Side Hustles

Quick/immediate would be door dash/uber.

Waiting tables could make some bank.

I have a side hustle of cutting yards in my neighborhood after my 7-4 job. I'm going to have to give a couple of yards away this week because I can't keep up with just my myself and the limited time I have after work. I bit off more than I could chew and within a month I got 4 new regular yards than I had last year.

I make about 2k per month recording video ads that people run on facebook instagram, or tik tok. I've you've ever been scrolling through one of those and see what looks like a regular person just recording on their phone at home, it's those.

You don't need a following or to be an influencer to do it. Some people do ask for absurd editing-- I just don't do those. Once you get going you can get 80-100 bucks or more for a 30 second video.

If you are skilled at anything or an expert on anything and are good at talking and being on video, you could create some informative and interesting YouTube videos and see if you could launch a lucrative YouTube channel. It's very competitive but if you have a specialized skill or hobby and have a great personality (or you are a scantily dressed hot chick) you could build an increasingly profitable YouTube channel.

I was never good at being on video, but I am an expert on primitive survival and survival in general. It was my hobby for several decades. Plus I was very good at search engine optimization so I used to have an extensive survival website for about 15 years and I earned a lot of side hustle money with numerous affiliates. I shut my site down about 5 years ago because it was taking too much of my time to maintain and I wanted to be 100% retired.

Also if you can find a niche for a product that is hard to reproduce, you can make money on eBay and related sites. My wife used to run an extensive eBay business from approximately 2004 to 2010. It was extremely profitable until competition (copy cats) were slowly able to grow and turn the market into competition based on the lowest price. She got out when that happened.

I also have friends that either run or have booths at antique stores. They basically buy "junk" and sell "antiques".

Now that I have been fully retired for years, the only profitable thing that I do is trade Bitcoin volatility by trading Bitcoin derivatives within my IRAs. I'm actually making a lot more doing that than I ever made in my career plus my website.

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I make about 2k per month recording video ads that people run on facebook instagram, or tik tok. I've you've ever been scrolling through one of those and see what looks like a regular person just recording on their phone at home, it's those.

You don't need a following or to be an influencer to do it. Some people do ask for absurd editing-- I just don't do those. Once you get going you can get 80-100 bucks or more for a 30 second video.

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This sounds interesting! How did you get started with this?

I too am interested.

Can you play bass or drums?

Cutting grass for cash is work, but it’s still good money as a side deal.
The whole Uber/lyft thing has sucked for a while as they have continued to pay less and less.

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Cutting grass for cash is work, but it’s still good money as a side deal

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Very true and satisfying as well. I had a monstrosity of a yard yesterday and when I was done, it looked infinitely better. The owner was grateful and tipped well. But you're right, it's not for the faint of heart especially when I don't have a riding mower

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Flipping stuff on ebay like antiquetiger is super easy.

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I tried selling something on eBay and it blocked me. Is there some type of cred or rating one has to achieve first before being qualified to sell things of a certain value?