Side Hustle

[onlyroadtoheaven]

Side Hustle - "Something you do outside your traditional job to earn money in order to pursue your main interest"

I wondering if anyone has any interesting side hustles to earn extra money to feed their stacking habits. I know that people do a variety of things to earn extra cash such as freelancing web design, proof reading and blog writing. I have imported trainers (weird but quite profitable for a time) and currently work as a venue manager in my spare time. I still like the idea of importing/creating a product to sell online.

What's your hustle (so that I can steal your idea and be rich)?

[shawy2510]

I used to import & grow certain corals from the USA. It was great for a year or 2 & it paid for a deposit for my 1st house. It all went tits up when everyone wanted to do the same thing which it then became a barely profitable thing so I stopped. I am always on the look for the next hustle, its generally telling my dad I would like more money from work this week

[Scuzzle]

I make additional money by tidying up Chinese web pages, I got the idea reading some Chinese Ebay pages with the pigeon English - This product make you much happyness, very much quality etc.   I send them an e-mail saying I will tidy it up for a tenner or sometimes just if they send me one of what they are selling and that they will look more professional and make more sales if they agree - and many do and it takes me 10 mins to sort it out even though I don't speak a word of Chinese.

I now change their attempt to something like - This is a quality product which you will be delighted with, send it back to them and thats the job done.

 

Years ago I made a good income buying faulty phones on Ebay, Nokia N95's mainly, if you bought one with a faulty screen and one with any other fault and just make one good phone out of the two and sell it back on Ebay, Was £80 to £100 profit per phone and on my worst week I sold 2 and on my best week I sold 18, then phones got all sleek and complicated and I had to chuck it.

[HelpingHands]

I get first look at the coin deliveries at work so any good ones go on ebay.

Recently the nightmare situation of all the coins being good meant that I had to buy them in installments over the course of a week.

 

[Paul]

If people check out fiverr.com for inspiration in developing side hustle. Everyone has their own set of skills

What you might presume is common sense,  you soon realise sense isn't very common.

Lots of niches for everyone  

 

[ApisMellifera]

I'm a sound/recording engineer on the side and also learning more about property investing. Think you might like this podcast http://www.sidehustlenation.com/side-hustle-show/  

[Stu73]

I'm in the Foreign Exchange industry so get to see plenty of world banknotes,  currently accumulating fancy serial number US banknotes which have a large following and mark up. Also with the release of the first book on replacement banknotes there seems to be a growing interest in that now.

[Kman]

 

[GoldBenj]

One does not simply have one side hustle do they? 

Mine are mainly based around jewellery, engagement rings as such. 

[Paul]

Surprised nobody has mentioned flipping silver and gold.

If you have no sentimental ties to your stack, if you can make a couple of quid flipping your £20 kook for £25, your stack will increase in size with those couple of bob profits you get here and there selling.

[MickB]

I used to fix my parents neighbours cars a few years back for a few quid until I joined the railway and started to maintain trains for a living.

Once I earned £25 for my knowledge for two minutes work swapping over HT leads as the car was 180 degrees out on timing. They gladly handed the money over to my surprise as their car was stopped for nearly a month because of a previous mechanic overhauling the engine who cocked up!

I don't fix anyone's car but my own nowadays and have just traded a 1/4 proof 2012 sovereign for my time in my mate's garage on the jacks for a few jobs. I'm still quids in.

[vand]

Horse racing each way arbing, as explained in the Cheltenham thread. 

Very good race tomorrow 2:50 Warwick.

[hedvigahlgren11]

If you're good at writing, try blogging. Just write up a topic that you're good at and share it relentlessly until you get a sizable pool of followers.

[CarlosSilver]

I used to make and sell moustache wax, beard oils and beard balms. I used to supply a few trendy local barbers and sell online. I was also in early talks with a well known London shop who wanted my product but with their branding.

It was fun while it lasted and I made some decent money but it took up more of my time than I was prepared to dedicate. Especially as the brand took off. 

You may be surprised at the size of the competition out there in the hirsute grooming world. 

[CarlosSilver]

On 2017-6-3 at 16:59, hedvigahlgren11 said:

If you're good at writing, try blogging. Just write up a topic that you're good at and share it relentlessly until you get a sizable pool of followers.

I've got a blog that I hardly use. It's linked in subject to a twitter account I run. The twitter account has 35,000 followers but the blog has hardly any. I've considered dedicating more time to the blog and monetising it but I'm a lazy sod. 

[hedvigahlgren11]

On 6/13/2017 at 21:56, CarlosSilver said:

I've got a blog that I hardly use. It's linked in subject to a twitter account I run. The twitter account has 35,000 followers but the blog has hardly any. I've considered dedicating more time to the blog and monetising it but I'm a lazy sod. 

Ugh. Yeah, I know maintaining a blog is a lot of hard work. But if it goes off, you'll surely generate lots of money from it. 35k followers is a lot, specially if you convert them to blog visitors.

[vand]

On 2017-3-21 at 18:48, vand said:

Horse racing each way arbing, as explained in the Cheltenham thread. 

Very good race tomorrow 2:50 Warwick.

 

Couple of good races at Royal Ascot to smash for EW arbs:

Tues 4:20 - St James's Palace Stakes
Fri 4:20 - Coronation Stakes

So long as they remain 8 runners or more then you will easily be able to get each way arbs on these race

 

[Zaikoff]

My side hustle is crypto currencies - Litecoin and Ethereum mainly, sometimes Bitcoin. I trade directly on GDAX as day trader, sometimes the days are good, sometimes I screwed myself, but that's the risk over it. 

My other hustle is gift cards, I flip gift cards and vouchers of big chains and make a profit over them, as well as I top up Subway Subcards for free Footlongs and trade them in. 

I know it's not a big deal, but every penny is important, as long as you make money on the side and of course satisfy my main "addiction" - Gold coins! 

[Roy]

Forum discount @kimchi?

😃

[sovereignsteve]

i read that as "kimchi sucks"🤣

[5huggy]

35 minutes ago, sovereignsteve said:

i read that as "kimchi sucks"🤣

🤣 SO you cannert REED! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[sovereignsteve]

21 minutes ago, 5huggy said:

🤣 SO you cannert REED! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

yes wiv my old eyes, it sumetimes takes sevral lucks!

[5huggy]

ARGH EYE SEA! 🧐

[kimchi]

2 hours ago, sovereignsteve said:

i read that as "kimchi sucks"🤣

Probably pretty much spot on

Ah well, can't please 'em all, and thank the heavens for that!

[tallyhojim]

A friend of mine restores old vintage tools and small bench top machinery like lathes etc. He's recently restored an early 1900's lathe and has retro fitted a modern CNC system to it. The precision his 100+ year old hunk of cast iron achieves is mind boggling. The style and beauty of these old machines really is something to be admired. Old skool rulez!