I have a job in corporate IT. I have been working from home since Covid hit, and will be for the foreseeable future. I find myself with a lot of free time during the day (shhh…) I’m trying to think of some ideas for how I can make some extra money on the side.
I was toying with becoming a notary but I don’t know how much money that would bring in. Any notaries here?
Anyone else have a good side hustle they recommend?
I would leverage my IT skills and help people solve networking problems for a fee. While setting up a router, modem, VPN, or mesh WiFi network would be easy for you, some people have no idea how to do it, and telephone tech support is frustrating for most people. Take advantage of your skills versus acquiring new skills that may or may not pay off. Or you could look at dog-walking…
At one point we were down to only one horse. Horses are social animals and my gf was looking into placing her last horse with a new owner who had horses.
Her plan was to convert the barn into a kennel and run a doggy fat farm. Dogs would be dropped off for a week, 2, 3, 4, whatever worked for the owner. The dogs would get quality nutrition but not a lot of it, and they would be walked several times a day in the woods around our house.
I was all for the idea. Instead she got two more horses.
I would avoid any IT/computer work to avoid any conflict of interest while you are on the clock with your current employer.
Anything you did in your past that you are good at? I was a service technician for Coca-Cola years ago and buy, fix, and sell old pop machines and get an occasional call from somebody wanting theirs fixed. My current job is completely unrelated to fixing pop machines but I have the knowledge from my past to do so.
A family acquaintance takes Fridays off during the summer and goes to rummage sales and buys snowblowers. Out of season so cheap prices. Fixes or just cleans them up and stores them. 1st (or any) major snowstorm guess who has snowblowers for sale when the big box stores are sold out? Old cliche, but he makes a killing, $15-25.00 invested in a snowblower he sells for $100-150.00.
Reddit has a forum Beer Money for online side hustles:
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