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Quelcris_Falconer13 t1_j9sa69q wrote

Side hustles are just second jobs but it’s not classy to say you have a second job, but side hustle sounds like you’re starting a business and pursuing what you want to do where as “second job” makes it sound like you’re not paid enough

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Stompya t1_j9seeoy wrote

I’ve never thought of a side hustle as a job, I thought it was either your own small business or some under-the-table income

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Quelcris_Falconer13 t1_j9sf2zq wrote

Owning a business or getting paid under the table for side work is still technically a job.

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Stumpy-Wumpy t1_j9sgs83 wrote

I sold cards and games as a side hustle, now I have a shop. They can develop.

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Quelcris_Falconer13 t1_j9sgxd9 wrote

You’re the exception to the rule. My side hustle was working 40 hours a week driving for Uber while also working 40 hours a week in healthcare to make the bills.

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Stompya t1_j9tcjv8 wrote

See, I’d have called that a second job. How is it a “side” thing if it’s full-time?

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TreadMeHarderDaddy t1_j9shmnp wrote

Usually the side hustle thing is that you get a better hourly but way less hours/benefits.

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myusernamehere1 t1_j9sc9n4 wrote

This is utterly false. A side hustle almost never implies working extra hours for your full time employer, rather a secondary, independent source of income

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BluntsNLegos t1_j9sdp5t wrote

usually its something on the side dealing with skills you picked up in past jobs. And if you are doing it right it is the same or better paying than day job. Or be fun enough you were going to be doing it anyway so might as well get paid.

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David-Diron t1_j9sj55v wrote

I spend roughly two hours a day selling online. I clear about $40 an hour. I'm satisfied with that.

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EdofBorg t1_j9t2lfn wrote

Badly paid? I average better than overtime pay from my primary job on side gigs and I don't have people who can barely change a light bulb let alone do safe construction and repairs telling me how to do it. I also work in increments. I break a job down into multiple goals. Each time I achieve the next goal I get paid or I don't do the next goal. Cuts down on scammers getting free work.

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AholeBrock t1_j9u4nb0 wrote

Right? I mod controllers for fun and started selling them on ebay so I could mod more... I have to wait for stuff to sell, but I've been able to to pull about 20-30$ an hour on labor after selling a few. Which, considering I also have fun doing it, is awesome pay for the time. OP sounds like they are critiquing someone with a terrible side hustle.

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pufballcat OP t1_j9trxd6 wrote

> break a job down into multiple goals. Each time I achieve the next goal I get paid or I don't do the next go

That sounds very sensible. How might it work in practise?

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EdofBorg t1_j9wj5wf wrote

For instance I did a job last summer actually repairing someone else's shit work. We had a land hurricane here 2 years ago and it tore this guy's rail off his deck, the stairs were separated and never attached to begin with, it needed posts underneath because of unsupported spans, a couple basement windows, etc. I broke it down with deck first including attaching stair unit, then rail which was some hollow composition crap which they had already bought and actually over bought since over half the original was still good, and then windows. Each is a different skill set and they had already blown money on the losers who built the deck before the storm tore their shit work down. Out of a sympathy I did $400, $300, $200. They bought materials.

I have people who have people and sometimes ask if I will do the work because bigger companies can't either be trusted and mark up parts like 200-300%. If it's a bunch of different jobs I just break it down by specialty.

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Alternative-Sock-444 t1_j9w0fir wrote

In my industry, I make more money per job on "side hustles" than I do at work. More than triple my hourly rate actually.

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