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Anyone have a side hustle?.
I work in sheet metal fabrication and always think of something I can produce and sell to help the family funds. Today I produced a part that bolts onto a go cart steering wheel for an attachment. 100 of them out of 3mm ss that sell for 11 quid each. Got me thinking and now I’m trying to think of a side hustle I can do at work. What would you do ? For a long time now I have wanted to produce a wood burner to the higher class but trying to think of something more simple / smaller.
Totally opposite but I’m also looking into food sales. I LOVE a takeaway but think the market is missing something that my wife makes. I’d rather that than the normal pizza / kebab and may be cheaper to produce. I have been looking into food hygiene certifications and seems straightforward.
So what do I do. Shear all of your side hustles here.
I work in sheet metal fabrication and always think of something I can produce and sell to help the family funds. Today I produced a part that bolts onto a go cart steering wheel for an attachment. 100 of them out of 3mm ss that sell for 11 quid each. Got me thinking and now I’m trying to think of a side hustle I can do at work. What would you do ? For a long time now I have wanted to produce a wood burner to the higher class but trying to think of something more simple / smaller.
Totally opposite but I’m also looking into food sales. I LOVE a takeaway but think the market is missing something that my wife makes. I’d rather that than the normal pizza / kebab and may be cheaper to produce. I have been looking into food hygiene certifications and seems straightforward.
So what do I do. Shear all of your side hustles here.
Food based businesses are not difficult to set up just have a really good look at food.gov.uk. You need suitable premises which might be home if you can meet the requirements. Then you just register with your local council and off you go. Sounds easy but read everything properly or you will come unstuck very quickly. Plenty did it in lockdown due to a lack of initial inspections !!
21TonyK said:
Food based businesses are not difficult to set up just have a really good look at food.gov.uk. You need suitable premises which might be home if you can meet the requirements. Then you just register with your local council and off you go. Sounds easy but read everything properly or you will come unstuck very quickly. Plenty did it in lockdown due to a lack of initial inspections !!
Cheers for that. I honestly believe there is a hole in the fast food market that could be filled. I’m a pizza / kebab man but my god I think this could be a good seller. QJumper said:
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
I'm not skilled enough but....
Women's clothing on Ebay is like a feeding frenzy. Somebody with a good eye could stock up at charity shops (as plenty do I'm sure) and make a wedge for not much effort.
Especially if worn and unwashed.Women's clothing on Ebay is like a feeding frenzy. Somebody with a good eye could stock up at charity shops (as plenty do I'm sure) and make a wedge for not much effort.
Just collected all my wife’s slug trailed thongs. “This time next year Rodney”
If you have the skills to make stuff, do it at home and sell via the usual sites. Not many people make bespoke stuff as usually people are just selling others people's cast offs.
A friend who lives by the coast sells stuff that gets washed up on the beach! Sometimes made into something else but sometimes unaltered like a price of driftwood, stones, bottles, seaweed etc. Technically not allowed to remove stuff from beaches but at such a small scale noone seems to care.
A friend who lives by the coast sells stuff that gets washed up on the beach! Sometimes made into something else but sometimes unaltered like a price of driftwood, stones, bottles, seaweed etc. Technically not allowed to remove stuff from beaches but at such a small scale noone seems to care.
Telca68 said:
QJumper said:
Especially if worn and unwashed.
I'm sure what is meant is not what I think, but nonetheless I recall reading a tabloid story about a young woman who has a 'business' selling apparently worn and unwashed underwear to dodgy blokes. She said that on one occasion a customer was asking urgently for worn undies and she and her boyfriend decided the quickest way to achieve an effect to was to place them in their pet Alsatian's mouth.Yes, I did feel grubby after reading the story but this was mixed with laughter, at the thought of some oddity thinking he had a prize of a woman's worn undies when all they'd encountered was a mutt chewing them.
seabod91 said:
Telca68 said:
QJumper said:
Especially if worn and unwashed.
I'm sure what is meant is not what I think, but nonetheless I recall reading a tabloid story about a young woman who has a 'business' selling apparently worn and unwashed underwear to dodgy blokes. She said that on one occasion a customer was asking urgently for worn undies and she and her boyfriend decided the quickest way to achieve an effect to was to place them in their pet Alsatian's mouth.Yes, I did feel grubby after reading the story but this was mixed with laughter, at the thought of some oddity thinking he had a prize of a woman's worn undies when all they'd encountered was a mutt chewing them.
Bungleaio said:
I was doing a nice line of fire pits for camping but the cost of stainless steel has put pay to that sadly.
I worked for a short while at a company that made cabinets for mobile phone masts. The customers were really fussy about the surface finish, so any sheets of stainless that came in with marks or got marked at our place were put in the skip for scrap. If you could find companies which were equally stringent, maybe you could use buy their cast offs and burnish the marks out, or just use the unmarked portions?
Check your employment contract. There will almost certainly be a clause that forbids you to engage in external commercial activity regardless it being competing against you employer or not.
In practice, it's highly unlikely that any side hustle of the type you're considering would result in any action but worth checking nonetheless.
I know of only one chap that lost his job because of this. He'd set up a pizza takeaway shop with his brother. He'd leave work at 5.30 and then go and work in the shop until 11pm. That inevitably impacted his performance at work and when they found out why - he was shown the door.
In practice, it's highly unlikely that any side hustle of the type you're considering would result in any action but worth checking nonetheless.
I know of only one chap that lost his job because of this. He'd set up a pizza takeaway shop with his brother. He'd leave work at 5.30 and then go and work in the shop until 11pm. That inevitably impacted his performance at work and when they found out why - he was shown the door.
A guy in Hong Kong has trained his Minah bird to "collect" money for him:
https://thumbsnap.com/i/hxEUSmwp.mp4
https://thumbsnap.com/i/hxEUSmwp.mp4
QJumper said:
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
I'm not skilled enough but....
Women's clothing on Ebay is like a feeding frenzy. Somebody with a good eye could stock up at charity shops (as plenty do I'm sure) and make a wedge for not much effort.
Especially if worn and unwashed.Women's clothing on Ebay is like a feeding frenzy. Somebody with a good eye could stock up at charity shops (as plenty do I'm sure) and make a wedge for not much effort.
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