Side Hustles? / Part-Time Jobs?
Does anyone have experience with working a side hustle or part-time job while in college? Preferably something you can do from your computer.
I'm thinking about useful and worthwhile work, not something like Swagbucks or other online survey shit.
Marketing for real estate agents. RE Agents can make really good money right now and lots of them outsource their marketing.
Or sell houses yourself. You can get close to 6 figures in income if you work at it in a high COL city.
Bar/club promoter is a solid side hustle. Had quite a few friends pull it off successfully in college.
I wrote clickbait for a number of websites. $25-$50 a pop.
I'm late to this thread, but I ran a company that produced clickbait on Facebook haha.
I paid my writers about $15/article and it would take them about 30-45 min per post.
Back in the golden days of Facebook, I know people that were making $1m+ running clickbait websites.
Have you ever wrote for Medium? Feels like this could be a good side hustle.
I made my seed capital in college buying/reselling a specific category of products on eBay/CL/forums/etc...
Would suggest you pick something you're passionate about and try to do the same.
I used to buy Antivirus CD's, cut out the Proof of Purchase code for the rebates , and sell the open-box product online. COGS after rebate ranged from free - $5 max.
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Online personal training. Requires some knowledge and preferable low body fat% and some muscle mass.
Also working at a gym giving group courses part time. Relatively decent hourly rate and you exercise at the same time.
Username checks out.
know few seniors in my school making some money preparing kids for interview just like for SATs.
how much do they charge
Musician, singer, and songwriter. Not for the faint of heart, but an easy and fun way to make money. Start doing local gigs at open mics to get some practice, and then look at doing other venues for $100-300. Lots of places need cheap entertainment.
damn that's actually a pretty simple yet genius idea.
+1 SB. Been learning web design & thinking about this exact idea all the time. Issue was always finding an efficient way to source, and acquire new customers.
what did he say it got deleted?
Yes
Unless you’re actually launching a company, side hustles are a waste of time if you’re in a career with potential for high earnings.
Either build a business with some enterprise value or focus on doing well in your day job - the earnings delta from associate to VP, VP to principal, principal to partner, etc massively dwarf the extra bucks you’ll make on the side.
Speaking from experience - I used to do some work on the side for an extra $1k or so per month in college and during my first job… I dropped that and spent that time building out a skillset that could get me into my preferred career path. Went from making $70k at 24 to $325k plus carry at 27… that extra $12k a year seems like pennies now
Could you clarify on 'enterprise value'?
Sure - in this context, something another arms-length party would pay to acquire. Intangible in many ways, but inclusive of processes, customer / vendor relationships and contracts, brand value, employees, maybe IP, etc.
You walking dogs once a week for your neighbors and your cousin? Earns you money, yes, but that business has close to zero value to a third-party buyer. Same thing if you’re completing one-off freelance contracts on Upwork or something.
Conversely, starting a business that can run with or without you, that has its own brand, marketing engine, customers that don’t leave with you? Now you’re getting away from trading labor for wages and creating an actual company
does everyone make it to VP?
Definitely not, but I would imagine for 99.99% of people your odds go down dramatically if you’re spending time on side hustles. Finance doesn’t typically leave you with lots of free time.
This isn’t meant to discourage entrepreneurship at all, by the way, just that most side hustles are basically beer money and being successful in this field (even just an above target bonus) can build real wealth. Prioritize accordingly - if you’re risking distraction from work, make it worth it
Do you mind me asking what role you had that payed $70k/yr and how you were able to transfer to (I assume PE?) Congratulations by the way!
thanks
I'm trying to set up a house cleaning gig. I'm not going to do any of the cleaning myself, but if works out, I could scale and make some side $$$. Not much but I plan on making it passive income. I figure I can make a few Hundred a month. If what I'm offering works out I could scale a bit and make a few thousand a year $7k but still nice if I don't need to invest too much time in it. It'll probably run me a few hundred dollars to test out. Better lose a few hundred dollars this way than to inflation and alcohol.
Bad idea. I've looked at this before and it's a bad idea all around, especially if you want to do it passively. You are taking on a massive amount of liability when you put people in homes like that. And when you get sued, those "few hundred a month" aren't going to help you a damn.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing - liabilities up the ass.
I was thinking of going the bonded and insured route. You see, I too did commercial banking and I see a lot of successful businesses that subcontract most everything in one way or another. Unfortunately, i was never in the weeds enough to get a full understanding of the day to day operations, which sucks because that's why I went in to CB.
I have another idea with a lower cost of entry, but potentially higher legal and illegal, as in people attacking me, risks. It's nothing bad or sketchy, but I think people will try to do bad or sketchy things.
Selling condoms.
Learn to fix I-phone screens. Buy in bulk at about $20 a pop, charge $80-$100.
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