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Ask HN: Do you have a second income?

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Re: Ask HN: Do you have a second income?

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Pre-covid I was a fire-fighter paramedic with a 24 hours on /48 hours off schedule making almost $60K. On the 2 days off and a few hours here and there on shift I worked as a remote programmer for a company which got me between $20 - $30K extra a year. I did that for 2 1/2 years. In June of this year I left the fire department for a full time remote programming job. I could have kept the part time job but decided to…

I'll share this with my son who wants to pursue an EMT career while I've insisted to become a programmer like me. :eyeroll: LOL

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a second income?

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We rent a corner of our lot to T-Mobile for a cell phone tower - it pays about $1200 a month. So far it seems like a great deal to us - the maintenance people are super stealthy and never bother us, and the previous homeowner built a very nice-looking fence around the equipment that matches the house and makes it easy to just not notice that anything is there. The tower itself is on a telephone/power pole for lines t…

How does one start something like this, or is it a matter of luck of having land that the cell phone company reaches out to you wanting to put a tower on?
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