So right now, I’m working on breaking into the career field I want but in the meantime just working a full time job. I was hoping to get more overtime but they’ve basically told me that the factory is slow and not to expect overtime until like September.
I get bombarded with this clickbait things that are like “8 ways to earn extra money this month!” and then it tells you to like play bingo on your phone for money. If those lists were meant to be real instead of ads, what kinds of things would be on them? What can a working person do to say make $500 a month apart from just getting a second job?
minor one, but prolific is a study site that pays you to do surveys
Not like, shady ones. It's all universities and proper academia. If any person tries to not pay you or short you, reporting it causes the entire organization to be completely banned so agreements are always honored.
there's online mechanical turk stuff but that can be pretty soul crushing. You basically just do 'tasks' revolving around gathering data or some shit like that, probably for some fucko's dumb machine learning dataset. iirc amazon runs a big hub for it, but I hear it all pays shit.
If you know any good plugs you could deal drugs as a side hustle. Buy in bulk then try and find marks who will pay too much for it. That kind of thing.
I’ll look into that survey site for sure, thanks. Idk about dealing, having a couple little BS charges on my record is part of what really destroyed me economically.
I used to go through Craigslist for free scrap metal, or go around my neighborhood on bulk pickup day, load any scrap metal into my truck, strip it down at home, then take it to a metal recycler. Depends on the amount I could get, but on a bad day would get like 150 and on a good day I would get like 450. Also depended on if the recycling plant operator was being a prick that day or not.
sell plasma, get another roommate.
anything else legitimate is second job or equivalent time and effort. busking, babysitting, shoplifting etc.
all those gig economy things can convert some equity you have in a car into cash in hand but that's not likely to be positive in the long term.
Yeah I’m thinking about selling plasma, have done so in the past and it wasn’t bad, just notnot something I want to do long term or all the time.
We wouldn’t be able to fit another roommate. I’ve actually reduced my rent and other expenses to as low as I can reasonably get them, so the only other thing I can change is bringing in more money somehow.
buy used/broken gadgets on ebay/craigslist/facebook etc. then return swap them for new ones on amazon/walmart etc. then resell the new ones for profit.
Try dog walking? There's an app called Rover, you can make an account and people will pay you to visit and walk their dogs, or even visit and let them out in the yard, pretty decent cash for the labour.
Last time I tried signing up for Rover I was declined due to background check (DUI years ago) which rules out almost all the gig economy apps. I could try it again and see if it’s been long enough for that to not matter.
That sucks.
(Also please don't drink and drive it's an immensely cruel way to treat other people's lives.)
Other than selling stuff like plasma, consistent income is gonna require selling your labor some way or another. $125 over a weekend is doable with most side hustles and gigwork fwiw. if you have an efficient car, delivery apps on friday nights can usually break that. keep in mind a small car costs like ~$0.40 a mile to drive, between gas and wear/tear/equity. Lived in a smaller college town and I think I was making like $10/hour after expenses if I wasn't selective about hours, or $15/hour if I only did peak times.
With a W2 job you'd probably need like 700 to get 500 takehome. So might mean working full shifts sat+sun or just picking up a few hours whenever depending on what wages are in your area. It kinda sucks but a lot of people do it. Better if you only have to do it for a few months.
Side hustles like tutoring, lawncare, cleaning houses, packing/moving, changing tires, detailing cars, whatever, all kinda depend on your skillsets and social connections. but $500/month is often doable between hustles and plasma.
"make money" apps range from scams to legit. for the most part you're trading time for pennies. but if you have downtime at work or anything like that, then something like swagbucks can get you 50-100 a week if you do certain offers. check /r/beermoney or /r/swagbucks if you go this route and keep in mind an offer to try a mobile game for like $75 will likely take 20-30 hours of gameplay to unlock. I come back to this every few years and always decide I'm better off directly trading 10 hours of labor on a gig app or part time job than 50 hours of distracted "labor" that I have to babysit.
Tutoring could be a good one. All the car related or gig apps won’t have me because I had a DUI on my record some years ago.
I mean it comes down to monetizing a skill you have, much like an actual job. I could probably make some dosh off of flipping bicycles to people who don't know better easily and I'd absolutely do it if I needed the cash that badly, but I don't.
