What's the side hustle you ask?
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First, he'd learn how to write prompts for artificial intelligence language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Gemini. Next, he'd teach his friends how to use those prompts on their school papers. "Then, I would go to businesses, particularly small- to medium-sized businesses that don't understand AI yet," says Cuban. "Doesn't matter if I'm 16, I'd be teaching them as well."
More than half of Gen Zers in the U.S. currently have side hustles, a LendingTree report found in February. AI prompt engineering — or, the ability to phrase inquiries to chatbots to get desired responses — can be a particularly lucrative opportunity. The average pay for AI tutors starts at about $30,000 per year, and full-time AI prompt engineers can make up to $129,500, according to job board platform ZipRecruiter.
Six figures for typing in "BEAUTIFUL CABIN CREW, SHRIMP JESUS"
And yet they won't hire me because I'm not a nepo baby.
Not to out just how old I am, but I kind of did this in high school. I was one of the only people in my grade that could type well (about 60 wpm, nothing crazy), so I would type everyone's handwritten essays for quick cash. It did not net me six figures, but maybe that's because I went to high school with a bunch of farmers and paper mill workers' children and not wherever Cuban sends his kids.
Nice. I let classmates copy my homework for $1 a page. Was able to eat lunch nearly every day!
I was way too much of a goodie goodie to ever do that, but I definitely should have.
For lunch, my family qualified for free lunch. The way they distributed this was once a quarter we would get a collection of tickets to last that whole period. I'd tear one off every morning to take in to school. One year, there was a quarter where I didn't get get my tickets. So, I had to go to the school office once a week that week and get another set of tickets and the office ladies always assumed I was full of shit, but they gave me the tickets.
When the snow melted, we found a bunch of mail in a snow bank. Guessing a plow or something knocked them out of our mailbox and buried them all in one go. My parents had me do the honest thing and take the tickets to the office to surrender them, but the ladies were so impressed I was actually telling the truth the whole time, they just laughed and let me have them. I sold those to other kids, mostly other football players that wanted seconds, and lived like a king during that period (was able to buy a few Magic: The Gathering boosters).
AI prompt engineers
I'm sorry what?
pays average of 100k+ full time
Why what who would be dumb enough to do that
Why what who would be dumb enough to do that
Executives are credulous dipshits and sufficiently connected and charismatic grifters take them to the cleaners in the dumbest ways.
Every time I walk into my bosses office, he has ChatGPT open. Executive class through middle managers LOVE that shit. As to the correlation of belonging to this class and using dumb shit...well, I think you know.
More than half of Gen Zers in the U.S. currently have side hustles, a LendingTree report found in February
At least half of these are 100% either selling drugs, social media influencer, or OnlyFans, not dumbass business scams like they imply
Watching Back To The Future II and seeing Biff going back in time with the sports almanac does not count as a side hustle.
Man if I was 16 again, I'd start a side hustle called "investing in AAPL and GOOG"
Mark Cuban is a business genius because he sold all of his Yahoo! stock before it fell off a cliff. He probably saw where things were going after they acquired a bullshit company for $5.7 billion.
Of course, he was the guy that sold them the $5.7 billion bullshit company so he had some obvious clues.
Stop making the term "engineer" meaningless
Also this dude has no reason having a based name like "Cuban"
Just walk into small to medium sized businesses, look them straight in the eye, hand them your PAPER resume and say "I got an AI to write this" then give 'em a good firm handshake. Kids these days won't do this.
Scamming people with AI prompts lol. At least it's a step up from the rumours about what Elon Musk apparently did in high school as a side hustle, he apparently would buy cheap chocolates, wrap them in the wrappers of expensive chocolates, and sell them at full price.
yeah a side hustle can pay six figures but the nuance is most don't and it turns out it's harder than you think to find the one that does. But I understand that the most right place, right time guy in history has a hard time coming to terms with that sort of situation.
