Lemmings of Lemmy, what is your side hustle?

Instead of making more money, I hustle to spend less. Ride my bike instead of drive or take transit. Cook at home instead of eat out. Get clothes and furniture from the local Buy Nothing exchange group. Compost my scraps and grow produce in the garden.

Is this some American thing I'm too European to understand?

I have a full-time job and thankfully don’t need extra income. I try to relax and do things I enjoy when I’m not working.

I sell drugs to the community.

IT around my neighborhood. If people need help and they have a connection to me I can usually find time to stop by. 90% of the time it’s something like restarting the router or force restarting their computer. I like seeing the joy on their faces that their problem is over plus I control the cost of my time which is nice. Usually it’s less than an hour and the people I help are so grateful that they insist I take far more money then I would’ve charged them. It’s like wizardry to them

I made a website to compare prices across regions for Nintendo Switch games. It started as a Google Spreadsheet but because of traffic I quickly had to move to a standalone website. Getting around 2M users per months now. I’m trying to keep the ads to a minimum, and I’m partnering with online stores for gift cards.

I write a blog on Medium.

You need to have a ton of content to make any amount of money. After writing 200 articles, I started making a consistent $100/month. Not quitting my day job any time soon, but I have a lot of downtime at work, so it's a productive way to pass the time.

Oh, and the $100/month is pretty consistent. I took a month off from writing, and they still sent me money for the read time on my old articles. The pay is low... but my boss wouldn't send me a small stipend if I decided not to show up for a month. So, I really can't complain.

Car reselling

People often have mechanical problems with their vehicles and instead of trying to fix it they buy a new car. You can sometimes get them to sell the car for half the value, especially if it's not running.

I bought an SUV for $1000 because it wasn't running. I spent 4 hours and $300 replacement a sensor and the brakes on it. I then sold it for $3000. That works out to $1700 of profit for 6 hours' work if you include the time to sell it. That works out to $283/hr.

They don't always go as well as that one but it's usually pretty close

DoorDash driver. Pay is decent. Not labor intensive. No bosses, listen to lots of music. People who complain about this job baffle me. Been doing it for a year, top dasher almost every month. Just gotta be willing to take a shit order every now and again to keep your scores up.

5 hours of over time a week when I need it. I cant do second jobs and the monetization of things I enjoy makes me loathe actually doing them.

Nothing, I have absolutely no time to waste on collecting extra income, so I spend less. Holidays, eating out (or even ordering) and a night out are already in the bin. (I hate crowds, so the last 2 aren't that much missed, especially with a wife that can cook great)

I am searching, but no luck yet.

I installed a pi hole to keep my wife from seeing advertisements. It doesn't make extra money, but saves so much money.

Videography, hoping to make it my main source of income. Even though I don't make a ton of money doing it now, I absolutely love it. Seeing people's reactions to the finished product feels extremely rewarding.

I buy larp stuff in china, and sell it locally. Not dropshipping, which means I have a pile of potion bottles, foam arrows, electric candles, tapestries, etc. sitting in my attic, but since I also run a larp, that's fine.

Life Coach. Would love to turn it into my main hustle, but I like doing the work cheap/free so that it actually helps people rather than makes the rich feel good about themselves.

Edit: I charge 'Pay as you feel'.

I edit college essays and some academic papers for L2 English speakers. Decent pay, could be higher but I work through a small company that handles all of the client-side stuff so I just get papers in my inbox to edit every so often without needing to wrangle anyone. Slow now since its summer, and sometimes you end up doing way too much work or have people who want content rather than grammar editing (sorry I don't know any actual physics, just how to make English write good) but overall its been really helpful as a little side income.

I study. In my field we get promoted by doing competitive exams. So I study to do that exam and earn a promotion.

Posting reviews. Only have 1 client, and he was the one that approached me. Definitely would love to expadf but can't say marketing is my strong suit.

It used to be my side hustle but is now my main hustle - I'm a minicab driver. The pay's pretty damn good and very consistent. I set aside a bit of cash so I can literally wake up one morning and decide to go back to bed, and still pay my rent. The only downside is having to deal with random people all day long.

Doing things I want to do. I already have one job, and damn sure don't want another. Fuck them bills lol.

I take more college classes a semester so I take on less debt overall

I'd like to start selling things that I 3D print, but finding buyers will probably be difficult. Not to mention that if you try and sell prints of free models you find online then you'll just be selling what other people are probably already selling, so it's a race to the bottom regarding the price you can charge.

Handyman work. I fix things in my house all the time, so I started going it on nights and weekends to make an extra few hundred a month.