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

[eoMMan]

I don't do it but I've heard stories of people making decent side money donating plasma. I think it's like $75 or so each time which takes an hour or two. 

 

[Brony]

I don't do it but I've heard stories of people making decent side money donating plasma. I think it's like $75 or so each time which takes an hour or two. 

My sister is making pretty good money as a magician.  She told me she gets $50 a trick. 

 

[gianmarco]

My sister is making pretty good money as a magician.  She told me she gets $50 a trick. 

I actively chuckled.

 

[ex-ghost]

Bank bonuses. 

 

[bucksoh]

I'm usually to busy with projects around the house.  So if I need money I just withdraw it from the bank account.  Now my wife got into pallets sales for extra money  but wouldn't recommend that to anyone.

 

[nirad3]

Kinda surprised we're 4 pages in and no mention of Uber/Lyft.  When I was between jobs I tried it, and probably should have kept at it after I was gainfully employed.  Still may try it.  Maybe in the summer when people hit the local bars more.

 

[The Duff Man]

Would love to make coin building/fixing things. My full time gig keeps me busy enough that I just have enough time to take care of my projects at home. 

They are immensely more rewarding than "work" but at a fraction of the pay if I was to shift where I spend my time ?

 

[Bull Dozier]

Kinda surprised we're 4 pages in and no mention of Uber/Lyft.  When I was between jobs I tried it, and probably should have kept at it after I was gainfully employed.  Still may try it.  Maybe in the summer when people hit the local bars more.

Curious to see how people make out doing this.  I've seen varying results of how well people actually do, and it seems you have to hit a certain number of checkboxes to be successful.

 

[Punxsutawney Phil]

I spend hours slicing together the best parts pr0n scenes.  I don't get paid but have a ton of board cred on several popular sites.

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Some cities may also have the Waitr service where you can get paid to go pick up food from participating restaurants and deliver to people. 

 

[nirad3]

Some cities may also have the Waitr service where you can get paid to go pick up food from participating restaurants and deliver to people. 

I did this in Austin when the service - not Waitr, but equivalent - was in its infancy.  I made pretty decent money for the work involved.

 

[Chemical X]

iGrift

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I spend hours slicing together the best parts pr0n scenes.  I don't get paid but have a ton of board cred on several popular sites.

When I was teenager I did the same thing. Except back then it was a scrapbook of magazine pics cut and pasted into a school binder.

 

[nirad3]

When I was teenager I did the same thing. Except back then it was a scrapbook of magazine pics cut and pasted into a school binder.

That wasn't paste...... 

 

[Lehigh98]

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.

How much are tickets going for the enshrinement ceremony?  Would love to see Dawk's speech but when I looked a while back you could only buy multi-day passes for a bunch of stuff.

 

[Lehigh98]

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.

Is there a "How to" out there on this one?

 

[Short Corner]

Is there a "How to" out there on this one?

PM Shuke.

 

[BlueDredSo]

Pick up serving shifts at a very cool and unique restaurant around here. Not on the schedule, just pick up shifts when it's busy enough to make it worth it.

I also drive for Uber and Lyft. Hardly did any driving over the winter but will probably start doing 1 night on the weekends pretty regularly now that the nicer weather is here.

I like being able to do either whenever I want. My wife only works part-time right now, mostly because daycare is stupid expensive but also because her job can be pretty stressful, so I figured I'd pick up the slack to just make things a little more comfortable financially. I wouldn't do either of these side gigs if I didn't enjoy them. Plus, the $ has been pretty awesome considering they're just part-time jobs almost anybody can get.

 

[Dentist]

I handle all my own investments,  so I guess financial advisor for 2 peeps.

Torrent .. which is like making money via not spending it

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Is there a "How to" out there on this one?

Pick a topic or subject you have some expertise in and some passion about.  
Start writing about it.  
After about 4-5 posts, see if you can write titles or main ideas of 9-10 more posts.
See if there are goods and services you organically mention in your blogging.  
Find out who sells those goods and services and see if there is an affiliate or commission program related to them.  
Get an affiliate account and insert links to goods and services within your posts.  
Profit.  
As the site grows in popularity and eyeballs, look into offering advertising space.
More Profit.    

For example... right now blogs about specific eating/exercise lifestyles are really hot.  Say you've had success losing weight by adhering to a diet.  Right a few blog posts about recipes of things you ate that tasted good but helped you lose weight.  Did you use a food processor?  Affiliate link to a food processor when you mention that.  Special ingredient?  Affiliate link to where you bought it when you mention it.  You'll make a small commission on each sale produced through those links. 

Won't be much at the beginning, but as your audience grows the volume will go up.  Won't have to manage inventory or do any actual buying or selling, or handling sensitive information.     

Some spaces are really competitive with several providers fighting for market share, so they will offer aggressive commissions to grab share.  For example, website hosting is a cutthroat game right now.  People reviewing/recommending hosts, or casually mentioning them while blogging about other tech, are cashing in without spending a lot of money.  


  
 

 

[Bull Dozier]

Pick up serving shifts at a very cool and unique restaurant around here. Not on the schedule, just pick up shifts when it's busy enough to make it worth it.

I also drive for Uber and Lyft. Hardly did any driving over the winter but will probably start doing 1 night on the weekends pretty regularly now that the nicer weather is here.

I like being able to do either whenever I want. My wife only works part-time right now, mostly because daycare is stupid expensive but also because her job can be pretty stressful, so I figured I'd pick up the slack to just make things a little more comfortable financially. I wouldn't do either of these side gigs if I didn't enjoy them. Plus, the $ has been pretty awesome considering they're just part-time jobs almost anybody can get.

How much do you pull down on a weekend night driving, and how many hours are you putting in?

 

[belljr]

Is there a market for restringing gloves?

I've done probably 10 in the past year or so

 

[Bull Dozier]

Is there a market for restringing gloves?

I've done probably 10 in the past year or so

I have one that needs it the next time you are in the twin cities.

 

[TheFanatic]

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.

This was my main side gig for many years. It still is a side gig. The blog makes me a little over $20K/year via an ad network that cycles ads through the website. I could make more if I sell my own advertising and do so for a couple small ads. 

A necessary evil with blogging is social media. I found my niche with Instagram and focused on that until I had a massive following. Way more money on IG than the blog. Last year I made more than $50K on endorsing brands on Instagram. So that morphed into me creating a social media training company to teach people how to Instagram and how to make money from it. And that morphed into brands telling me they didn't have the time to do the daily grind on IG so they pay me to manage their accounts. I now have two account managers handling a handful of accounts.

I do all of this without having any product to sell other than pimping out my following to brands. 

Right now, none of these are enough to sustain me, but all of them combined and I now make more on the side hustle(s) than I do in my main job which is pretty lucrative considering I'm a senior level IT guy with 15 years in this field. My schedule is just crazy nuts with lots of 14 hour days, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel which is eventually leaving the day job. 

Feel free to DM me if you are interested in trying one of these routes for a side hustle. 

 

[glvsav37]

This was my main side gig for many years. It still is a side gig. The blog makes me a little over $20K/year via an ad network that cycles ads through the website. I could make more if I sell my own advertising and do so for a couple small ads. 

A necessary evil with blogging is social media. I found my niche with Instagram and focused on that until I had a massive following. Way more money on IG than the blog. Last year I made more than $50K on endorsing brands on Instagram. So that morphed into me creating a social media training company to teach people how to Instagram and how to make money from it. And that morphed into brands telling me they didn't have the time to do the daily grind on IG so they pay me to manage their accounts. I now have two account managers handling a handful of accounts.

I do all of this without having any product to sell other than pimping out my following to brands. 

Right now, none of these are enough to sustain me, but all of them combined and I now make more on the side hustle(s) than I do in my main job which is pretty lucrative considering I'm a senior level IT guy with 15 years in this field. My schedule is just crazy nuts with lots of 14 hour days, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel which is eventually leaving the day job. 

Feel free to DM me if you are interested in trying one of these routes for a side hustle. 

growing my insta/social is something i really want to focus on for my side design biz. Its tough b/c I need to be careful about it b/c i cant cross streams with my current full time gig (if you know what i mean?)  

 

[TheFanatic]

growing my insta/social is something i really want to focus on for my side design biz. Its tough b/c I need to be careful about it b/c i cant cross streams with my current full time gig (if you know what i mean?)  

Know what you mean? Better than just about anyone. My office for my side gig is a 10 story parking garage where I step out to in order to hold meetings on the phone for my side biz. I have taken to walking up and down that garage in the last few months and dropped 12 pounds doing so. But yeah, I get your point. There has been major friction at a couple jobs I've held when they found out about the side hustle. The current one is not bad at all as everyone here knows now, but I still can't take calls and talk side hustle business near coworkers. 

 

[belljr]

This was my main side gig for many years. It still is a side gig. The blog makes me a little over $20K/year via an ad network that cycles ads through the website. I could make more if I sell my own advertising and do so for a couple small ads. 

A necessary evil with blogging is social media. I found my niche with Instagram and focused on that until I had a massive following. Way more money on IG than the blog. Last year I made more than $50K on endorsing brands on Instagram. So that morphed into me creating a social media training company to teach people how to Instagram and how to make money from it. And that morphed into brands telling me they didn't have the time to do the daily grind on IG so they pay me to manage their accounts. I now have two account managers handling a handful of accounts.

I do all of this without having any product to sell other than pimping out my following to brands. 

Right now, none of these are enough to sustain me, but all of them combined and I now make more on the side hustle(s) than I do in my main job which is pretty lucrative considering I'm a senior level IT guy with 15 years in this field. My schedule is just crazy nuts with lots of 14 hour days, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel which is eventually leaving the day job. 

Feel free to DM me if you are interested in trying one of these routes for a side hustle. 

Holy crap - thats nuts/awesome/completely foreign to me......

 

[TheFanatic]

Holy crap - thats nuts/awesome/completely foreign to me......

It was completely foreign to me to. Started as a blog to write off meat and charcoal and the occasional grill. I remember telling a friend of mine who does the web design for the site that one day, if I'm really lucky I'll make $10,000 a year from this. Now I have employees. Never in a million years would I have thought I would have employees. And to create it from basically nothing...

 

[BlueDredSo]

How much do you pull down on a weekend night driving, and how many hours are you putting in?

Average night of driving 3-4 hours I'll pull in at least $80, usually. I'd say $20/hr is about right, sometimes more but rarely less. There's a beach club I live near and I'm curious to see how that's going to go. I doubt I'll be doing much more than 1 night/week for 3-4 hours.

Waiting tables is much more stressful, but the $ is usually better. The restaurant I work at is crazy busy during the summer as they host big events and have all sorts of different things to do whether on site or in the water.

 

[snore]

My buddy runs a golf course. I work the pro shop a few days a month and get paid a few bucks. Also get free golf and driving range privileges. 

I forgot to mention I get a free lesson with the pga pro at the course which is happening Sunday...man I need some help with my short game stat. 

 

[ragincajun]

Anyone do Fivver?

 

[Johnny Rock]

Thinking of doing Tentrr as a host. Looked into it briefly and I think we qualify with land and whatnot. Seems kind of cool if you have good stewards and not losers. You wouldn’t think it would attract those types. 

https://www.tentrr.com/

 

[Osaurus]

Informant for FBI

 

[sports_fan]

Add my own collection basket to the rotation at church. Pretty good but takes some effort to find the best churches

 

[Mr Anonymous]

I proxy for the SuperContest in Las Vegas. It's all cash and only requires 2 trips a week to the Westgate during the NFL regular season. I'm in real estate so a couple detours a week is no big deal for me. I'll make anywhere from $5,000-10,000 this year. Only bummer is that this year will likely be the last year proxies are needed given legalized sports betting. If anyone here plays the SuperContest and needs a proxy feel free to PM me. My clients are all very loyal, they seem to love me. Even have a former champ and runner-up in my group. I text photo confirmations of their weekly ticket and they all really appreciate it. I charge a flat fee that's lower than some of the bigger proxies too. 

 

[comfortably numb]

I proxy for the SuperContest in Las Vegas. It's all cash and only requires 2 trips a week to the Westgate during the NFL regular season. I'm in real estate so a couple detours a week is no big deal for me. I'll make anywhere from $5,000-10,000 this year. Only bummer is that this year will likely be the last year proxies are needed given legalized sports betting. If anyone here plays the SuperContest and needs a proxy feel free to PM me. My clients are all very loyal, they seem to love me. Even have a former champ and runner-up in my group. I text photo confirmations of their weekly ticket and they all really appreciate it. I charge a flat fee that's lower than some of the bigger proxies too. 

Assuming you're not banned in the very near future for you avatar can you explain what you do exactly?

Do you walk in and place large bets for people?

 

[Mr Anonymous]

Assuming you're not banned in the very near future for you avatar can you explain what you do exactly?

Do you walk in and place large bets for people?

The SuperContest is a handicapping contest. Each entrant picks 5 NFL games against the spread throughout the 17 weeks of the regular season. The picks have to be submitted in person via a terminal at the Westgate. The contestants come into town July 1 to NFL week 1 and lay down $1500 to enter. If they're not local they then need someone to submit their 5 picks each week. That's where I come in. The contest paid over a million to the winner last year, and paid top 50 places overall. I believe they're paying the top 100 this coming season. There were about 2400 entrants last year. My job is to accurately enter their picks on time. It's a big trust thing. You don't want some clown making an error with your picks and failing to submit them when hundreds of thousands or even a million is on the line. And 2 years ago that was precisely the case going into the final week. One of my guys had a shot at winning it all, around $900k that year. If I don't get his picks in, he takes a zero and likely finishes outside the top 10. Instead he took 2nd and won a few hundred thousand. He gave me a solid tip when he came in last year to register.

 

[comfortably numb]

The SuperContest is a handicapping contest. Each entrant picks 5 NFL games against the spread throughout the 17 weeks of the regular season. The picks have to be submitted in person via a terminal at the Westgate. The contestants come into town July 1 to NFL week 1 and lay down $1500 to enter. If they're not local they then need someone to submit their 5 picks each week. That's where I come in. The contest paid over a million to the winner last year, and paid top 50 places overall. I believe they're paying the top 100 this coming season. There were about 2400 entrants last year.

Pretty cool

 

[Mr Anonymous]

Pretty cool

And easy too. I just have to be disciplined and organized. I can't be out partying the night before the pick deadline (Saturday morning) and risk not getting my clients picks in. I rarely drink so that's no big deal. And I've got my system down to a science as to making sure all my guys get their picks in and they're confirmed correct prior to the deadline so that there's no risk of any incorrect or missed picks. 

 

[Abraham]

I build websites on the side and offer a big discount if they host with me. Sites cost about 2k but I drop it to 1500 if they agree to pay me $100 a month for hosting and security and updates.  All that stuff is automated so it's just mailbox money. 

I left my job three months ago and turned my other side business (b2b lead gen) Into a full time business.  In 60 days I've replaced my previous job income (25k/month) by selling off my expertise as a product. 

 

[Mr Anonymous]

I used to play one of the casino pools back in the day, I can't remember which though. Entry couldn't have been more than one or two hundred. I think we picked all the games straight up, no spread? If I missed a week one of the women at the casino would call me on Saturday night for my missing picks... I remember once I was on a date, back at my place, and my cell rang, and I picked it up, gave a hello, then said "Oh, doing good Jennifer, how are you doing?" and my date gave me the evil eye for taking a call from another woman while she was in my apartment. Then I said "Um, Pittsburgh, the Giants, the Patriots..." and ran down like a dozen games. My date was cracking up by the end of it.

I guess they shut it down soon after for non-Nevada folks. I never got around to getting a proxy. 

Yeah they still have a few contests like that here in Vegas. Pretty much locals only since it wouldn't make sense to pay a proxy for such a small contest. I love the fact that the casino called you when your picks weren't in. I do the same thing when one of my guys hasn't submitted anything. It's almost always because they were out too late the night before. 

 

[eoMMan]

Average night of driving 3-4 hours I'll pull in at least $80, usually. I'd say $20/hr is about right, sometimes more but rarely less. There's a beach club I live near and I'm curious to see how that's going to go. I doubt I'll be doing much more than 1 night/week for 3-4 hours.

Waiting tables is much more stressful, but the $ is usually better. The restaurant I work at is crazy busy during the summer as they host big events and have all sorts of different things to do whether on site or in the water.

Is that $20/hr gross or $20/hr after you subtract gas and some sort of calculation for general wear and tear (maybe a mileage rate)?

 

[Lehigh98]

Pick a topic or subject you have some expertise in and some passion about.  
Start writing about it.  
After about 4-5 posts, see if you can write titles or main ideas of 9-10 more posts.
See if there are goods and services you organically mention in your blogging.  
Find out who sells those goods and services and see if there is an affiliate or commission program related to them.  
Get an affiliate account and insert links to goods and services within your posts.  
Profit.  
As the site grows in popularity and eyeballs, look into offering advertising space.
More Profit.    

For example... right now blogs about specific eating/exercise lifestyles are really hot.  Say you've had success losing weight by adhering to a diet.  Right a few blog posts about recipes of things you ate that tasted good but helped you lose weight.  Did you use a food processor?  Affiliate link to a food processor when you mention that.  Special ingredient?  Affiliate link to where you bought it when you mention it.  You'll make a small commission on each sale produced through those links. 

Won't be much at the beginning, but as your audience grows the volume will go up.  Won't have to manage inventory or do any actual buying or selling, or handling sensitive information.     

Some spaces are really competitive with several providers fighting for market share, so they will offer aggressive commissions to grab share.  For example, website hosting is a cutthroat game right now.  People reviewing/recommending hosts, or casually mentioning them while blogging about other tech, are cashing in without spending a lot of money.   

I think I'm going to give this a shot.  I may try a "getting kids away from screens" approach and blog about events and activities in the area where we live and also fill in with toys, games, other products, etc.  I hear people all the time complaining about getting kids outside and finding things to do so hopefully this fills a niche.  I think I can do a pretty good job of putting together some decent content and keeping it at least slightly entertaining to read. 

Not sure how much of a following I can generate but the main benefit of going this route is getting my kids involved to come up with ideas, try new things, write reviews, etc.  I'm thinking I can use it as an excuse for us to get off the couch and go biking, rafting, paintball, etc just so we have to generate a bigger activity review every day or so while we fill in more frequent posts / content with smaller stuff.  If I can build a following, maybe I can use that for some free admissions / products in trade for publicity from reviews.

@Bruce Dickinson @TheFanatic and anyone else, please DM with any advice / tips on how to get started.  I'm starting to look into the best way to get a blog up, Wordpress?  And how to effectively crosspost on other mediums (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram?) to build a following. 

Need a name for this thing too, any suggestions?  

TIA!

 

[joker]

 

[TheFanatic]

I think I'm going to give this a shot.  I may try a "getting kids away from screens" approach and blog about events and activities in the area where we live and also fill in with toys, games, other products, etc.  I hear people all the time complaining about getting kids outside and finding things to do so hopefully this fills a niche.  I think I can do a pretty good job of putting together some decent content and keeping it at least slightly entertaining to read. 

Not sure how much of a following I can generate but the main benefit of going this route is getting my kids involved to come up with ideas, try new things, write reviews, etc.  I'm thinking I can use it as an excuse for us to get off the couch and go biking, rafting, paintball, etc just so we have to generate a bigger activity review every day or so while we fill in more frequent posts / content with smaller stuff.  If I can build a following, maybe I can use that for some free admissions / products in trade for publicity from reviews.

@Bruce Dickinson @TheFanatic and anyone else, please DM with any advice / tips on how to get started.  I'm starting to look into the best way to get a blog up, Wordpress?  And how to effectively crosspost on other mediums (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram?) to build a following. 

Need a name for this thing too, any suggestions?  

TIA!

DM Sent

 

[Lehigh98]

Not sure where to go for help with this but I'll check here first.  I'm now trying to come up with a good name for the blog I mentioned above so I can start registering on different outlets and get started on WordPress.  As I mentioned above, looking to start a "getting kids away from screens"  blog about events and activities in the area where we live and also fill in with toys, games, other products, etc. 

Started jotting down words that may work in a name: kids, outside, screen, active, activities, fun, engaged, boredom, tech, mobile, ideas, games, time, power off, switch off, etc.

Early combos and ideas so far: PowerOffKids, UnplugFamily, UnplugFun (just about all versions of "Unplugged" already registered), ScreenlessKids, ScreenTimeOut.  My kids liked "ReadyPlayerFun" but I don't think that really gets at what I'm trying to convey.

Any thoughts on the above or better ideas?  Any help / input is appreciated.

@TheFanatic @Bruce Dickinson @glvsav37 @Abraham 

Thanks!

 

[Worm]

FunPlug / FunPlugged

 

[glvsav37]

FunPlug / FunPlugged

if the blog thing doesn't work out, you could sell buttplugs

 

[Lehigh98]

if the blog thing doesn't work out, you could sell buttplugs

Yeah, trying to avoid anything that sounds dirty for a kid- oriented site.

I could start a second one though...

 

[glvsav37]

Not sure where to go for help with this but I'll check here first.  I'm now trying to come up with a good name for the blog I mentioned above so I can start registering on different outlets and get started on WordPress.  As I mentioned above, looking to start a "getting kids away from screens"  blog about events and activities in the area where we live and also fill in with toys, games, other products, etc. 

Started jotting down words that may work in a name: kids, outside, screen, active, activities, fun, engaged, boredom, tech, mobile, ideas, games, time, power off, switch off, etc.

Early combos and ideas so far: PowerOffKids, UnplugFamily, UnplugFun (just about all versions of "Unplugged" already registered), ScreenlessKids, ScreenTimeOut.  My kids liked "ReadyPlayerFun" but I don't think that really gets at what I'm trying to convey.

Any thoughts on the above or better ideas?  Any help / input is appreciated.

@TheFanatic @Bruce Dickinson @glvsav37 @Abraham 

Thanks!

yea, its a tough chore to name a biz, esp with needing all fo the online outlets to align. I dont have any thoughts yet, but you are on the right path. i'll think about it. Whenever i do it, i just sit with a note pad and in front of go daddy's web site and plug in names to see whats available. I did have a web resource that checked all avail domains and social sites, but I cant find it now.I'll dig a bit.