Legit side hustle help - not an add - need guidance

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restless wrote:

My goal is to have a side job. Something I can do at night for 2 hours or so online or on the phone.

I’m a 37 year old man with a full time office job and I’m now working from home.

I have plenty of free time at night and want to do something to earn something like $1000 a month extra net.

What can I do?

If you are looking to make that kind of money, you probably need to consider something illegal.

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restless wrote:

My goal is to have a side job. Something I can do at night for 2 hours or so online or on the phone.

I’m a 37 year old man with a full time office job and I’m now working from home.

I have plenty of free time at night and want to do something to earn something like $1000 a month extra net.

What can I do?

What's your office job? There's probably a way to do something similar freelance, but the precise approach depends on what it is you do. If there are non-compete issues, you can look into freelance writing about your professional field. People who can write and have a deep background in their topic aren't that common.

restless wrote:

What can I do?

That's the question. You want to make $1,000 after taxes with 40 hours of work - so, not sure your tax rate, say 25%, you need to earn about $35 an hour? Do you get paid that now?

What jobs do you think exist that will pay you $35 an hour to work a couple of hours a night at home? Specifically for a person of such limited intelligence that they are unable to do the necessary online research to figure that out on their own?

It's safe to say that is never going to happen, skippy.

Can you teach English online? I am not sure you’ll reach your desired income, but you could gross over $20/hr. Other tutoring gigs might work for you as well.

How about a sales business on eBay, Amazon or another similar platform?

What are your interests?

Really? Why do you think that? $1000 a month?

oldschoollrc wrote:

If you are looking to make that kind of money, you probably need to consider something illegal.

It is not easy to find something that pays that well part time at night.

If you have a skill, say accounting, you might be able to do something like that. But you would still need to know someone who has that need. If you search job sights, there isn't much. And if a sales or delivery service say "up to $35/hr, that means about $10-$15/hr.

The online english teaching might have potential, but I think you will be working a lot more to net $1000/mo.

I work for a buy side asset management company in front office ops.

I make like $75 an hour I guess or something like that but it’s salary plus some bonuses and not an hourly job.

I was thinking making calls informing people of something or like polling or surveys. I can’t leave the house because my wife works overnight.

I’m also not against buying $1000 worth of something and trying to hustle to sell it.

restless wrote:

I work for a buy side asset management company in front office ops.

I was thinking making calls informing people of something or like polling or surveys. I can’t leave the house because my wife works overnight.

I’m also not against buying $1000 worth of something and trying to hustle to sell it.

The first point is interesting because it means you have some experience that not many people have. Whatever it is you do during the day, you know the lingo of asset management. You can write authoritative-sounding articles on an in-demand topic. If you want to be a freelance writer, there's a route for you to take.

But the second and third points are interesting because they suggest you'd really like to try something completely different than your day job. Maybe something in sales, maybe something entrepreneurial. Keep thinking of possibilities. You can do whatever you want (that there's a market for, and that you have the talent and skill to do successfully).

One site to take a close look at is Upwork. It has its drawbacks, but it's the best of the online freelancing platforms out there and it lowers the barriers to seeking freelance work dramatically. You may decide not to take that route, but it's one option for online freelance work, and you can use it to research what markets exist that you might be interested in.

restless wrote:

My goal is to have a side job. Something I can do at night for 2 hours or so online or on the phone.

I’m a 37 year old man with a full time office job and I’m now working from home.

I have plenty of free time at night and want to do something to earn something like $1000 a month extra net.

What can I do?

There are lots of side hustles you can do online. For the last 3.5 years, I've been making $1000 to $2500 a month to supplement my full time job by doing a combination of writing / editing / proofreading jobs. Typical pay is around $16/hr. However, I've gained new opportunities from connections I made doing these low paying jobs, with some work paying $35/hr. It's not great pay, but it's helped me pay off my debts and build a pot of money. I could share some links, but it sounds like you might be aiming for a better rate of pay?

Where do you find these writing, editing, and proofreading jobs? That is totally something I would like to do. I did some masters coursework in journalism but didn’t get my actual degree because of the cost vs. what I expected I could earn as a full time journalist. I work in business administration now but I think I would be good at this type of freelance work.

restless wrote:

My goal is to have a side job. Something I can do at night for 2 hours or so online or on the phone.

I’m a 37 year old man with a full time office job and I’m now working from home.

I have plenty of free time at night and want to do something to earn something like $1000 a month extra net.

What can I do?

What skills do you have. There is some drafting type work that could be done on your own schedule and get you there if you have proper skills.

I’m not against starting small and building a reputation where higher pay follows. I really don’t care about the pay I just figured $1000 a month wouldn’t be that unrealistic. Guess it is. I just want to fill the time from when my kids go to bed to when I go to bed by making some money at my own pace. I’d be happy to check out some links.

Tutor teenagers in math over zoom. $20 for a half hour session.

Do you have any mechanical skills? I’ve made some money in the past buying cheap but decent quality bikes and tuning them up. I’d find a good deal on Ebay in my area or a garage sale then post the tuned-up bike (often just new tires and bar tape plus a shift/brake tune) on the Craigslist of the nearby big city. I could fairly easily turn a $50-75 bike and $50 of parts into a $300 sale. Bikes are hot right now so you could probably make money simply buying and reselling doing nothing more than putting air in the tires.

Also, look for deals on smaller websites then resell on Ebay or Amazon. Toys, clothing, auto parts, etc. Figure out some items that sell then go find them cheap or find the cheap stuff and look for an outlet. If you work it out right, you can drop ship the items direct from your cheap site to the customer, assuming the deal sticks around long enough.

I have a friend that buys snowmobiles and motorcycles in the off-season and fixes them/tunes them up. He makes a crap-load in relatively short turnaround time. Timing on the sales is critical.

I paint for $35/hour. Take on small jobs for people with flexible schedules and not in a hurry. Paint a room at a time unless I want to work a weekend. Can make $1000/week if I bid the jobs. With the right tools and experience, it goes pretty fast..