Left out were drug production and sales, prostitution, and gambling. Oh, right. We are NOT A FREE country, so unless the government is getting ITS cut of these activities, they are prohibited. Oh well.
You know, even Jesus let the prostitute go, after talking to her and instructing her to change her ways. He didn’t put her in handcuffs and haul her to jail.
And in the Medieval period, a bishop was in charge of an area in England near the Isle of Dogs where there were a lot of brothels. He ordered all prostitutes in the area he was in charge of to have medical exams and, if any were diseased, they were unable to prostitute themselves any longer, individually or in brothels. They had to carry a disease-free card, if I remember correctly.
I went through the entire flow chart. The only thing I’m coming up with is giving hand jobs. Now I just have figure out the pricing and where to hang out with my sign.
“is anyone hiring” I think you missed the point about “side hustle”.
Print a few business cards, make a few calls or better yet, go to the insurance offices in person and let them know what you do.
If the photos are for the claimants, then put an ad on craigslist, the local “services” page in your community paper, Pennysaver etc…once word gets out……..
Geez WIP, get on the phone, mail out some letters. My brother in Boise just picked a side gig as an insurance adjuster with one phone call. He’s already a building contractor with several licenses. Now he does insurance work during hottest part of the day and his own work the rest of the time. His other side gig is home inspections for real estate transactions. Pure gravy work.
As a photography side hustle, I always thought there might be a market for political Paparazzi in DC. Similar to how the LA & New York Paparazzi sell images of celebrities, an image of Congressman X leaving a 5-star restaurant with some lobbyist should be highly marketable.
WIP, if you go to tjobs.com, there are ads on there for contractor-type work. I’ve seen ads for people to do real estate photography.
You have to pay to enroll, but it’s less than $20 for a year, last time I checked, although that was a while back.
Hope that helps.
“System D” alive and well – especially to the off-grid, RURAL, fly-over ‘deplorables’/debt-ridden, unemployed [former] ‘student-loaners’
IndenturedServant
September 9, 2017 3:44 pm
Sticker on the side of my tool box reads: “Don’t ask to borrow my tools and I won’t ask to borrow your wife.”
I can count on one hand how many people on this planet who have demonstrated that they will care for my tools the same way I do…….they are the only ones who get to borrow my tools.
You want a lucrative side hustle?……..Dumpster diving! I’ve pulled nearly $1500 worth of copper out of a dumpster in the complex where I work in the last few months. There’s loads of aluminum, and enough remnant scraps from larger sheets of plastics/woods/metals to pull down $200/week. Found a working lawn mower that I sold to my neighbor for $50. There’s even one dumpster that has cash/coin in it pretty regular. Also found two double sided lighted signs new in the box that my wife did some graphic design work for and sold them to two guys for the Man Caves….$300 each.
ID,
Funny thing about loaning tools. I loaned a sander to the owner of the company that I last worked for, drives a Range Rover, never got it back. He personally laid me off, I forgot to mention it to him. People are strange, when you’re a stranger.
Bob.
BostonBob, Most people looking to borrow tools are too cheap to go buy their own.
When I first moved into my home here all my stuff was still in transit but it was summer and I needed a lawn mower so I finally and reluctantly asked a neighbor. He agreed so I mowed my place then scraped the underside of the deck clean, changed the oil, air filter, spark plug and put a new blade on it. Then I cleaned the outside, waxed the painted deck and filled it full with fresh fuel. When I returned it he thought I bought him a new mower and told me I could borrow any tools he had whenever I wanted.
Good to see you posting again…….you went AWOL for a bit!
I’ve seen people drive though the neighborhood at night the night before garbage pickup. I’m sure they gets loads of stuff worth reselling. I’ve seen some good things thrown out by people, but if I don’t need it, I don’t pick it up. I leave for those guys.
My next-door neighbor is my cousin, and she threw out some perfectly good cane chairs. I went over and got them. 🙂
Vodka
September 9, 2017 4:15 pm
I know a gal who has made a small fortune doing custom signs on Etsy. Good for her.
Forget about the Uber/Lyft idea though. The dumbfuckers are making less than minimum-wage but they don’t understand that fact because they know nothing about true accounting. The reason that the Fed Gov gives almost $.54/mile deduction is because that’s the real cost of a vehicle. They think they’re making an easy $35k, but they’re barely netting $18k. When their $30k car turns into a $2k car then they finally understand and quit, but there is always a new crop of suckers out there.
I think it might actually be profitable to get a garbage collection contract and then sort it before it goes on to incineration. You could have an on-site second hand store, get scrap yards to come to you for recyclable scrap and doing some extra screening on what I call “the usual suspects” you can find all kinds of valuable shit. Usual suspects for me are gym bags, purses, wallets, back packs and small containers that people tend to store trinkets and treasures in. I always closely inspect these things as they usually contain jewelry, watches, coins, cash and other small treasures. I found a bag of old presidential campaign buttons once. I just found a large collection of lapel pins. There are easily a thousand of them. Some are even gold and silver and I think a few have precious gems on them.
This is based on only nine dumpsters in the complex where I work. It might not work out if you’re dealing with dumpsters from restaurants and grocery stores but garbage from industrial areas of town are a gold mine and it’s relatively clean.
IndenturedServant, that’s fine and well where you can get a contract. In my town, the local government handles all garbage and yard waste pickup. You have to do what I said before, drive around and look for things outside the garbage container, such as shelving systems, chairs, tables, and anything else people want to get rid of that’s not inside the garbage container.
Dave
September 9, 2017 11:32 pm
The easiest way to make extra dough is to use more flour and water.
I think this will be the common economy for the common man/woman soon.
That’s right Wip…….we are all just prisoners now in the techno-criminal cartel world. Watch these talented prisoners perform the Hustle.
That’s just plain sad.
Left out were drug production and sales, prostitution, and gambling. Oh, right. We are NOT A FREE country, so unless the government is getting ITS cut of these activities, they are prohibited. Oh well.
You know, even Jesus let the prostitute go, after talking to her and instructing her to change her ways. He didn’t put her in handcuffs and haul her to jail.
And in the Medieval period, a bishop was in charge of an area in England near the Isle of Dogs where there were a lot of brothels. He ordered all prostitutes in the area he was in charge of to have medical exams and, if any were diseased, they were unable to prostitute themselves any longer, individually or in brothels. They had to carry a disease-free card, if I remember correctly.
That’s how prostitution was handled in the past.
Jesus was a cop? jeez, who knew…
I went through the entire flow chart. The only thing I’m coming up with is giving hand jobs. Now I just have figure out the pricing and where to hang out with my sign.
Don’t try hanging out near Kim Kardashian’s corner or Kanye will likely attack you.
One of our is taking pictures of property damage for insurance companies.
Is anyone hiring? My current livelihood is real estate photography.
“is anyone hiring” I think you missed the point about “side hustle”.
Print a few business cards, make a few calls or better yet, go to the insurance offices in person and let them know what you do.
If the photos are for the claimants, then put an ad on craigslist, the local “services” page in your community paper, Pennysaver etc…once word gets out……..
Well, you never know unless you ask, correct?
Geez WIP, get on the phone, mail out some letters. My brother in Boise just picked a side gig as an insurance adjuster with one phone call. He’s already a building contractor with several licenses. Now he does insurance work during hottest part of the day and his own work the rest of the time. His other side gig is home inspections for real estate transactions. Pure gravy work.
As a photography side hustle, I always thought there might be a market for political Paparazzi in DC. Similar to how the LA & New York Paparazzi sell images of celebrities, an image of Congressman X leaving a 5-star restaurant with some lobbyist should be highly marketable.
WIP, if you go to tjobs.com, there are ads on there for contractor-type work. I’ve seen ads for people to do real estate photography.
You have to pay to enroll, but it’s less than $20 for a year, last time I checked, although that was a while back.
Hope that helps.
Thanks. I’ll check it out.
“System D” alive and well – especially to the off-grid, RURAL, fly-over ‘deplorables’/debt-ridden, unemployed [former] ‘student-loaners’
Sticker on the side of my tool box reads: “Don’t ask to borrow my tools and I won’t ask to borrow your wife.”
I can count on one hand how many people on this planet who have demonstrated that they will care for my tools the same way I do…….they are the only ones who get to borrow my tools.
You want a lucrative side hustle?……..Dumpster diving! I’ve pulled nearly $1500 worth of copper out of a dumpster in the complex where I work in the last few months. There’s loads of aluminum, and enough remnant scraps from larger sheets of plastics/woods/metals to pull down $200/week. Found a working lawn mower that I sold to my neighbor for $50. There’s even one dumpster that has cash/coin in it pretty regular. Also found two double sided lighted signs new in the box that my wife did some graphic design work for and sold them to two guys for the Man Caves….$300 each.
ID,
Funny thing about loaning tools. I loaned a sander to the owner of the company that I last worked for, drives a Range Rover, never got it back. He personally laid me off, I forgot to mention it to him. People are strange, when you’re a stranger.
Bob.
BostonBob, Most people looking to borrow tools are too cheap to go buy their own.
When I first moved into my home here all my stuff was still in transit but it was summer and I needed a lawn mower so I finally and reluctantly asked a neighbor. He agreed so I mowed my place then scraped the underside of the deck clean, changed the oil, air filter, spark plug and put a new blade on it. Then I cleaned the outside, waxed the painted deck and filled it full with fresh fuel. When I returned it he thought I bought him a new mower and told me I could borrow any tools he had whenever I wanted.
Good to see you posting again…….you went AWOL for a bit!
I’ve seen people drive though the neighborhood at night the night before garbage pickup. I’m sure they gets loads of stuff worth reselling. I’ve seen some good things thrown out by people, but if I don’t need it, I don’t pick it up. I leave for those guys.
My next-door neighbor is my cousin, and she threw out some perfectly good cane chairs. I went over and got them. 🙂
I know a gal who has made a small fortune doing custom signs on Etsy. Good for her.
Forget about the Uber/Lyft idea though. The dumbfuckers are making less than minimum-wage but they don’t understand that fact because they know nothing about true accounting. The reason that the Fed Gov gives almost $.54/mile deduction is because that’s the real cost of a vehicle. They think they’re making an easy $35k, but they’re barely netting $18k. When their $30k car turns into a $2k car then they finally understand and quit, but there is always a new crop of suckers out there.
I swear they actually teach some of these bozos that cash flow = profit. Cash flow might carry you for a bit but eventually you still end up broke.
Ebay now sends you a 1099 if you sell over $20k so be careful and watch your seller totals if you’re keeping it a unreported side income.
I find it’s just better to give the devil his due so that you’re not always waiting for the tax evasion hammer to fall.
Side hustle – that is just a bullshit term for what I grew up referrng to as “making a living”.
People do not need jobs, nor welfare. They need to just get out and make a damn living.
IS pulling $200 a week peeping into dumpsters is an example of how it is done. Buy and sell stuff is a good option, find and sell even better.
That used mower could be used by some enterprising soul to make a living. Been there, done that.
I think it might actually be profitable to get a garbage collection contract and then sort it before it goes on to incineration. You could have an on-site second hand store, get scrap yards to come to you for recyclable scrap and doing some extra screening on what I call “the usual suspects” you can find all kinds of valuable shit. Usual suspects for me are gym bags, purses, wallets, back packs and small containers that people tend to store trinkets and treasures in. I always closely inspect these things as they usually contain jewelry, watches, coins, cash and other small treasures. I found a bag of old presidential campaign buttons once. I just found a large collection of lapel pins. There are easily a thousand of them. Some are even gold and silver and I think a few have precious gems on them.
This is based on only nine dumpsters in the complex where I work. It might not work out if you’re dealing with dumpsters from restaurants and grocery stores but garbage from industrial areas of town are a gold mine and it’s relatively clean.
IndenturedServant, that’s fine and well where you can get a contract. In my town, the local government handles all garbage and yard waste pickup. You have to do what I said before, drive around and look for things outside the garbage container, such as shelving systems, chairs, tables, and anything else people want to get rid of that’s not inside the garbage container.
The easiest way to make extra dough is to use more flour and water.
Dave, LOL.