Do you have a second income stream?

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Loads of people I know seem to have a second income or a side hustle going on, a
in too if their regular job. Some of them are selling things on Facebook for a scheme like Scentsy, Tropic etc. Some do tutoring outside of their teaching job or for ex teachers. Some have bought a house to rent out out. Some make things for Etsy or bake goods. Some do nails or beauty treatments around their office job - the woman who does my nails and the woman who does my facials both have day jobs and then do these in the evening. As I say, I seem to know of so many people who have a full time job but then something else. Is it the norm now? Do you have a second income?

I have a full time job and a different weekend job.
10 years ago this was fine but I'm in my 50s now and really feel it when I've worked several weeks without a break at the weekend.

Electronics, books, toiletries, clothes. One item in the £650 was £320.

Also do Facebook / Ebay, maybe made another £100-£200 there.

Gonna do a car boot at end of Summr of whatever is left.

I did a spreadsheet rating all my ideas by initial time, ongoing time, possible returns, used chat GPT to help me prioritise.

Yes, dog walking. I get out into the fresh air with gorgeous dogs, owners are lovely and very grateful, the money goes on overpaying my mortgage.

I have a resi buy to let and 3xcommercial units. The commercial units perform far better, were cheaper to purchase and very little maintenance/admin. I work 30 hours a week in a NMW job but have a young family, and even after all that not a lot of disposable income!

We rent out our first married home but want to sell it as a buy to let. I did have overtime if I wanted it where I work but we’re now very short staffed so there’s never any on offer sadly. I only do 16 hours a week so could do with some sort of second income. Went through a phase of buying “ labels” at charity shops to sell at a profit, which was fun, although I don’t seem to have the right knowledge about what’s likely to sell & haven’t made anything of note so far. Perhaps I should take DD16. I have done the odd mystery shop in the past & I do online surveys, although it can take quite a while to earn enough for a voucher.

exactly,
i did a shift for a community care company and was lucky they allowed me to work one afternoon/evening a week, no where else does in caring.

Sainsburys and Next often do this. They advertise specific posts for specific days / hours. M&S used to do this too, but it may have been for temp Christmas contracts when I was last looking.

Yes I have a FT job and work and additional PT job for 16 hours a week. Purely for survival. I have two young children and I feel guilty and exhausted in equal measure.

I make jams, pickles and liqueurs to sell at village fetes. This time of year I'm very busy. I only earn about £500 but since the ingredients are almost free and there's no tax to pay, it makes perfect sense.

I also make enough to see us through the year, plus extra to swap with neighbours for eggs. I have an excess of cooking apples most years so a trailer load goes to a local rare-breeds pig man in exchange for 5kg of home made sausages for the freezer.

Any extra after that, go in a box by the gate for people to help themselves. Every year I'll find an apple pie or some chutney on my door step in thanks.

My DS does, he’s turned a hobby/interest into a part time business and makes £500 to £700 per month.

Is it all second hand stuff ?

Yes the £320 item was an unopened new Tablet, but everything else second hand. Maybe one swimming costume that had tags.

I don't sell at high prices, I aim to sell, that's the key. On Vinted you can set a price, then make offers to people. Or receive offers.

Also upload at weekends in a batch especially back hols. More uploads boosts the algorithm. There's also a brilliant feature called Boost, if you have one expensive item, buy a Boost and then it increases exposure to your whole shopfront on Vinted. The Boost is £1-£3. You then get a flurry of sales over one weekend.

Some examples of sales, Hobbs used coat £60, Fat Face shorts £3, Sho flask (OK that was new) £15. Lots of £1 and £2 items.

I actually invest the money into a stocks and shares ISA so the way I see it is if I sell something for £15, in 15 years time at a 7% interest rate then I have £40, and it cost me £30 to start with.

So its not a huge 'money maker' when you factor in the money spent when buying the item, but it's something that helps. You just have to be careful not to buy more stuff while on Vinted.

Actually just checked, made £444 on Vinted since I started. £320 tablet was sold on Ebay.

I’m on OnlyFans. Make ~£1000/mth.

I've thought about this but it's not worth the therapy I'd need!

@Katieweasel Is your first job term time? If not, that's 12 hours worked per day 5 days a week, not counting a 30 minute lunch break!!

Do you take any leave? How much do you earn pa? You don't have to answer, obviously. I'm truly intrigued. How do you have the energy to do anything else outside of your work hours?!

Investments but the dividends are reinvested

Before I had my son I used to work 2 jobs. Monday-Friday 9-5 then 9-6am at a bar Friday and Saturday.

main job covered rent and bills other job was play money.

I work on call and overtime one week a month. DH does every other Saturday for another department within his organisation. Plus particular reports for a peripatetic rate. We've had other second jobs over the years too sessional work in practitioner fields etc. We both work in criminal justice. IME it's very common in operational areas of the public sector to moonlight in some way. Either within the sector or elsewhere working in pubs, deliveroo and so on, because despite the public perception pay isn't good and had been stagnant for a very long time with its value eroded by inflation.

@NotoloasyNo my full time job isn’t term time. I’ve been doing this for the last 3 years. My DS got a great opportunity to study abroad and although he had a great scholarship, we still needed to find an additional £10k a year. I was really fortunate to find the evening role which I WFH. My day job pays well at £45k. My evening job brings in an additional £18k. My husband works evenings so I would usually be home alone anyway. The evening work is data entry so I usually listen to an audio book while working. My husband is fantastic and pretty much does all the housework during the day before he goes to work. This means that we can spend the whole weekend together doing fun stuff. I do get a bit tired around Thursday each week. It’s pretty much 12 hours a day sat looking at a screen and I do occasionally get some cracking headaches. It also means that I can’t make any plans in the week. I get annual leave from both jobs so just book them at the same time. It was only supposed to be for 2 years while my DS did his IB but now he’s at University abroad too I’ve continued as he isn’t eligible for students loans. I’ve honestly just got used to doing it. I would absolutely not have been able to do it when DS was younger nor if my husband wasn’t picking up the housework.

Thanks @Katieweasel for your reply - that makes sense putting it into context. Right now I don't have help with housework or would be able to work those hours with DC, but in the near future I will very likely need to take on second job.

Yeah, I know, me too. I’ve made £1100 since I started. I do sometimes buy things on there though. I’m going to be investing the recent £206 I’ve made in the past week as well.