What is your side hustle?

Eelpoutguy wrote:

I’m following my calling.

EPG, these are fun when they’re winners! I squealed like a stuck pig when I pulled a $50 winner months ago… then these happened on the same night!

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WOW!
See how easy it is?

ATV/UTV repair. Polaris and Kawasaki keep me plenty busy. I work on Honda, Kawasaki, Polaris and Can-am units. Some Suzuki and AC (if they’re kawie engines) but I have not dove into Yamaha much. Specialize in Kawasaki’s.

I’ve been so busy with home projects that I haven’t done much but I’ll have a RZR in my shop in the next couple weeks for some work.

I have a good buddy who does custom metal fab, welding and powder coating on the side. he does well, but those take some serious skill! he does all of my booger weld coverups for me.

I’m surprised with all the fried foods and Busch lattes around here noone has mentioned male gigolo yet …

I do a podcast calle The ICEMEN. Not much of a hustle, but it’s a fun way to talk about fishing with a lot of the top people in the game.
Dan

I make fishing lures, fishing rods, drafting, and wood projects (mainly cabinets and furniture). I don’t do much of the drafting anymore. I only kept one client because he is family and it only takes about 80 hours a year. I also don’t make fishing lures much for people anymore. Material cost has gone up so much there is not enough profit in it for my time. I don’t charge enough to make money on my rods. But I enjoy it and find it therapeutic making them. The side gig I made the most money on was finishing basements and building garages. The problem with that was getting people to help me when I need an extra hand. Now, time with my family is more important than a little extra cash.

TheFamousGrouse wrote:

I fix small engines and outboards. It’s kind of a neighbors/friends/family/word of mouth deal. I keep it limited to one project at a time, the current project has to leave before I’ll take on anything new.

A sweet little Yamaha 6 HP 4 stroke just turned up from a friend. Been sitting in the FIL’s basement for years and they left it laying on the wrong side so all the oil leaked into the intake and got into the carb. What a mess. Poor little outboard has barely been used, I doubt it has 5 hours on it. Going to take a lot of work to get all the dried-up oil goop out of everything and get it running.

Snowblower season will be soon. Get a few flakes flying and everybody who didn’t summerize their blower properly discovers why you need to summerize your blower properly. Carbs, carbs, and more carbs. I also buy and install fuel shutoffs by the 20 pack.

Grouse

I need to get better at the part of only working on one project at a time/the current project has to leave before I take on the next…

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I mine digital coins. No work, no customers, no inventory, and no time once setup. Initial investment is quite large to make any real money, but it’s paying off.

Grawler wrote:

I mine digital coins. No work, no customers, no inventory, and no time once setup. Initial investment is quite large to make any real money, but it’s paying off.

Curious how long you have done it and how much hardware you have dedicated to it? My son’s roommate has like 5 monster servers in their apartment running non-stop and he has been doing it for years. I believe he does dozens of different currencies but no idea how much he has acquired. His dad has also done it and cashed out some big hauls over the years.

Sharon wrote:

EPG, these are fun when they’re winners! I squealed like a stuck pig when I pulled a $50 winner months ago… then these happened on the same night!

WHOA!!!!

dhpricco wrote:

I need to get better at the part of only working on one project at a time/the current project has to leave before I take on the next…

Yeah, well that was learned the hard way after I let too many projects stack up.

Also, it limits customer expectations. If it’s in the shop, then in their mind the clock is ticking and I should be working on their project and only their project until it’s done. But if I tell them I’ll call them when it’s their turn, they aren’t expecting that something is getting done.

I also learned not to take on anything that I think is a basket case from the initial examination. I took on a pair of 7.5 Mercs a while pack, they were the guy’s duck hunting motors. I had a bad feeling and should have examined them better before taking them. One had been plugged up by mud and overheated, scored everything. The other had rotted motor mounts and the amount of time to replace is more than the engine is worth at current prices. But between me diagnosing them outboards and him finally picking them back up, they hung here for over two months taking up valuable space.

I used to do some welding on the side, gave that up for the most part, now just my own little projects.

Besides, gets in the way of my retirement gig!

Dan Baker wrote:

I do a podcast calle The ICEMEN. Not much of a hustle, but it’s a fun way to talk about fishing with a lot of the top people in the game.
Dan

Its a good podcast too Dan!

Tax and small business accounting. Lots of minimal sleep nights but no one ever said it’s easy! Helped pay for new bathroom, living room and deck plus the down payment on a cabin. Hope to run the consulting business PT when I retire from the FT job.