[Closed] Legit ways to supplement main income

if you did nightshift somewhere on weekends you could probably do quite well. you would be tired though.

Air bnb your current house if you own it?

So will need to earn about an extra £13,000 gross? That's about 35 hrs per week at minimum wage.

If you are already working 40hrs per week that would be exhausting. I suppose you would be working so much you wouldn't have time to spend anything.

So unless you can find a very well paying part time job it's going to be a very hard ask.

I am currently airbnb-ing my spare room and selling use panties on the internet

So will need to earn about an extra £13,000 gross?

how's that working out for you YGH?

Coke Dealer and Brothel Keeper?

You'd get plenty of business from here.

Uber Driver?

Painting and decorating?

If you're as tall as you say you are, ceilings will be a doddle.

playing the stock market...
professional gambler...

Work events/festivals? Sell unwanted organs?

weave* placemats out of old jeans / t-shirts, sell them for £30 a pop on folksy.

(*tangle, and staple)

You do know there isn't a prize for the amount of individual posts, Percy?

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Edit: Yup. I realise I spelled Perchy as Percy, but I think I prefer it.

You do know my name isn't Percy, Jimmy?

You do know there isn't a prize for the amount of individual posts

If there were, I wouldn't even come close. The 906 page EU referendum thread probably contains more individual posts by half a dozen individuals than I've ever made, ever.

[quote=jekkyl ]how's that working out for you YGH?

Very well actually

Write a book?
Sister in law had a stint writing a few click-bait '10 reasons to visit South Island' type things for the NZ tourist board.
Mystery Shopper. I just had a free nights bowling, burger n chips and £17 pay...They even pay to to visit Greggs (careful you don't get crushed in the stampede...)

"Home Improvements" is the name of the game. Selling fitted bedrooms, solar panels, double glazing, hot tubs, on 29.9% finance deals, that sort of thing. Or writing wills, selling pension plans. You'll need a few days to train you up and you might have to go to a sales meeting once a week or so. If you're good, you'll earn a lot.
Basically, google for peoples' rip-off experiences with the above and contact the rogue firm in question and see if you can be a self-employed rep for them.

Or ask yourself if you want to sink so low.

Revive your flagging dj career?

Needs to be a small business. Make something, deal in something, hire or organise something.

Make food and have a food van / trailer.
Deal in cars or watches.
Hire marquees or bouncy castles.
Organise party / events.

Or just sell a skill self employed. What do you do for work? What are your skills? Programmer? Welder? Electrician?

I've done similar in the past when I was on crap wages. Evening/night shelf stacking was where the money was back then. I worked at a local theatre and picked up the odd shift at Woolworths (that dates it..), particularly being there early in the morning for the paper delivery. Easy to fit in before my main job, brought in an extra £200 a month for basically getting up a bit earlier, opening the store, putting the papers inside, locking back up then going on to my main job!

Dog walker or something like a BetterWare catalogue rep would be doable in the evenings. My mum did the BetterWare thing as she neared retirement age and loved it.

What about some network/pyramid marketing? Forever Living, that kind of thing? I know some people who've made serious money from that.

What about some network/pyramid marketing? Forever Living, that kind of thing? I know some people who've made serious money from that.

Ahahaha, I almost expected you to finish that with "Sign up here using my code LUNGE420!!"

Forever Living, that kind of thing? I know some people who've made serious money from that.

People who have [i]actually[/i] made serious money from it, or people that [i]tell[/i] everyone on Facebook that they've made serious money from it and you can too.

Owner van driver? Pick up a couple of shifts delivering for Parcel force/amazon?

So I think there is a £10k tax free limit a year on income from "hobbies" -

So if you sold music and it was your hobby (as in, not your main occupation or income I guess) you can earn £10k a year tax free.

Or make wooden snowmen and sell on Etsy, but claim woodworking is your hobby and you need to shift all these damn snowmen so you decided to sell them at £19.99 a pop so you can get rid of the 500 snowmen taking up your shed.

What skills have you got, and how marketable are they?

Outside of my full time job, I do;

Consulting: working with international companies looking to move into UK markets, earns about £100 a month.

Event work: Registered Paramedic, standing around doing nothing at football/racing/rugby/ music events, £20p/h (limited to weekends due to main job)

Frontline work: Registered Paramedic, 10-12 hour shifts whenever I want, paid at £25p/h. Downside minimum 10 hour shift (usually 12), actually hard work.

in short, to bring in an extra £10k a year, you're going to have to work very hard and save a lot too. fitting that round your life will be a challenge, and tiredness is a real issue, especially if hours are flexible and you're chasing the cash.

Easiest gig is probably Uber, but costs could out weigh earnings unless you work a lot of unsocial hours.

Teaching would be my choice... music lessons, tutoring kids in maths/science/English whatever. Assuming you've got the skills and patience?

[quote=Jamie ]You do know there isn't a prize for the amount of individual posts, Percy?

Edit: Yup. I realise I spelled Perchy as Percy, but I think I prefer it.

With 744 pages worth that must be a disappointment to you 😉
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/profile/jamie

People who have actually made serious money from it, or people that tell everyone on Facebook that they've made serious money from it and you can too.

We had one girl promising U N L I M I T E D I N C O M E if you signed up for her programme of selling healthy living capsules or whatever they were. She got a couple of others involved also. It all came crashing down about 3 months later when no one made any of that sweet sweet unlimited income.

Honestly I think the easiest thing to do would be to invest in yourself so you can find a job that pays you £10k extra a year

If it was easy everyone would do it.

I wrote blogs for a MTB site, sometimes it would take me 30 mins and the words poured out as quick as I could type them, sometimes it would take 2 days and I'd still hate it - I got paid £30 for 300 words, sometimes... I did it for a laugh.

How's your LinkedIn Profile? A Management Consultancy / Research firm used to pay me £200 a hour to chat to people who wanted to move into my former industry. Wasn't steady work and you've got to be careful that you haven't signed from NDA way-back-when.

Uber driving, forget about it, they'll bleed you dry - you're better off delivering for a takeaway. Some people even tip them! It's always evening / weekend work and a lot of smaller places are looking for drivers since the advent of Justeat et al.

Really though, if its easy work it won't pay well, most people won't work all day for £17 an hour or whatever and keep £13 of it, grab a handful of food and head back out for £7.5 an hour and keep £5 of it when they're already dog tired. It's far better to try to do what you do all day in the evenings - I assume OT is out of the question or you wouldn't be here - is there a market for what you do out-of-hours? Ideally a market that will pay over the odds for out-of-hours work?

With 744 pages worth that must be a disappointment to you
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/profile/jamie

The post count via pages in one's profile is not an accurate gauge of how prolific one is.

I believe proper post counts are coming on the new forum.

So if you sold music and it was your hobby (as in, not your main occupation or income I guess) you can earn £10k a year tax free.

just need the 3 million or so plays on spotify and he's cracked it! i think you're onto a winner there! 😆

better off playing gigs I suspect!

So I think there is a £10k tax free limit a year on income from "hobbies" -

So if you sold music and it was your hobby (as in, not your main occupation or income I guess) you can earn £10k a year tax free.

This is bollocks I'm afraid. Income is income, and taxed as such.

I believe proper post counts are coming on the new forum.

and then, my friend, it's game on. 😉

You and me , bro!

Post off!

Local Market Research company's are often looking fir people to do evening shifts. It's telephone work and zero hours contract but it can add up after a few shifts.
Also, do you have a W H Smith depot nearby? Taking the papers and magazines out to the shops before they open is a good earner. They supply the van and fuel. You get to the depot at 4;30am.deliver papers to shops and pick up returns. finished by 7:30am'ish. . My mate does this (three kids and a divorce has forced his hand) but he's always knackered.
Where abouts are you? I know of a position that is going to become available soon. A national tyre company that looks after lease car tyres. Job involves being in the office overnight and answering the phone to people with lease cars that have punctures, blow outs etc. The guy who does it at the moment is giving it up but he spends the first three hours 10:00pm to 1:00am watching films on his iPad and then he gets some sleep until a) the phone rings and he wakes up to answer it to and organise what's needed or b) gets woken up by the morning shift people at 7:00am. The company has supplied a cot bed, blankets etc. He says that he gets three nights out of five on average where he's not woken up by the phone. The job is in Stockport. That might work?

Has Herbalife been mentioned yet?

People who have actually made serious money from it, or people that tell everyone on Facebook that they've made serious money from it and you can too.

better off playing gigs I suspect!

Busking.

plyphon - Member
So I think there is a £10k tax free limit a year on income from "hobbies" -

So if you sold music and it was your hobby (as in, not your main occupation or income I guess) you can earn £10k a year tax free.

Or make wooden snowmen and sell on Etsy, but claim woodworking is your hobby and you need to shift all these damn snowmen so you decided to sell them at £19.99 a pop so you can get rid of the 500 snowmen taking up your shed.

Nope, not even close - there is no tax free limit for hobbies, it's either a hobby or it isn't.

HMRC have the power and have in the past demanded users details from eBay etc to 'discuss' their business with them. They sent letters to 14000 eBay, Etsy. Amazon and Gumtree sellers in 2015 alone.

Jamie - Member
better off playing gigs I suspect!
Busking.

A decent spot in combination some actual talent? could be doable!

2 hour slot, every night, £26 sorted. Not like you'd need to declare to the tax man either. Though you'd probably need to pay the supermarket tax to change the coppers into real money, so probably looking at £30/2hours! 😆

thought about being a retained firefighter? (if you live within 5 mins of a station that does it.) some of the retained in our brigade can earn a good few thousand per annum if they also do the co-responder 'propping up the ambulance service' thing......

lunge - Member
What about some network/pyramid marketing? Forever Living, that kind of thing? I know some people who've made serious money from that.

You've got to ask yourself are you willing to "monetise your friendships"?

I have a 1 strike rule for Juiceplus, Herbalife, Utilities Warehouse and all the other snake oil sellers. A single ad on social media and they're gone. A face to face gets a verbal warning and if I have the info to hand a stern lecture that their product is bullshit and they're trying to rip off their friends.

I've been suckered into some shady pyramid stuff in the past, only for a few moments before I told them to foxtrot. You cannot make any money selling it, you cannot make any money by recruiting others to sell it, you make money recruiting the people who recruit others to sell it - if you're prepared to rip off your friends, and their friends, friends then give it a go - if you can convince yourself to believe the marketing BS, in 2-3 years you could start making some money, 95% of people will get taken for a ride and give up though.

Properly agressive matched betting program could get close to that figure in 12 months.

Might have to utilise some family members details, if you lose too many accounts though.

You've got to ask yourself are you willing to "monetise your friendships"?

I have a 1 strike rule for Juiceplus, Herbalife, Utilities Warehouse and all the other snake oil sellers. A single ad on social media and they're gone. A face to face gets a verbal warning and if I have the info to hand a stern lecture that their product is bullshit and they're trying to rip off their friends.

I've been suckered into some shady pyramid stuff in the past, only for a few moments before I told them to foxtrot. You cannot make any money selling it, you cannot make any money by recruiting others to sell it, you make money recruiting the people who recruit others to sell it - if you're prepared to rip off your friends, and their friends, friends then give it a go - if you can convince yourself to believe the marketing BS, in 2-3 years you could start making some money, 95% of people will get taken for a ride and give up though.

I offered my body to science, time and time again. 😆

You're not far wrong, from what I understand it's basically sales, but selling a lifestyle that people want to have so they ask "how did you get that?" and you can respond "well, let me explain...".
Said friends have indeed alienated a large amount of their friends, a fair payoff for what they have in their eyes.

Yep, it's just as bad in the B2B market - I've given up Networking, it's always the same people "doing the circuit" they can double your turnover in 12 months, drive 1000 sales leads a day to you, save you a fortune on this or that.

The non-business ones take the Mick though, social media is so prevalent these days. With some of them you can see it coming - one of the girls from school (she was a girl in school, she's 40 now) she'd a Travel Agent by day I think, always kept trim and fit and likes a lot of make-up, posts the usual "kids doing stuff" things and then suddenly it's all Gym selfies with a bit of cleavage, twice a day, "all because of JuicePlus!!!" is it ****. It's all because you eat well and go to the Gym every single day - to a lot of our school mates looking at their middle aged belly, post 3 kids and a divorce arse or "twenty years staring at a monitor" double chin she's got an enviable body - but she didn't get it by scoffing haribo capsules for breakfast - no she's going to use all her hardwork and quite a lot of BS to make you pay for her next holiday.

P-Jay you have just nailed all those instagram grifters, heard similar tales about a gym yummy mummy who used to post a pic of herself when she was 17 and 'frumpy' (some might say) and now its a constant stream of pics from gym (member for last 20 years) when she looks 25 but is hitting 40 and credits everything to some supplement or other.

uber or some kind of courier work is your best option at those times. the hourly rate is low, though. How about promotional work or working at gigs. They tend to be more performance based. For that money, at those times, it would have to be a sales-type job unless you have specific skills like fixing computers or coding...

I personally welcome a Jamie v Percival post-a-thon; some giggles rather than

aracer - Member

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Do you have access to a small plot of land/garden and live in a sunny area? Look up growing microgreens and selling direct to restaurants, sandwich shops etc.

As above, matched betting. Income free of tax too.

You won't get £10k but should get a couple I would think.

Do you need this ten grand once or on a repetitive basis? I'm assuming you've been through your Household budget and cut all extraneous spend, also eBay everything that is lying about

Bar work has the added bonus of not going out getting pissed on a weekend hence saving more

Think of it this way, it's 200quid a weekend, every weekend from now to September 2018, carpe Diem and good luck

sperm donor.

I tried it but was a bit dissappointed - it's nothing like being a blood donor where you get a nurse that helps you through the process 🙁

Buy my Window cleaning round off me then I can Retire and you can earn some cash. 😀

Gigolo

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Bike theif?

Rent a spare room, 7.5k pa tax free.

When i was really broke with my first house i used to buy bikes, clean them up and sell them on. Found it quite relaxing in the evenings in the garage.

Saturdays you could do rental house inventorys, i just paid 180 for about 2-3 hours work.

See if your local NHS has an out of hours doctor service needing drivers. I have a part time job with my local NHS, eveings and weekends on a zero hour contract basis. They offer shifts and I say yes or no.

Usually 7 or 8 hour shifts. Pick up car, check equipment, meet Dr at hospital he is starting at then drive round calls. I use it to catch up on my reading as a typical shift involves 10-15m drives between call then 20-30m waiting while DR is in house.

Good points - PAYE so no tax hassle.
Easy work.
Improve my knowledge of local area.
Zero hrs so easy to fit round other things

Of course not all areas with do it this way. I think the driver is justified as security for medical stuff in boot while car is parked and time savings by Dr updating last call on laptop while driving to next call.

Not sure exact rate but roughly £10 an hour after tax, NI. (with me paying tax on all earnings as my tax code is used elsewhere).

A lad at work was getting earning a few hundred pounds a week delivering for a local pizza shop (including tips). Free pizza too, so even more saved.

Hang around parks in the dead of night. There's bound to be some Lycra or baggies fetishists who'd pay top dollar for you 😉

Private investigator? 😀

Hitman? 😆

Skimming walls. I'm a.nurse with a cheeky side line in plastering

Ok, so you have to be good (matt and flat) but it comes with experience.

Did one of those courses that plasterers frown upon then reskimmed my whole house and me and a friend now do it on the side. Can make cheeky dollar. If you are good.

3 things to ask.
How much time do you have and is it regular time?
How much extra work can you afford to do and still live/work at your main job properly?
What skills do you have?

For the 10k and still being able to function properly then you need some skills that will turn a profit from little outlay, everything else is small amounts over time which get in the way of 1 & 2.

I just sold a photo through Roots and Rain taking a massive 2.20, be nice to sell more, even conservativly in the UK you would need to be shifting 20-30 to cover going to a race to take them if your not selling commercial

Do you have a room you can airbnb? I am currently covering my whole rent at 1500 pcm by letting a spare room by the garage.

We AirBnB the spare room of our flat, and it covers the mortgage most months. I would think that location has a lot to do with how successful it will be- 10 mins from a mainline station in a town with lots of conferences and you will do ok.

Can't believe no one hàs suggested it yet.... rent yourself out, "professional" gigolo. 😯

They have - see Quagmire up there

If your car is big enough, you could do 2 hours 2 nights a week plus 4 hours at the weekend cutting grass and make £10k net a year.

Get your girlfriend to sell used panties
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His girlfriend doesnt wear panties.

When I was a student I worked in Motorola in the semi-conductor testing facility. I worked Thursday/Friday/Saturday nigtshift, 10 hr shift then 2 12's. That paid very very well but I was incredibly tired all the time - not helped by us having a baby a month before I started 🙂

So something like a Friday/Saturday nightshift on 12 hour shift would see you clear £10k after tax.

An actor in the adult entertainment industry.

Clearing £10k in a year is a lot. GIG econony stuff like Uber etc does not pay well. A relative of mine works 6pm-11pm at local corner shop that will give you something like £8k gross. Personally I think your £10k target is too ambitious

P-Jay - Member

Nope, not even close - there is no tax free limit for hobbies, it's either a hobby or it isn't.

HMRC have the power and have in the past demanded users details from eBay etc to 'discuss' their business with them. They sent letters to 14000 eBay, Etsy. Amazon and Gumtree sellers in 2015 alone.

It seems the Gov have reduced it to £1000, but it exists:

https://www.thecompanywarehouse.co.uk/blog/tax-boost-for-hobby-businesses-and-micro-entrepreneurs

double.

It seems the Gov have reduced it to £1000, but it exists:

that was the plan, but sadly, it didn't come to pass:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tax/income-tax/government-quietly-drops-ebay-airbnb-tax-break/