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Please don't.
It’s in all seriousness is a day trading market right now
It might be a good time for day trading, but it's probably not the kind of stable, safe income that an unemployed person needs.
Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
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#72Unless you're desperate for cash, the most effective way to raise your income level is to learn a new skill while updating your resume and networking in that field. Position yourself for the post-pandemic economy. ie. tech.
Any recommendations for someone with a background in logic controls and light IT (industrial background)? What is actually worth investing your time in?
Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
#731. Teach English by video to children overseas. 2. Get a remote call centre job. 3. The DoorDashes and Uber Eats of the world are doing tremendous business right now, as is Amazon (and they have the Flex delivery service). Instacart was also hiring some 300,000 people. 4. If your friend is the creative or innovative type, there are a ton of competitions being hosted by various companies. You enter enough and the inco…
What kind of competitions?
Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
#74DoorDash, GrubHub, Uber Eats, and the like make pretty decent money. About $7 per order before tip and in a busy area you might be able to snag two or three orders going the same direction making the $/hr a little better. It's basically the definition of not great money but it's not very difficult, not physically straining, and you don't have to interview or whatever for it. Grocery stores in my area are also hiring…
I watch some YouTube channels of delivery people (usually on bikes) just out of curiosity. Most of them do it only part-time and see it as a work-out gamification. Looks like during the pandemic many restaurants also closed delivery options and the orders dropped according to some YouTubers in the UK. The most important aspect: It does not scale. It's very hard to earn a living outside of the "surge pricing" rush hou…
I think the bike delivery labor market is super different from the delivery driver market. You are much more likely to find people "gamifying" it as bikers than as drivers.
Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
#75I run an affiliate blog, and they're definitely easy to get up and running. However, they're not "only 1 or two hours a day" type things as they are often claimed. But they can be fun and rewarding. I usually make around $200 a month with about 500 page views a day.
would you mind expanding a bit on what you do and how did you start?
Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
#76Get rid of old stuff on ebay/cl/fb marketplace. Or buy stuff from ebay/cl/fb marketplace and sell on Amazon. and plugging a friend: https://www.flipmine.com/ scrapes arbitrage opportunities b/w ebay and amazon.
Interesting recommendation of flipmine. I buy in to the idea of what they're selling - used goods arbitrage - they're just selling another form of a "get rich scheme". Follow the money. If this niche were so great then the proprietors would keep this software platform to themselves to identify the opportunities and perform the work. Instead, they "offer" you the opportunity while they take in a $39 monthly fee for th…
Absolutely agree. You might make a couple bucks here and there, but the Flipmine guy is guaranteed $39/month from you. That's where the real action is.
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#77There 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 put in the time.
Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
#78content generation. you have no idea how many marketing companies need content writers for their clients. typically you can make between $5-$25 an article with an article being 300-2000. most articles don't have to be great, they just want articles written for a specific keyword.
I don’t need this myself, but know someone who does. Do you have any pointers to companies or how to get started?
Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
#79There 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…
I think it's disingenuous to suggest that you can setup an account on these sites and have $50 by the end of the day "if you are willing to focus". With the exception of Mechanical Turk, which pays pennies, the others require you have a skill that people are willing to pay for.