Side hustle

What, no Uber drivers in here?

$9.50 was my taxable income that I didn't do shit to earn. Shitposting, on my ass, on a couch, using utilities I don't pay for.

The mechanic work I brought in was completely non related to my taxable income, meaning I ran my tools off of electric I didn't pay for to get paid cash to turn bolts on other people's cars.

Every two weeks after the government's cut I made about $1100-$1200 on average at the legitimate job. I made $0-$200 a night cash pending on if I could find a car to turn bolts on for the side hustle.

The overhead for running a legit garage (certifications, rent, utilities, insurance) adds up pretty quick. I pretty much bypassed the overhead by double dipping and doing mechanic work on my employers time.

I'm lined up to go legit into the mechanical field, and the way I'm doing it I should still be able to bypass a bit of overhead and have all the tools I need once I start.

This isn't a hard field to get into...if you don't feel like you have the skill set to do a certain job, just tell the customer it's not something you feel comfortable doing. When I first started I only knew how to change break pads, once I was comfortable with doing that I started working on my own cars when they broke down. I saved money not paying people to do it for me, and I invested in myself by learning how to do the work in a hands-on environment. It won't put "fuck you" money in your pocket, but you will be able to live comfortably and not have to deal with any bosses/managers/supervisors.

Eventually I will only have to worry about utilities and a sort of "legacy" percentage on whatever job I do. Over that it will all be profit.

>a midnight shift job where I really just had to be there for 12 hours. I did literally nothing for $9.50/hr.
Was it a security position?
I've been thinking about picking up something like that so that I can get paid while studying for other certs.

I pick up basic web dev jobs to fund the creation e-commerce sites.
The two don't bring in much individually, but now that I'm running 6 sites it brings in decent beer money.

How much beer money we talking?

Not enough

>Metals scrap

I can't even imagine how you started this.

Books or?

Ugh, I did night shifts at a hotel while going to school, and it sounds nice at first, not being supervised or anything and being able to play video games all night, but the sleep schedule really gets to you.

>I can't even imagine how you started this.

>be janitorial contractor
>have contracts to clean several large industrial plants
>they toss wiring, plumbing scrap, electronics scrap and aluminum into trash
>toss it in the back of my truck instead of dumpster
>justtakingoutthetrash.jpg
>making moneys selling metals from people's trash
>set up bins for them to put metals in
>make more moneys
>get government grant to run non-profit recycling service for industry and business
>lose money on recycling but fuck it, grant pays for it
>still make thousands off metals recycling anyways
>make 4 runs a year to the scrap yard 100 miles away to sell metals
>buy a trailer and land to keep my metals scrap on
>now the largest recycling contractor in town
>more free steel, bronze, aluminum and copper than I even want to deal with
>hire dude to take shit apart part time
>his pay is covered entirely by scrap metal he sorts and breaks down
that's about it. I'm a dumpster-diver. Like most janitorial contractors I suppose. I've hauled off some crazy stuff over the years. Cleaning banks and foreclosed houses produces the most interesting trash, but doing industrial work is where I get tons of metals.

Im a journeyman union Hvac with a primary focus on refrigeration. My normal 6-1 job is commercial hvacr. My spare work is side jobs that range from 100-1200 per job. Side income makes about 47000 a year. Downside is i dont have insurance and technically im not supposed to be doing it anyway. If my work finds out im grassed. All this spare income 10% goes to my vacation fund and the 90% goes to my investment portfolio

this is how multi-million dollar businesses get started.

just sayin.

>Downside is i dont have insurance
the people that insure your car could probably give you a liability policy for a small-biz contractor.

I pay $100 per month for that kind of policy, $2 million in liability and performance insurance. Not exactly a huge deal. You know what you get paid. What's that, one hour of your time? Probably less.

I was working 8p-8a in a home health type job for the mentally challenged. My client was violent as fuck so they kept him on enough meds to be out of his mind pretty much 14 hours a day. Out of a year I'd probably interacted with him 10 times.

I am thinking about hustling bikes. People tend to get rid of those for practically free especially during the winters. Demand often rises during certain periods of the year and you can make nice untaxated profit.

3-5 bikes per month would propably be enough to cover my food expenses.

I deliver food on my bike using on-demand apps getting ~$20 an hour and ~$150-200 a week. I'm thinking about getting into scrapping though. How hard is it to start if you don't have many connections?

I can grow magic mushrooms and am able to sell them for £10 a gram to close friends. I am able to sell them to friends so they can distribute them to their relative universities. I will sell them to middle men mates for £5 a gram and they sell them for £10.
I've got three friends who are always badgering me to grow more so there is a demand. Im going to set up a new batch in the new year and this should bring in around 400g so that is around £2000.

I've also got access to steroids as well as some hard to get (without prescription) pharmaceuticals like Valium, codeine etc.
I haven't tested the market with this yet but know a few friends who get the steroids at a much higher price and am able to set up a distribution network as i have a few friends in university towns who use the gym.

In my spare time i do a bit of trading and at the moment im moving some funds (around 10k) to play about with on the stock market each week. I will invest in blue chips that i feel are on the up. After the go up by a few percent ill sell earning £300 before taxes etc. A nice little earner.

>drug trade

How are you ensuring that you won't get raided? I would be paranoid as fuck.

Im not a fucking mutt.A lot of the drug dealers that I have known who pedal the coke and weed tell to many people and brag about it openly as if they are scarface. thankfullt the mushies are not addictive although they are not the most widley known about or popular drug they are fun as fuck and there is a market for them. I grow them I then weigh them out to individual 1g bags I then get about individual baggies and put them in a bigger bag and put them in a tub of whey protein and get them posted to my mates at uni. Im not eager for cash so will let my friends sell them before asking them to front money for the next batch. I wouldn't even mind that they hand some out for free as its a good way of getting new people involved. I would use a burner phone with a pay as you go sim and pay for postage in cash. its not like it is heroin but you have to take precautions. I would do the same with the prescription drugs and steroids except my friend would get the money in cash and i will post the package to the persons address.

I have a nice clean cut job and just do this for fun and a bit of extra cash as i find it inter sting and dropping mushies is fucking fun. much better than any other drug ive taken for sure.

Scrapping only really works if you've got connects that supply you with junk that you can salvage. If you have to dumpster dive to get your supply you'd earn more per hour by just getting a second minimum wage job

find metal
take to scrap yard
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profit

what are these side jobs?

So you're a salesman or what? I'm not American I only know that HVAC is heating, ventilation, airco.

I like this story.

I used to produce music for a DJ in London who couldn't do it himself. I'd sell him an original for £300 and a remix for £150. Could take up to 12 hours to produce a decent track. I stole all my samples work stations and virtual instruments. I never learned to master the audio. The labels he signed he music too would do that. I earned £1200 and stopped doing it. Became too time consuming and he missed 1 payment for a remix. I'm an IT consultant by trade. Any jackass could've done what I did for this guy with an ear for music and half a brain cell.

How did you get started?

I don't think that is osha approved. Assuming she is a paid worker, and not some bimbo trying to use tits to get free scrap metal

how did I get started in janitorial contracting?
I worked for a janitorial contractor. It paid surprisingly well by the hour but I didn't get many hours. So I asked the boss for more work and she offered to sell me the business on an owner-carry loan.

I did all her work for a year for free, she gave me the business. My wife supported me while I was working that year. I supported her for the 14 years after that.

scrap metal collection and sorting just came with the territory- if you don't do it you're throwing money away. People pay me to haul off scrap all the time. Might as well get paid to dump it too.

I legit was planning on scrapping a buncha shit earlier this week. Whats good to scrap & whats worthless?

I make my money off of aluminum, copper, brass. Silver solder is nice too.
you can also get good money for cars, some electronics, and catalytic converters if you're close to someone that buys them.

I pay for my diesel to haul metal by loading up tons of steel and iron. It's essentially worthless right now but if you get enough it can pay for fuel.

appliances are another thing that you probably won't make a profit on, but they can pay for your fuel perhaps.

electrical motors, pumps, and transformers might also get you a little bit of money. Depends on your buyer.

I had a mini bike biz throughout middle - high school.
> """Buy parts""""
> fix, build, shine etc.
> net profit aprx. 1k/month

> via the internet

Noted. ty senpai desu