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What do you do for side cash? (1 Viewer)

I get paid to have relations with the married wimmen who are bored with their husbands. My wife doesn't mind as long as give her 40%. 

 
Making furniture is one of those things I've considered because theoretically it is something that would fit me personality wise.  However, I would be starting at absolute zero (knowledge and equipment wise) it is quite a barrier to get started.

 
I've been a ice hockey referee for almost 20 years. Great side gig. Make your own schedule, stay out there and active, most of the guys/teams are cool, working a big game with the stands full and loud is an awesome experience. I urge anyone to try it if you like a sport and is looking to make side cash. We need more refs in all sports. And yes, the parents can be Aholes, but once you get past them its a great gig. 

I'm also a graphic designer full time and run a home based studio at night and busy as hell there. 

 
glvsav37 said:
I've been a ice hockey referee for almost 20 years. Great side gig. Make your own schedule, stay out there and active, most of the guys/teams are cool, working a big game with the stands full and loud is an awesome experience. I urge anyone to try it if you like a sport and is looking to make side cash. We need more refs in all sports. And yes, the parents can be Aholes, but once you get past them its a great gig. 

I'm also a graphic designer full time and run a home based studio at night and busy as hell there. 
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I can't imagine a side job I'd enjoy less.  I volunteer coach which is bad enough.  The parents, at least in basketball, have become unbearable.  It is a PITA enough dealing with them from a coaches perspective.  Having to listen to them for the whole game, complaining and everything else, would not work for me.

 
I was a ref in the Newport beach summer hoops league for a few years a long time ago.  Had some good conversations with Scott Brooks right after he signed with the TWolves. 

 
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Worm said:
What kind of furniture? Where do you market it/sell it?
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Mostly just to neighbors and friends. Someone will ask me about making a dinig room table, or picnic table, a bowl, etc. Nice thing is that I actually make most of it while I am working my real job - don't tell the boss man :bag:  I have access to cool ### machines and a full on wood/metal/digital shop.

I am not the best maker in the world, by any stretch. Hav too little patience - but I am also probably just a little hard on myself. Few examples of random stuff I have made for peope

Coffee Table

Lego Table (made for my kiddos)

Outdoor low sitting table

 
Bull Dozier said:
I can't imagine a side job I'd enjoy less.  I volunteer coach which is bad enough.  The parents, at least in basketball, have become unbearable.  It is a PITA enough dealing with them from a coaches perspective.  Having to listen to them for the whole game, complaining and everything else, would not work for me.
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not going to lie, it can get to you if you let it. I have stories...parents coming on the ice to try and attack me...parents trying to get into the locker room, etc. No doubt, they are crazy. But IMO, if you are confident in your game and do a better then average job, there is nothing to worry about. They will chirp, but at the end of the day, you did your job. 

Plus, the leagues I work in now, I can blow my whistle and have security remove a parent. I dont work anywhere without league officials and security at every game. Also, you can mostly tune it out. there is glass between you and them unlike basketball where they are a lot closer and everything echos in the gym. 

 
glvsav37 said:
not going to lie, it can get to you if you let it. I have stories...parents coming on the ice to try and attack me...parents trying to get into the locker room, etc. No doubt, they are crazy. But IMO, if you are confident in your game and do a better then average job, there is nothing to worry about. They will chirp, but at the end of the day, you did your job. 

Plus, the leagues I work in now, I can blow my whistle and have security remove a parent. I dont work anywhere without league officials and security at every game. Also, you can mostly tune it out. there is glass between you and them unlike basketball where they are a lot closer and everything echos in the gym. 
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That's why I couldn't do it, I don't have this ability, wether it was in a basketball gym, on a baseball field, or a hockey rink (which i know nothing about).  Too thin skinned for it.

 
back in the earlier internet days, i used to do web design on the side.  also did some freelance copy editing.

then when online poker was big, i made a decent amount of money on the side doing that (@10k per year).  i'm just not as good live and i can't multi-task sitting in a casino so that ended.  i still go occasionally and have fun, but i only make about $4 an hour so that's not really a side income.

i've been volunteer coaching and have sniffed around at doing that for a club or high school where i would get paid.  if not, i may ref.  there's decent side coin doing that and it's mostly nights or weekends.

 
Back in 6th grade, I could finish a math test in half the time of everyone else. I made some good lunch money passing the answers back to a few, select friends.

 
Bull Dozier said:
That's why I couldn't do it, I don't have this ability, wether it was in a basketball gym, on a baseball field, or a hockey rink (which i know nothing about).  Too thin skinned for it.
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nice thing about hockey is that there are 2 types of officials on the ice—the ref and the linesmen. The lineys have 90% less responsibility then the guy wearing the bands. Basically its chase pucks between whistles, conduct face-offs, call icings and off sides and break up an occasional fight. Very little chirping from parents at you specifically when lining a game—except for the parents who dont know lineys cant call penalties. But overall, its basically cake job. So I'l go to the rink and do a double—ref 1, line 1, or double lines—and make a nice payday.  

Only thing is it can be very easy to lose focus in a boring game as a liney and ironically, the only time I really got hurt bad was as a linesman.  

 
 I have been building crypto mining rigs and mining crypto currencies in my garage for the past 8 months.  Its good passive income now that its set up.  

 
Getzlaf15 said:
I was a ref in the Newport beach summer hoops league for a few years a long time ago.  Had some good conversations with Scott Brooks right after he signed with the TWolves. 
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I played in that league, probably not the same time though.

 
Bull Dozier said:
If this is real, how did you get into this?

Woudn't coaching be your side gig? Or is that volunteer?
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All volunteer.  Our Club does not believe in paying coaches.  And I don't believe in it either...  I may feel different if my daughter is done playing :) ;)

 
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belljr said:
All volunteer.  Our Club does not believe in paying coaches.  And I don't believe in it either...  I may feel different if my daughter is done playing :) ;)
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That's right, I wasn't looking at my notebook and forgot you were the fastpitch coach.  I've thought about finding a freshman level coaching job and pickup up a couple grand, but I have a feeling that is a quick way to start to hate something you love.

 
glvsav37 said:
I've been a ice hockey referee for almost 20 years. Great side gig. Make your own schedule, stay out there and active, most of the guys/teams are cool, working a big game with the stands full and loud is an awesome experience. I urge anyone to try it if you like a sport and is looking to make side cash. We need more refs in all sports. And yes, the parents can be Aholes, but once you get past them its a great gig. 

I'm also a graphic designer full time and run a home based studio at night and busy as hell there. 
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Just want to reiterate how amazing it is to me that you are a full-time graphic designer, given your side hustle obviously means you are blind and deaf.   :P
 

 
Getzlaf15 said:
I was a ref in the Newport beach summer hoops league for a few years a long time ago.  Had some good conversations with Scott Brooks right after he signed with the TWolves. 
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I remember him on the first Rocket's Championship team.  The "fundamentally sound spark plug".

 
Short Corner said:
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I got roped into reffing at a couple of tournaments when I was coaching club basketball.  Actually getting thrown in there and having to do it gave me a whole new appreciation of how tough it is to get in the right position, the correct view, and make the right call in real time.  Quickly made it a habit of thanking refs postgame after that experience.  I don't know if reffing experience made me a measurably better coach, but I was more relaxed on the bench during games. 

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
I got roped into reffing at a couple of tournaments when I was coaching club basketball.  Actually getting thrown in there and having to do it gave me a whole new appreciation of how tough it is to get in the right position, the correct view, and make the right call in real time.  Quickly made it a habit of thanking refs postgame after that experience.  I don't know if reffing experience made me a measurably better coach, but I was more relaxed on the bench during games. 
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This happend to me as well and the latter applies to me for the most part. 

 
Bull Dozier said:
Making furniture is one of those things I've considered because theoretically it is something that would fit me personality wise.  However, I would be starting at absolute zero (knowledge and equipment wise) it is quite a barrier to get started.
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really though, you started at absolute zero with everything and look what you're capable of now  :shrug:

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
I got roped into reffing at a couple of tournaments when I was coaching club basketball.  Actually getting thrown in there and having to do it gave me a whole new appreciation of how tough it is to get in the right position, the correct view, and make the right call in real time.  Quickly made it a habit of thanking refs postgame after that experience.  I don't know if reffing experience made me a measurably better coach, but I was more relaxed on the bench during games. 
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I started my reffing career well before I had kids. I have seen and heard (insert @Bruce Dickinson's deaf and blind joke call back) so much from parent and coaches that it really effects the way I deal with my kids and sports now. I coached my daughter's Basketball team and coach multiple hockey teams fro my son, and along with being a spectator, having been on the other end for so long makes the way I view games completely different. 

I liken it to food service. I was a waiter growing up and I think if everyone spent any time waiting tables in their life, there would be a lot less A holes at restaurants. 

 
There’s still some money to be made in blogging.  Between affiliate programs and ad space there’s money out there even if you’re not selling your own stuff.  Might take a few months/year or two to draw enough eyeballs to make real money doing it, but it’s out there.

 
Ticket scalping. Hit me up if you're looking to go to the Pro Football HOF induction ceremony this year, or to Eagles games in Philly.

 
belljr said:
For Town, Club or School?

Town I don't agree with

Club - I could see but don't agree with it

School - Yes
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Club.  I actually get paid to watch other coaches coach kids as young as 8, as well as coach my own teams.

 
Friend of mine makes an extra 10K a year making bean bags for corn hole. 

Ebay is his friend 

he has a full essembly line in his basement, complete with big screen tv and beer fridge 

 
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