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General Discussion => WHATEVER => Topic started by: Miller92 on July 19, 2021, 02:32:55 PM
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Does anyone do anything cool/easy/chill for extra cash on the side?
I just got a pretty good career job but it pays shit so I'm trying to supplement my income with something extra.
Got any tips/tricks?
Where my hustlers at? Let's hear it
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Pre-pandemic I would get 3-5 wedding DJ gigs a year for 1k each. That was the shit. Now I'm in the same boat as you.
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I've delivered pizza, chinese food, flowers, and people.
I've scrapped metal.
I was a carney for two months.
If you can take $25 dollars to a thrift store, you should be able to turn it into $100.
I've done yardwork for people off of Craigslist.
Garage sales.
Flea markets.
GO FIND THAT FUCKING MONEY.
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Or just sell drugs.
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I flip music gear and second hand clothes. If I wasn't dealing with a few injuries right now I'd mow lawns in my neigbourhood. The hustles are out there just don't eat in to your savings too hard to get another hustle started.
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Just chiming in it’s incredibly fucked to work a full time job but still not make enough money to be able to have a comfortable life.
That being said I’ve done a lot of gigs off Craigslist and manual labor. Once a dude paid me $50 an hour to assemble ikea furniture naked but wearing a tool belt and work boots.
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In addition to my career, I’m also a university English tutor and I also proofread academic papers for a former manager of mine.
In addition to that, I sell stuff on eBay/Depop/anywhere else. I’m not a “reseller” - although I did just resell some Hawaii dunks I won in a raffle - it’s just mainly shoes and clothes that I’m not wearing any longer.
I also have an investment portfolio which is growing, but it’s slow growth. Not really a hustle or gig either haha.
For a little while, since I live in an apartment building, I was collecting beer cans from the recycling room and cashing them in. You can make easy pocket money that way - just wear gloves when you go dumpster diving.
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That being said I’ve done a lot of gigs off Craigslist and manual labor. Once a dude paid me $50 an hour to assemble ikea furniture naked but wearing a tool belt and work boots.
Good honest work.
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I've heard donating plasma makes decent coin. I haven't done that myself. Taking a good look at what you currently own and selling it is a great start. I find I spend less since it makes me aware of how much unnecessary stuff I have.
Being a research participant can get you money. I don't recommend online research studies because it seems like you could get scammed.
I feel like waiting tables at a nice restaurant or bartending could bring in some serious tips if you're good at it.
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Used to help with market and psychological research. Got paid $20 to drink 4 pints once.
Now I invest in various things.
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Just chiming in it’s incredibly fucked to work a full time job but still not make enough money to be able to have a comfortable life.
That being said I’ve done a lot of gigs off Craigslist and manual labor. Once a dude paid me $50 an hour to assemble ikea furniture naked but wearing a tool belt and work boots.
I'm literally running 11 social media accounts for a medical company and have a degree with 5 years of marketing agency experience and I'm starting out at 33,000 at this job, which is less than I was making before getting laid off due to Covid...it's honestly robbery. bums me out so much but hoping it's a long-term career investment down the line.
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Can vouch for selling plasma, that shit paid for my wedding. I still will run doordash for a few hours on the weekend if money is tight. In the states if you’ve got a college degree and have decent family medical history you can get a some coin for slinging yogurt.
Few other solid tips: steal from big box stores, either keep the shit or if the items don’t cost too much you can return them without a receipt and get cashed out. Also the option remains to sell what ever you steal for a deeply discounted price, helps make necessary items more accessible to those that might need it. But never steal from mom and pop shops, that’s fucked.
@Miller92 Wage slavery exists my dude, and I feel for you 100%. Know your worth and demand your worth. I know it’s a big leap of faith to change career fields, but a field that values it’s members so little and is inherently cannibalistic can demolish your self worth and grind your self esteem into dust. That’s at least what happened to me when I worked in start ups doing inside sales.
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Mock juries pay really well for a Saturday and Sunday of just sitting around listening to lawyers present arguments. I did this a couple times when I really needed money.
After I leave my full-time job, I do the same job online for another company on the other side of the continent for 3 hours. Not the best side hustle, but it helps a lot.
I'm tempted to start a side hustle buying and renting places out. I'd just need to convince myself that I'm helping people by listening to and believing Mikey Taylor's nonsense. I know people who do this and I'm watching their net worth sky rocket like crazy. One of my least favorite cool guys moved into his third house as he is great at exploiting others and believing he's doing them favors.
Not stoked that having a full-time job doesn't adequately cover the bills, savings, and a reasonable amount of disposable income.
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Years ago I got this job off the internet it was for a market research company and I met this lady in a coffee shop and she gave me this envelope full of $5 notes and I had to go stand in the coffee aisle of the supermarket and ask people about coffee and write their responses in this pda
I did that for the first day then I had a fiddle with the pda and realised whatever I had the pda time set to was what my data would be logged as so I took the survey money for myself and just wrote my own responses from home
Try do something like that?
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Flip watches online, but that is basically a side hustle that simply pays for my watch addiction ...
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That being said I’ve done a lot of gigs off Craigslist and manual labor. Once a dude paid me $50 an hour to assemble ikea furniture naked but wearing a tool belt and work boots.
jeeez
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sometimes i run errands in the states like groceries or pick up mail at the usps for my fellow mexicans who can't cross or don't feel like crossing the border and i bring it right up their doorstep.
if it wasn't because i ride a motorcycle i wouldn't do it. there's a special bike lane to cross US and Mex customs real fast, which also helps to give friends a ride who need to get to the states and want to save the long ass, hours-long line (i don't charge but they still give me some cash)
since 2019 i've been giving private tutoring to my friend's coworker's daughter at her home for an hour or so, and another kid too, both grade schoolers. both are real nice kids.
this alaska clerical job i do for 6 weeks at a shoreplant has been going on every summer for some years for me.
edit* early this year i went on a fishing vessel for the first time ever for 4 months to catch crab and it was brutal. the bering sea ain't no joke. the pay was nice though. hardest i've worked for the biggest buck i've earned so far. idk if i'd do it again.
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sometimes i run errands in the states like groceries or pick up mail at the usps for my fellow mexicans who can't cross or don't feel like crossing the border and i bring it right up their doorstep.
if it wasn't because i ride a motorcycle i wouldn't do it. there's a special bike lane to cross US and Mex customs real fast, which also helps to give friends a ride who need to get to the states and want to save the long ass, hours-long line (i don't charge but they still give me some cash)
since 2019 i've been giving private tutoring to my friend's coworker's daughter at her home for an hour or so, and another kid too, both grade schoolers. both are real nice kids.
this alaska clerical job i do for 6 weeks at a shoreplant has been going on every summer for some years for me.
edit* early this year i went on a fishing vessel for the first time ever for 4 months to catch crab and it was brutal. the bering sea ain't no joke. the pay was nice though. hardest i've worked for the biggest buck i've earned so far. idk if i'd do it again.
Please tell us more about your job in Alaska because that sounds pretty epic.
I've worked as a part time mover and as long as you're young and in fairly good shape it's a manageable gig. You're most often paid in cash and can get pretty great tips as well as free furniture/clothing/belongings that you can keep or flip. There are some sketchy people in this line of work but if you're polite, agreeable, and have a decent work ethic people will want to hire and rehire you. With getting hired for any gig it's always easier if you know someone personally but you can also just reach out to companies listed online and try to get on one of their crews. I think close to the end or beginning of the month is a great time to look since that's when folks are needing lots of movers. If you introduce yourself to the employees at truck rental and storage spaces with a gift basket and a smile they also might be able to recommend you to customers if you have your own van. But definitely get yourself a pair of work gloves. That's important.
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I was also looking into online transcript work but could not focus to save my life
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for a year i wrote seo content for 50 bucks a pop. easy online work but my boss was a cunt
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I've been participating in studies online at Prolific but it has been kinda slow for people in Europe atm
You folks on US get a ton of studies so it would be worthy to check it out
I've seen people withdrawing +100$ per month so that's pretty good imo
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for a year i wrote seo content for 50 bucks a pop. easy online work but my boss was a cunt
Companies in my country are only discovering this now so it would be a pretty good gig for me if I knew how to do it... I've been reading some stuff but I feel overwhelmed
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theres 4 or more different types and theyre all pretty boring pick one and start applying yourself i guess its something anyone can learn for an easy gig. i got the jerb through distant family relations and the guys wife was vp of their thing always super condescending to me. had to go across town to get paid once bcause she forgot it prob on purpose then said something super out of line to me wont bother typing it. dumb story my bad
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for a year i wrote seo content for 50 bucks a pop. easy online work but my boss was a cunt
My friend if you can familiarize yourself just a little bit with certain technologies you can make a lot more than that per article. There is a shortage of people able to write convincingly about IT and high demand for marketing content in that space. None of the marketing people can write on it without sounding like idiots so there's a ton of outsourcing. $2-300 per article is on the lower end of rates for quality content.
I've seen guys with a rudimentary knowledge of network management billing $400 per article.
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I do a few things:
-UX testing and research. Generally pays $50-$100 an hour and I have a special talent for being horrible at all things technology so I've carved a niche as a young-ish person with old person habits.
-Woodworking. My other sport is rock climbing and I make boutique-ish hardwood holds for climbing walls. I am thinking about getting a laser engraver and a lathe so I can make custom basic chick wall plaques, pens, bowls, and other decorative shit to fund a CNC machine.
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for a year i wrote seo content for 50 bucks a pop. easy online work but my boss was a cunt
My friend if you can familiarize yourself just a little bit with certain technologies you can make a lot more than that per article. There is a shortage of people able to write convincingly about IT and high demand for marketing content in that space. None of the marketing people can write on it without sounding like idiots so there's a ton of outsourcing. $2-300 per article is on the lower end of rates for quality content.
I've seen guys with a rudimentary knowledge of network management billing $400 per article.
ouch but im not an expert at any of the menial stuff i was writing about and this was also like 10 years ago. they took everyone to some company dinner and i got pretty drunk before getting let go though. good luck to all the seo heads/peons out there new and old. how many words for 400 bucks. thats a good pay
I do a few things:
-UX testing and research. Generally pays $50-$100 an hour and I have a special talent for being horrible at all things technology so I've carved a niche as a young-ish person with old person habits.
-Woodworking. My other sport is rock climbing and I make boutique-ish hardwood holds for climbing walls. I am thinking about getting a laser engraver and a lathe so I can make custom basic chick wall plaques, pens, bowls, and other decorative shit to fund a CNC machine.
same i dont do online banking and shit
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i used to do skateboard lessons for kids but it can be hard to get peeps
used to cut lawns
was gonna get a job at the beer store but decided my free time was more worth it
might actually look in to that again...
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I just remembered what about medical trials, deadset am on this email list I just read em for a laugh but I almost did a sleep study last year when I was between jobs
Dunno if same in USA but some of these trials pay like 8 grand but you gotta go stay at the hospital for a month, the mailing list I am on is called trial facts if any aussies wanna do weird medical things for money
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Can also vouch for plasma selling. Solid $200+ a month.
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I just remembered what about medical trials, deadset am on this email list I just read em for a laugh but I almost did a sleep study last year when I was between jobs
Dunno if same in USA but some of these trials pay like 8 grand but you gotta go stay at the hospital for a month, the mailing list I am on is called trial facts if any aussies wanna do weird medical things for money
medical trials seem kind of gnarly. tame ones why not possibly but i would have to be stressing a lot before taking some pills or some shit thatll grow another ear
friend of mine who works psw just had to go on disability because his backs all legit fked. he calls it his payback vacation
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sometimes i run errands in the states like groceries or pick up mail at the usps for my fellow mexicans who can't cross or don't feel like crossing the border and i bring it right up their doorstep.
if it wasn't because i ride a motorcycle i wouldn't do it. there's a special bike lane to cross US and Mex customs real fast, which also helps to give friends a ride who need to get to the states and want to save the long ass, hours-long line (i don't charge but they still give me some cash)
since 2019 i've been giving private tutoring to my friend's coworker's daughter at her home for an hour or so, and another kid too, both grade schoolers. both are real nice kids.
this alaska clerical job i do for 6 weeks at a shoreplant has been going on every summer for some years for me.
edit* early this year i went on a fishing vessel for the first time ever for 4 months to catch crab and it was brutal. the bering sea ain't no joke. the pay was nice though. hardest i've worked for the biggest buck i've earned so far. idk if i'd do it again.
Please tell us more about your job in Alaska because that sounds pretty epic.
sure, although it sounds cooler saying it than it really was (and me being a poor story teller doesn't help).
i've never seen deadliest catch but from what i gathered it's pretty much like the show minus the drama. as a matter of fact our boat was featured there when a dude from last year or so fell into the cookers and boiled the lower half of his body. a coast guard helicopter picked him up on a stretcher.
so a party of 26 strangers from serbia, russia, ukraine, sudan, mexico, puerto rico, 'muricans and i hopped on a jet from seattle to king cove, alaska this january. from there we sailed to the bountiful aka our 165ft long fishing vessel and home for the following 100 days. the quota was 1.3 million lbs. of crab. that day we hauled ass to the bering sea and i was horribly seasick for 3 hours nonstop. that sucked. the further we went the colder it got but you get used to it. especially with all the raingear and lifevest makes you sweat balls when you're working for 16 hours every single day. our face was always uncovered though so when the 38 degree water splashed on you it still kinda shocked the hell out of you even if it was already numb by the cold wind.
we catched, processed, boiled, boxed, and froze at least 25,000 pounds of crab everyday, 30k on a good day, or 250-320 cases. 16 hour shifts with breaks, restroom passes, and meals of course. but other than that it was all standing up the whole time doing manual labor and the boat was rocking all the time. the nastier the weather the more crab we catched which meant working faster.
the hardest part imo was breaking ice off the boat sometimes for 12 hours. the bering sea gets so cold and snows so much it puts tons of excess weight on the vessel so we have to go outside and break ice with icepicks and hammers and shovel or else we sink. last year 2 ships sunk and nobody made it.
the other hard part was unloading the crab to an island, 320 thousand lbs of cases put on pallets with our bare hands for 16 hours from the freezer as it snowed. us being in quarantine didn't favor us either, we couldn't get off the boat to the bar or relax, so as soon as we onloaded we sailed back and work a day or 2 later.
good thing we all got along fairly well. a few fist fights here and there but they always kiss and make up. none of the photos i took make justice how pretty the sea and skies looked. the purest air i've inhaled for sure. i lost my tan and it helped me cope with my separation and prepare for my eventual divorce. pretty cathartic times.
kinda fun fact: i asked feedback_ts if i should do my student teaching online or go catch crab on one of his stories before i went. he suggested the latter just for the life experience and cash. best advice. thanks ted!
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sometimes i run errands in the states like groceries or pick up mail at the usps for my fellow mexicans who can't cross or don't feel like crossing the border and i bring it right up their doorstep.
if it wasn't because i ride a motorcycle i wouldn't do it. there's a special bike lane to cross US and Mex customs real fast, which also helps to give friends a ride who need to get to the states and want to save the long ass, hours-long line (i don't charge but they still give me some cash)
since 2019 i've been giving private tutoring to my friend's coworker's daughter at her home for an hour or so, and another kid too, both grade schoolers. both are real nice kids.
this alaska clerical job i do for 6 weeks at a shoreplant has been going on every summer for some years for me.
edit* early this year i went on a fishing vessel for the first time ever for 4 months to catch crab and it was brutal. the bering sea ain't no joke. the pay was nice though. hardest i've worked for the biggest buck i've earned so far. idk if i'd do it again.
Please tell us more about your job in Alaska because that sounds pretty epic.
i've never seen deadliest catch but from what i gathered it's pretty much like the show minus the drama. as a matter of fact our boat was featured there when a dude from last year or so fell into the cookers and boiled the lower half of his body. a coast guard helicopter picked him up on a stretcher.
so a party of 26 strangers from serbia, russia, ukraine, sudan, mexico, puerto rico, 'muricans and i hopped on a jet from seattle to king cove, alaska this january. from there we sailed to the bountiful aka our 165ft long fishing vessel and home for the following 100 days. the quota was 1.3 million lbs. of crab. that day we hauled ass to the bering sea and i was horribly seasick for 3 hours nonstop. that sucked. the further we went the colder it got but you get used to it. especially with all the raingear and lifevest makes you sweat balls when you're working for 16 hours every single day. our face was always uncovered though so when the 38 degree water splashed on you it still kinda shocked the hell out of you even if it was already numb by the cold wind.
we catched, processed, boiled, boxed, and froze at least 25,000 pounds of crab everyday, 30k on a good day, or 250-320 cases. 16 hour shifts with breaks, restroom passes, and meals of course. but other than that it was all standing up the whole time doing manual labor and the boat was rocking all the time. the nastier the weather the more crab we catched which meant working faster.
the hardest part imo was breaking ice off the boat sometimes for 12 hours. the bering sea gets so cold and snows so much it puts tons of excess weight on the vessel so we have to go outside and break ice with icepicks and hammers and shovel or else we sink. last year 2 ships sunk and nobody made it.
the other hard part was unloading the crab to an island, 320 thousand lbs of cases put on pallets with our bare hands for 16 hours from the freezer as it snowed. us being in quarantine didn't favor us either, we couldn't get off the boat to the bar or relax, so as soon as we onloaded we sailed back and work a day or 2 later.
good thing we all got along fairly well. a few fist fights here and there but they always kiss and make up. none of the photos i took make justice how pretty the sea and skies looked. the purest air i've inhaled for sure. i lost my tan and it helped me cope with my separation and prepare for my eventual divorce. pretty cathartic times.
kinda fun fact: i asked feedback_ts if i should do my student teaching online or go catch crab on one of his stories before i went. he suggested the latter just for the life experience and cash. best advice. thanks ted!
You salty sea dog I could read a million of your stories! Please post more of these or create a separate thread if you have a bunch.
What were the time obligations (months wise) and what is the general range expected for payoff if an individual decided to pursue fishing in this capacity?
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I wanna hear more about this too, I watch that show and I realise it’s reality tv but I suspect this is one of the most hectic jobs out there
You’d meet some crazy cats doing that stuff hey
Fuck yeah mate
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sometimes i run errands in the states like groceries or pick up mail at the usps for my fellow mexicans who can't cross or don't feel like crossing the border and i bring it right up their doorstep.
if it wasn't because i ride a motorcycle i wouldn't do it. there's a special bike lane to cross US and Mex customs real fast, which also helps to give friends a ride who need to get to the states and want to save the long ass, hours-long line (i don't charge but they still give me some cash)
since 2019 i've been giving private tutoring to my friend's coworker's daughter at her home for an hour or so, and another kid too, both grade schoolers. both are real nice kids.
this alaska clerical job i do for 6 weeks at a shoreplant has been going on every summer for some years for me.
edit* early this year i went on a fishing vessel for the first time ever for 4 months to catch crab and it was brutal. the bering sea ain't no joke. the pay was nice though. hardest i've worked for the biggest buck i've earned so far. idk if i'd do it again.
Please tell us more about your job in Alaska because that sounds pretty epic.
i've never seen deadliest catch but from what i gathered it's pretty much like the show minus the drama. as a matter of fact our boat was featured there when a dude from last year or so fell into the cookers and boiled the lower half of his body. a coast guard helicopter picked him up on a stretcher.
so a party of 26 strangers from serbia, russia, ukraine, sudan, mexico, puerto rico, 'muricans and i hopped on a jet from seattle to king cove, alaska this january. from there we sailed to the bountiful aka our 165ft long fishing vessel and home for the following 100 days. the quota was 1.3 million lbs. of crab. that day we hauled ass to the bering sea and i was horribly seasick for 3 hours nonstop. that sucked. the further we went the colder it got but you get used to it. especially with all the raingear and lifevest makes you sweat balls when you're working for 16 hours every single day. our face was always uncovered though so when the 38 degree water splashed on you it still kinda shocked the hell out of you even if it was already numb by the cold wind.
we catched, processed, boiled, boxed, and froze at least 25,000 pounds of crab everyday, 30k on a good day, or 250-320 cases. 16 hour shifts with breaks, restroom passes, and meals of course. but other than that it was all standing up the whole time doing manual labor and the boat was rocking all the time. the nastier the weather the more crab we catched which meant working faster.
the hardest part imo was breaking ice off the boat sometimes for 12 hours. the bering sea gets so cold and snows so much it puts tons of excess weight on the vessel so we have to go outside and break ice with icepicks and hammers and shovel or else we sink. last year 2 ships sunk and nobody made it.
the other hard part was unloading the crab to an island, 320 thousand lbs of cases put on pallets with our bare hands for 16 hours from the freezer as it snowed. us being in quarantine didn't favor us either, we couldn't get off the boat to the bar or relax, so as soon as we onloaded we sailed back and work a day or 2 later.
good thing we all got along fairly well. a few fist fights here and there but they always kiss and make up. none of the photos i took make justice how pretty the sea and skies looked. the purest air i've inhaled for sure. i lost my tan and it helped me cope with my separation and prepare for my eventual divorce. pretty cathartic times.
kinda fun fact: i asked feedback_ts if i should do my student teaching online or go catch crab on one of his stories before i went. he suggested the latter just for the life experience and cash. best advice. thanks ted!
@mex.ceferino I loved this! If you ever decide to upload those photos please post a link here.
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sometimes i run errands in the states like groceries or pick up mail at the usps for my fellow mexicans who can't cross or don't feel like crossing the border and i bring it right up their doorstep.
if it wasn't because i ride a motorcycle i wouldn't do it. there's a special bike lane to cross US and Mex customs real fast, which also helps to give friends a ride who need to get to the states and want to save the long ass, hours-long line (i don't charge but they still give me some cash)
since 2019 i've been giving private tutoring to my friend's coworker's daughter at her home for an hour or so, and another kid too, both grade schoolers. both are real nice kids.
this alaska clerical job i do for 6 weeks at a shoreplant has been going on every summer for some years for me.
edit* early this year i went on a fishing vessel for the first time ever for 4 months to catch crab and it was brutal. the bering sea ain't no joke. the pay was nice though. hardest i've worked for the biggest buck i've earned so far. idk if i'd do it again.
Please tell us more about your job in Alaska because that sounds pretty epic.
i've never seen deadliest catch but from what i gathered it's pretty much like the show minus the drama. as a matter of fact our boat was featured there when a dude from last year or so fell into the cookers and boiled the lower half of his body. a coast guard helicopter picked him up on a stretcher.
so a party of 26 strangers from serbia, russia, ukraine, sudan, mexico, puerto rico, 'muricans and i hopped on a jet from seattle to king cove, alaska this january. from there we sailed to the bountiful aka our 165ft long fishing vessel and home for the following 100 days. the quota was 1.3 million lbs. of crab. that day we hauled ass to the bering sea and i was horribly seasick for 3 hours nonstop. that sucked. the further we went the colder it got but you get used to it. especially with all the raingear and lifevest makes you sweat balls when you're working for 16 hours every single day. our face was always uncovered though so when the 38 degree water splashed on you it still kinda shocked the hell out of you even if it was already numb by the cold wind.
we catched, processed, boiled, boxed, and froze at least 25,000 pounds of crab everyday, 30k on a good day, or 250-320 cases. 16 hour shifts with breaks, restroom passes, and meals of course. but other than that it was all standing up the whole time doing manual labor and the boat was rocking all the time. the nastier the weather the more crab we catched which meant working faster.
the hardest part imo was breaking ice off the boat sometimes for 12 hours. the bering sea gets so cold and snows so much it puts tons of excess weight on the vessel so we have to go outside and break ice with icepicks and hammers and shovel or else we sink. last year 2 ships sunk and nobody made it.
the other hard part was unloading the crab to an island, 320 thousand lbs of cases put on pallets with our bare hands for 16 hours from the freezer as it snowed. us being in quarantine didn't favor us either, we couldn't get off the boat to the bar or relax, so as soon as we onloaded we sailed back and work a day or 2 later.
good thing we all got along fairly well. a few fist fights here and there but they always kiss and make up. none of the photos i took make justice how pretty the sea and skies looked. the purest air i've inhaled for sure. i lost my tan and it helped me cope with my separation and prepare for my eventual divorce. pretty cathartic times.
kinda fun fact: i asked feedback_ts if i should do my student teaching online or go catch crab on one of his stories before i went. he suggested the latter just for the life experience and cash. best advice. thanks ted!
@mex.ceferino I loved this! If you ever decide to upload those photos please post a link here.
down for the photos as well, sick life experience, much respect
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I wanna hear more about this too, I watch that show and I realise it’s reality tv but I suspect this is one of the most hectic jobs out there
You’d meet some crazy cats doing that stuff hey
Fuck yeah mate
Same I’d love to hear more stories or anecdotes. I used to watch that show years ago, and while I know it’s reality tv I think it was pretty close to reality all things considered. When the producers powers to interfere are outweighed by nature it makes for decent viewing.
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My lady had infinite side hustles when she was in grad school and during the first 3 years we were together. She figure modeled for art classes/artists at least 3x week, dog sat, plant sat, drove people to the airport, medical/psych studies. I don't know how she did it. Me, I've done all kinds of stuff to make money, but once I pay my bills and put a small amount aside, I'd rather not do more work for someone else than. I think my hustle is generally finding and learning about fixing whatever I want/need so I don't have to "earn" money to spend on it. I don't mind working, but I have an aversion to working for money outside my regular job. Rather just trade or help people out.
And at the Bering sea dude, y'all Bering sea fisherman are crazy. I spent a couple farm seasons working with a guy who had been on boats in the Bering sea and he was absolutely one of the gnarliest mf'er's I have ever known. He ended up as, I think, the 2nd engineer or something- basically in charge of keeping the vessel running and fixing broken components. He said the money was choice but after 2/seasons or whatever had to quit because the responsibility of the lives of everyone on the boat was too much to carry. Dick Ball was his name. Crazy, crazy mf'er but maybe the most skilled teacher at work applied physics Ive worked with. Felling trees, fixing machine and vehicles, etc dude could do it and also explain/teach in an accessible way. Anyways, got nothing to do with my hustles. But ya, the Bering sea is nuts. Stay safe
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sometimes i run errands in the states like groceries or pick up mail at the usps for my fellow mexicans who can't cross or don't feel like crossing the border and i bring it right up their doorstep.
if it wasn't because i ride a motorcycle i wouldn't do it. there's a special bike lane to cross US and Mex customs real fast, which also helps to give friends a ride who need to get to the states and want to save the long ass, hours-long line (i don't charge but they still give me some cash)
since 2019 i've been giving private tutoring to my friend's coworker's daughter at her home for an hour or so, and another kid too, both grade schoolers. both are real nice kids.
this alaska clerical job i do for 6 weeks at a shoreplant has been going on every summer for some years for me.
edit* early this year i went on a fishing vessel for the first time ever for 4 months to catch crab and it was brutal. the bering sea ain't no joke. the pay was nice though. hardest i've worked for the biggest buck i've earned so far. idk if i'd do it again.
Please tell us more about your job in Alaska because that sounds pretty epic.
i've never seen deadliest catch but from what i gathered it's pretty much like the show minus the drama. as a matter of fact our boat was featured there when a dude from last year or so fell into the cookers and boiled the lower half of his body. a coast guard helicopter picked him up on a stretcher.
so a party of 26 strangers from serbia, russia, ukraine, sudan, mexico, puerto rico, 'muricans and i hopped on a jet from seattle to king cove, alaska this january. from there we sailed to the bountiful aka our 165ft long fishing vessel and home for the following 100 days. the quota was 1.3 million lbs. of crab. that day we hauled ass to the bering sea and i was horribly seasick for 3 hours nonstop. that sucked. the further we went the colder it got but you get used to it. especially with all the raingear and lifevest makes you sweat balls when you're working for 16 hours every single day. our face was always uncovered though so when the 38 degree water splashed on you it still kinda shocked the hell out of you even if it was already numb by the cold wind.
we catched, processed, boiled, boxed, and froze at least 25,000 pounds of crab everyday, 30k on a good day, or 250-320 cases. 16 hour shifts with breaks, restroom passes, and meals of course. but other than that it was all standing up the whole time doing manual labor and the boat was rocking all the time. the nastier the weather the more crab we catched which meant working faster.
the hardest part imo was breaking ice off the boat sometimes for 12 hours. the bering sea gets so cold and snows so much it puts tons of excess weight on the vessel so we have to go outside and break ice with icepicks and hammers and shovel or else we sink. last year 2 ships sunk and nobody made it.
the other hard part was unloading the crab to an island, 320 thousand lbs of cases put on pallets with our bare hands for 16 hours from the freezer as it snowed. us being in quarantine didn't favor us either, we couldn't get off the boat to the bar or relax, so as soon as we onloaded we sailed back and work a day or 2 later.
good thing we all got along fairly well. a few fist fights here and there but they always kiss and make up. none of the photos i took make justice how pretty the sea and skies looked. the purest air i've inhaled for sure. i lost my tan and it helped me cope with my separation and prepare for my eventual divorce. pretty cathartic times.
kinda fun fact: i asked feedback_ts if i should do my student teaching online or go catch crab on one of his stories before i went. he suggested the latter just for the life experience and cash. best advice. thanks ted!
This was a great read! One hell of an experience and you portrayed it nicely imo
Maybe one day I'll go on a similar trip I strongly believe it creates character
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sometimes i run errands in the states like groceries or pick up mail at the usps for my fellow mexicans who can't cross or don't feel like crossing the border and i bring it right up their doorstep.
if it wasn't because i ride a motorcycle i wouldn't do it. there's a special bike lane to cross US and Mex customs real fast, which also helps to give friends a ride who need to get to the states and want to save the long ass, hours-long line (i don't charge but they still give me some cash)
You should charge more for your drug mule services
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A few years ago I discovered there's a tiny market of people who pay good money ($20-$30 AUD each) for empty beer cans on eBay if you didn't crack the top and drained the beer out from the bottom using a nail.
Anything that was newly released from a craft beer store would get bids/sell instantly, I'd just buy anything I wanted and drink them to order. It kinda died off but I was literally making $100-$200 a week doing it on top of the free beer. I wish it didn't end...
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Fuck, really? That’s awesome holy shit
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A lot of people I know and myself too we all just give them to our mates kid cause he gets the ten cents for his savings and it teaches him about recycling but I’m starting to think about it and fuck him
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like many that was my first occasional jerb/gig as a kid. if there was a party down the street or something the night prior and theres 200 or more bottles the old man would be happy to help me drive that shit for refunds after i hauled them back then in the car. then idk buy junk food go to the arcade etc
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Pre-pandemic I would get 3-5 wedding DJ gigs a year for 1k each. That was the shit. Now I'm in the same boat as you.
1k is ducking cheap. There’s a wedding flood this year and next. At least double your price
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A few years ago I discovered there's a tiny market of people who pay good money ($20-$30 AUD each) for empty beer cans on eBay if you didn't crack the top and drained the beer out from the bottom using a nail.
Anything that was newly released from a craft beer store would get bids/sell instantly, I'd just buy anything I wanted and drink them to order. It kinda died off but I was literally making $100-$200 a week doing it on top of the free beer. I wish it didn't end...
I dont get this. People buy empty beer cans for $20-$30? Why don't they just go to the shop and buy the beer for $5?
Are they like beers than no longer exist or something?
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I screen print bootleg punk/hc/random shirts and sell them on Etsy and eBay. I’ve started doing print jobs for other people as well. Learned to screen print last year and have made decent money doing it.
I work as an engineer at my day job but shockingly anyone who isn’t a boomer has a hard time making ends meet, especially in LA.
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I screen print bootleg punk/hc/random shirts and sell them on Etsy and eBay. I’ve started doing print jobs for other people as well. Learned to screen print last year and have made decent money doing it.
I work as an engineer at my day job but shockingly anyone who isn’t a boomer has a hard time making ends meet, especially in LA.
Is screen printing hard ? Expensive to setup? Sounds interesting
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I screen print bootleg punk/hc/random shirts and sell them on Etsy and eBay. I’ve started doing print jobs for other people as well. Learned to screen print last year and have made decent money doing it.
I work as an engineer at my day job but shockingly anyone who isn’t a boomer has a hard time making ends meet, especially in LA.
Is screen printing hard ? Expensive to setup? Sounds interesting
It's easy the hard part is competing against others for sales since everyone does it now give it a shot though get creative with it don't just print something like band tees find what sticks and if it stops working move on to the next design.
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Nah man a good press costs north of 20k and you need blokes that did an apprenticeship to run it properly
Stickers are cheap tho
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Nah man a good press costs north of 20k and you need blokes that did an apprenticeship to run it properly
Stickers are cheap tho
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MDDE8VvViFo
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imo the best option (that would atleast be enjoyable) would be look at your hobbies/interests and find something based off that. For me it'd be flipping pc's or mtb's as both are something I have good knowledge on, can buy low/sell high/refurb etc. Both got kinda fucked up due to covid, pc flipping is still iffy as gpu prices are fucked but I randomly spotted an RX480 8GB on FB marketplace for £60 and I happened to be out skating in the exact town the seller was located in. Picked it up, tested it and sold it on eBay the same night for £225. Bikes are also a good flip atm as atleast where I'm located, a LOT of people picked up bikes during the first lockdown, rode them about 3 times, realized they have no interest and then got it with the realization bikes don't hold their value that much so now they're selling them for cheap.
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I work landscaping during the week but I'm looking into buying a power washer for a side hustle on the weekends. Good money in it if you can get the work.
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Sell fake J’s to the kids on my ymca basketball team a few years ago. They were so shit too lol they weren’t Taobao .99:1’s they were ioffer.com shits (back when they existed). I don’t like fashion anymore but I’d rather peddle counterfeit shoes than fake Xanax to the ymca basketball team. Rip Ben :( (he’s not dead but he could’ve prolly made varsity basketball if he didn’t get fat ass fuck and become a stoner smh my head)
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Pre-pandemic I would get 3-5 wedding DJ gigs a year for 1k each. That was the shit. Now I'm in the same boat as you.
1k is ducking cheap. There’s a wedding flood this year and next. At least double your price
Word. 1k was for friends and fam, I should double it if randoms come knocking
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If you have any design skills you can start a Merch by Amazon account. They're strict about copyright so it has to be your original work. It's print on demand. Products are listed on Amazon like anything else you could buy. They print and ship, you get paid a royalty.
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I work landscaping during the week but I'm looking into buying a power washer for a side hustle on the weekends. Good money in it if you can get the work.
Mate there’s also good money in floor prep, you would need a dece jackhammer and a 9 inch grinder and a concrete vac but standard rate is 40-50 a m2, go in at 30 and win jobs
You and a helper could do 100m2 in a day if you pumped it
Big day, shit work but that’s 3 grand
Just get cards made up and stick them in a bunch of tile shops
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Bump, because research on leaving my career for another one hasn’t been very fruitful.
Considering trying to find cheap/free small furniture and refinishing it or painting it trendy colours to resell. Sucks I only have a small car so bigger items are out, but I dunno maybe I’ll find other stuff to flip in my journey.
You guys up to anything profitable lately?
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Since I became a teacher I can do that (I'm done by 1pm tops) and I can also do some bits of civil engineering freelancing on the side.
It's so awesome and I've been able to skate for at least 2h any and every dry day.
I also earn more now that when I was a slave engineer for some bigoted tory cunt boss, doing 8+h a day of CAD and Microsoft Excel in a soulless environment.
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Bump, because research on leaving my career for another one hasn’t been very fruitful.
Considering trying to find cheap/free small furniture and refinishing it or painting it trendy colours to resell. Sucks I only have a small car so bigger items are out, but I dunno maybe I’ll find other stuff to flip in my journey.
You guys up to anything profitable lately?
I had a gf who did that but the hourly rate if you think of it like that wasn't profitable at all as a side gig.
There's these old men who drive a trailer with trash cans around to local restaurants and shops that sell/serve beverages and collect the cans/bottles. One old dude said he makes $900/week doing it.
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Yeah you’re probably right, would be time consuming. Not that this wouldn’t also be.. but now I’m thinking about taking home pallets from work and making nature-inspired wall art with it. I live near the ocean and the woods, so I feel like if I got half decent and marketed it right, I could sell it for a pretty penny. Or just make Live Laugh Love, Wine O’Clock type shit.
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I screen print bootleg punk/hc/random shirts and sell them on Etsy and eBay. I’ve started doing print jobs for other people as well. Learned to screen print last year and have made decent money doing it.
I work as an engineer at my day job but shockingly anyone who isn’t a boomer has a hard time making ends meet, especially in LA.
I was literally thinking of doing the exact same thing. Congrats! Etsy is pretty fire.
Since I became a teacher I can do that (I'm done by 1pm tops) and I can also do some bits of civil engineering freelancing on the side.
It's so awesome and I've been able to skate for at least 2h any and every dry day.
I also earn more now that when I was a slave engineer for some bigoted tory cunt boss, doing 8+h a day of CAD and Microsoft Excel in a soulless environment.
This is the dream.
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Since I became a teacher I can do that (I'm done by 1pm tops) and I can also do some bits of civil engineering freelancing on the side.
It's so awesome and I've been able to skate for at least 2h any and every dry day.
I also earn more now that when I was a slave engineer for some bigoted tory cunt boss, doing 8+h a day of CAD and Microsoft Excel in a soulless environment.
I'm an engineer too (electrical). How/where do you get most of your freelance work?
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Since I became a teacher I can do that (I'm done by 1pm tops) and I can also do some bits of civil engineering freelancing on the side.
It's so awesome and I've been able to skate for at least 2h any and every dry day.
I also earn more now that when I was a slave engineer for some bigoted tory cunt boss, doing 8+h a day of CAD and Microsoft Excel in a soulless environment.
How: Basically there’s very few people with my master (fluid mechanics) in my area that can do 2d flood modeling etc.
Where: by word of mouth (also through parents). I’d suggest you to ask very small offices / independent professionals / technical high schools where teachers often also freelance and they have stuff to give to you.
This works well for civils here (and for architects) but I dunno about electrical tbh! I think there’s less here.
Doesn’t hurt to try.
The thing is if you’re junior ISH like me you can’t really rely on this to pay bills so I think I found my happy medium by also teaching (I like it and it’s a steady income).
Edit: another huge advantage of civils in this is that I don’t only get work from other civils.
I can get work from environmentals, geologists, agronomists, architects, designers etc.
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Since I became a teacher I can do that (I'm done by 1pm tops) and I can also do some bits of civil engineering freelancing on the side.
It's so awesome and I've been able to skate for at least 2h any and every dry day.
I also earn more now that when I was a slave engineer for some bigoted tory cunt boss, doing 8+h a day of CAD and Microsoft Excel in a soulless environment.
How: Basically there’s very few people with my master (fluid mechanics) in my area that can do 2d flood modeling etc.
Where: by word of mouth (also through parents). I’d suggest you to ask very small offices / independent professionals / technical high schools where teachers often also freelance and they have stuff to give to you.
This works well for civils here (and for architects) but I dunno about electrical tbh! I think there’s less here.
Doesn’t hurt to try.
The thing is if you’re junior ISH like me you can’t really rely on this to pay bills so I think I found my happy medium by also teaching (I like it and it’s a steady income).
Edit: another huge advantage of civils in this is that I don’t only get work from other civils.
I can get work from environmentals, geologists, agronomists, architects, designers etc.
Thanks! I appreciate the detailed response.
Yeah, I work for a firm and mostly talk with other firms or clients that have projects that require full MEP services. So that work would usually get contracted through my firm.
Ideally, I'd like to take on small quick projects or drafting work to make a quick buck ok the side if available. Sounds like I just have to network my way into that kind of market. I looked through Upwork but it's kind of discouraging. Looks like people will do anything for as little as $5/hr.
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Since I became a teacher I can do that (I'm done by 1pm tops) and I can also do some bits of civil engineering freelancing on the side.
It's so awesome and I've been able to skate for at least 2h any and every dry day.
I also earn more now that when I was a slave engineer for some bigoted tory cunt boss, doing 8+h a day of CAD and Microsoft Excel in a soulless environment.
How: Basically there’s very few people with my master (fluid mechanics) in my area that can do 2d flood modeling etc.
Where: by word of mouth (also through parents). I’d suggest you to ask very small offices / independent professionals / technical high schools where teachers often also freelance and they have stuff to give to you.
This works well for civils here (and for architects) but I dunno about electrical tbh! I think there’s less here.
Doesn’t hurt to try.
The thing is if you’re junior ISH like me you can’t really rely on this to pay bills so I think I found my happy medium by also teaching (I like it and it’s a steady income).
Edit: another huge advantage of civils in this is that I don’t only get work from other civils.
I can get work from environmentals, geologists, agronomists, architects, designers etc.
Yeah, I work for a firm and mostly talk with other firms or clients that have projects that require full MEP services. So that work would usually get contracted through my firm.
Ideally, I'd like to take on small quick projects or drafting work to make a quick buck ok the side if available. Sounds like I just have to network my way into that kind of market. I looked through Upwork but it's kind of discouraging. Looks like people will do anything for as little as $5/hr.
No worries mate I like helping others!
Yeah it also occurred to me to do project for a client as freelance where when it was time to get paid they were like I can’t afford this I’m giving you experience.
My reply was of course go fuck yourself bro and I moved to the next.
The thing is with civil projects I get like 1k each project but it’s not steady and you don’t get paid straight away so when it was my main source of income it was anxiety galore.
But now, maybe for the first time as a young adult, I’m kinda content.
Feel free to ask more / DM me.
All the best!
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Anyone here have experience with inkjet iron on heat transfer prints? Want to print full page colour photos I’ve taken, but I’m guessing they’re not washing machine-safe or durable enough for t-shirts I’d sell to other people. But maybe there’s ways to make them last? If not I’m also thinking about ironing them onto fabric/wood/hardboard/other materials to make framed prints.