Corporations taking over side hustles seems to be screwing over people, since they take such a large cut and flood the market for that hustle.

But the ones I’ve personally seen people do that work pretty well (in USA) are:

Stay at home mom watching another kid (legally dubious depending on state/situation. But I ain’t no narc.)

A neighbor of my mom’s sends out a menu saying what she plans on cooking each night for that week, and for $X will deliver you some as well (Legal in Utah due to special laws, other states could be dubious. )

People who go pick up free furniture that is pretty trashed, and then refurbishes it and sells it. Or people with trucks who are like “Will deliver furniture for $30 in X area” is also pretty life saver for people without cars/trucks. Was able to get a super cheap/nice coach because of this.
People who just flip free stuff or stuff from thrift stores without doing any improvements annoy me greatly though. We broke and you’re just driving up the price!

None of these generate a ton of cash, but I like that they take very little up front cost, aren’t disruptive, and mostly take labor.

So what side hustles have you seen work out?

  • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    7 days ago

    If I ever picked up a side hustle, it’d be basic editing. ChatGPT has displaced the ghost writer but it can’t polish its own turd.

      • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        I think the thing that would keep me sane is that I’m fascinated in trying to figure out how a single AI-generated paragraph can be accurately detected.

        But yeah, the common permutation of multiple pargraphs, the first starting with reaffirm/validate/reiterate is downright obnoxious.

        ‘I’m sorry to hear you’re having such difficulties with editing ChatGPT-generated content. It can be challenging and even frustrating at times, but with’ lol

        • ericbomb@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          6 days ago

          I’m doing online college atm, and there is a forum post assignment each week.

          I dread having to respond to my other “class mates” because half of them are clearly using AI. Like having to read a single sentence of AI slop makes me lose the will to live. Spending my mental energy to read something no one was willing to put in the energy to write is not what I wanna spend my days doing.

          The school, like all universities, are working on new policies. But it’s just so painful to prove someone is using AI beyond a reasonable doubt. Sometimes folks accidentally include something where the answer basically includes something like “as an AI” , and those generally get removed quickly and I don’t see that student post ever again. Or someone posted code where in it there was a comment that said “Then you can repeat this process to write the rest of the program”

          So yeah, if you made a game out of catching AI slop, more power to you. You are a stronger, or more deranged, internet user than me.