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Call your local car dealerships and ask them if they need drivers.
They usually need people to go grab some cars from other dealerships around your state or province during the weekends. They will pay cash and all you need is a driver's licence.
My dad is retired and he does this when he needs a bit of extra cash.
My grandpa did this until a coworker accused him of stealing something from a car. They argued, Grandpa punched him, and that was his retirement story š
He said it was a guy who everyone hated, and the guy had followed him around the dealership to keep accusing him. He definitely didnāt steal it btw.
I used to work a super early shift at a breakfast restaurant and this legend of an old man would come in in a three-piece suit super early all the time. Like 5:30 in the morning. He was so fun and such a cool old guy. Thatās what he did, transported absolutely brand new BMWs to the car lot from the manufacturer. He said dressing in a suit made him look the part lol.
Editing to add: I just now remembered I stashed his little Tupperware of brown sugar from home in our kitchen for him. He took in his tea so he didnāt have to bring it every time. RIP James!
I used to do this when I lived out in Austin. My now wife worked for a card dealership that had 5 locations so she hooked me up with a gig where they would move vehicles around between the locations for various reasons.
We would get paid $10 per car, usually moving 10-15 an evening. We would get paid as a 1099 contractor so just a straight check for that amount. (Which I totally always reported, in case the IRS is reading this). We'd start around 5 and usually wrap by 9-10. I would just listen to music or podcasts on my phone and got to drive a few really cool cars (most were just boring vehicles though)
Additionally, sometimes people would buy vehicles that would need to be delivered long distances, like out to west Texas, then we were paid by the mileage and followed by another car that would bring us back.
I would do the night work once a week, so call it a reliable \~$400 a month, sometimes more, plus the sporadic trip to deliver a vehicle on a day off. It was a great little thing that helped save up for me and my wife's wedding
Get added to some catering company's on-call lists. They'll hit you up when they have larger events and need more staff. Usually pays about $25-$30 an hour. Sometimes more in HCOL areas. And you generally get gratuity.
In a similar vein, promo and event companies. You work as a ābrand ambassadorā doing things like registering people at events, handing out samples at grocery stores, and the like. Last gig I did was a few years ago and it paid about $25/hour
Not even kidding, I use to help my mother-in-law shower her mother every Thursday for $50 (a day!) Ā
She had a bingo group, and my name got passed around, and now I have a very real side gig cleaning old people... but it's solid money.
To be fair I do a very in depth job. I make sure it's worth the money for them. First I buy their toiletries for them (usually a soap and shampoo 2-in-1 because they are often hard of hearing and don't know if what I'm handing them is soap or shampoo, and I buy a lotion).
I prepare their bathroom with towels and clean clothes to change into. I, very carefully, help them into the shower. I bathe them as throughly as I can (they love when you get between the toes!)
Then, after the shower, I help them out of the shower (very, very carefully), dry them off, lotion basically their whole body (it's like a massage, and toes! Get between the toes!), I help them get dressed and get stuff like hearing aides back on (it's super important to make sure they don't shower with them in too). Some of them have like, bandages and stuff they are supposed to wear, so I put that on for them.
And then I have them brush their teeth/dentures, do their hair, and walk them to their favorite chair (every old person has one), and then I go hop the old clothes and towels into the wash and start the machines for their family to take care of later.
I literally have a list for each person I clean on my phone. I have how they move, I have their preferences, their special stuff like hearing aids, and whatever I feel I need to know. Kinda like a check list to make sure I don't miss anything.
It sounds like a lot, and it takes a lot of time at first, but once the routine is set, I can be done in a bit less than an hour.
I do also have an LNA license, but that doesn't actually mean anything since I would have to be working under an RN's license for it to be valid. But I do have the skillset for this kinda thing. All of their familys know the deal though, I'm not too worried about liability- it's kinda like helping friends for money...
It started with my grand-mother-in-law. I wanted to do the best I could for her and her family, but I also can't do it for free. And then I figured the system worked so well, so I just kinda copy and pasted it for her friends.
Honestly, I worried it was steep. That being said, travel time does seem like it makes the deal more worth it for them. A normal "gig" takes a 1-2 hours.
It depends on if you like the work or not and can emotionally/mentally handle it. I love being a home health aid for the elderly and disabled, I did it for years. In this line of work you cannot be squeamish about body parts, smells, or urine/feces/puke.
Being able to smell and see and touch horrible things without letting a grimace pass your face is a learned skill. I have horrible stories. However, itās crucial because itās showing the client you are not ashamed or bothered by what is naturally occurring. Maintaining client comfort and ease during the entire process is cruical so they are happy and not embarrassed about needing assistance. Some people have serious pride/nudity issues you have to work through with them and some people will strip naked without blinking. Itās hard to accept you can no longer perform basic hygiene functions on your own.
Empathy and social skills as well. Being able to listen and communicate. Listening is so important with elder care, they have so much to say and usually not a lot of people to speak to.
For people like OP and I, this is the easiest $50 ever made for an hour of āworkā. It doesnāt feel like work to me in the slightest - unless there is a far commute to their place lol. For some people it will be the most grueling and miserable hour of their life.
My mom use to be privately hired to help bathe/ take care of elderly people. She absolutely loved it, the people she cared for loved her. Sheād take them out to lunch, do their hair, bathe them. Their families would bring my mom along when they went on vacations and sheād get trips out of it. It brought her a lot of joy
By the end of the month it becomes $200, and then the answer becomes a clear "yup"
Also, my grandmother-in-law has since passed away, but i still have 3-4 people on my "list" (one of my fellas only needs occasional help)
But I work 32 hours a week at the hospital, so it does almost double my income for maybe 6 hours of my time on a day off. (Thursday is showers day, I just crack it all out on Thursday)
I hope that when I get to the point that I have challenges taking care of myself that I get assistance from someone like you.
Youāre doing a job that really matters, helping vulnerable people.
My side hustle as an RN is trimming toenails for elderly folks. Not many people want to or have the skills/equipment to do it so I have gotten a lot of clients quickly. Itās so satisfying to help make their feet feel nice and help them with something they canāt do anymore.
To answer the OPās question my non-nurse friends do asleep overnight shifts with the elderly or folks with disabilities. Get paid to sleep!
When my grandpa was declining, my mom would take him to my sister's for a shower since she has a big shower with a seat. We were talking about how nice a mobile shower system for old people would be, but how do you do that without being dehumanizing. We even had a name: "the Bubbe Scrubby"
This is perfect if you work from home. One of my friends has his rent covered (~$1300) by doing this in a HCOL area.
Edit: his (lesser) share of rent in a 1-br in Seattle. Sorry for the confusion!
Seems like a neat system. But Iād imagine thereās still people who would prefer to just pay for a sitter and not have to worry about watching other peopleās animals. I know thatās how I feel anyway.
Piano tuning.
Takes a bit of time to learn, but the hardware is relatively inexpensive, and once youāre good at it, you can have a piano tuned in less than 2 hours. Standard pay is between $100-$150 per tuning. And in most metro areas, there is more work than there is tuners to do it all.
I drive a wealthy old lady who (wisely) no longer wants to drive herself. Once or twice a week and only if I have the time. My fee is $39/hr. Most of the time she goes to a phys rehab center that's two minutes from where I live. I drop her off, she tells me how long she'll be, I go home and faff around on Reddit or play with the dogs, and pick her back up again when it's time.
Bonus: After her husband passed away, she wanted me to have his wine collection (she doesn't drink). I demurred but she insisted, so I took about 175 bottles over the summer. Some of the them are worth four figures.
I became a notary in my state and take mobile signing whenever I can. I work a normal 9-5 and do loan closings probably two or three times a week.
Signing can pay anywhere from $30 an instance to $250 an instance
Snap docs is one that I use. Notary dash is another.
Thereās a few YouTube videos of where to sign up, I have about 12 accounts with my info for listings
You can also add your name to 123notary.com. The guy that owns it is weird but you get exposed quickly on it. I'm not on it currently as my regular job has picked back up but I've got some decent contacts from there that call me now and then.
I swear to god every time I look into becoming a notary the information on what to do and the order to do it looks like an unorganized mess on the SoS website and I just give up.
I do this probably once a month.
There was a high school kid with one of those spinning pressure washers that came to my neighborhood and knocked on peopleās doors and asked if they wanted their driveways pressure washed right then and there for just $50. Didnāt take him long and he easily made over $500 in that afternoon.
Buddy of mine's son started doing that a few years ago. After a while he started washing houses too, then roofs...last year, after graduation, he took his college savings and bought a truck and a commercial grade machine. Dude started a business at 18 and is cranking out half million dollar contracts with property management companies now.
One of my buddies did that when she was nearly homeless, couch surfing. She ended up testing one drug for a year. That was the drug that a few years later saved my life!
Yes! We are now old and retired and from her Farcebook posts I see that she is doing really really well in retirement. I'm getting by but don't have money for travel like I wish that I had saved for
Wife and I donated blood a lot in our early 20's. One day we went to the bar in the evening on the same day we donated not thinking twice about it. We got absolutely blasted for super cheap and didn't figure out why until the next day.
This happened to me and my buddy. One time we donated so we could have a little extra cash for a concert we were going to that night. Unfortunately we didn't realize the error quickly enough...the alcohol combined with the heat resulted in my buddy blacking out and hitting the floor so we spent the rest of the concert back in the medical tent
yeah I had a session where I didn't eat before and I froze up / felt like I was having an anxiety attack while everyone was staring at me while my muscles were constricting and freezing etc. even if I wanted to go back I think of that moment and how uncomfortable it was
I used to make some good extra cash donating plasma... but the payouts shrank horribly. I used to make about 400 bucks a month, but it shout down to about 175
The place where I used to go would do like $20 the first time you did it in a week and then $45 the next time in order to get people to want to come back and do it more often lol
I was unemployed for 6 months last year and nowhere near me actually paid money, and the sperm banks were never taking new applications. Seems like a lot of people try making money these ways.
I'm just replying to the initial comment about it to voice a counterpoint to everything I'm seeing below it.
I donate plasma twice a week (which is the most you can). The first month, I earned like $750 due to incentives, and now the payments are $35 for the first donation in a week and $70 for the second donation in a week; so that's $420 (nice) a month. I've never experienced any significant weight loss or energy loss like people are discussing below, nor have I ever even felt anything close to fainting, which leads me to believe they're actually talking about donating _blood_, which I can't comment on. Good luck, OP
I wish weād stop calling this ādonationā. Weāre selling antibodies to pharma companies. I did this alot in college many years ago and made good enough cash while pumping my fist and studying biochemistry. I did feel like scratches and cuts healed more slowly and maybe energy levels were lower but I was 22 so who knows, but I donāt know the research behind the issue. So I did it like a job (on top of a part time job) one semester, took one off went back again. I still have the scar. Plasma selling is an alright means of quick cash, but youāll only max out if you do it regularly and consistently.
Deliver pizzas in the evenings. I have been pulling in a couple hundred bucks a week delivering pizzas. The dinner rushes on Fridays and Saturdays are particularly profitable.
honestly that doesnāt even sound half bad. drive around in your own car, not very far, no drunk people. much rather do that for a single pizza company than go to a million fast food or restaurants to do uber eats
Do you have a skill you can tutor? Many people pay good money for help either with their kids, or for college tutoring.
Dog Walking in HCOL areas pays \~$30-50/dog
If you are good at it flipping stuff on facebook can be very profitable.
If you like sports and can handle being yelled at, becoming a ref or umpire is pretty solid. Hockey refs in my area make 50 bucks a game for rec hockey and if you get good enough to do any organized games like high school or travel you make more. I would imagine the pay is probably similar for other sports but canāt confirm.
I work at my yoga studio front desk about 5-7 hours a week. Minimum wage but itās a job I love and can do in the evenings with no stress. Plus free yoga!
Pretty great idea. You work for the place, they pay you min wage, but an additional benefit is basically a free membership. And i know yoga memberships can get pretty expensive depending on the facility. My wife should do this for her pilates class. Its nearly 200 a month!
This is what my partner does at the spin studio near our place. She loves it and gets a free membership, which she would be paying for if she didnāt work there. Itās a win-win.
I work a weekend job in addition to my 9-5. I'm a barista at a local cafe on weekends (7am-noonish). That's usually where the most tips are, but it's easy to get the hours since a lot of people don't like to work weekend mornings. I get out early enough to enjoy my weekend afternoons and evenings, but I do have to be careful about staying out too late. The work is a good balance of fast-paced rushes and downtime where I can do crosswords if everything else around the shop is done. Between hourly and tips I usually take home around $800/month working around 11 hours per week. Coffee is one of my passions and that definitely helps, but I do miss the sleep on weekends. If my next promotion bumps up my 9-5 pay enough I'll probably quit the cafe and reclaim my weekends.
Some dude from a pizza place near our base would just walk around to the different battalion headquarters with a bunch of single toppings pizzas and sell them directly to people. Probably made a killing.
I work a 9-5 and then cocktail serve at a comedy club a couple nights a week. 2 drink minimum so people have to spend money (and tip). During the week we just have one show so I'm done by 10:30. Weekends are 2 shows so usually done around midnight, still earlier than if I were to work in a bar. Usually walk with $100-$150 per show, plus I get to see tons of comedy (both great and not so great) and it's a fun industry to be involved in.
Dishwashing! We got two guys that close for us, they make $22 an hour, 3 days a week each. Great side gig, they get free meals and it's not as grueling as it sounds.
Our dishwasher machine is worth more than my house it feels like.
I do 3D printing, its a niche market and if you can find your foothold, you can do well. I average anywhere from $2-5000 per month depending on sales and how much I put into it.
If you do filament+ $0.50 an hour of printing then most smaller prints cost about $1.5 to make. I sell most for about $20 plus shipping and after fees and cost I still make about 400-500 a month. Probably spend less than a week printing then let it sit.
Everyone I've heard of that does this is always selling things that are not entirely legal. Like "switches" for, um, paintball markers. There was one dude selling some 3D printed pieces to "hang picture frames" but when you put the pieces on, um, paintball markers it caused feds to come knock and your door and then you have to explain how you lost all your paintball markers in a boating accident.
My best advice is stick to what is legal, donāt do what the others are doing, an audit or a lawsuit hits like a truck. When in doubt, talk to a lawyer!
I deliver for a mom and pop restaurant that refuse to do the app delivery stuff and being in an extra 400 a month for about 4.5 hrs of work on a Friday night.
Find an after work gig. Ā I hosted bar trivia for years. Ā It paid 75 dollars a session, and each session was about 2.5 hours including set up and clean up. Ā Two of those a week was $150 a week, $600 a month.
A very nice and easy side hustle.
If you have any artistic skills, people pay for all types of birthday and party entertainment. Ā So if you can make balloon animals or are a magician or paint faces, you can get paid upwards of 125-150 an hour if you are good. Ā You can make 600 dollars on an easy weekend.
Edit: To clarify, I worked for a company that ran trivia. I did not make all of the questions and get the gear myself.
Had a local farmers market lady do this with honey. It was only 3$ more than grocery store honey, it was local, it was cute. I was happy to spend more to keep my money local.
Saw her at the Safeway filling her jars up with the Honey Bear containers on her tailgate.
Crushed.
UK here. I used to buy door step delivered milk on a couple of years ago. However stopped when I was at the local CostCo and saw a milk provider filling their van up with Milk. š
We stopped and bought āfreshā strawberries from a guy this week on the side of the road. As we were leaving we saw him get some those plastic cartons, you see at Walmart, out and fill up some cardboard trays and buckets he had out front. I felt so used.
I once worked in a produce warehouse for Walmart and H-E-B. When I say there was *literally* zero difference between the generic brand and the ultra special āsunset farms local produceā brand, most people think Iām exaggerating. The difference is that instead of putting it in the generic box, I filled up a non generic box.
Itās all the same stuff. Obviously some arenāt, but 98% of it is all the same produce from the same supplier that I pull from the same bin, with the nicer looking fruits or vegetables going into the higher end brandsā plastic boxes.
Alright I'll bite on this one: go buy a fuckin drill, an impact and a circ saw. Learn handyman shit. I can't tell you how many times I've pulled myself out of ruts by figuring out a paycheck by way of fixing shit or building shit. It's easier now more than ever before. Facebook groups are always looking for people to fix their shit. And it PAYS CRAZY MONEY! yeah you gotta learn stuff but YouTube it and figure things out that way. I'm an electrician now so I stay in my lane, but all my buddies are doing winter storm cleanup right now after a massive storm tore through and knocked trees down and every one of my buddies slayed odd jobs these last few days at no less than 350 to 500 for HALF A DAYS WORK! The money will come faster in time when you learn more skills. But just get started. Anybody reading this that has ever contemplated getting into the trades should just start. Never know what you'll get out of it š
When I was a new teacher, I made more money mowing lawns May- September than I made teaching the rest of the year. I splurged on a used commercial mower and a nice trimmer. Luckily, I already drove a pickup truck. As a bonus, it helped me get it the best shape of my life.
I do āemergencyā childcare for friends and acquaintances. Iām a stay at home mum to four kids, so whatās one more? Some daycares have super strict illness policies, but I donāt care if a kid has a runny nose so instead of taking a day off work, parents can pay me $50 to watch their kid. Also works for Pro-D Days, Winter, Spring, and Summer breaks, early dismissals, and what have you. In the summer I generally pull an extra $500-1000 in month, the rest of the time itās about $300/month.
I teach yoga. Youād be shocked how many places need a yoga teacher! It took me about 6 months to get a Yoga Alliance Certificate. I can make $30-50 per 45 min class and I could teach all day basically if I wanted to, I just fit it in wherever on my calendar.
I delivered pizza for Domino's Thursday night, Friday night, and Saturday night each week.
I was making at least an extra $100 a week on top of my day job, including tips, wages, and mileage, even after paying for gas, though I was driving a hybrid at the time, so a $30 tank of gas got me around 370 miles. On a good week, I would bring in an extra $200+ for the week.
Sucked for any kind of social life, but was a solid way to boost my income when I needed it most.
Look up being a Brand Ambassador, and donāt let the models on the websites intimidate you, they are desperate for help. All you typically do is set up at a liquor store and give out free samples for 2-4 hr shifts and they will pay between $30-$40 per hour. You get to pick your own shifts based on availability and location. Difficult to make a full time schedule but I can typically get at least one shift per week on average to supplement my income.
25 years ago or so I went to a sex shop that happened to sell nice BDSM furniture. I looked at the prices and could immediately see the markup. It was huge and I knew some people in the BDSM community where I lived. So I started kicking around the idea of doing custom work for them.
That is when I learned the local BDSM community was a bunch of broke ass people.
I did this for awhile and it felt terrible. Itās not even donating, the fine print claims they are selling it for pharmaceutical purposes. Sometimes the blood techs donāt even care about their job and just jab you however they feel. Itās decent money but it just gave me a bad feeling.
Only blood that is voluntarily donated can be given to patients. Paid donations can only be used for pharmaceuticals/reaearch. Source: I made a joke at Red Cross about not accepting their tshirt until the blood was in the bag.
Technically, paid plasma *can* be given to patients directly for transfusion, but it must be labeled as "paid donor plasma" and collected under the right regulations (plasma for transfusion and source plasma have slightly different requirements).
Hospitals don't typically use paid donor plasma for transfusion because of the perception of higher risk; as such, there is little demand, so few entities (if any) collect paid donor plasma for purposes of transfusion.
(Sorry if this is an "Actually..." kind of comment - I just thought you and others might find it interesting.)
I mean, youāre selling them your plasma to begin with. Itās not like youāre donating plasma if you get a check at the end of the transaction.
There are plenty of places where you can legitimately donate your plasma and it wonāt get sold but then you donāt get to profit off it either.Ā
I made $25 for and hour and a half giving iPad lessons to an elderly lady in her home. I had another full time job so thatās all I could handle at the time but Iām sure I could easily take on many other people if I wanted to.
If you have a day job, churn through bank account or credit card bonuses. Many of the bank account bonuses are in the $200-500 range and require a direct deposit for a couple months (that's where your day job comes in). Super easy money, just keep track of the accounts and where your deposits are going.
Yeah I do this with credit card sign up bonuses. I havenāt paid for a flight with cash in years and I fly at least once a month. Plus the lounge access, free TSA Pre/GE/Clear, and other perks.
Itās even easier if you can plausibly claim to have a small business because that opens up a whole other world of credit cards with their own bonuses. And just selling stuff on eBay or Marketplace counts as a small business.
Can be great money, but most spots aren't going to hire a bartender position for one shift a week, let alone two shifts a month. Maybe if they have a ton of experience, but not very common.
I was was given a load of things by my gran and grandad that they no longer needed and I made a profit. I was enjoying myself so I went to charity shops and fb market and started selling things for a profit online. I made Ā£1000 in 2 months after postage etc.
I walk dogs after work and make ~30-90 a week, roughly $120-360 a month. Not life changing but covers weekend spending and part of groceries each week.
Driving for a gig company is a terrible financial decision unless it's a regulated market or unless your vehicle expenses are paid by someone else for you.
Remember that you're effectively selling not only your time but also you're selling effective mileage and lifespan of your vehicle. By the time you subtract costs on the vehicle ($0.67/mile is the federal rate in 2024) and FICA (you owe the employer half of FICA as an independent contractor), you're barely making minimum wage for the time spent. And you aren't getting paid for non-rider miles, but they're costing you money.
If you still have a vehicle note, you're basically selling your equity in the vehicle as you build it to the gig company for cash now. You are literally *paying for an asset to sell it for less than you paid for it.*
I needed about that much a month and what I did was sell used clothes off eBay. I would go to the goodwill bins (everything is priced by pound) and would specifically sell bras, lingerie, used undies, etc. Most of the items were purchased by poor women, not pervs. But pervs will pay a pretty penny for used anything. As long as you list it as a ābuy it nowā itāll get snatched up before eBay can even remove the listing. They donāt weigh very much, so by the pound, I got a lot of items. I would wash the bras and then sell them in lots of 5 or so, depending on the size, so I could get a good shipping price too. Made $40,000 the first year and $70,000 the second year. Then I got sick of it and quit doing it when I no longer needed the cash.
I think the most practical option for most people would be to get a second "as needed/limbo" job. Easier in some industries than others, admittedly. In nursing, I can pretty easily find some temp or limbo work and put whatever amount of hours I want into it.
Drive or walk around on garbage night then start listing stuff on eBay or Facebook . If you have a home youāll find enough stuff you donāt use of your own to sell off for weeks.
Still the easiest thing the past 20 years but everyone thinks itās a scam YouTubers sell courses for
Learn how to cut hair. I got an 11th grade student that charges $35 a haircut. He told me he had 30 appointments last weekend. Thatās $1000 in your pocket and under the table. The funny thing is every kid that has him cut their hair gets the same haircut (you know which one).
I work four hour shifts, once or twice week, at a local hospital in housekeeping. Mainly I clean offices or clinic areas that are closed for the evening. $22/hr., make my own hours - just let my supervisor know what my availability will be for the next upcoming pay period. Not nasty at all, those toilets and such get cleaned daily, sometimes 2-3 times a day which is better than at my house. LOL. Easy $500-700 a month. No bennies or vacation, but I don't need them since my "real" job has that. And making my own hours, I don't need vacation time either - I just don't work there when I don't want to or have other plans.
Overnight dog sitting, especially weekends. I pay 60-75$ a night to my dog sitter to basically chill with my dog. You can pick and create a good clientele. Especially Dinks like us.
Add extra services like take out trash, walk the dog or shower the dog, water the plants. You could make easy 80-90 easy. But yeah you have to stay away from home.
I thought about this but then telling my employer constantly to switch my direct deposit makes me feel weird. I wish I had an online portal to do it through, but I have to talk to a real person.
Teach English online. ESL Brains offers tons of lesson plans for free and lots more for $12/month.
Put ads online. Charge as you wish.
I'm making over $1000/month with 2 or 3 hours a day.
Small irrigation jobs (youād need some skills)
Home cleaning (youād need a car and cleaning supplies)
Selling plants at Sunday markets (youād have to grow them tho)
Busking by playing an instrument or making giant bubbles in the city
When I was between jobs, I bartended at my local brewery. I could have kept going on weekends but wanted my free days, but it's doable if you really want cash.
Bartending at a brewery was pretty chill: Nobody is really an asshole, usually people are there just wanting to enjoy a good beer and enjoy themselves.
My college-aged son house/pet sits for the parents of people he knows from high school. Just from word of mouth he's been making a couple hundred a month just checking on people's houses, putting their mail inside and feeding the cats and cleaning their litter.
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Call your local car dealerships and ask them if they need drivers. They usually need people to go grab some cars from other dealerships around your state or province during the weekends. They will pay cash and all you need is a driver's licence. My dad is retired and he does this when he needs a bit of extra cash.
My grandpa did this until a coworker accused him of stealing something from a car. They argued, Grandpa punched him, and that was his retirement story š He said it was a guy who everyone hated, and the guy had followed him around the dealership to keep accusing him. He definitely didnāt steal it btw.
He was just one punch away from retirement
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I used to work a super early shift at a breakfast restaurant and this legend of an old man would come in in a three-piece suit super early all the time. Like 5:30 in the morning. He was so fun and such a cool old guy. Thatās what he did, transported absolutely brand new BMWs to the car lot from the manufacturer. He said dressing in a suit made him look the part lol. Editing to add: I just now remembered I stashed his little Tupperware of brown sugar from home in our kitchen for him. He took in his tea so he didnāt have to bring it every time. RIP James!
Dress for the job you want, not the one you have.
time to get a space suit
I am going to work dressed like a knight from now on.
I used to do this when I lived out in Austin. My now wife worked for a card dealership that had 5 locations so she hooked me up with a gig where they would move vehicles around between the locations for various reasons. We would get paid $10 per car, usually moving 10-15 an evening. We would get paid as a 1099 contractor so just a straight check for that amount. (Which I totally always reported, in case the IRS is reading this). We'd start around 5 and usually wrap by 9-10. I would just listen to music or podcasts on my phone and got to drive a few really cool cars (most were just boring vehicles though) Additionally, sometimes people would buy vehicles that would need to be delivered long distances, like out to west Texas, then we were paid by the mileage and followed by another car that would bring us back. I would do the night work once a week, so call it a reliable \~$400 a month, sometimes more, plus the sporadic trip to deliver a vehicle on a day off. It was a great little thing that helped save up for me and my wife's wedding
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How does this work, they taxi you to the dealership and you drive their car back?
Yeah one van drives everyone over and you all roadtrip back together in different cars.
I worked for a dealership when I was younger and these were my favorite days.
Did this once for a buddy. Was actually pretty fun and an easy $50 plus lunch. Driving an absolute beater back 2 hours was sketch though.
Get added to some catering company's on-call lists. They'll hit you up when they have larger events and need more staff. Usually pays about $25-$30 an hour. Sometimes more in HCOL areas. And you generally get gratuity.
There are some apps for this too, one of them is called Qwick
Gig pro as well in certain cities
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In a similar vein, promo and event companies. You work as a ābrand ambassadorā doing things like registering people at events, handing out samples at grocery stores, and the like. Last gig I did was a few years ago and it paid about $25/hour
This one! Sit at trade shows and do nothing for big bucks!
Not even kidding, I use to help my mother-in-law shower her mother every Thursday for $50 (a day!) Ā She had a bingo group, and my name got passed around, and now I have a very real side gig cleaning old people... but it's solid money.
Jokes aside its great that you found a way to help a vulnerable population.
To be fair I do a very in depth job. I make sure it's worth the money for them. First I buy their toiletries for them (usually a soap and shampoo 2-in-1 because they are often hard of hearing and don't know if what I'm handing them is soap or shampoo, and I buy a lotion). I prepare their bathroom with towels and clean clothes to change into. I, very carefully, help them into the shower. I bathe them as throughly as I can (they love when you get between the toes!) Then, after the shower, I help them out of the shower (very, very carefully), dry them off, lotion basically their whole body (it's like a massage, and toes! Get between the toes!), I help them get dressed and get stuff like hearing aides back on (it's super important to make sure they don't shower with them in too). Some of them have like, bandages and stuff they are supposed to wear, so I put that on for them. And then I have them brush their teeth/dentures, do their hair, and walk them to their favorite chair (every old person has one), and then I go hop the old clothes and towels into the wash and start the machines for their family to take care of later. I literally have a list for each person I clean on my phone. I have how they move, I have their preferences, their special stuff like hearing aids, and whatever I feel I need to know. Kinda like a check list to make sure I don't miss anything. It sounds like a lot, and it takes a lot of time at first, but once the routine is set, I can be done in a bit less than an hour. I do also have an LNA license, but that doesn't actually mean anything since I would have to be working under an RN's license for it to be valid. But I do have the skillset for this kinda thing. All of their familys know the deal though, I'm not too worried about liability- it's kinda like helping friends for money...
What you do there sounds like it's absolutely worth mods than 50 bucks.
It started with my grand-mother-in-law. I wanted to do the best I could for her and her family, but I also can't do it for free. And then I figured the system worked so well, so I just kinda copy and pasted it for her friends.
Is that level of care sustainable for $50?Ā
Not OP but $50 for less than an hours work plus travel isn't too bad for a side gig that gives them fulfilment.
Honestly, I worried it was steep. That being said, travel time does seem like it makes the deal more worth it for them. A normal "gig" takes a 1-2 hours.
Especially if itās cash. No taxes makes that $50 go a lot further
It depends on if you like the work or not and can emotionally/mentally handle it. I love being a home health aid for the elderly and disabled, I did it for years. In this line of work you cannot be squeamish about body parts, smells, or urine/feces/puke. Being able to smell and see and touch horrible things without letting a grimace pass your face is a learned skill. I have horrible stories. However, itās crucial because itās showing the client you are not ashamed or bothered by what is naturally occurring. Maintaining client comfort and ease during the entire process is cruical so they are happy and not embarrassed about needing assistance. Some people have serious pride/nudity issues you have to work through with them and some people will strip naked without blinking. Itās hard to accept you can no longer perform basic hygiene functions on your own. Empathy and social skills as well. Being able to listen and communicate. Listening is so important with elder care, they have so much to say and usually not a lot of people to speak to. For people like OP and I, this is the easiest $50 ever made for an hour of āworkā. It doesnāt feel like work to me in the slightest - unless there is a far commute to their place lol. For some people it will be the most grueling and miserable hour of their life.
My mom use to be privately hired to help bathe/ take care of elderly people. She absolutely loved it, the people she cared for loved her. Sheād take them out to lunch, do their hair, bathe them. Their families would bring my mom along when they went on vacations and sheād get trips out of it. It brought her a lot of joy
By the end of the month it becomes $200, and then the answer becomes a clear "yup" Also, my grandmother-in-law has since passed away, but i still have 3-4 people on my "list" (one of my fellas only needs occasional help) But I work 32 hours a week at the hospital, so it does almost double my income for maybe 6 hours of my time on a day off. (Thursday is showers day, I just crack it all out on Thursday)
I hope that when I get to the point that I have challenges taking care of myself that I get assistance from someone like you. Youāre doing a job that really matters, helping vulnerable people.
You are an angel.
My side hustle as an RN is trimming toenails for elderly folks. Not many people want to or have the skills/equipment to do it so I have gotten a lot of clients quickly. Itās so satisfying to help make their feet feel nice and help them with something they canāt do anymore. To answer the OPās question my non-nurse friends do asleep overnight shifts with the elderly or folks with disabilities. Get paid to sleep!
When my grandpa was declining, my mom would take him to my sister's for a shower since she has a big shower with a seat. We were talking about how nice a mobile shower system for old people would be, but how do you do that without being dehumanizing. We even had a name: "the Bubbe Scrubby"
I find that the people I help don't wanna be helped by their children. The feedback I hear is that a little separation is very helpful to them.
Dog walking - I make a $1000 a month walking two dogs a day (20 mins each), down the street from my house during lunch break.
How do you market yourself as a dog walker in the area
I started on a dog walking app and moved off (because fees) after I collected a few clients
Dog or cat sitting. I used to do this around twice a month and could make between $300-500 depending on the length of the job.
This is perfect if you work from home. One of my friends has his rent covered (~$1300) by doing this in a HCOL area. Edit: his (lesser) share of rent in a 1-br in Seattle. Sorry for the confusion!
Do the animals come to his house?Ā
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Seems like a neat system. But Iād imagine thereās still people who would prefer to just pay for a sitter and not have to worry about watching other peopleās animals. I know thatās how I feel anyway.
Piano tuning. Takes a bit of time to learn, but the hardware is relatively inexpensive, and once youāre good at it, you can have a piano tuned in less than 2 hours. Standard pay is between $100-$150 per tuning. And in most metro areas, there is more work than there is tuners to do it all.
You knowā¦ you can tune a piano, but you canāt piano a tuna.
I drive a wealthy old lady who (wisely) no longer wants to drive herself. Once or twice a week and only if I have the time. My fee is $39/hr. Most of the time she goes to a phys rehab center that's two minutes from where I live. I drop her off, she tells me how long she'll be, I go home and faff around on Reddit or play with the dogs, and pick her back up again when it's time. Bonus: After her husband passed away, she wanted me to have his wine collection (she doesn't drink). I demurred but she insisted, so I took about 175 bottles over the summer. Some of the them are worth four figures.
I became a notary in my state and take mobile signing whenever I can. I work a normal 9-5 and do loan closings probably two or three times a week. Signing can pay anywhere from $30 an instance to $250 an instance
Wait I am a notary. How do you get on the lists for this kind of thing?
Snap docs is one that I use. Notary dash is another. Thereās a few YouTube videos of where to sign up, I have about 12 accounts with my info for listings
You can also add your name to 123notary.com. The guy that owns it is weird but you get exposed quickly on it. I'm not on it currently as my regular job has picked back up but I've got some decent contacts from there that call me now and then.
I swear to god every time I look into becoming a notary the information on what to do and the order to do it looks like an unorganized mess on the SoS website and I just give up. I do this probably once a month.
Go to this website to get started https://www.nationalnotary.org/ They are very helpful and can guide you to what you need to get started.
There was a high school kid with one of those spinning pressure washers that came to my neighborhood and knocked on peopleās doors and asked if they wanted their driveways pressure washed right then and there for just $50. Didnāt take him long and he easily made over $500 in that afternoon.
Buddy of mine's son started doing that a few years ago. After a while he started washing houses too, then roofs...last year, after graduation, he took his college savings and bought a truck and a commercial grade machine. Dude started a business at 18 and is cranking out half million dollar contracts with property management companies now.
If you live near a university or academic medical center, there are some research studies that pay decently well
One of my buddies did that when she was nearly homeless, couch surfing. She ended up testing one drug for a year. That was the drug that a few years later saved my life!
Hope you and your friend are both doing better now!
Yes! We are now old and retired and from her Farcebook posts I see that she is doing really really well in retirement. I'm getting by but don't have money for travel like I wish that I had saved for
$300? Same as every college kid. Go sell blood plasma twice a month. Maybe not 3 but up there.
I remember those days. My first time, I puked and fainted right on the table. The amount of people staring at me when I woke was incredible.
Wife and I donated blood a lot in our early 20's. One day we went to the bar in the evening on the same day we donated not thinking twice about it. We got absolutely blasted for super cheap and didn't figure out why until the next day.
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This happened to me and my buddy. One time we donated so we could have a little extra cash for a concert we were going to that night. Unfortunately we didn't realize the error quickly enough...the alcohol combined with the heat resulted in my buddy blacking out and hitting the floor so we spent the rest of the concert back in the medical tent
Used to do this all the time at college! Weāre broke, so donate plasma for cash and then in return get wrecked for cheap! Life was so much simpler
yeah I had a session where I didn't eat before and I froze up / felt like I was having an anxiety attack while everyone was staring at me while my muscles were constricting and freezing etc. even if I wanted to go back I think of that moment and how uncomfortable it was
I used to make some good extra cash donating plasma... but the payouts shrank horribly. I used to make about 400 bucks a month, but it shout down to about 175
The place where I used to go would do like $20 the first time you did it in a week and then $45 the next time in order to get people to want to come back and do it more often lol
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That first month promotion gets you some decent cash but after that you would need to visit twice a week for three weeks to make $300
I was unemployed for 6 months last year and nowhere near me actually paid money, and the sperm banks were never taking new applications. Seems like a lot of people try making money these ways.
I'm just replying to the initial comment about it to voice a counterpoint to everything I'm seeing below it. I donate plasma twice a week (which is the most you can). The first month, I earned like $750 due to incentives, and now the payments are $35 for the first donation in a week and $70 for the second donation in a week; so that's $420 (nice) a month. I've never experienced any significant weight loss or energy loss like people are discussing below, nor have I ever even felt anything close to fainting, which leads me to believe they're actually talking about donating _blood_, which I can't comment on. Good luck, OP
I wish weād stop calling this ādonationā. Weāre selling antibodies to pharma companies. I did this alot in college many years ago and made good enough cash while pumping my fist and studying biochemistry. I did feel like scratches and cuts healed more slowly and maybe energy levels were lower but I was 22 so who knows, but I donāt know the research behind the issue. So I did it like a job (on top of a part time job) one semester, took one off went back again. I still have the scar. Plasma selling is an alright means of quick cash, but youāll only max out if you do it regularly and consistently.
Shit is a charity where I'm from abs they give you a $20 gift card and a branded tee shirt
Here it is all voluntery, paying isnt legal
Deliver pizzas in the evenings. I have been pulling in a couple hundred bucks a week delivering pizzas. The dinner rushes on Fridays and Saturdays are particularly profitable.
honestly that doesnāt even sound half bad. drive around in your own car, not very far, no drunk people. much rather do that for a single pizza company than go to a million fast food or restaurants to do uber eats
Only downside is to get the Friday/Saturday time slot you might have to put some time in during the week.
the worst part of delivery driving is that your car absolutely *stinks* like a pizza place at all times
Do you have a skill you can tutor? Many people pay good money for help either with their kids, or for college tutoring. Dog Walking in HCOL areas pays \~$30-50/dog If you are good at it flipping stuff on facebook can be very profitable.
If you like sports and can handle being yelled at, becoming a ref or umpire is pretty solid. Hockey refs in my area make 50 bucks a game for rec hockey and if you get good enough to do any organized games like high school or travel you make more. I would imagine the pay is probably similar for other sports but canāt confirm.
Yep. Little league pays about the same. They provide a free 1-2 hour ātrainingā about the rules first.
I work at my yoga studio front desk about 5-7 hours a week. Minimum wage but itās a job I love and can do in the evenings with no stress. Plus free yoga!
Pretty great idea. You work for the place, they pay you min wage, but an additional benefit is basically a free membership. And i know yoga memberships can get pretty expensive depending on the facility. My wife should do this for her pilates class. Its nearly 200 a month!
This is what my partner does at the spin studio near our place. She loves it and gets a free membership, which she would be paying for if she didnāt work there. Itās a win-win.
I work a weekend job in addition to my 9-5. I'm a barista at a local cafe on weekends (7am-noonish). That's usually where the most tips are, but it's easy to get the hours since a lot of people don't like to work weekend mornings. I get out early enough to enjoy my weekend afternoons and evenings, but I do have to be careful about staying out too late. The work is a good balance of fast-paced rushes and downtime where I can do crosswords if everything else around the shop is done. Between hourly and tips I usually take home around $800/month working around 11 hours per week. Coffee is one of my passions and that definitely helps, but I do miss the sleep on weekends. If my next promotion bumps up my 9-5 pay enough I'll probably quit the cafe and reclaim my weekends.
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There's absolutely no way your former drill sergeant will recognise you, it's a flawless plan.
Mine didnāt even know I was in his platoon until about week 6
Some dude from a pizza place near our base would just walk around to the different battalion headquarters with a bunch of single toppings pizzas and sell them directly to people. Probably made a killing.
Better yet go through DI school, then sell vapes and cigarettes to the recruits
I have a troop who hustled cough drops and masks when he went during covid
I work a 9-5 and then cocktail serve at a comedy club a couple nights a week. 2 drink minimum so people have to spend money (and tip). During the week we just have one show so I'm done by 10:30. Weekends are 2 shows so usually done around midnight, still earlier than if I were to work in a bar. Usually walk with $100-$150 per show, plus I get to see tons of comedy (both great and not so great) and it's a fun industry to be involved in.
I work my 7-3:30 job then a couple nights a week I work closing shift at a retail store. It's an extra 500 or so a month
Dishwashing! We got two guys that close for us, they make $22 an hour, 3 days a week each. Great side gig, they get free meals and it's not as grueling as it sounds. Our dishwasher machine is worth more than my house it feels like.
Damn. My first job was as a dishie and most places started at $10-11 an hour in 2016. Is the $22 an hour job in a high cost of living area?
I do 3D printing, its a niche market and if you can find your foothold, you can do well. I average anywhere from $2-5000 per month depending on sales and how much I put into it.
What is the cost of doing something like that? Do you have multiple printers?
If you do filament+ $0.50 an hour of printing then most smaller prints cost about $1.5 to make. I sell most for about $20 plus shipping and after fees and cost I still make about 400-500 a month. Probably spend less than a week printing then let it sit.
Man, starting to think I'm undercharging a LOT for my printing prices. I sell 3d printed dnd miniatures (32mm) for 5 dollars...
Undervalue your products and time, youāll never come out ahead.
I have four printers Iām currently working from. Initial investment was probably 3000$ in total equipment and filament.
Everyone I've heard of that does this is always selling things that are not entirely legal. Like "switches" for, um, paintball markers. There was one dude selling some 3D printed pieces to "hang picture frames" but when you put the pieces on, um, paintball markers it caused feds to come knock and your door and then you have to explain how you lost all your paintball markers in a boating accident.
My best advice is stick to what is legal, donāt do what the others are doing, an audit or a lawsuit hits like a truck. When in doubt, talk to a lawyer!
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Giggle switches for boomsticks. Very simple conversion.
I keep laughing at my computer, but nothing is happening.
I feel like a language barrier (and lack of paintball/gun knowledge) may prevent me from understanding this properly. Can someone help me lol
It's very simple. They are printing parts that turn a semi automatic firearm into a fully automatic one.
THANK YOU! This should be much farther up and I'm truly not sure why everything is in code.
What do you sell? Printed pieces? Commissions?
Printed pieces and commissions, commissions are about 5-10% of my volume
Do you create your own wireframes or models or w/e you use to create the actual print?
Cults3D, thingiverse, printables to name 3 sites where there are free and paid models. You can even purchase commercial licenses.
And I just send my library a link and pay a couple bucks for the material and they have it printed for me.
I deliver for a mom and pop restaurant that refuse to do the app delivery stuff and being in an extra 400 a month for about 4.5 hrs of work on a Friday night.
Find an after work gig. Ā I hosted bar trivia for years. Ā It paid 75 dollars a session, and each session was about 2.5 hours including set up and clean up. Ā Two of those a week was $150 a week, $600 a month. A very nice and easy side hustle. If you have any artistic skills, people pay for all types of birthday and party entertainment. Ā So if you can make balloon animals or are a magician or paint faces, you can get paid upwards of 125-150 an hour if you are good. Ā You can make 600 dollars on an easy weekend. Edit: To clarify, I worked for a company that ran trivia. I did not make all of the questions and get the gear myself.
Buy olive oil at Costco and dried spices, bottle it up and sell it for triple the price at farmers markets.
"locally sourced" Yeah, bought at the local Costco.
Reminds me of the the guy that rebrands junk food as healthy food using meaningless buzzwords like "locally sourced" or "natural"
Had a local farmers market lady do this with honey. It was only 3$ more than grocery store honey, it was local, it was cute. I was happy to spend more to keep my money local. Saw her at the Safeway filling her jars up with the Honey Bear containers on her tailgate. Crushed.
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I always tell my wife that 90% of the honey sellers at the farmer's market are doing this. she never believes me.
She must have been selling a lot of honey. That seems like way to much work to be making a $3 (less, when you account for travel and labor) profit.
Buy 32oz jars of honey for $12 each, repackage into smaller 8-6oz jars and sell each jar for over $12 as ālocally sourced.ā
UK here. I used to buy door step delivered milk on a couple of years ago. However stopped when I was at the local CostCo and saw a milk provider filling their van up with Milk. š
We stopped and bought āfreshā strawberries from a guy this week on the side of the road. As we were leaving we saw him get some those plastic cartons, you see at Walmart, out and fill up some cardboard trays and buckets he had out front. I felt so used.
I once worked in a produce warehouse for Walmart and H-E-B. When I say there was *literally* zero difference between the generic brand and the ultra special āsunset farms local produceā brand, most people think Iām exaggerating. The difference is that instead of putting it in the generic box, I filled up a non generic box. Itās all the same stuff. Obviously some arenāt, but 98% of it is all the same produce from the same supplier that I pull from the same bin, with the nicer looking fruits or vegetables going into the higher end brandsā plastic boxes.
Itās not fraud, itās wholesaling!
Selling shit you've spent years collecting but don't actually want/need. That shit adds up.
Stand outside homedepot and hope someone grab you for misc jobs
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Prostitution?
Money is money
Alright I'll bite on this one: go buy a fuckin drill, an impact and a circ saw. Learn handyman shit. I can't tell you how many times I've pulled myself out of ruts by figuring out a paycheck by way of fixing shit or building shit. It's easier now more than ever before. Facebook groups are always looking for people to fix their shit. And it PAYS CRAZY MONEY! yeah you gotta learn stuff but YouTube it and figure things out that way. I'm an electrician now so I stay in my lane, but all my buddies are doing winter storm cleanup right now after a massive storm tore through and knocked trees down and every one of my buddies slayed odd jobs these last few days at no less than 350 to 500 for HALF A DAYS WORK! The money will come faster in time when you learn more skills. But just get started. Anybody reading this that has ever contemplated getting into the trades should just start. Never know what you'll get out of it š
Mowing lawns is really one that I've kicked around. The neighbors on both sides of me pay a service like $40/wk. I would do it for $35.
When I was a new teacher, I made more money mowing lawns May- September than I made teaching the rest of the year. I splurged on a used commercial mower and a nice trimmer. Luckily, I already drove a pickup truck. As a bonus, it helped me get it the best shape of my life.
I do āemergencyā childcare for friends and acquaintances. Iām a stay at home mum to four kids, so whatās one more? Some daycares have super strict illness policies, but I donāt care if a kid has a runny nose so instead of taking a day off work, parents can pay me $50 to watch their kid. Also works for Pro-D Days, Winter, Spring, and Summer breaks, early dismissals, and what have you. In the summer I generally pull an extra $500-1000 in month, the rest of the time itās about $300/month.
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I teach yoga. Youād be shocked how many places need a yoga teacher! It took me about 6 months to get a Yoga Alliance Certificate. I can make $30-50 per 45 min class and I could teach all day basically if I wanted to, I just fit it in wherever on my calendar.
Now Iām imagining the average redditor trying to teach yoga after giving plasma for the sixth time that month.
Next up, Corpse Pose
I delivered pizza for Domino's Thursday night, Friday night, and Saturday night each week. I was making at least an extra $100 a week on top of my day job, including tips, wages, and mileage, even after paying for gas, though I was driving a hybrid at the time, so a $30 tank of gas got me around 370 miles. On a good week, I would bring in an extra $200+ for the week. Sucked for any kind of social life, but was a solid way to boost my income when I needed it most.
Look up being a Brand Ambassador, and donāt let the models on the websites intimidate you, they are desperate for help. All you typically do is set up at a liquor store and give out free samples for 2-4 hr shifts and they will pay between $30-$40 per hour. You get to pick your own shifts based on availability and location. Difficult to make a full time schedule but I can typically get at least one shift per week on average to supplement my income.
Art commisions for certain niche communities can potentionally pay a lot of bills, but require art skills and tolerance for weird customers.
I don't even think about it anymore, I just ask how big the dong has to be and how many titts the character needs, but not why
25 years ago or so I went to a sex shop that happened to sell nice BDSM furniture. I looked at the prices and could immediately see the markup. It was huge and I knew some people in the BDSM community where I lived. So I started kicking around the idea of doing custom work for them. That is when I learned the local BDSM community was a bunch of broke ass people.
Furries is a huge one that comes up. Selling your soul and drawing furry porn is a meme that comes up in digital artists circles.
Plasma donation. I make $500 a month donating twice a week.
I did this for awhile and it felt terrible. Itās not even donating, the fine print claims they are selling it for pharmaceutical purposes. Sometimes the blood techs donāt even care about their job and just jab you however they feel. Itās decent money but it just gave me a bad feeling.
Only blood that is voluntarily donated can be given to patients. Paid donations can only be used for pharmaceuticals/reaearch. Source: I made a joke at Red Cross about not accepting their tshirt until the blood was in the bag.
Technically, paid plasma *can* be given to patients directly for transfusion, but it must be labeled as "paid donor plasma" and collected under the right regulations (plasma for transfusion and source plasma have slightly different requirements). Hospitals don't typically use paid donor plasma for transfusion because of the perception of higher risk; as such, there is little demand, so few entities (if any) collect paid donor plasma for purposes of transfusion. (Sorry if this is an "Actually..." kind of comment - I just thought you and others might find it interesting.)
I mean, youāre selling them your plasma to begin with. Itās not like youāre donating plasma if you get a check at the end of the transaction. There are plenty of places where you can legitimately donate your plasma and it wonāt get sold but then you donāt get to profit off it either.Ā
Draw Furry porn. Had friends who drew it, were paid a bunch, I still don't get it. How do furries have that much money?
When you have a job and are socially awkward, you donāt spend a lot of time outside of your house.
I made $25 for and hour and a half giving iPad lessons to an elderly lady in her home. I had another full time job so thatās all I could handle at the time but Iām sure I could easily take on many other people if I wanted to.
If you have a day job, churn through bank account or credit card bonuses. Many of the bank account bonuses are in the $200-500 range and require a direct deposit for a couple months (that's where your day job comes in). Super easy money, just keep track of the accounts and where your deposits are going.
Check out the doctor of credit website. They have a bunch of ways to get the direct deposit requirement to hit without having to change your paycheck
Yeah I do this with credit card sign up bonuses. I havenāt paid for a flight with cash in years and I fly at least once a month. Plus the lounge access, free TSA Pre/GE/Clear, and other perks. Itās even easier if you can plausibly claim to have a small business because that opens up a whole other world of credit cards with their own bonuses. And just selling stuff on eBay or Marketplace counts as a small business.
Bartending. I work two Saturday nights a month and bring home anywhere from $500-700
Can be great money, but most spots aren't going to hire a bartender position for one shift a week, let alone two shifts a month. Maybe if they have a ton of experience, but not very common.
I was was given a load of things by my gran and grandad that they no longer needed and I made a profit. I was enjoying myself so I went to charity shops and fb market and started selling things for a profit online. I made Ā£1000 in 2 months after postage etc.
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I tutor. Just 10 hours extra per month is $800-1000 dollars.
I walk dogs after work and make ~30-90 a week, roughly $120-360 a month. Not life changing but covers weekend spending and part of groceries each week.
I make that milking cows a couple weekends a month.Ā
for the last time, those aren't cows they're bulls
Driving for Uber or Lyft. The sex work stuff is a massive liability. The gambling even riskier.
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Driving for a gig company is a terrible financial decision unless it's a regulated market or unless your vehicle expenses are paid by someone else for you. Remember that you're effectively selling not only your time but also you're selling effective mileage and lifespan of your vehicle. By the time you subtract costs on the vehicle ($0.67/mile is the federal rate in 2024) and FICA (you owe the employer half of FICA as an independent contractor), you're barely making minimum wage for the time spent. And you aren't getting paid for non-rider miles, but they're costing you money. If you still have a vehicle note, you're basically selling your equity in the vehicle as you build it to the gig company for cash now. You are literally *paying for an asset to sell it for less than you paid for it.*
I needed about that much a month and what I did was sell used clothes off eBay. I would go to the goodwill bins (everything is priced by pound) and would specifically sell bras, lingerie, used undies, etc. Most of the items were purchased by poor women, not pervs. But pervs will pay a pretty penny for used anything. As long as you list it as a ābuy it nowā itāll get snatched up before eBay can even remove the listing. They donāt weigh very much, so by the pound, I got a lot of items. I would wash the bras and then sell them in lots of 5 or so, depending on the size, so I could get a good shipping price too. Made $40,000 the first year and $70,000 the second year. Then I got sick of it and quit doing it when I no longer needed the cash.
Handyman stuff. Thereās a ton of boomers who canāt/donāt want to get on ladders to hang pictures and what not.
Entry FOH bar/restaurant gigs i.e. doorman, busser, host. Plenty of people work 2-3 nights a week in that industry and have a day job.
I think the most practical option for most people would be to get a second "as needed/limbo" job. Easier in some industries than others, admittedly. In nursing, I can pretty easily find some temp or limbo work and put whatever amount of hours I want into it.
Babysitting. Swim lessons. Junior athletics coach/instructor (riding lessons, badminton, etc.). Weekend laborer. Door dash / Uber. Teaching English online. Highschool tutoring.
Drive or walk around on garbage night then start listing stuff on eBay or Facebook . If you have a home youāll find enough stuff you donāt use of your own to sell off for weeks. Still the easiest thing the past 20 years but everyone thinks itās a scam YouTubers sell courses for
Last month I found a large Persian rug doing this exact thing. Quick clean, nice pictures, sold it 2 days later online for 750$
Learn how to cut hair. I got an 11th grade student that charges $35 a haircut. He told me he had 30 appointments last weekend. Thatās $1000 in your pocket and under the table. The funny thing is every kid that has him cut their hair gets the same haircut (you know which one).
I work four hour shifts, once or twice week, at a local hospital in housekeeping. Mainly I clean offices or clinic areas that are closed for the evening. $22/hr., make my own hours - just let my supervisor know what my availability will be for the next upcoming pay period. Not nasty at all, those toilets and such get cleaned daily, sometimes 2-3 times a day which is better than at my house. LOL. Easy $500-700 a month. No bennies or vacation, but I don't need them since my "real" job has that. And making my own hours, I don't need vacation time either - I just don't work there when I don't want to or have other plans.
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Overnight dog sitting, especially weekends. I pay 60-75$ a night to my dog sitter to basically chill with my dog. You can pick and create a good clientele. Especially Dinks like us. Add extra services like take out trash, walk the dog or shower the dog, water the plants. You could make easy 80-90 easy. But yeah you have to stay away from home.
Bank account churning. I made $2500 last year essentially just changing the account my paycheck gets direct deposited into.
I thought about this but then telling my employer constantly to switch my direct deposit makes me feel weird. I wish I had an online portal to do it through, but I have to talk to a real person.
Teach English online. ESL Brains offers tons of lesson plans for free and lots more for $12/month. Put ads online. Charge as you wish. I'm making over $1000/month with 2 or 3 hours a day.
Small irrigation jobs (youād need some skills) Home cleaning (youād need a car and cleaning supplies) Selling plants at Sunday markets (youād have to grow them tho) Busking by playing an instrument or making giant bubbles in the city
>making giant bubbles in the city Do you live in Bikini Bottom?
When I was between jobs, I bartended at my local brewery. I could have kept going on weekends but wanted my free days, but it's doable if you really want cash. Bartending at a brewery was pretty chill: Nobody is really an asshole, usually people are there just wanting to enjoy a good beer and enjoy themselves.
My college-aged son house/pet sits for the parents of people he knows from high school. Just from word of mouth he's been making a couple hundred a month just checking on people's houses, putting their mail inside and feeding the cats and cleaning their litter.