I get paid to wait in line for everything from sample sales to celebrity trials. I've learned there are 2 key things people will pay for.

Tech Insider : Business, Travel
Gigi Principe
Principe became a line-sitter in 2023.

Gigi Principe

I've earned $85,000 renting out my backyard hot tub and ping pong table. The passive income helps pay our mortgage.

Tech Insider : Business
Backyard with a ping pong table, fire pit, and hot tub.
Rob Nachbar remodeled his Portland backyard, complete with a hot tub and a ping pong table, and started renting it out by the hour.

Rob Nachbar

I lost my full-time job and had to drain my savings and take 2 service jobs to make ends meet. It taught me to lean on people.

Tech Insider : Business, Economy
Smiling woman in a camel coat standing in sunlight against a geometric black-and-white wall.
Keijhon Francis spent over a year unemployed before finding a new role.

Courtesy of Keijhon Francis

I left my six-figure law job and bought a mobile-home park. Despite the drawbacks, I'm happier and still live comfortably.

Tech Insider : Business, Politics
Author John Kaufmann taking selfie in front of house
I left Big Law and bought a mobile-home park. I work less and don't get paid as much, but I'm happier and still live comfortably.

John Kaufmann

6-figure eBay veterans who have been on the platform for 20 years explain how to make money reselling items

Tech Insider : Business
yinka Ogunsunlade
Ogunsunlade is an attorney by trade, specializing in risk and compliance.

Michaela Joy Photography/Michaela Joy Photography

A six-figure eBay seller who started his side hustle with $0 explains how he sources profitable products

Tech Insider : Business, Style
Yinka Ogunsunlade
Ogunsunlade started reselling items on eBay in 2005. Today, his business, Fashionably Legal, generates six figures in revenue.

Courtesy of Yinka Ogunsunlade

I pay for date-night babysitters by selling my clutter on Facebook

Tech Insider : Business
The author and her husband smile while posing outside of a restaurant on a recent date night.
The author, pictured with her husband, sells unwanted items on Facebook weekly to make extra cash to pay for date-night sitters.

Courtesy of Alexandra Frost

After my double mastectomy, I turned my side hustle into a full-time business. We did $60,000 in one month.

Tech Insider : Business
Bette Bentley holding a box of Skimpies against a pink background.
Bette Bentley went all-in on Skimpies from her hospital bed after her double mastectomy.

Skimpies

The free-for-all that's upending America's side hustle industry

Tech Insider : Business, Crypto, Economy
Two hands holding stacks of cash and one of them dissapearing pixel by pixel

Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI

An entrepreneur who leveraged books to build a 6-figure window cleaning business shares the hack that pushes him to finish a book a month

Tech Insider : Business
kyle ray
Ray, circa 2014, when his side hustle started gaining serious traction.

Courtesy of Kyle Ray

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