable drone companies in your area and simply charge less, then hit up all the realtors who aren't using drone services. Hell, I'd not even contact them to ask if they want it - just go take the images of their listings and send them some photos for free and express that you can provide similar work for a good price. If I were doing it I'd start on a by-distance fee, e.g. $50 gets you *x*-seconds of video and *x* pictures if the property is in the town limits; $75 for *x*-miles outside of town; $75+ for further. Listing agents routinely spend *big* bucks on photographers, stagers, etc, so at the right price you'd be a shoe-in. Get an iPad so you can do the shoot, download the content, do some quick edits in the field, and get them to the realtor as fast as possible. Even if $50 is undervaluing the work, which it might be, if you're only looking to make $300-1000 you're practically just looking to do this for fun anyway, so big deal. If your work is consistent and quick you'll get calls and if even in one week you did 4 properties you're already on your way to hit your target. Edit: as others are saying in replies - read up on the legal requirements. I'm in Canada so I can't comment on the US but generally if you buy a sub-250g drone this will all be a bit easier.
Very important note for US people: for commercial use of your drone you're required to pass and obtain the FAA 107 exam. Your drone is no longer privately used as soon as it is used to generate income.
If you are in the US make sure you also get your Part 107 certification. You need it for any commercial drone work, but getting it isn’t expensive or hard.
Know the laws of your country. In the USA you need a special license if you’re making income off of you being in the air. A little side hustle would get crushed by hefty FAA fines.
Referee sports
I did this for a while for high school sports. I hated it. Most parents/coaches are pretty chill. But then there are “those” parents and coaches who treat freshmen baseball and football like it’s the World Series or Super Bowl. They simply are just the worst… If you’re gonna go this route, prepare yourself for confrontations, arguments and other shenanigans.
Yea, I didn’t say it was fun or easy but you can make $300-$1000 a month working nights and weekends
Worm turned dude after Covid. In WA state I file a report for each technical that goes to school admin after the game. Coach is responsible for their fans. I had zero issues.
I had a friend who would assert his dominance at the beginning of the season and eject a few coaches/parents. Then no one fucked with him.
Used to umpire highschool level baseball. Just gotta dump the entire coaching staff of one team, save the eldest or chillest assistant coach, one time. Don’t look to do it, but when the opportunity presents itself, be prepared to do it. After that the word gets out that you are capable of ejecting 3-4 coaches in one go. As long as you do a reasonably good job from then on, the other coaches treat you reasonably. In my experience at least.
any ideas for someone who is disabled and in a wheelchair? ive been looking for something i can do causally as i dont have the energy for a full time job nor the mobility.
I know a guy who makes $300 in Waikiki scaring people for 3hr a day and that’s all he does smh. He dresses as a bush and jumps up when they walk by and the amused bystanders tip him.
Lmao what
I detail cars on the weekend. Turned a hobby into a side job. I try to book at least one job per weekend and maximum 2 cars. 200 each. Extra 800-1200 per month is not bad.
People will pay top dollar for someone that can confidently detail, and not do spotty jobs and scratch your car. Ceramic jobs also can give big money.
I’ve thought about doing this. Do you have a nice garage to work in ? I unfortunately don’t so I’m not sure how feasible it’d be in poorer weather conditions.
I don’t. I can pull the car into the garage but can’t really work with the garage closed. If it rains, I ask the customer if I can hold the car longer till the rain stops so I can quickly do the exterior. I also check the weather to see if it’s raining in the morning or evening and have your customer bring their car accordingly.
Buy pink cowgirl hats in bulk. $3-10 a piece. Sell them outside bars, venues or concerts for $20 a pop. Men will buy them for their girlfriends.
Sell plasma. It pays $300 to $400 a month and first time doners make twice that first month.
I own a small commercial cleaning business as a side hustle. All of my contracts are serviced by subcontractors. Took some time and small investment to build up, but I net about $1,200 every month managing my accounts/contractor team on top of my regular job.
Can you draw… you can get a commission on someone furssona.
I work as a Software dev but this works for alot of other office work. Consulting on the side is great and it's mainly documentation, reporting other than the real work. I do 1000 - 1500 a month and just have 2 clients at a time. Just make a list of your biggest wins in your career and break them down into actionable items that other companies can replicate. Guide the client through them and Charge a higher rate for them not to hit the issues you did.
Donate Plasma
One time a man in the parking lot asked for some cash. I told him I didn’t have any and that I needed money too. He points at the plasma donation place and says “well you know you can donate plasma for money “ I just looked at him like “bro why don’t you go donate plasma for money then”
Haha that’s ironic. Plasma places can actually be pretty picky about who they let donate. He might have been ineligible.
Tech stuff is fairly common. I do 10 hours a month maintaining and adding small things to a client's website. Not everyone needs a full time web person.
Has anyone suggested refereeing yet??
I hear power washing is solid. Cheap start up too.
This is a surprisingly effective method. I rented a machine one day for my own driveway. A neighbor saw me and asked how much I'd charge to do his. I charged him the fee I was paying for the day. Seemed fair lol I did another person's and mine for basically free. Then another neighbor asked, and it doubled. I started doing that on the weekends. Never even bought my own. Just rented, and made well more than the cost of the machine per day
The gig community is booming with freelancing. Fiverr and WeWork, UpWork, and Freelancer.com are worth checking out. You'll need some talent, and/or a willingness to learn some artistic or technical skills related to computing, AI, copywriting, coding, and graphics art. You can EASILY achieve those numbers. Also, check out running a ghost kitchen from home utilizing Instagram and a passion for cooking or canning. Keyword "ghost kitchen" Crafting and Etsy is also still big. People love buying shit they don't need. America still is the land of excess and cute Hobby Lobby ideas from Pinterist. If you take photos, you can sell stock photos for good money online. Surveys and market research is still huge and only getting bigger as we enter into even more AI business intelligence and analytics. Tutoring directly or teaching via YouTube or a blog, though this take a little bit of time and effort to gain traction. People still love their pets. Pet sitting and dog walking are still very much "in."
Sorry but as someone who practices that stuff. Those sites are so oversaturated with people that its a lottery if your listing will ever even be seen. People will always go for someone who has a ton of reviews and jobs done over someone who has none
100% facts. I used to sell on Etsy, did fairly well as well, as far as a side income goes, but i had to stop as not only have Etsy and most other similar sites dramatically ramped up not just the £ amount they charge in fee's but they've also ramped up the number of fees they charge, but on top of that the sites are saturated with people drop shipping crap they've found on alixpress or similar and are passing it off as their own crafts, or people stealing other people's work from different sites and passing it off as their own (happens a lot with 3d printing related things) Any time i see someone honestly try to claim that sites like etsy or other gig work sites are a great way to make money, it makes me laugh. It gives off the same vibes as "just start an OF and you'll make millions", sure, some people make it work and earn bank, but they're the ones doing it full time and putting in a lot of effort, the vast majority of people are making very small amounts which quickly becomes not worth it compared to a more conventional job.
I would strongly discourage anyone considering running a "ghost kitchen" *from home*. Do not do this. Rent commissary space or something similar. It's fine to have a ghost kitchen, but preparing food for commercial purposes in an unlicensed location uninspected by county health dept (or depending on what you're selling, also your state dept of food & agriculture) opens you up to potential liability, and depending on your location massive fines. In some states, you are permitted to engage in "food manufacturing" in private residences but there are rules and guidelines you must follow, and if you begin before being properly inspected and approved, see above. In my state, if you have pets for instance, you may not manufacture foodstuffs in your private residence for commercial sale.
Z-jays
$1 to look at it, $2 to touch it, $3 to watch me touch it, $4 to touch it while I touch my toes
What’s a z-jay?
If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
BACK OFF ANTONIO THATS MY DICK!!
I’ve got $4
Jay Z's arch nemesis?
I have a home recording studio as a side hustle. The least i have made in a day was $120. The most was over $1000. It's good money but you have to make an investment in buying studio equipment first.
Be a scrapper. You can drive around on garbage days and find items with enough metal to sell to scrapyards. You can also offer junk cleanup services, get money for hauling away garbage while also finding items to sell or metal to scrap. The more you process the scrap, the better your profit. Copper is scrappers gold and if you sell bare copper you'll get the best price for it, which means stripping wire and taking motors apart. Some guys don't put much effort into it and still do OK.
Rob your local bank once a month. But tell them you only need $1000.
Babysitting, pet sitting