Hi, guys, it's Katie. And it's Claire, and we're back,
whether you like it or not. And today we're going to talk
about side hustles from everything to Poshmark from Soul
Cycle. We're going to cover all of it.
So stay tuned. Corporate crash out.
Will you cash in or crash out? So like in the past year, I've
always been looking for side hustles because I feel like you
don't realize how much time you have once you're out of college
and you're an adult and you have a full time job.
I say that, but I'm still chaotically busy with work, but
nothing like school. And so I was looking, I've been
looking for side hustles and you know, like, I swear, of course
my phone is listening to me. And I keep getting these really
stupid like tik toks about this solitaire game where you make
money on your phone. Do you know what I'm talking
about? No, I have no idea what you're
talking about. I don't get those tik toks.
That's so funny though. It's so dumb.
It's like do you need a new side hustle?
Like, play this solitaire game and you'll make $250 in 3
minutes. I think it's just because of the
ads, because there was one I used to play when I was younger
because I like believed that. And it was like this fishing
game. But it's just like they make you
watch so many ads eventually that it's like when you reach a
certain number of points, you get $15 and then it's just like,
so. Yeah.
It's really just how many ads did you watch?
But I swear I get this stupid solitaire ad all the time and
people like it's not a scam. I swear I made money off of
this. I made $300 in one night and I'm
just confused. That's fair.
I. Think.
As far as some side hustles go and some jobs we can talk about
this too. Like there are scammy jobs.
Like I would apply in high school for part time jobs all
the time. And then it would be like, Oh
well, you need to buy this computer first from us.
And I'd be like what? Anytime, anytime it goes to a
WhatsApp like message, don't do it.
That's my advice. Honestly that's so real.
I would do this all the time too in high school where it would be
like type 60 words per minute and you'll get I don't know why
I'm so stuck on this this like scammy game stuff but I would do
that shit all the time and then it would be like put in your
Social Security number. I've probably have had my
identity stolen at least 50 times by now for falling for
weird side hustles. Wait, So what?
Name all the side hustles you've ever done?
Like part time jobs? One time I was like a ACT tutor
online through this platform and it was like, it wasn't sketchy
or like Schemy. Like I had a real student and
she was really nice, but it just wasn't for me.
Like it was such a scam. They're like you can set your
rate. And so I was like, OK, like I'll
set it at 45 to $50.00 an hour, but then by the time it was all
said and done, I think I got like $13 out of that.
What? That's so crazy.
I can't remember what company it was with, but I literally
tutored the girl like twice and I was like, I'm so sorry but
like I'm not going to be doing this anymore.
And she was like, I understand. You were really great.
I got a new tutor on this platform and he sucks.
He doesn't know anything. Yeah, I feel like I saw that one
too. I never actually did it.
I just signed up to do it and then never did it.
Oh do you want to know what the OG Claire side hustle was?
This is so random. What?
So when I was in 7th grade, I decided that I wanted a baby
grand piano and my parents, I I've always been really into
piano like I play all the time. And my parents were like, we're
not just going to buy you baby grand piano like you need to
earn it. So anyways Long story short some
like family friends of this like it wasn't just a shoe store it
had other stuff there but the point was they had a lot of
shoes they needed to get rid of and they were liquidating their
store and closing down. OK.
And my mom was like, this would be a good opportunity.
You could go buy some shoes at like wholesale price and sell
them online like on eBay or like Poshmark and make money and then
you can buy your piano and I'm like this is great.
So me and my mom go to the shoe store that's like 2 1/2 hours
away 'cause we know the owners blah blah blah yadda yadda.
Ya we get there. The plan is to buy like 250
pairs of shoes or so. Like just enough just for me to
have this little side hustle. We get there and the lady's
like, well how much would you pay?
Just take all those 4. Was it 4 or 6000 pairs of shoes?
And I think we ended up giving her, I don't know, maybe like
2500 bucks or something like it was, it was super cheap and we
went home with 5000 pairs of shoes.
How do you get them in the? Car we had to bring like a big
enclosed trailer from my dad had like an enclosed trailer and he
had to come down and pick him up.
We like it was crazy. I have pictures of this
somewhere, maybe I'll dig them up for the Instagram.
Yeah. No, so we so then we have like I
grew up on a farm, so we have like a shed.
So we made all of these, like my dad built all of these racks for
my shoes. And keep in mind, it's not like
I'm selling Nikes. Like these are like pumps.
Like it's pumps mostly. What?
Like business shoes, it's mostly like business shoes or like
older lady shoe vibes, that sort of thing.
So I set up, my dad builds all these racks and I have 6000
pairs of shoes and I start having community parties.
Like I made string lights and it was really cute and like a bunch
of people from my town would come out and buy shoes and shop
and. It sounds so.
Cute. And so then when I kind of wore
out the crowd there, I sold most of them honestly on eBay.
And anyways, Long story short, I ended up being able to buy my
baby grand piano and then the shoes and we ended up selling, I
want to say like there was like 1000 or 2000 left and we ended
up selling them to a different lady who was going to do the
same thing and like try to sell the rest of them.
Wait, that's so fine. I feel like you told me this and
it's so funny because I did something similar, except I
didn't buy anything. I just we were cleaning out my
house and my mom just always keeps all of our stuff like from
when we were very, very little, every single thing was kept.
So we actually had so much stuff.
And so when we moved, like I was helping my mom and I just like
found a lot of stuff. I'm like this is like good
quality clothes, like some pots, pans.
I didn't want and so I just go and sell them on Poshmark and I
made a few $1000 that way so I was good too.
No, it's it was a really good first side hustle.
I loved it. Yeah.
Honestly guys, like I think if you want Poshmark tips, I have
so many Poshmark tips, but yeah, you really need to get like a
sharer, like an automated share that shares it to the feed of
people and it's like kind of complicated.
But if you do that, it's low key worth it.
Well, I've tried to sell things on Poshmark.
This is actually a recent side hustle of mine.
In the fall. My mom had some inventory from
her boutique that wasn't moving and she was like, you can take
it and sell it on Poshmark and keep whatever you make on it.
I was like OK and I literally listed stuff and there was no
action. Like I'm not doing it right.
So I'm curious how this works but I don't know.
Is Poshmark a dying thing? Have people moved elsewhere?
Yeah, I mean, I think there's some like Depop, but I would
still say Poshmark is pretty good.
Like OK, So what you have to do on Poshmark is you have to
follow like a ton of people and there's like apps that do it for
you. Like I use closet tools at the
time and so I have like 100,000 followers now on Poshmark.
But this was like from my like 10th grade days.
Okay. And then you wanna do offers.
So like people will you want to set the price a little bit
higher than you want it to go for and then you want people to
offer you stuff on it and then you just share everything out to
your feed and like have like an algorithm that does it for you.
So it like auto shares, but there's like a Max like don't
share over 5000 times because the app will like cut you off
because obviously it's like automated activity.
And so I just have that running all the time like on my laptop
and you get like way more sales that way.
And I actually sold like 250 items and got like $2000 So tip
today but. I feel like they take too big of
a cut for me. That's one thing I loved about
eBay was they did not take a big cut at all.
Oh really? I didn't know that.
How? What percent do you know?
Because Poshmark is 20. I think it was, it was less than
that. I want to say some of them may
have even been a flat fee back when I was doing it, like $2.00
per transaction or something like that.
That's good because the biggest thing on Poshmark is always the
shipping. It's like $7.00.
And so it's really good if you can like bundle items and like
offer it to somebody. So you like say OK here are like
3 things so you only pay for shipping once and then you can
also offer them like deals on shipping like all pay $2.00 and
you pay the other 5. Well, on eBay, I would always
set it to like buyer pays shipping and it would be like I
got a bunch of like those flat rate priority mailers that are
all like a just obviously the same price and they could set
the shipping price that way and it saved a bunch doing that.
Maybe I should do that. Yeah.
Wait, so eBay you just like, sold stuff?
Like you didn't have to share it or anything.
You know, like I would, I would sell stuff like all the time on
their shoes. Like I didn't have to share it.
It was so easy. You just made the posting.
And I honestly, I think one of the key things though was what I
was selling were very specific brands.
And since it was like a store liquidation, they were specific
sizes too. It's like we had a lot of big
sizes. So people who might have a hard
time finding shoes or very small sizes, again, people who have a
hard time finding shoes, but maybe like a certain brand.
So I don't know if it was because it was already kind of
niche. The one thing you had to do on
eBay though was put a bunch of like tag, like tag keywords in
the description to make sure that like you would capture a
large variety of searches. OK.
Maybe I'll try that. Wait and like to make a shop.
It doesn't cost anything, right? Like to make a storefront?
I don't think so, no. Wait, that's so good.
Let's bring eBay back. No, guys, we're going to bring
Craigslist back. I don't even know what was
Craigslist like used for like task rabbit, is that like the
same thing? Craigslist was used for a lot of
things you used to be able to find like apartments on there
you could find houses you could find like it used to be like
Facebook Marketplace basically OK.
What do you think? Facebook Marketplace.
I'm on there every day. There's nothing I love more than
Facebook Marketplace. I I've never tried to sell
anything on there. I don't know if you've
experienced but Oh my gosh I've bought stuff like furniture for
super cheap. I've bought an sold on there
when I moved apartments in left Saint Louis and all that I my
furniture sold so fast like selling bar stools, selling
random shit on there like within a day gone.
It's so nice. That's good.
I just, I'm so scared that like I'm going to meet somebody
random. At least with like Poshmark I
can just ship it off to God knows where.
Like, I don't know, it's. All about the neutral territory.
You have to be like, if you're going to go alone, you have to
be like, can you meet me at, like, a Target parking lot?
You know? Yeah, that's fair.
Like, go to someone's house. I will say though, I just threw
a baby shower over the weekend and I had like this bagel wall
that I had bought off Facebook Marketplace and repainted and
literally Katie sold in a day. Really.
Yeah. Oh, Do you feel like you got a
good like price for it or? I think I got back or maybe even
more of what I paid for it. So I mean, when you're coming
out, even you can't complain. Yeah, no, that's so true.
The other thing I know people used to try to do in my high
school to sell clothes was like, just put them on Instagram.
But I don't think that really works for anybody.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves in life.
So people think, oh, I need to make some quick money, all
right. Like I'm going to sell some of
my clothes and they'll put like a Shien shirt on there that you
know damn well cost like $2.00 and they'll be listing it for
$5. Sheen medium shirt 1/3 times
maybe. And they'll put it on there and
it's like definitely has three vodka crayons spilled all over.
And I'm like, I don't want your Sheen shirt you dumbass.
No, I hate it. And I feel like when we used to
sell on like eBay and Poshmark, the quality of clothes was just
so much better. So they were like worth
reselling. And now it's like half of the
time when you go to Goodwill and like all these places, it's all
Sheen and you're like, I, you might as well just throw it
away, like, I don't know, or just buy it like in bulk for
super cheap. I could maybe see that.
But like, I just don't understand.
Yeah, I think it's just getting harder, especially because it's
like, oh, OK, I like this top, but $7.00 shipping when you got
it for maybe like 30 sense is like, you know, insane.
Yeah. But Long story short, I don't
think that's a great side hustle to sell your clothes on social
media. But selling other things, yes, I
think there's lots of opportunities out there to buy
and sell like flip like Facebook Marketplace.
I feel like I could like if I really concentrated, really flip
some things on Facebook, like furniture.
Yeah, that would be cool. That would be fine.
But I think like on Poshmark 2, like a lot of people think it's
just close. I sold so many textbooks on
there because we just had a bunch of textbooks and like,
especially for younger kids, like people really like
textbooks. And so like, even if it's like
40 bucks, that's like 40 bucks per textbook.
And I have shits on the textbook so.
Yeah. Oh, I tried to do that one time
in college. I was like, I'm going to sell
all of my textbooks and there's like this site and you can look
up your textbook and it will tell you how much they'll pay
you for it. And you can like bundle them so
you only have to pay the shipping, like get the shipping
deducted from your price once. But after I like, researched it
and like put in all the textbooks I had, it just really
ended up not being worth it. I was like, yeah, I'll just
donate. Yeah, no, I feel like you have
to sell it online, like on Poshmark or something for it to
be worth it. But those actually were pretty
good. And besides just like selling
stuff, though I know like farmers market, some people do
that because it's only like on Sundays or Saturdays or
whatever, and you can just like make candles or whatever in your
free time and go there and sell them or like something like
that. I did that.
I like started doing that but I just never actually like did it
with like scrunchies but like you can do it with.
Scrunchies. What was this?
I was in 9th grade and I was like, mom, dad, I want to make
money. And so you can.
Everyone can sign up though for the farmers market, it's true.
And you can sell stuff like that.
Well, you know what I used to sell in high school as my side
hustle was sweet corn. My dad would play a huge patch
of sweet corn in our pasture. And when it would become ready
in like August, yeah, it was usually like July, August, me,
like I would have a friend over and we would pick a bunch of
sweet corn and like fill the back of a pickup truck and we
would just go sit downtown and sell sweet corn.
And we would make like $500 in two hours.
So that's in high school. That was like big bucks.
We were rolling. We were like, and we would do it
like every morning for like 3 weeks.
It was so fun. Wait, that's actually so nice.
Yeah, I feel like farming. Like did your dad take a cut or
no? No, it was kind of his like, I
mean, there was just always so much sweet.
I think the seeds probably cost like 50 bucks or something.
Yeah, I was. Gonna yeah, because it's like,
but at that point, if you have all the infrastructure and
everything like, you might as well plan it and it's like.
Right. And we would obviously use a
bunch personally. Bunch of corn.
Why that's so fine? What else did I do?
I was like, I took a marine bio class in high school and so they
needed help with like taking care of and feeding the fish and
like cleaning the tanks. Wait a second pause.
Can we talk about the chokehold marine biology has on 18 year
olds in this country? What?
Why? Did everyone in your school not
think that they were going to be a marine biologist?
No, I've met some people who are like really, really into it.
But I think like a lot of us just did the elective for fun at
my high school. Katie, I think this is like a
real phenomenon in the US where like small town people think
they're going to go be marine biologist.
But like, who's going to pay you to do that?
No, exactly. Like what?
There's like very limited jobs I feel like, in marine biology.
Like maybe in Australia, like for the reefs and stuff, but I
feel like not really. But this was a true phenomenon
where I'm from, like central Illinois, and there's this shit
ton of people who thought they were going to go be marine
biologists. This, I guess this obviously by
Katie Silence. This is not maybe a nationwide
phenomenon, but someone needs to look into why everyone in the
Midwest thinks they're going to be a marine biologist.
That's more interesting. I haven't heard that guys write
in if you wanted to be a marine biologist or know of someone who
wanted to be a marine biologist. No, that's so interesting.
But yeah, I used to do that. And so for school, I'd get there
earlier, like stay late and clean the fish or clean the
fish, clean, clean the tanks and beat the fish.
And that was always super fun. So yeah, I did that for a while.
That's true. There is a lot of side hustles
these days with animals. I feel like a lot of people pay
for dog walkers during the day. I know that my friend who lives
in DC has like someone in their building who walks their dog
like two or three times a day and they pay them like $35 a
walk, which I feel like it's not bad.
Yeah, that's really especially for like kids in like high
school or just people who just have like a lunch hour work from
home and like want to do something like.
I think that's like really good. And also are there's a lot of
apps now where you can do stuff like that.
So it's like basically like DoorDash kind of right, But
like, you know, yeah, dog. Butler.
Have you ever heard of Dog Butler?
I think so. I know someone who did it and
they would go to all these like high rise apartments and you do
like get the code or the key or like however you get in on your
phone and you just take people's dogs on walks.
That's nice. I feel like I never really
wanted something though. That's like per hour, you know
what I'm saying? Like I wanted more passive
income and I think that's like why the selling things more
appealed to me. Well, Katie, really just an
investor from the get go. No, but and then the other thing
I did was like enter. I liked baking, so I'd enter
like random baking competitions. And then once I went to a
biscuit festival and I won second place, so I got a bunch
of stuff. It was like $350.00 worth of
stuff. So that was fun.
That is fun. I baked and I entered into like
our fair and stuff, but I never really saw it as a side hustle.
Missed opportunity. It's not, it's not like it takes
so much effort for like a little reward, I feel like, but it is
like. The margins on baking guys
aren't it. Oh, but I know one person who I
like I worked with this summer and she had in addition to her
corporate job of baking business and on like weekends and stuff,
she'd like make orders for people and just sell those too.
So there are some people that do that.
For sure. I think that's definitely like a
very therapeutic hobby. But I think you have to be
careful turning your hobbies into side hustles, otherwise you
might lose passion for your hobby.
Yeah. That's so true.
One person I know used to work at a bar after work.
So like go like work during the day and then at night on like
Friday or Saturday because those are like the best days, right?
And then they'd work like a shift and they said they made a
ton of money doing that because it was like, it's really just a
lot of they need a lot Fridays and Saturdays and so.
I've really considered doing that here, but I was like, what?
I hate my life. I don't know 'cause it's the
prime nights to have fun. Claire, what do you do on
Fridays and Saturdays anyways? I went to a football game last
weekend and then I went to I went to a bar Friday night
Katie, and Saturday night I went to a football game.
So sucking. Wow.
That's what did you do Friday night, Katie?
Friday night I hung out with my boyfriend, Saturday I went and
watched his rugby game which was fun and then we went to a party
after. OK, see, we're cool people.
We have lives. I did like digital marketing.
I did additional marketing internship and that was like I'd
go to school from 8:00 to 3:00 and then like do the marine bio
thing during lunch or something. And then at 4 is when I started
my job, but it was like in San Francisco time.
So it's actually one there. So I'd work from 1:00 to 5:00
San Francisco time, and then it was like.
What a hustler. It was 4 to 8 in Atlanta time,
so yeah, I did She's. A hustler.
She's getting her bag recently. My most recent side hustles I
just keep books on the side for people, but I need to pick up
some more books to keep. What do you mean you keep books?
Like accounting, Like books, like.
I'll keep. Just books.
I thought you meant you actually like kept physical books for
people. I was like, why Yes.
I will store your your paperback books and I will read them in my
spare time. Wait, so is that complicated
though to like do people's like is that just taxes or what does
that entail? And I don't.
Do the taxes I still like send them to a tax account Like I'll
just like, you know, record transactions, get end of year
financials. Do some payroll taxes.
I can do payroll taxes but I won't do year end taxes.
No, ma'am. OK, OK, that's good.
What else have we done? We've done TikTok live to you
guys. That's kind of fun.
Hell yeah. I feel like so many people are
are making that their side hustle now and I just can't
figure out where this money is coming from.
Me neither. I don't know guys.
Right. Like I understand it's like
currency. Once it's in TikTok, it goes
from person to person. It's just like, but like who's
putting the money in? I gotta know.
I don't know. Some people just when they get
the money, then they turn it into more TikTok coins and then
they just keep doing the cycle. But I think like some people
actually buy stuff. I just think it has to start
somewhere, you know? I'm sure there are some people
who, like, use it. Like I feel like the people who
buy video game stuff, it's kind of like the same, you know, like
you buy like points in a video. It's like the same.
I always drew a line there like I will never pay for a game.
I was never a babysitter. That side hustle is very
unappealing to me but low key a lot of money to be made there.
I did do babysitting. Honestly I didn't even think it
was worth that much because I pay like $10 and like OK but I
watched your two really bratty kids and then you guys came home
3 hours late super drunk. So I'm just like like was it
worth it? Not really.
Really, in my experience, I always made way more money than
I thought I should have. Really, I feel like I made less,
but I've house sit for somebody and I made way more than I
thought I was going to make for that, so that was nice.
Oh my gosh, in high school me and my friends used to like dog
slash house sit for people when they would go out of town and we
would throw parties at their houses.
Or what long town too. I feel like you would have got
found out. I know one night the dog that we
were watching got out. We had too many people over and
we were all drinking and it's like the dogs like running down
the street. And so we got on the kids
hoverboards and we're like chasing the dog down the street.
We're like back. Back when the hoverboards where
I think I remember that that was such a time.
Loki I was kind of bad in high school.
Yeah, I think I knew that you were like a cheerleader and the
whole thing. I was a good kid.
Oh, how the turntables. Am I the bad kid now?
Because I'm the Angel now, obviously, but that's definitely
a good side hustle. I will say house sitting, dog
sitting. Great.
Yeah. I tutored for a while like the
same but for like in College in TA I also TA.
Did you TA? No, I had an on campus job.
I worked in the entrepreneurship center.
Right, right, right. So some people do.
This is so fun. Some people do like orange
theory teaching and like stuff like that.
Yeah, or like teach cycle classes.
I think that's honestly because you're probably gonna work out
anyways. Such a great way to get your
workout for free and have fun and make money.
Honestly, like I roomed with a girl and she used to do it and
she loved it. And like they'd actually pay
like pretty good. And like if I know for soul
cycle like some of them payless like cycle bar I think pays less
and soul cycle obviously like pays more because they're more
upscale. But like depending on how many
seats you fill, I think they might also give you like more
money. And so like if people really
like your classes, like they pay up to like like I'm pretty sure
some Soul Cycle people get paid like $150.00 an hour.
That's pretty good. I will say I do think that most
of them make you pass like some sort of training but I want to
say whenever I knew someone who did the cycle bar training it
wasn't too intensive like it maybe it was 2 weeks.
Oh this one says new instructors were paid 55 base and then $0.50
per paying writer writer when they taught.
But some instructors that are like top ones make 300 to $600 a
class. Damn Katie, start peddling.
We're going to have our podcast in Soul Cycle and just do both
at the same time so we get paid for this guy's.
I actually hate cycling. I I used to be such an
Orangetheory sucker. Did you know that my senior year
I was I was obsessed with orange theory.
I would go out on my senior year of college, but then I stopped
going in Nashville. Like I burnt out.
I went too hard for too too quickly and I burnt out on
Orangetheory. So now I think if I was going to
do this, I would want to do Pilates.
I'm so scared of Pilates. Wait, is Orangetheory just yoga?
No, Orangetheory is like a heart rate intensive workout where you
do like treadmill, rower and then floor and the whole like
design of the workout is to deplete your oxygen so you burn
more calories after you're done with the workout.
Oh, that's interesting. No, I really like cycle bar
because and like Soul Cycle because it's like it's fun and
it's not super exhausting and like there's some that are like
30 minute sessions and I'm like, OK, I did something today, you
know? That's fair, that's fair.
No, I like reformers Pilates now but it's so freaking expensive.
Oh, class pass, I was going to talk about that too.
Like we can talk about hobbies and stuff outside of work in an
episode. But I have class pass and I
really like that because some of the classes are super cheap.
If it's like a time nobody wants to go or like there's not a lot
of spots filled, like it's cheaper.
Yeah you can get like 2 weeks free I think on class pass too
to try it. It's pretty good.
What else? What other side hobbies or side
hustles? Oh, surveys, I used to do those
is. That real this is giving me like
circling back to solitaire, this is giving solitaire energy.
I hated like the Swagbucks thing.
I did not do that. I did like ZAP surveys or
something, and I did get paid a little bit for that, but my dad
actually really did it and he got paid like $700.00 because he
just kept doing those. But yeah, I don't highly
recommend those, but some people do that.
But I would say it's better if you're like close to a
university or like a Business School to like enroll as a
potential participant. And then they'll like notify you
every time a new study comes out.
And they usually pay like a little bit better.
It's like $20.00 an hour. But if you need $20.
An hour This takes me back to my one of my be my weirdest side
hustles that I thought was probably a scam and it turned
out it wasn't. So I took the GRE like probably
junior year of college because I thought I was going to go to
grad school because I thought I needed these credits for the CPA
exam, blah blah blah. Turns out I had enough credits,
didn't need to go to grad school, but I did take the GRE.
So like probably a year after taking the GRE.
This is senior year, I get an e-mail from this lady and she's
like I'm a coordinator with blah blah blah.
Like we are surveying people who took the GRE to see if XYZ like
all this different like stuff. They're trying to basically do a
study over people who took the GRE.
She was like you get 50 bucks for every like thing you
participate in and then it like slowly started getting higher.
Like I think I was in like 4 times and by the end I was
making like 150 bucks and all I had to do was like write a
canvas comment once a day for four days.
And it was weird. Like I had to like click through
this thing and then write a canvas column and they sent me
Visa gift cards. Like it was real.
I thought I was getting scammed so hard.
It was such a jank website too. But every time I like it would
be like phase three and now you'll make $150.00.
And I was like but at this point I had already got the Visa gift
cards for the first two phases so I believed that.
Anyways, that was really weird time in my life.
Wait, that's so interesting because I used to work for psych
labs who would do longitudinal studies.
And if you do, like they have so many people like drop out.
So like they keep increasing how much they'll pay you like the
more you keep doing it. You know what I'm saying?
Like OK that. Makes sense?
Yeah. If they go to the first session,
it's 25, but then it goes to 50 and then it goes like 75 because
I really like want to retain everybody they have.
And so if you do those, I feel like those could pay kind of
good. You said your sister was a
mystery shopper. Oh wait wait yes this is a good
1A secret shopping. So these are kind of hard to get
signed up for. You have to get basically
nominated by other secret shoppers and there's different
companies that do it. So my sister is currently trying
to get me nominated to be a secret shopper, but she said it
took like 4 times of someone recommending her to finally get
it. But you can go.
And the different companies have different restaurants.
They're all restaurants mostly. I think they're all restaurants.
But so they go to Texas Roadhouse once a month and you
get like a certain like you can both buy an alcoholic drink and
then you know, like you get a certain amount of money towards
your food. Like it's usually always all
free. And you have to fill out this
survey be like, are the neon lights working?
Was your salad plate cold? Every restaurant will have like
a different checklist that they'll give you.
But yeah. So secret shopping, you don't
necessarily get monetary like payouts, but you get a free
dinner. Wait, that's so cool.
I didn't know they do that. But like it seems kind of like
it seems like a pyramid scheme the way you describe.
You have to like know somebody to get in.
Yeah, that's a little weird to me, but she she got nominated
because her mother-in-law has been one forever.
And then so that's how she got nominated.
So her and her husband go all the time.
And apparently though that I, I know that's how it works with
the company she does it with, but I feel like there's probably
other companies that do different restaurants that maybe
have a different way of getting in.
I don't know, I haven't looked into it too deeply but secret
shopping people, super fun. Some people used to like rent
clothes. I don't know why you would rent
clothes unless they're really expensive.
I mean people do like newly but that's renting from a big
company. But you're saying you would rent
out your own closet? Not me but like I want a girl at
my school tried to do it where it was like the same thing she
posted on Instagram. Would be like OK I'm going to
like rent out my clothes or whatever but very weird.
I don't know how I feel about that.
Feel like it would only work like if it was like a really
nice like formal dress or something.
But I think like anything, you know, like a suit, like a guy
renting out a suit makes sense to be honest.
But like also the dry cleaning and stuff.
I don't know. My mom used to work at a
catering place and then she got paid and then you get to take
all the food home. Oh yeah, that's fun.
A lot of people at my high school worked at this local like
wedding venue and you'd have to be there really late but you got
really good catering food to take home.
That's always a park. I used to do ice cream.
I worked as an ice cream person. Katie, that was my first job,
was scooping ice cream. Wait, what did?
What was your favorite like thing to eat while you were
there? Well, I was usually too busy
because I would go to like festivals.
I was like in an ice cream trailer.
And. What to fairs and festivals so I
usually well the owner of the ice cream trailer was a family
friend and she would send me home with ice cream but had a
really good banana cream pie ice cream and I missed that.
I loved avogados, like the vanilla ice cream.
And then I liked the honey they made like this honey one where
they like made the candy, the honey candy and put it in there.
And it's so good. And I like that.
And my mom works in ice cream too as like one of her first
jobs, but she used to get a turtle sundae.
Yeah, Gee, I feel like I need a side hustle where I'm like, on
my feet and moving. Yeah, me too.
Because I feel like I'm just so, I don't know, like I feel like
with that job, like I could eat sits in a ice cream and I would
just burn it all off. I felt like throughout the day.
Because you're just walking. And I didn't have to think.
I think that was, like, fun too, because I could just like, it
was like paying playing Papa's freezer.
Yeah. You know what I'm talking about.
Yes. And.
Then you get paid anyways. No, that's so real.
I guess some people make like print on demand T-shirts and
like merch and stuff if you have a.
We could talk about drop shipping, OK, That's like
something that a lot of people have been doing lately as a side
hustle is drop shipping. Apparently there's a lot of
money you can make there, but the whole trick to it is just
like beating everyone else to the trend because it's basically
all based on like crappy trends. Yeah, wait, I'm so confused
because I thought that was a thing like five years ago
because I remember this guy, he was out like, anyways, that's
the long story. But he was like basically like
Amazon was peeing us out because we started drop shipping.
And then they'll obviously just like start doing it themselves
and like compete with you if it becomes something that they
think is profitable. So then he was like, yeah, so
now we're like out of business. And I was like, OK, yeah,
that's. Confusing.
Coming. So my mom used to teach a class
for high schoolers and they would have to like come up with
their own job and start it. It was called CEO and this one
girl used to do selling through Amazon.
Actually. You would go to stores and find
things that sell for more on Amazon or like find things on
sale. And then I don't really
understand fully how it works, but you would be like an Amazon
seller almost, but you would never actually hold the product.
So it was kind of like drop shipping, but like being a
middleman through Amazon. That's so interesting, yeah.
So I feel like Etsy shops, Amazon's storefronts, those sort
of drop shipping, those sort of things are really prevalent side
hustles these days. Yeah, I feel like I used to hear
about and I like have applied for this but I never really got
any jobs but voice acting and voice overs.
But I feel like with AI now, like probably not gonna be.
Yeah, I feel like they'll just have certain baseline voices
that they alter with AI and we'll just be kicked the curve,
but. I know, but yeah.
And then then user generated content like UGC.
Have you heard about that? It's like basically like on
TikTok and Instagram, instead of having like huge commercials
that they put on TV, like a lot of companies just want, you
know, ads, but they don't have anyone to do the advertisements
for them. That's like a young like, you
know, Gen. person that can like relate to other people.
So then they'll pay you like 100 bucks to make a video about
something and give you the free product.
That's this is the one. This is an interesting one that
I signed up for recently that I didn't end up doing.
But you basically are training AI and you can get certified
under different like topics and you've like take a quiz
basically just to be like you're proficient to train the AI so
that you don't just get like people who don't know things
training AI wrong, I guess. But you basically have to like
take these like it's not, they're almost like quizzes, but
also kind of a survey. And they'll like show you the
prompt and show you what AI says and then you have to say how
it's good or bad and that sort of thing.
Because my sister's friend does that, but I don't know how to
get like get into that or like what, who pays for it, you know?
Right. I took like the beginning exam
to be, I guess just like a basic trainer.
And it was really long. It took me almost an hour and a
half. And then I never ended up really
following through. So I don't know why I did that.
I think I was just bored one day over the summer, but I don't
know. Oh, for swimming I used to do
like swim instructing for kids and so like I would teach them
like how to swim and stuff like that and that was fun.
That's always a good one, just to take whatever you did in high
school or college and monetize it.
I've thought about teaching piano lessons, but then I think
about dealing with kids and I'm like, no, I feel like we've
covered a lot. But if people know more cool
side hustles, let us know. Because I think we definitely
live in a world that you have to have a side hustle these days.
You just do. Yeah, especially for college
kids. And it's like everybody's trying
to figure out how to make all their time just stretch a little
bit and like their money stretched more.
And especially with just like the job market being as bad as
it is right now, it's like, I don't know.
Seeing mom who works 2 jobs. Oh, the other thing I hate when
people do though is the digital, like, I don't know, the digital
templates and stuff. And they're like, oh, by my
planner. And they like create a planner
in Canva and then just try to sell it to people.
And then everybody's like, I made so much money doing that.
And I'm like, did you actually though?
Like for real? Did you really?
Because I don't think you did. Yeah, that's concerning.
But the amount of people I see on TikTok doing that is like,
actually really crazy, Yeah. I don't have much more to add to
this, but now I'm like thinking about how I need to expand my
side hustles. Katie someone said Trader Joe's
Hall resale because they don't have like an online store.
So people will like buy a bunch of the sauce and stuff or
whatever that's like in season and then sell it.
Stop because why do I have two Trader Joe's Urban Vanilla bean
paste? I tried that I had to bring to
my mom because they don't have a Trader Joe's and I forgot to
give them to her. Wait, that's is it good?
The bean paste. I don't know, like I don't know
what to use it for. Just anything like any baking
stuff. Oh, this is another thing too.
Oh, photography. So like.
Oh my gosh, no, stop right there.
Everyone thinks that they're a photographer now and it drives
me nuts. That's true.
But I feel like the actual good ones, like, you know, especially
on college, everybody's looking for a headshot these days.
Everybody like wants sorority pictures, like composites,
everybody wants graduation photos and there's like a ton of
event spaces that also need photographers.
So I feel like that actually can be pretty lucrative.
Like one girl charged like for. I want to say like an.
Hour was like $100 and she did a really good job, but like $100
like, you know, like that's pretty.
Good to think about the time editing too.
Yeah, that's true. But I don't think she like
edited. Like we just did it on a nice
day and then she was like really busy.
So then, right? Like how long after you've
edited enough photos, how long does it really take you to edit
you know well? I know like now some sometimes
you can like copy and paste your edits across all photos.
So if you edit like the background one time, you only
have to do it like one time. Do you know what I'm saying?
And then like sometimes she will be like, OK, like I'm not going
to edit, just tell me 3 photos you want me to edit and I'll
edit those instead of widening all of them, yeah.
That's true. That's true.
I think that the key for the photography one is finding the
right market for it. And yeah, 'cause I think a lot
of like the smaller towns and suburbs get really over
saturated with everyone doing that.
But I think there's definitely markets like, like you said,
like college campuses and stuff like that where there's more
space for it. Oh, brand ambassadors, too.
I don't know what you think about those, but didn't wasn't
there one person who did The Fresh Prince on our campus?
And then there's like the Red Bull person, too.
Oh my gosh, yes. What?
Please tell me why they were fresh.
Prince was texting me like last week and they were like, Oh my
gosh, they wouldn't stop texting me.
I was like, OK, it's enough slices.
I don't want to talk to you like I don't know you.
I'm confused like what their like how much do they get paid
where like Red Bull and stuff. I think that the ones where your
ambassadors partially cut on the sales and then like maybe like
some sort of stipend or something.
Because I get the car too. So I don't know.
But I feel like you have to be a pretty like gregarious person
for that, you know, like you can't be like a side timid
person. Takes a certain personality, one
that I don't have the energy for.
Yes, I got 3 texts last week from Fresh Prince following up.
Don't want to bug you but would hate to miss you.
If you're interested, here's my calendar.
I'm not even in college anymore. What am I going to buy masked?
T-shirts for are podcasts. Claire, OH.
My gosh, you're so right. Oh guys, we just released the
merge too. OK, in terms of closing out.
Thank you guys so much. If you will listen so far, tell
us what your side gigs are because Claire and I might need
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And then a merch drop. We have merch.
So yes, it's just our like logo on a T-shirt.
I still think it's really cool so if you want to help support I
will be getting those. So I am bought 2 T-shirts and a
sweatshirt and the proceeds will be going to the pod.
So you guys pod and rumor on the streets, there might be a
corporate bully hat coming. Yeah.
Oh, and then for the first five people that buy them, if anyone
buys them, we'll put you on the Instagram.
So. Big stakes here, guys, big
stakes. Well, that's all we have, not
for this week, but stay tuned for next week and we'll catch
y'all later. Bye y'all.