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.

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.” - Nassim Taleb
 

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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.

 
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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

 
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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

 

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

 

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. 

 
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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.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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.

 

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