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Do you have a “side hustle”?
Warbirds
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I have one job, I could probably do more, or something else, but I do one thing.
But I know a lot of people who do multiple things, the day job 40 hour a wk gig, then any number of “side hustle” things, flipping cars, Gun shows, real estate, day trading, whatever.
It seems to me, it has become more and more common to have two or more irons in the fire.
So what’s your side hustle?
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I've bought/sold/traded anything and everything for the majority of my life. My first "business" was when I was 6 years old, picking up night crawlers and selling them to my grandpa's friends...and it has only progressed from there..my whole life is a "side hustle" :)
Merc
Before arthritis put an end to it, my hustle was primarilty paint and wallpaper . Did do some rental property repairs , mainly plumbing .
Tree farmer
I am retired !!! I barely have any hustle at all !!!!!!
In my working days, I always had a side hustle.... I taught Criminal Justice classes at a couple different local colleges. I wrote custody evaluations for the Court. I worked on call providing evaluations/recommendations for suicidal individuals at hospital ER's. And for a number of years I had a private practice doing family and marriage counseling..
Now I just do the light work on what needs done around the farm and manage the property/books etc..
Is fishing a side hustle ?
craftsman
Retired, so everything is a 'side hustle'.
Actually, just 'retired' from my second career but still farming and busy as ever.
started when very young.
pop bottles = 2 cents up to a nickel by the time I stopped finding them at that time even a few cents was a blessing to a poor kid LOL
just like @Mercury
I would even go out and catch night crawlers to sell to the local fishermen
If I could make a any money was there
like a lot of people having little to no money made bartering or trading a must
when I turned 16 got my first real job 1.25 a hour holly cow I was rich ..
when I was about 18 to 25 or so I would scrounge the local junk yards in a 20 mile radius of my house ( back then a lot of small mom and pop junk yards and lots of mustang Camaros, Novas ,Mopar's, from the muscle car era for dirt cheap I spend my Saturdays pulling parts to sell thru a local trade paper or word of mouth to help fund my car hobbies and I stared working on other peoples cars about the same time all to fund my cars
gun shows from when I was 18 yrs old to about 20 years ago buy sell trade another way back when a gun show was once a month and it was truly a gun show every table and room packed full of any part or gun imaginable way before the internet. no Chinese trinkets or 20 tables of beef jerky home made jelly displays gun shows funded my gun hobby
after the internet the on line auctions I was like a kid in a candy store a lot of what I sold was actually flipped from the auction site early on people would put BIN on about every item they did not know the value of it so I had a list of items I was good at selling and would scan the auctions ever night after work and of course swap meets garage sales finds would be sold
being a collector I mean hoarder 🤨 I have enough stuff ( pack rat ) I need to get listed I could stay busy the next two years at least 😕but have been dragging my butt lately 😥 to get it done
but I guess yes I have always had some side "hustle " going repairing just about any thing and every thing to make a few dollars fixing or reselling.
but that how I funded all my hobby money over the years
its been many years ago but wife and I were watching some show where the husband was gone on the week ends and his wife was upset I barely remeber the show and all the details but I do remember I said something like what a dummy spending his time off away from his wife
then my wife pointed out for years my weekends were at junk yards gun shows and working on people's cars .. and going to the races and car shows with my buddies .. that sure hit home big time oooppps I would get busy and never gave it a thought at the time
when I was younger I knew a old fellow to look at him you would think he had two dollars to his name one great fellow to get to know ( many years later I went to school with one of his grand daughters )
but he owned a lot of property and building he leased out and farm land a trailer park and who knows what all
he had a back hoe a dump truck a big Hobart welder on a dedicated truck just for it a true jack of all trades I think he help influence me on hustling for money ( but he was 100% better at it and spent wisely unlike me 😪
he told me once I was about 16 and had him weld up a part for a car ( charged me 2 dollars LOL ) he said you know shorty (yes I have been called that for ever ) any way he said "I lay in bed awake most every night thinking how can I make even one dollar tomorrow . "
We do a volunteer "meals on wheels" type operation with from-scratch food cooked in our church basement kitchen. Before COVID, we delivered 180 free meals, but it's dwindled down to about 120 now. Numbers are slowly coming back, now that the scare is subsiding. I encounter some "interesting" people...and dogs. One lady's (a marine veteran) service dogs know the sound of my vehicle, go bonkers 1/2 block before I reach her house and are through the doggy door waiting on the porch to greet me.
Not any more but use to.
I realized years ago I would have to be a Millionaire to be able to afford to collect Pre-64 Model 70 Winchesters. I soon realized I would have to be content with a handful of them and a signed/numbered/cased copy of Roger Rule's "The Rifleman's Rifle"
Somehow I gravitated to Model 37 Winchesters. It is a long story and i will save for a later day.
For years and years i fixed up old lawnmowers/lawn tractors and resold them on c/L and other places to help support my habit of collecting/restoring the 37 Winchesters.
Many days i would come home and another broken down lawnmower/lawn tractor would be sitting in my driveway that my SIL had dropped off. He worked for DHPW in a neighboring village and was always looking out for me. Of course on clean up day I was also looking for road kill.
Anyway, It was a lot of work and I don't regret it at all. My sweetheart Diane would have killed me for taking all that money out of our operating funds. -------------------Ray
I apply the time and effort I need to working my one profession and the rest of my time and effort to what I want to do. No need or desire for a side hustle
I own and operate a auto repair shop so I can afford to be a farmer.
I have met and worked with and still have friends who work 40 hour normal jobs and own farms all of them the farm was handed down thru the family and most were doing the best to keep and pass it on to their kids . getting insurance thru the company's was a big reason also a lot of hard working men and women I will give them that.
JUst me ? I would consider all the farming above a side hustle. its 24/7 worry
We started our concession business as a side hustle. Now it has become so big that we are doing it almost full time along with two other businesses. At 71 I am trying to sell off the side hustle and have brought in a partner for one of the other businesses so I can semi retire in 2025.
I suppose I could claim I had four of them going at one time. Had a full-time job, pulled AF Reserve duty, ran my earplug business, and did freelance writing. None of that now.
DP, that machine looks like it was a sage investment.
I don't even have a regular hustle ........................
Retired now, but had several over the years, Did some technical reviewing of Computer books, Bartender for a friends place when they were short handed, Did some painting of houses when I was younger, tractor work (mowing. hay. spraying once in awhile for friends) and I just picked up this new toy Friday so it may become a side hustle...
I work for the power company so I can afford to have a small hay farm on the side
Other than making and selling 3D printed Glock-offs, no side hustles here.
Brad Steele
Berry punny Rocky,
That fellow operating in the picture, is the same young man you met over a Buffalo burger a few years back, my Bullrider Grandson .
Mule
The one hussle is so time consuming I no longer have time for anything else.....Larry's antique store booths used to be something I helped with. So, he has his side hussle all on his own these days. He has roped his sister into helping him. I think the only people actually making money at that are the people that rent out the space to the people who sell in their buildings.
Thought that was a hobby not a hussle?
Not sure if this is appropriate, but you got to know when hold'em, know when to fold'em and know when to walk and know when to run.....I suppose you can say poker has always been my hussle.... I'm always ready 😃
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Moderating is my side hustle.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Big Money for sure !!! 🙃
To quote Joe Walsh........"Life's been good to me so far!" 😁
I have a machine shop at my house. Separate building but has 2 vertical mills, 1 horizontal mill, 17 x 72 lathe, TIG and MIG welders, vertical bandsaw and horizontal bandsaw, Plasma cutter and a 50 ton press and a few saws.
I "play" in the shop and only do "work" for people I like and trust, I work with steel, aluminum, stainless steel and Ti, and can weld all the above.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
Part time giggalo.
That is awesome!
Keeps me out of trouble and the bars.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
If I admitted to side work, the tax man would show up.😉
JMHO
thank goodness for the moderator pay or you would starve to death
At 75 years old, I don't hustle anymore for anything. I'm doing good to get up off the chair.
Joe
That made me giggle O
Some say his clients giggled too 😃
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
You guys are just envious.
No side hustle here. I've got all that a man needs.
"...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." 🍺 🇺🇲 🍔
I used to think being a gigalo would be pretty amazing......................didn't take long to figure out it would too much work............and after two wives I was permanently cured.
Retired X 4. Sometimes consult as an expert witness in the safety field. Pay is excellent but infrequent- problem is it takes about 30 years experience to be a really competent one. But a couple of times a year it pays the bill for a shotgun I liked.
I used to go junking to pick up cheap silver to re-sell but I haven't done that in a good long while (before covid era). I wonder what silver is at these days?