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Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by ghostbrainalpha »

OkGoDoIt wrote: post #183
metabagel wrote: post #112

File for unemployment. The federal government is increasing the weekly payment. Additionally, I believe this is not limited to California, unemployment compensation starts from day 1 rather than the second week. Edit: Also unemployment compensation is being extended to job types which previously weren’t covered, like hairdressers and massage therapists. Having been told to stay home from work for Covid should be suff…

This should definitely be done, but a caveat against assuming this is a blanket solution: I have plenty of friends in the theater industry who mostly make money as non-employee contract/gig workers. But 2 of these friends also had some minimal part-time work last year where they made under $1000. Because they had a W-2 last year, they are disqualified from getting unemployment based on their contract work, even thoug…

This brings up a good point about the complication of the unemployment application system.

Maybe "Unemployment application screenshare advisor" would be a good job for a lot of people right now.

Especially if they have experience with the edge cases.

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by TheFiend7 »

posix_me_less wrote: post #81
jurassic wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My wife, who is out of work, is providing emergency childcare to some friends of ours for $20/hr. People are really desperate for this and I'm sure she could make more if she wasn't just doing it as a favor for our friends.

If you do something for a friend ... and take money, is it really fair to call it a favour?

If it isn't their profession/field and they don't need the money either way. Yeah I would still consider it a favor.

I pay the people who house sit and watch my pets, I still consider it a favor in addition to paying them.

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by tpae »

sinatra wrote: post #199

Maybe become a Guided Project instructor at Coursera and share your expertise with learners? I'm sharing some details from a previous post: Access an instructor community and support team that will give you all the tools and resources needed to create a high-quality project. Earn income remotely on a per-project basis as soon as your project is reviewed and approved. Impact lives of learners around the world by shari…

Can you actually make a decent income?

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by analog31 »

Fix bikes. There is presently a bike shortage, but probably a vast inventory almost-working bikes hanging in garages. Offer for a fee, a "no parts" bike tune-up, meaning you do what you can without access to spare parts, and quickly let them know if the bike is beyond your help.

A bit more adventuresome: Offer to buy klunkers and then use them as a parts supply for fixing the bikes that can be fixed, or combine parts to create working bikes that you can sell.

Many bikes are purchased with the best of intentions and then set aside for whatever reason. Later, the owner isn't sure what's needed, if anything, to get the bike in riding shape. They might even throw you a nominal fee just to be reassured that their bike is OK to ride.

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by sonofaragorn »

illegalsmile wrote: post #117
goatherders wrote: post #77

There are some truly awful suggestions here. The question isnt about changing his life by learning to code or setting up a plastics machine (which is pretty cool but takes investment) or starting an affiliate site and then generating traffic, it's about generating income during a global pandemic. 1. Fiverr 2. Mechanical Turk 3. Craigslist Gigs 4. UpWork Can generate $50 by dinner time if you're willing to focus and p…

That brings up a question: What can you do to earn $50 in 24 hours? Unless you already have mturk the waiting period is days to weeks if you're not rejected. Fiverr/Upwork would all require a large amount of luck to make $50 in one day as communication with client and turn-around time could take 12-24 hours before even starting a small one hour project. CL might be the best way to make that money in that time period…

Is it really possible to generate $50/day on mturk? What kind of tasks would pay that much?

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by slothtrop »

koheripbal wrote: post #35
xoxoy wrote: post #17

Day trading

In this market over the last two months, that's how I've made more money than I have in the entire last 3-4 years combined. Crazy. ...but that opportunity is probably overish. Also, "day" trading is usually bad - buying the dip and selling the excitement on a week/month basis takes much less time and is much safer.

Call options I guess? I endeavored to just buy stock during the dip for unfairly devalued blue chips but not impressed with my return.

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by consultutah »

pascalxus wrote: post #200

Start selling anything and everything that has any monetary value on platforms like: Craigslist, Ebay, Facebook marketplace, nextDoor, close5 (if they're still around), letgo, etc. I mean, literally, just go through every last item in your house. If you haven't used it in the last 3 months, what's the point of holding on to it? It's labor intensive, but at when you're done, you'll have a much cleaner house and a litt…

While is isn't a continued source of cashflow, it IS the very first thing that anyone needing money quickly should look it. It's relatively easy and op mentioned, you can clean out the garage too!

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by bizzleDawg »

tbran wrote: post #170

I just started working on a list of gigs/side hustles - you can see it here: https://goofy-swartz-25f1b7.netlify.app/ or here in a day or two: https://www.lotsofopps.com Filter by skills, physical level, time to get paid, and things you have. It has some rough edges, but I'm fixing things and adding new listings every day. Finding some of the data is difficult - many companies bury their commissions and fees and very…

This is great!

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by ge96 »

quickthrowman wrote: post #182
ge96 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you have to have $25K right to be able to do this? (day trade)

You can day trade futures with any account size as long as you can meet the margin requirements of your broker. It is a really bad suggestion for this thread, futures trading is hard and emotionally taxing and most people lose money.

> as long as you can meet the margin requirements of your broker

I see thanks for the info

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