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dydey90
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PostPosted: 17:42 - 04 Aug 2018    Post subject: Second stream of income Reply with quote

I keep hearing that this is the way to be rich, which would be nice.
I work shifts, 4 on, 4 off. So I have quite a lot of free time, especially if my shifts fall on a Friday-Monday run so I end up with two weeks of four weekdays on my own.

So, I could use my time to make money, right?
But I have no ideas. I’m pretty handy so I could try my hand at making a lot of things, have a better than average knowledge of electrickery and can do more than the average bear on a computer.

What would you do?

Hit me with some ideas, I’ve run out of stuff to flog at a loss on eBay.
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PostPosted: 19:04 - 04 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Balloon porn and drug dealing.
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PostPosted: 19:25 - 04 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ste wrote:
Balloon porn and drug dealing.


I can already see the money saving crossover with the logistical arrangements there.
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PostPosted: 19:38 - 04 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd go with a trade that can be picked and dropped as you wish. Wouldn't bother with plumbing/electrics as you generally need to hold certification which has to be renewed, member of a body for notifying works (unless you do it through building control), require a fair amount of expensive tools and equipment etc

I know a few lads who plaster on their days off, £300 cash for a 12x12 room plus ceiling skim.

Do one of those per rotation of your shifts and your laughing!

Dirty job though, and you're gonna want to get some practice in before standing on your head trying to skim a stairwell or whatever! Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 19:40 - 04 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

We Found 2 Clips With "Plastering Balloons"
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PostPosted: 19:42 - 04 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've started doing video game recoveries and carries, that nets me £30 for an hour, but I also provide remote support for various people out of hours, keeps my work days as work and between 7-10pm and 10-3 on a Saturday I can just dabble with people's issues. Usually getting addition 300-360 on Saturday for playing games and probably 50-60 a night just helping people remotely.

Depends on your skills bro.
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PostPosted: 20:33 - 04 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

J4mes wrote:
I know a few lads who plaster on their days off, £300 cash for a 12x12 room plus ceiling skim.

Do one of those per rotation of your shifts and your laughing!

Dirty job though, and you're gonna want to get some practice in before standing on your head trying to skim a stairwell or whatever! Thumbs Up


I work in a rendering plant, plaster sounds clean! Might be worth looking into though, I’m sure I could pick it up doing some free labour as somebodies mate.

Paddy. wrote:
I've started doing video game recoveries and carries, that nets me £30 for an hour, but I also provide remote support for various people out of hours, keeps my work days as work and between 7-10pm and 10-3 on a Saturday I can just dabble with people's issues. Usually getting addition 300-360 on Saturday for playing games and probably 50-60 a night just helping people remotely.

Depends on your skills bro.


Not sure how well I’d do as remote support and I’d mostly be wanting to do things during the day anyway, since I don’t get a lot of weekends the evenings are really the only time I get to spend with my Mrs.

Video game recoveries though? I did a quick google and it just comes up with addiction recovery? Although if I could make money playing games I could be very happy!
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PostPosted: 21:46 - 04 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

J4mes wrote:


I know a few lads who plaster on their days off, £300 cash for a 12x12 room plus ceiling skim.


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PostPosted: 22:12 - 04 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

What are your skills currently?
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PostPosted: 22:12 - 04 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I play destiny 2, get people through end game stuff, trials, raids, PvP, quests etc.

I'd say I'm pretty good at that Laughing
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PostPosted: 23:17 - 04 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

janner_10 wrote:
What are your skills currently?

Pretty varied, good at most physical things. I can weld, machine, plumb, have a pretty decent grasp of industrial electricals although I’ve not done much domestically past installing some sockets and lighting. I wouldn’t class myself as a mechanic, but I’d be pretty confident at having a go at most things if I have the tools.

Not too sure about IT stuff, I can build a PC from scratch but I’m pretty sure everybody can these days. Never actually done any IT work so I have no database exposure.

I’m pretty good at writing, but all the sites I’ve seen massively flooded and people will only pay for your work after a large amount of submissions and nobody wants to sift through the free work.

Paddy. wrote:
I play destiny 2, get people through end game stuff, trials, raids, PvP, quests etc.

I'd say I'm pretty good at that Laughing


Are there specific games that people pay for services in? And how do you get to the point where you can charge?
Not to brag but I have over 400 hours wasted clocked on Warhammer 40k Dawn of War Soulstorm and that’s just steam numbers.
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PostPosted: 23:30 - 04 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Drop-ship stuff from amazon/argos/screwfix on ebay for a 20% markup.
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PostPosted: 11:14 - 05 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
Drop-ship stuff from amazon/argos/screwfix on ebay for a 20% markup.


It can’t be easy to find stuff that other people aren’t doing already?
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PostPosted: 13:19 - 05 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've got like... 3000+ on destiny 😂 it's horrific.

Erm, once you have a solid team, you can carry folk, it just depends how good you are.
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PostPosted: 20:55 - 05 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

dydey90 wrote:


It can’t be easy to find stuff that other people aren’t doing already?


Yeah, but it doesn't cost you anything. Throw stuff out there and see if it goes. Do an advert with a different picture to everyone elses and make it a little more expensive so it looks like you actually have the item.

I should add, drop-shippers on ebay grip my fucking shitter. Especially when it takes them like 3 days to notice they can't get the [INSERT OBJECT HERE] they were advertising because they're sold out, then they blame it on the courier for having lost it (newsflash dickheads, couriers don't report parcels as "lost" because by definition, if they've lost it, there is no parcel to notice).

However, there must be money in it.
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PostPosted: 21:35 - 05 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Worth spending some time having a look around I suppose?

I have a few mates who work in an electrical wholesaler and I remember one them mentioning that people would drop ship a few of the things they sold, except having to actually go in and buy the stuff once ordered.
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PostPosted: 22:27 - 05 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

When a mate of mine was unemployed he bought stuff from the pound shop and shop it on ebay, he made reasonable money out of it. The story he always told was how he sold a pushbike cover for £13 and got neutral feedback saying "it looks like it came out of the pound shop" Laughing
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PostPosted: 12:05 - 06 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ive been reading up loads recently on stuff like this.

starting off a small business and growing it to a point where you can make a living, then hiring people to do your job, etc etc.

a doctor can make £100k a year
an entrepeneur has unlimited earnings

it takes effort, dedication and time to be a buyer and seller.

there is a lot of risk but if in the end you can be turning over either a high volume with a small margin or a low volume with a large margin you are printing money.

definitely something to think about doing in your spare time and then seeing if you can scale it up when you are ready to make the jump
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PostPosted: 13:04 - 06 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have had a couple of different mates that tried the ebay/amazon seller thing as a secondary revenue stream and they both ended up jacking it in as the effort to reward was abysmal (for them). They tried drop shipping, reselling car boot crap and importing specific electronic tools with distribution agreements.

One of then is now full on in to Crypto (the technology rather than just trading coins) and the other took a £600 course to become a scrum master. He now does short term contracts. Considering he knew precisely f-all about software development before he is doing pretty well out of it surprisingly.

Another friend designed some specifically shaped sponges that are easy for the old to hold when washing up. He got a slot on QVC and a couple of high street chains selling them. It's just him, he ships directly to the customers warehouse and holds down a normal job at the same time. It took some time to set up but now its just processing a couple of orders a month.

Depending on how regular your time off from the main job is and how handy you can pick up lots of handy man type work through Facebook. I know my local groups always have people asking for piss easy jobs to be completed. Things like hanging pictures, shelves mirrors etc. One guy I know in london jacked his main job in completely as he makes more money from these jobs and gets so many referrals he now has to outsource some. I would investigate liability insurance before getting in to that though. One hot drill bit on carpet or a popped pipe would eat any money you made pretty quick.
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PostPosted: 13:20 - 06 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can you mow lawns, cut hedges, do general handyman jobs? It sounds like you can.
My mum (who is in her late 70's) uses a handyman to do various little jobs, like mowing the lawn, clearing gutters etc. He brings no tools and charges £10 an hour.
His main employment is as the maintenance man for a nearby block of holiday flats and fits these little jobs in and around his main job. It's all cash in hand and tea and biscuits.
He's a nice enough guy who hates sitting around with nothing to do. Consequently he's paid off his mortgage and is saving for a bigger fishing boat.

Obviously there is a limit to how much you can earn as you can only charge so much an hour and work so many hours, but as a supplemental bit of cash for free time it's fairly painless, and no significant entrepreneurial skills required.
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PostPosted: 14:24 - 06 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 14:47 - 06 Aug 2018    Post subject: re Reply with quote

dog walking/sitting. dad is retired but has been doing this for a few years, think they get around £20-30 a day to look after 1 dog, i think with overnight stay it goes up another tenner or so (not entirely sure) - they usually have 3-4 dogs in the house at a time and you find doing that they are regularly dogs so all get used to the house and eachother, snobbish london folk who buy animals but cant look after them so pay someone else to look after them during the week etc
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PostPosted: 19:21 - 06 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I could definitely walk a few dogs, there’s a nice reservoir right by my house and I generally try to do a few laps whenever I’m off just for my own health, I’ve lost loads of weight just walking that extra 5k most days.

I’m on a few local Facebook pages, might be worth me looking into it and making a post.

Long term though, I would definitely like to find something that I build up to the point where it’s worth quitting my main job. I just don’t have that dragons den level idea.

The closest I’ve seen making those steampunk style lamps out of pipe work fittings. I’ve seen them selling for upwards of £70 with about £15 of components in them. But that’s just ripping off somebody else’s idea and I doubt they’ll be ‘cool’ for too much longer.
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PostPosted: 21:03 - 07 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 21:56 - 07 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

dydey90 wrote:
I could definitely walk a few dogs, there’s a nice reservoir right by my house and I generally try to do a few laps whenever I’m off just for my own health, I’ve lost loads of weight just walking that extra 5k most days.


Just remember your liability insurance. The other costs as well, such as a van etc if people want the dogs picking up....
Some councils even require you to be approved and registered to do this.

I know a couple of folks who do this. One spent thousands and failed.. The others are going well, but it is not a cheap.
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