So what would you do to make a grand or two a month?

Assuming you didn;t have a job, but had skills?...lemme tell you where I'm coming from...

I'm thinking of tossing in all my investments and property that I've worked my ass off over the last 25 years...

I have a passion for cars, (or why would I be here?), can weld and fabricate, but don't want to consume my life with hard schedules, etc...

So say you had your family income secured..what would you do to make the coin to cover healthcare for you and your kids, and be able to enjoy it?

Not like this is a "what if I won the lottery" thread, but that your monthly nut was covered, and now you need to make the insurance payments (about a grand for a family of 5), and stash some away like you normally do now and try to stash a buck or two away.

 

Does it have to be legal?
I'm just asking...

 

Well, ya...duh

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I'll be rolling it...but heck, haven't been rolling in it to date...just trying to gather some ideas/thought (legal) that can generate some income.

Thing is, and I'm really serious here...if I cash in the only thing I'm short on is medical care for my family.

Reason I am asking here on the HAMB, I'm sure there have been many aguy who wanted to try something out, but could only make a grand or two a month and not be able to cover everything that was needed to support himself...not tryingh to be an oppurtunist or anything, just looking for a way to get that l;ast few bucks I need.


Then again, if ya got a Columbian connection...PM me

 

shoot, go work for fudex or usp, their insurance programs are killer. Plus you can work part time to get those benifeits and have more time to play with you cars.

 

What is your great passion?
Let that question guide you on your path.

 

Great idea

Christ, never thought about part timing it for benfits...guess I've been stuck in the corporate world too long...heck...work part time, make some pay and still have the benies.

You may be my new best friend

 

If you can fabricate, how about making aftermarket items- say under dash brake set, or steering column, take in chassis work, air bag installs. My be a way to work on your car and make some bucks.

I know of someone who makes winches that go on trailers, he started making just the body and crank of the winch, and got the gears cut. He end up with a gear-cutting machine, a lath and now makes the whole thing in house, sells direct to companies that build trailers for hire. He does a 100 lot at a time, it takes about a week and that covers materials, shop rent and little extra, so he can take on other jobs for the remaining 3 weeks.

 

cool, now if I can only take care of my finances so I can go shape surf boards.

 

Greaty point and one to ponder on.

 

Personally... I PIMP my wife....

Hope she never reads that....Bwaaa ha haaaaa

 

If you're gonna sell it, I'd be interested in buying your '36 truck.
Does that help?

 

get some advertising together and do home repairs if youre talented at it. do paint and tile only, the investement is minimal for those tools and you could set your own schedule. one or two jobs a month could get you the grand you need.

 

another thought is talk to the car auctions and car dealers. my old neighbor used to do new vehicle dealer trade deliveries a few days and work the auto auction loading and unloading cars a few days

 

If I followed that, I would end up in trouble with my wife and live in a junkyard! Oh, wait...I already do!

 

How about a Part Time Fetish model? Thats my goal. I figure there has to be a market for an ex nite club bouncer who let himself go a bit in the fetish world.

Personally I would only do simulated sex acts..... I still have to keep my dignity.

 

pics?
rates?

 

I'd try the handyman thing. My brother has been a teacher for 35 years and does the hanyman thing in the summer. He wants to do it ful time and told me if my job of 32 years goes away, like it probably will, we can do it together. He always has more work than he can possbly do and has a big clientel of well off folks he does repeat work for!

 

5 years ago I decided to follow my dream and start buying and selling motoring books. Started in a spare bedroom in our home and put out a small printed catalogue. Next step was to get my stepson to build a cheap easy to use website. Within 2 years the stock had out grown our home. Ended up buying a apartment/retail space in a old (1860) warehouse conversion in a lovely tree lined street in the inner city and opened the shop 3 days a week. We are now one of the bigger car book specialists plus have got into diecast models and have one of NZ's best ranges of 1/18 scale. About 1/2 of our book business is from the internet and we send books all around the world (last week to India, USA, Italy and Germany). Do I regret going from a good 6 figure income to about 1/2 of that. HELL NO!!!!! Everyday I'm doing what I love and meeting real cool car guys and sitting around bull shitting with some of the old guys plus almost by accident building a good little business that I've had some really good offers for.

Check out my website if your interested......it is very out of date but we are working on that now.

LIFE IS GREAT.

 

Heres my $0.02:
I was 58,deadend lowpay job,hated going to work everyday for an asshole boss...Stood at the shop door one day and watched a kid grind up a tree stump & make $150.00 in less than an hour!..So, I thought ,"how much do you have to know to grind a hole in the ground??"...Went home ,found a dealer for stump grinders,priced 'em out,checked around with a few tree services,etc...went to work one day,handed the shop keys to the A-hole boss,loaded up my tools,went by & bought a grinder,had some business cards printed,put an ad in the local paper and started out on my own...Business came sorta slow for a while ,but steadily increased...I'm now in my 7th year..Did a grand a week for the last few years...So, my advice is think a little outta the box, not try to reinvent the wheel, you don't need to corner the market..just capture a corner of the market...This business makes me a living , I'm outside working ,I'm my own boss & he lets me have enough time to enjoy my cars...
Good luck Stan

 

Coming from experience here- you would have to REALLY love not making money at first- Insurance for your business ( even part time) and the costs aasociated with it will eat your money up pretty fast.
Cost me about $40k to start up my business in my new location- to get a building, supplies etc.
Good luck though

 

I would turn out a car every 6 months. Super simple scratchbuilds, like A roadsters on deuce rails out of all repop stuff. Maximize desireability, minimize complexity. Lotsa sbc/th350s, single stage paint sprayed in your own booth, no fenders or HVAC. Nothing show stopping, but seems once you got the hang of it, would be pretty reasonable to build em for 15k and sell for 25. You may grow tired of building the "entry level hot rod" but there's always gonna be a market for it, fresh-built, at 25k

Consider using your location to your advantage. Hook up with someone in a northeastern state in a major city that deals old cars. Get a dually with a take-3 trailer, load that sucker with clean western tin, and head east once every couple months. Put the word out that you'll find and deliver for private parties. There's no law that the dually can't be a crew cab that also stops at waterparks, races, state fairs, etc. Would make some good family memories.

 

I was lucky and found a home based business that really works, the wife does the hard work and I take the weekly checks to the bank. sounds fair to me. it's worth a couple grand a week and keeps growing dammit!

 

I like the "corner the market idea", I tuck pointed foundations for most of a summer. a friend and I had the summer off from high school and did one of my parents rentals, while we were doing it an old lady came over and asked if we'd do her house, we got 3 more houses on that block that day from word of mouth, then just drove around town and put flyers in mailboxes of houses that needed it. kept us busy all summer.

work out something with a bodyshop or a custom painter doing prep work, may not pay much but you could do it for a few months and learn quite a bit in the process.

if you can weld, put on body panels for people. nothing else, just fit up and weld. thats the expensive part of bodywork and it intimidates most people. start hanging chevelle and camaro quarter panels and welding in trunk floors, they all need them.

 

It works if you have a mobile road service truck.
There are always people needing help on the road.
AAA is always needing responsable road agents for their club.
Good pay for part time work.

 

amway, tupperware, herbalife, marykay, the list goes on and on with homebase stuff. You could also hit all the garage and estate sales and do the egay thing.

 

If you have some space to store cars....why not buy up collector type cars in the fall when demand is low and they're cheap? Spend the winter months tinkering on them and cleaning them up, then re-sell them in the spring when demand is high and so are the prices.

It seems to me, that if you are not searching out a "particular" car, you can often find really good deals. People get desperate for money, or lose their storage space, or just get discouraged and sell cars that have the potential of being worth much more with a little work and some "marketing".

The same could be done with other "seasonal" vehicles such as boats, motorcycles, race cars, snow mobiles and plow trucks. The market dictates that the prices will be low when demand is low. Imagine how many deals you can get on a decent plow truck in June or July, then all of sudden everybody's looking for one in November.

 

"Find Your Passion" is right, grasshopper!

Anything you do for money is just a job if you don't have a true passion for it.
What would you do if you didn't need ANY money?

 

Mike, What ever you decide, make sure you have enought $$$ for the unexpected health concerns and LTC. Hospital bills can wipe you out in an instant. Don't know what you do now, but consider staying with it and doing something on the side too. If the "side" thing works out, then make your move. Don't give up what ya got, cause they'll cover it up and make it a paved parking lot." (Joni Mitchell ?)

 

Bwaaaaaaaaa-haaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! See you at ATCO?

CB