Side hustle

[seabod]

So I work in the sheet metal industry at a family run company that ticks all the boxes. They let us work on our own projects, get materials in for us and pretty much game as long as work goes out you can do what you want.

I’m looking for ideas for a small side hustle, nothing serious but I’d love for it to pay off getting my bike license and getting a bike one day.

I can do a range of things from drawing and designing, cutting, bending, welding.

What would your side hustle be ?

 

[hotponyshoes]

A service turning hand drawings into dxf files so people can get dream's laser cut etc?
Doesn't involve much use of the facilities you have available but has no investment/startup cost.

The best side hustles are doing the day job for yourself rather than your employer although you want to be petty sure they are happy about you doing it..
It also gets boring quickly as it's just more of the same.

I'd start by making stuff I actually wanted for myself and seeing what you can sell out of that.. not a problem to keep hold of it then if you can't shift it.

Unless anyone happens to offer you an idea for a unique product, that you just happen to have the skills and facilities to knock out, you'll be competing with every other hustler out there and some of the stuff you see for sale must actually be making the seller a loss. If you can come up with something unique by yourself you'll have a head start if you can market it and find the buyers but services / non physical objects are far more profitable if you have the skills.

 

[seabod]

A service turning hand drawings into dxf files so people can get dream's laser cut etc?
Doesn't involve much use of the facilities you have available but has no investment/startup cost.

The best side hustles are doing the day job for yourself rather than your employer although you want to be petty sure they are happy about you doing it..
It also gets boring quickly as it's just more of the same.

I'd start by making stuff I actually wanted for myself and seeing what you can sell out of that.. not a problem to keep hold of it then if you can't shift it.

Unless anyone happens to offer you an idea for a unique product, that you just happen to have the skills and facilities to knock out, you'll be competing with every other hustler out there and some of the stuff you see for sale must actually be making the seller a loss. If you can come up with something unique by yourself you'll have a head start if you can market it and find the buyers but services / non physical objects are far more profitable if you have the skills.

Cheers mate. Converting hand drawings to ready cut out step files is a good shout.

I already make bbq stuff but it’s so long winded.

 

[badabec]

With my miserable head, if the job ticks all the boxes, why?

 

[gaz1]

any hustle done at work becomes the companys

any hustle done at home is yours so get the materials cheap and do it at home

 

[Wozzaaah]

So I work in the sheet metal industry at a family run company that ticks all the boxes. They let us work on our own projects, get materials in for us and pretty much game as long as work goes out you can do what you want.

any hustle done at work becomes the companys

any hustle done at home is yours so get the materials cheap and do it at home

Did you not even read this bit?

 

[Erie Fred]

Just because they have allowed it, un restricted, I would not take that to the xtreme.
They are handing you your paycheck, I would tread carefully, very carefully.

"This is getting out of hand" is not what you want to hear.