Speaker 1: Episode one eight three is episode eighty five side Hustles
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Speaker 1: to make a quick three D with those side hustles. Yes,
Speaker 1: if that is one of your hesitations to joining, we
Speaker 1: want that to take that off the table. Figure out
Speaker 1: something you could do for a season to do this
Speaker 1: and come join us. This episode is all about side
Speaker 1: hustles for those people who have an hour or less.
Speaker 1: You don't need more than one hour to make money
Speaker 1: doing any of the side hustles we are talking about today,
Speaker 1: and to prove it to you, our first article is
Speaker 1: actually titled one hour side hustles for the time constrained. Yes.
Speaker 1: So the first one on this list is walk dogs.
Speaker 1: Obviously you have to like dogs to do this one,
Speaker 1: but here's the places where you can easily find clients
Speaker 1: to walk their dogs. Wag and Rover. We've got a
Speaker 1: friend Greg who who uses Rover walks dogs through that
Speaker 1: does it and Rover. There's all kinds of different pet
Speaker 1: care options. Dog walking is one of them, but also
Speaker 1: just watching a dog, which might include house sitting. So
Speaker 1: if you've got more than an hour, this is great too.
Speaker 1: But he's because of that being able to combine it
Speaker 1: with just working from home or Saturday activities or whatever.
Speaker 1: So exercise, so wag or rover and again we'll have
Speaker 1: this article linked in the show notes. Those are some
Speaker 1: great apps that you can download to be able to
Speaker 1: make They pay about twelve dollars per half hour walk
Speaker 1: and eighteen dollars per hour for walking a dog, so yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely a little bit of sidecash. Yeah. The girl they
Speaker 1: mentioned in article uses her lunch hour to do it,
Speaker 1: so get outside, escape the office, make some money. Another
Speaker 1: one is charging scooters. So if your city has Bird
Speaker 1: or Lime scooters, you can get about five tollars per
Speaker 1: scooter to take them home, plug him in and quote
Speaker 1: unquote re next them to set locations. So this is
Speaker 1: something you can pick them up when you've got a
Speaker 1: little free time and bring them home. You can do
Speaker 1: it while it's on your commute home, charge them overnight,
Speaker 1: and then bring them back in your morning commute, so
Speaker 1: not a lot of time investment there. Those scooters are
Speaker 1: amazing to the cities that we've been to that have
Speaker 1: them are so um and I recently heard about this
Speaker 1: that that you can charge them and make money. I
Speaker 1: think some people are even will bring batteries and kind
Speaker 1: of just hang out on the corner in charge them
Speaker 1: like chargers. Yeah, Burden Lime will send you charge chargers
Speaker 1: to start out with. Yeah. So yeah, if you're just
Speaker 1: driving around, that's worth it to think about doing. This
Speaker 1: is especially good if you have like a truck or
Speaker 1: a minivan or an suv. You can get a lot
Speaker 1: more scooters. That's a whole lot more money than I
Speaker 1: even thought. Five to twenty dollars per scooter. That's really great.
Speaker 1: Manage social media, So there are tons of people out
Speaker 1: there looking for virtual assistance. People who will post to
Speaker 1: their Instagram, to their Facebook to just to keep up
Speaker 1: their company brand and image, particularly for companies that don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of If I could say it this way,
Speaker 1: millennials who this is like second nature of posting to
Speaker 1: social media, that there is money in this. So you know,
Speaker 1: looking online for for virtual assistant positions or social media
Speaker 1: posting to those platforms, and I'll say that you don't
Speaker 1: even have to be good with social media, because you
Speaker 1: can find v A positions just to sift through people's emails,
Speaker 1: Like the pastor at our church got a v A
Speaker 1: so that he could have somebody not within the church
Speaker 1: sift through emails that he should be answering or don't
Speaker 1: need to be answering, so the person can be impartial.
Speaker 1: And there are plenty of ways to find v A positions,
Speaker 1: but Ballet and Worldwide one oh one they can find
Speaker 1: them for you. This next one, I had no idea
Speaker 1: was a side hustle, but it's so smart. It's drive
Speaker 1: kids home from school. Yeah. When I read this, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I hope this is legit. I know,
Speaker 1: but there are a few different websites, so ride zoom
Speaker 1: can go and hop skip drive and all of this
Speaker 1: I forgot to mention is on side hustle dot com.
Speaker 1: So side hustle without the t um This is a
Speaker 1: fantastic website for side hustlers. They have a great quiz
Speaker 1: that's at the menu bar of their website where you
Speaker 1: can explore um your personality and what you're interested in
Speaker 1: and the side hustles that align with it. So definitely
Speaker 1: visit side hustle dot com. No t but yeah, they
Speaker 1: found these companies that you can sign up for and
Speaker 1: moms or dads can pay you twenty to dollars per
Speaker 1: hour to be picking up kids from school. You have
Speaker 1: to cover your own gas and insurance and auto whatever.
Speaker 1: But if you're in the right neighborhood and have time
Speaker 1: during that hour, that's awesome. And then teaching music, So
Speaker 1: if you happen to have a musical talent, oh boh
Speaker 1: claire and at violin, piano, guitar, you name it, you
Speaker 1: can sign up with these different online platforms. There's one
Speaker 1: called take Lessons, another one is called lesson Face. So
Speaker 1: both sites allow you to set your own rates and
Speaker 1: then you take a portion. Obviously you pay them a
Speaker 1: portion for hosting and connecting you with students. But it's
Speaker 1: a great way to be able to make some money
Speaker 1: online teaching music if that's the skill of yours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think the value of these websites is that
Speaker 1: you can make money in less than an hour and
Speaker 1: you don't have to spend a lot of time looking
Speaker 1: for clients. They are coming to you, and yes, you're
Speaker 1: paying a price to do that, but it's worth it
Speaker 1: if you don't have a lot of time. So I
Speaker 1: love that there's so many websites that offer so many
Speaker 1: things for people to take lessons and also to offer
Speaker 1: their experience. I love the Internet. Um. And then the
Speaker 1: last one on this list is to tutor. So I'm
Speaker 1: sure a lot of people have heard of v I
Speaker 1: P Kid, But there are other websites too, So why
Speaker 1: zann't with why Varsity Tutors or Chelsea International Education are
Speaker 1: other places that will Um, you can earn fifteen to
Speaker 1: fifty dollars per hour tutoring students. So it says that
Speaker 1: Chelsea International pays the best, but it has the most
Speaker 1: stringent requirements to so usually favors working teachers who have
Speaker 1: been life screened and thoroughly background checked. I don't know
Speaker 1: how life screened. That sounds intense, right, Um, But if
Speaker 1: you are a teacher and um, you want to make
Speaker 1: a little extra money then or have a teaching background,
Speaker 1: than tutoring is definitely something you can do. You don't
Speaker 1: have to just teach English at four o'clock in the morning. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, I've heard great things about
Speaker 1: VI I P Kid. It is an actual company that
Speaker 1: pays real money. I've got friends who work for them
Speaker 1: and they really like it. But that is specifically teaching English,
Speaker 1: whereas these other ones opened the door for more of
Speaker 1: teaching anything and everything, like like this article says anything
Speaker 1: from algebra to Spanish. If you've got knowledge or skill
Speaker 1: in a certain area, this could be the one for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so definitely, we'll have the link to this on our
Speaker 1: show notes. But side hustle dot com really thorough reviews
Speaker 1: of um a bunch of side hustles over three hundred,
Speaker 1: so great. Yeah. Our next article is for people with
Speaker 1: essentially no time. So you don't even have an hour
Speaker 1: to go pick up scooters and bring them home. You
Speaker 1: just you got nothing. So we found this article from
Speaker 1: vital dollar dot com Twenty things you can rent out
Speaker 1: for extra money. So neither things you already got you're
Speaker 1: not using because you're doing different things. You can rent
Speaker 1: them out and make some money off of it, almost passively.
Speaker 1: What did you like on this list, Jill, Because there's
Speaker 1: twenty of them. Oh gosh, well there's so many. The
Speaker 1: one that stood out to me at first was just
Speaker 1: office space. If you've got space in your home or
Speaker 1: other building on your property that could be used as
Speaker 1: an office or a meeting room or remote work type
Speaker 1: place rent it out. So there's different ways that you
Speaker 1: can do this. There's website called liquid Space, another one
Speaker 1: called desk Time, another one called share Desk, all of
Speaker 1: which would connect you with people who are looking for
Speaker 1: spaces to rent, to work out of, or hosting me doing.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's what Eric and I are doing literally
Speaker 1: right now. We've rented a building, but specifically for office space,
Speaker 1: so it's not to live in. We're not trying to
Speaker 1: run crazy businesses out of here. We're not setting up
Speaker 1: a shop, but we needed a place to work from,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of people. I think as remote
Speaker 1: work is growing, more and more people are realizing I
Speaker 1: don't just want to be stuck in my home all day,
Speaker 1: or I don't have a great spot in my home.
Speaker 1: I've got kids, or I've got other things happening at
Speaker 1: my house. I need to be able to get out,
Speaker 1: being a different space, maybe even connect with other people.
Speaker 1: So having some space if if you can get creative.
Speaker 1: I love this idea that people are looking for office space.
Speaker 1: What about you. I liked renting out your house or
Speaker 1: space for events, So I think we take for granted
Speaker 1: the airbnb or vr b OH is the only way
Speaker 1: you can make use of extra space in your house,
Speaker 1: and it is a great way we talked about in
Speaker 1: our house hacking episode. But you can also rent out
Speaker 1: like rooms or living room or something for filming, photo shoots, parties,
Speaker 1: and other types of events. And it doesn't mean you
Speaker 1: have to have like a meticulously kept home. Some people
Speaker 1: are just looking for their out of town. They're staying
Speaker 1: with their family or something, and maybe they need a
Speaker 1: cheap space to just escape. So different places you can
Speaker 1: list your house or property. Is a Locations Hub set
Speaker 1: scouter that's specifically for like productions like music videos and
Speaker 1: commercials and stuff. Gigster another one for filming or to
Speaker 1: host a party. Peer Space. This one's more wider variety.
Speaker 1: Uh splazer, that's an interesting name. And then this open space.
Speaker 1: So if you've got a good look in space your
Speaker 1: home but you don't want people staying there overnight, list
Speaker 1: it for some for some filming or something. It's not
Speaker 1: just like l a type filming like commercials, b roll.
Speaker 1: All types of things need to be filmed. So don't
Speaker 1: think just because you don't live in LA or New York,
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna want to film in your space. Again, more
Speaker 1: space options, but it's more creative than just renting a
Speaker 1: room for someone to sleep in if you don't even
Speaker 1: have that storage space, So think attic space, think extra
Speaker 1: garage space. Think if you've got barn or even a
Speaker 1: little bit of land. There are people who are looking
Speaker 1: to store RVs, trailers, cars, boats, even if they can
Speaker 1: just put it on your lawn outside. Sometimes people don't
Speaker 1: have the space for that. I mean, at least up
Speaker 1: in p A you'll see through the winter people storing
Speaker 1: their boats at boat sales facilities or store ridge facilities
Speaker 1: outside with a tarp ontom. But you could undercut those
Speaker 1: costs for people by charging a little bit less and
Speaker 1: just letting them park their boat or r V behind
Speaker 1: your house for a monthly cost. There are some websites
Speaker 1: again that will connect you with people who are looking
Speaker 1: for spaces like this. If you have this kind of space,
Speaker 1: so stow it. They specialize in vehicle storage, so if
Speaker 1: you do have a space like a garage, barn, land
Speaker 1: for cars, trailers, r vs, so it would be your
Speaker 1: your platform. There's store at my house, so it's like
Speaker 1: the Airbnb of self storage. So maybe people more so
Speaker 1: with their boxes of knick knacks. And then Neighbor is
Speaker 1: another website where it's more just kind of peer to
Speaker 1: peer storage rentals. Yeah, and like Jill said, like sometimes
Speaker 1: this is just like winter storage or summer storage. It
Speaker 1: doesn't It's not like you're going to be hosting these
Speaker 1: people's stuff for the rest of your life and then
Speaker 1: they're going to forget about it and you're gonna be like,
Speaker 1: how do I get this off my property link. This
Speaker 1: is monthly and it's usually for a short period of time.
Speaker 1: Another one I really love is parking space. So if
Speaker 1: you live near a sporting arena of the sports, if
Speaker 1: you live somewhere where they do the sports nearby sports sports,
Speaker 1: or somewhere where there are events that people want to
Speaker 1: park at for money, you can sell parking space. Or
Speaker 1: maybe it's not even like sports or events. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: just again, somebody needs to park their car for the winter.
Speaker 1: This is great. So park x is a US company,
Speaker 1: so are Spot and spot pog. We went to Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. And you guys drove down and we were
Speaker 1: wondering where you were going to park your car because
Speaker 1: everything nearby was permit parking and we just needed that
Speaker 1: for a week, So that's like another reason people would
Speaker 1: need that. UK listeners can use just park or your
Speaker 1: parking space. So I I love this idea of the
Speaker 1: super Bowl is coming to our city next year or
Speaker 1: in two years, and I am thinking about renting at
Speaker 1: our whole house, but maybe even some parking in the backyard.
Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll see ye. So this next one
Speaker 1: I'm super interested in. Eric and I thought about this
Speaker 1: when we lived in our motor home and we drove
Speaker 1: it around a bit more. But advertising space on your car,
Speaker 1: so this is a real thing. I am curious how
Speaker 1: many people actually are able to take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: But essentially you're renting out your car like a billboard.
Speaker 1: You're still driving it, but sites like carver ties, Rapify,
Speaker 1: and free car media would put advertisements on your car,
Speaker 1: either a will rap or maybe a sticker of some sort,
Speaker 1: and you get paid monthly just for driving around. I mean,
Speaker 1: I would assume it's all the places that you would
Speaker 1: normally go. I don't know what what kinds of specifics
Speaker 1: would come with that, if they want to know that
Speaker 1: you're driving a certain amount of miles so that it's
Speaker 1: getting in front of people but it looks like they're
Speaker 1: paying between one hundred to four hundred dollars a month
Speaker 1: depending on what type of rap they put on your car.
Speaker 1: So if you don't really care what the outside of
Speaker 1: your vehicle looks like, or the outside of your vehicle
Speaker 1: does not look good and you might need an upgrade
Speaker 1: with a wrap, you can consider this and also report
Speaker 1: back because I'm so interested. Yes, I know, I think
Speaker 1: Joel lars Guard, our very first guest on the show
Speaker 1: way back in I don't even know an episode. I
Speaker 1: think he tried it, so he'll probably he might have
Speaker 1: something on on their How to Money podcast about it.
Speaker 1: And another one I found really interesting and useful is
Speaker 1: photography gear. So sometimes if you're not a professional photographer,
Speaker 1: you might want to take some photos on vacation, but
Speaker 1: maybe you don't want to take all your equipment with you,
Speaker 1: or maybe you are a professional and you just don't
Speaker 1: want to take your equipment with you. Somewhere you can
Speaker 1: rent photography gear from a local and so if you
Speaker 1: are a photographer and you have gear you're not using,
Speaker 1: you can make some money off of that. Uh So,
Speaker 1: sites like share grid and kit split kit split um.
Speaker 1: Those are two sites where you can post photography gear too.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe rent to so so maybe for
Speaker 1: frugal Christmas photos, you don't want to hire a photographer,
Speaker 1: so you just get a friend. You'd rent a photography
Speaker 1: a photography device, a camera and take a picture with
Speaker 1: a nice camera, and that's how you do it. That's
Speaker 1: amazing this web. I am also interested in this even
Speaker 1: for my own use. Like there's some some of these
Speaker 1: frugal ideas that would be good even in the vice versa,
Speaker 1: Like you can rent your clothes through a website called
Speaker 1: style Lend or rent my wardrobe. This would most likely
Speaker 1: be for people who have nice wardrobes, but you can
Speaker 1: rent out your clothes, which makes me think rent the runway. Honestly,
Speaker 1: for me, it's too expensive. I can go to Ross
Speaker 1: and get a cheaper dress that now I own and
Speaker 1: I can wear all the time. I get it that
Speaker 1: for if you're going to a really high end event,
Speaker 1: that you would try to spend a ton of money,
Speaker 1: But it's just not my style. I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: going to those events. No one invites me. Because I
Speaker 1: go to the Dave Ramsey event and I eat all
Speaker 1: their snacks for my dinner anyhow, But yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 1: what this would be a similar style, like somebody on
Speaker 1: here would be having nice clothes but not as expensive
Speaker 1: as rent the rent way. And lastly, this one's sad
Speaker 1: to me, but I feel like it's worth stating so
Speaker 1: that we can even offer other options. Number twenty is friendship.
Speaker 1: You can literally rent your friendship at rent a friend
Speaker 1: dot com. It allows you to create a profile so
Speaker 1: people can hire you to be a friend. It is legal,
Speaker 1: it's strictly friends platonic type interaction. Some people are claiming
Speaker 1: that they're making two thousand a week if they're doing
Speaker 1: it full time, honest to goodness, though, that's that's so
Speaker 1: sad to me and be our friend our friend. I
Speaker 1: did some research into this to check the validity and
Speaker 1: I had I heard obviously there's a lot of horror stories,
Speaker 1: just not horror like dangerous, but just you get you
Speaker 1: spend time with people that can't make their own friends,
Speaker 1: and you quickly understand why they're paying for friendship. But
Speaker 1: you also get people that are just new to the area,
Speaker 1: and there aren't like friendship apps like there are dating apps,
Speaker 1: and if you're not interested in dating, maybe you don't
Speaker 1: want to be on one of those apps. Or but
Speaker 1: the paying part is what's weird to me, Like just
Speaker 1: go on Facebook free events and and go meet people
Speaker 1: to introvert it's hard. Oh, that sounds horrible to me.
Speaker 1: I would much rather pay for a guide around the city.
Speaker 1: That's what a lot of people use rent a friend
Speaker 1: for is they will just a person to bring them
Speaker 1: to the really sweet spots in the new city. And
Speaker 1: they're not Yeah, they don't need friends, they don't need
Speaker 1: to pay for friendship, but they want a one on
Speaker 1: one guide, or they want to do something but none
Speaker 1: of their friends want to do it, so you know,
Speaker 1: they you know, they go for somebody. Yeah. So it
Speaker 1: almost be like what you would hope you get out
Speaker 1: of an Airbnb interaction if that's what you're looking for.
Speaker 1: But if you're not paying for an Airbnb but you
Speaker 1: still want a local guide. Sure, I'm not advocating for
Speaker 1: this one. I'm just saying that it's on this list. Yeah,
Speaker 1: try it out. I can't I can't verify that you
Speaker 1: couldn't make that much money, Like two thousan they're saying
Speaker 1: if you're doing it full time, and what's the chances
Speaker 1: of you finding this full time right. Also, this isn't
Speaker 1: as passive as the other things because you're actually renting
Speaker 1: yourself right, So you might unless it's like somebody wants
Speaker 1: to go Christmas shopping with you and then you're already
Speaker 1: doing your Christmas shopping. So I don't know you can
Speaker 1: make it work, but it is still you run a
Speaker 1: greater risk renting yourself out than you do a room
Speaker 1: in your house. Do you know what's not a risk? Oh?
Speaker 1: I never feel risky when I do this. The bill
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Speaker 1: And today's lightning round is our personal favorite quick and
Speaker 1: easy side hustles. So we haven't tried most of the
Speaker 1: ones we just named off. We like them, they sound good,
Speaker 1: but we can't personally vouch for them. So these are
Speaker 1: the ones we can personally vouch for. Yes, So one
Speaker 1: that I like is labor. So of course this would
Speaker 1: depend on how much time you have to determine what
Speaker 1: type of labor you can do. So obviously painting someone's
Speaker 1: whole house is going to take a lot more than
Speaker 1: an hour. But looking for the types of labor jobs
Speaker 1: that you could do that would be short, like possibly
Speaker 1: painting a piece of furniture, I mean maybe if you
Speaker 1: can spread out your hours, right, if you've got one
Speaker 1: hour every day day for a week. Then yes, certainly
Speaker 1: you could uh do some painting for somebody, or re
Speaker 1: do a piece of furniture, or even watch someone's kid
Speaker 1: real quick while they have to run out to the store.
Speaker 1: Make a little bit of cash. You could. This is
Speaker 1: where you can get so creative with the type of labor.
Speaker 1: Make food for people. You know, Okay, I've got a
Speaker 1: bunch of lunch. I've got lunches pretty much pre made,
Speaker 1: and try and sell it. Obviously that have to be
Speaker 1: amongst friends, because otherwise you need like an industrial kitchen.
Speaker 1: But well, there are websites too where you can cook
Speaker 1: for people or assemble meals for people. You can you
Speaker 1: can find all of those on side hustle dot com
Speaker 1: where we were in the earlier in the show. And
Speaker 1: there's websites for labor too. You can go on task
Speaker 1: rabbit and find like our long tasks. Here's a website
Speaker 1: for everything. Y'all, the Internet is a blessing and a curse,
Speaker 1: but you're mostly a blessing. It all some ups and downs, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what about you. Airbnb is definitely the top. It has
Speaker 1: been the most lucrative for us with the least amount
Speaker 1: of energy. So really, I threw it up there and
Speaker 1: priced it low. Well, actually I priced it low for
Speaker 1: like the first three stays. Airbnb will encourage you to
Speaker 1: do that and do it automatically for you if you want.
Speaker 1: But it was right before Christmas, so we just started
Speaker 1: at a busy time where everybody's looking for stays. We
Speaker 1: didn't really have to push it out there. And then
Speaker 1: it just kind of snowballed from there and we are
Speaker 1: not doing it much anymore. But really, all it included
Speaker 1: was when somebody left, I'd clean the bathroom, I would
Speaker 1: clean the sheets, switch them out, and that was it.
Speaker 1: And I have to clean the rest of my house anyway,
Speaker 1: So it just motivated me to just helped you. Yeah. Nice.
Speaker 1: Another one that I've done is plants. So again this
Speaker 1: can airy and degree of amount of time that you
Speaker 1: put into it and how many you sell. But if
Speaker 1: you've got a little bit of property, certainly especially in
Speaker 1: the summertime, you can grow little seedlings, sell the tiny
Speaker 1: little plants, or if you've only got house plants, make
Speaker 1: some clippings off of growth, root them just by putting
Speaker 1: it in a little bit of water, waiting for some
Speaker 1: roots to start shove it and some soil, put it
Speaker 1: in mugs, terra cotta pots, whatever you find from the
Speaker 1: thrift store and sell them either at the end of
Speaker 1: your driveway just alongside the road, or online through Facebook,
Speaker 1: Marketplace or offer up or any of these places. People
Speaker 1: are constantly looking for house plants. You can and yeah,
Speaker 1: you can sell them at decent prices, and certainly quantity
Speaker 1: will bring you more money. But it's not a super
Speaker 1: time consuming thing. It's like a minute here and there
Speaker 1: until you get the final product that you can sell.
Speaker 1: Another one of my favorite ones while we were paying
Speaker 1: off debt was online data entry and different from online
Speaker 1: surveys in that I got a subscription to flex Jobs,
Speaker 1: which is a job board, but it is a paid
Speaker 1: job board and it was worth every penny. If you've
Speaker 1: heard of it and you're on the fence, I definitely
Speaker 1: recommend it. And then that's where I found data entry
Speaker 1: jobs that were legit. So lion Bridge was one that
Speaker 1: I worked with. Appen they work with the AI, so
Speaker 1: you can like speak into the computer and record yourself
Speaker 1: and it helps AI decipher you know, what humans sound like. Um,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of fun. But yeah, they don't take
Speaker 1: much time and they are truly flexible. So I did
Speaker 1: it an hour before I went to work in the mornings,
Speaker 1: made a little more than minimum wage and maybe did
Speaker 1: in an hour and I got home at night and
Speaker 1: that was it. So yeah, really good for me at
Speaker 1: that time. Super mind numbing. You're not gonna be intellectually
Speaker 1: stimulated by by this job, but it does pay real money.
Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, especially if you've got a little bit
Speaker 1: of time to kill and you've got a computer, it
Speaker 1: could be a really great thing. Mm hmm. So those
Speaker 1: are our tips. Yeah, you don't need to do a
Speaker 1: lot of different jobs to make some money this holiday.
Speaker 1: And you don't need to do a lot of work
Speaker 1: marketing yourself, because there are all of these websites that
Speaker 1: will market for you, um, and you'll just pay them
Speaker 1: a little extra to do that. And then once you're
Speaker 1: comfortable and you've built up your own client, tell go
Speaker 1: out on your own and and make that you know
Speaker 1: that you're kicking back to the website. You can make
Speaker 1: it yourself. So but don't don't be afraid of starting
Speaker 1: with one of these websites. Think that's the biggest thing
Speaker 1: about this topic of side hustles is, Yeah, I've heard
Speaker 1: of that, but how do I do it? And so
Speaker 1: this offers you all of the websites where they might
Speaker 1: take a cut, but you don't have to find find
Speaker 1: it all yourself because usually that's where it falls flat of.
Speaker 1: I know that I could get paid to do such
Speaker 1: and such, but where do I go? How do I
Speaker 1: find it? And this kind of provides it all for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sometimes working for a little less is worth more than
Speaker 1: trying to do it yourself and not getting any work.
Speaker 1: So you just have to decide where you are in
Speaker 1: your life and what your financial goals are and see
Speaker 1: if that is where you are. Otherwise you can check
Speaker 1: out our other side hustle episode and check out those
Speaker 1: side hustles that might take a little more time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's where you learn that podcasting makes on average three
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Speaker 1: But you have more friends, so you do you have
Speaker 1: more fun. Wow, so good, and we hope that you've
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Speaker 1: side hustles and if you've got more tips for us
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