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

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Post by MattGaiser »

sonofaragorn wrote: post #206
illegalsmile wrote: post #117

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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?

12 hours of aggressive work might get you there.

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

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Post by digitaltrees »

soared wrote: post #106
econcon wrote: post #50

There is shortage of 3D printing filament because of virus, so I've been creating filament and selling it. https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho... This activity also help recycle waste plastic. Production cost of filament is $7.5 per 5kg and filament roll has 850 gram filament and can be sold for $20-30 per spool It's trivial to get the quality right. You can sell rolls on Amazon, eBay and Ets…

I don’t think someone working at a call center has the technical aptitude and financial resources to source and build there own extrusion machine.

Crisis is the mother of invention and motivation. This thread is awesome because it’s the sharing of knowledge that will give people opportunities. Even if they don’t currently have the ability it’s amazing to teach each other.

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

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Post by mattgibson »

chupaolo wrote: post #221
mattgibson wrote: post #218

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A friend used to have a great ebay sideline in reselling poorly listed items at a higher price. He'd search for reasonably high value items that had been listed with spelling mistakes in the name so that they didn't show up in searches, or showed up too far down the results to be noticed. He'd then buy them and immediately on winning the auction, re-list the same item but without the spelling mistakes. His secret tri…

That's a great trick! Any idea how profitable this was?

I never asked for figures, but he kept doing it despite being in a reasonably well paid job as social media manager for a restaurant chain.

Which brings to mind another of his tricks: He set up a lunch voucher trading scheme for all of the other restaurants in the little downtown area where he was based. He got to eat anywhere he liked every lunch time.

One of his employment perks was getting a free lunch from his restaurant every day. He soon got bored of it, so he designed and printed some home made lunch vouchers with his name on, and arranged for the front of house staff to accept them in lieu of payment. The understanding was that there would be no more than one per day for the days he didn't eat there. Then he went to all of the other restaurants and told their front of house staff that they could swap their own free lunches for his by letting him eat there in exchange for his vouchers. They could then eat at his restaurant for free on one of the next few days.

That was 10 years ago and I've never since met anyone with a better hustle than that guy.

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

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Post by digitaltrees »

soared wrote: post #142
xeromal wrote: post #125

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Hard times can make hard people. You don't know what someone is capable of until they're backed against a wall. I was a computer repair man until my parent's divorce and the 2008 market collapse which forced me into a CS degree.

Computer repair -> computer science. Call center -> building machines from scratch based on a medium post. Sure it’s possible but I don’t think the suggestion really makes sense. You can be blind to the fact that hn is in the 1% of intellect/ability, but it should be obvious that effectively no one can honestly take that suggestion. Unemployed, low on cash, and then in a low-skill industry it doesn’t make sense to ri…

BS. For most of human history there was no manufacturing, people made stuff by hand. Every human is Capable of learning and making this machine. And it’s awesome that people are trying to teach others.

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

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Post by LanceH »

jefftk wrote: post #95
LanceH wrote: post #42

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Daycare may require state certification (just beware). With so many kids homeschooled, tutoring the last couple of months was probably a gold mine. Many parents run into a hard wall with respect to math and science and can no longer help their kids.

Watching the kids of a single family is being a nanny, not a daycare, and at least in the US doesn't require a license or certification.

Watching their kids at their house is being a nanny. You only mentioned people need childcare. Having kids dropped off at your house requires at least registration in Texas, and if it's 4-6, requires certification.

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

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Post by rodolphoarruda »

This thread is so important. At times of crisis like this we need to know about demand. Demand is king. All of the sudden we have resources like knowledge, materials and even money, but not much clarity about how to employ them for the greater good.

In my head, still in a very abstract way, we need something like LinkedIN exposing demand and not only job openings.

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

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Post by RhysU »

gumby wrote: post #214
uoaei wrote: post #197

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It's almost like some people don't attach their identity to their job, and make an income to pursue their interests in other hours.

Indeed. I've always hated that question "what do you do" (meaning your job) and usually answer it with "about what?" I understand it's a pretty straightforward way to look for common ground and introductory topic of conversation, but there's a massive implication which I consider socially corrosive.

What is the implication and why is it socially corrosive?

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

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Post by __s »

RhysU wrote: post #239
gumby wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed. I've always hated that question "what do you do" (meaning your job) and usually answer it with "about what?" I understand it's a pretty straightforward way to look for common ground and introductory topic of conversation, but there's a massive implication which I consider socially corrosive.

What is the implication and why is it socially corrosive?

The implication is that you define someone purely by their career. It's socially corrosive because we end up with people valuing themselves based on their vocation, & consequently we judge a man's worth on the salary he brings home
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