r/sidehustle

Ilost my programming tech job about 5 months ago after 20 years of never being unemployed. Took a job recently but still trying to make ends meet from reduced income. Yeah, AI took my job at my last place where I worked for 12 years as director of technology. Now I work at McDonald's as a 9-5.

So I was sitting in my car today after denying several low paying doordash offers and thinking about my hustles. I was taking prolific things in between dashs just sitting in my car and was thinking about all the avenues of income I have and how much it feels like a lot sometimes. I got a nice paying offer but couldn't accept because it was an order from McDonald's where I work my full time 9-5 weekday job (I'm now in operations and technology and at an owner/operator office who owns several stores, not in restaurants except maybe a few hours a week, but still can't take dash orders from the stores I work in). Then I forgot I had to run to a mobile phone store and a gas station for a mystery shop (w/Ipsos) so finished my prolific study, ended my dash on my phone and headed to Best Buy.

Overall i made like $200 today in 6 hours on my day off between the three but sometimes its too much and I get lost in it. It's a lot to deal with sometimes to juggle these things in my head. Anyone got any tips on mandible many things that you're trying to do at the same time or should I just keep hustling the best way I can? 🤔

Been a mechanic for 10 years & can do anything other than paint.

I have enough tools but not a good space to work out like a garage.

Ive done mobile stuff & have a set-up to go mobile. Anything from brakes to bumpers, headlight restoration to engines. I can diagnose electrical & mechanical.

Im wondering what my best route would be next or what you would do.

My idea is go mobile untill I can find a garage space, if so what services would you want as a customer?

I'm 23 and have a pretty good job but find myself wasting a lot of my time outside of work. I currently do a very small amount of reselling, mostly watches through Mercari/eBay and it's fine but I really only net 100-300/month. I'm looking for something additional that preferably doesn't require door-to-door or cold calling and can be done in the evening after work. I have capital I can put into a side hustle if it makes sense. If you have any particular side hustles you've been successful with that meet these criteria, I'd love to hear about them!

For those of you actually running a side hustle, how are you handling things like payments, agreements, revisions, delivery, and disputes?

How many different apps or services do you end up using?

What part of the process causes you the most headaches, and what do you wish existed that doesn’t today?