Arbitrary Aardvark

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

What are your other 12 side hustles if you’re at liberty to discuss?

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sure.

at my day job i wash dishes at a county club a couple days a week. it's good physical therapy for my back injury.
for 15 years i did medical experiments for big pharma, made over 100k. lately my blood pressure has been too high to get into the studies. i might have a screening next month.
when i was 19 i started a tiny recycling company. what's left of that is that i still dumpster dive, 4. and in another tab i'm at a restaurant equipment auction, 5. and i have a couple vacant lots,one of which might sell if the paperwork goes through. i should take a load of metal to the scrapyard soon.

.6. i open bank accounts and credit cards for the signup bonuses.

.7. i get a small monthly check from my grandfather's mineral rights.

.8. i get $610/mo from social security.

.9. i've gotten some very small amounts of money for speaking or writing or editing related to my medical research studies. in theory, i should be getting some income from referring people to medical studies, but in practice it doesn't work out. i moderate a forum for human research subjects.

.10. i have a room rented out in my house off and on. I have two more rooms I could rent out if I ever got the place cleaned up and repaired, and met the right people. $300/mo per room.

.11. my blog generates several cents a year from google. i have not monetized youtube yet, but my tenant has. he travels the world between medical studies.one of his videos got 2 million hits, but he hasn't been able to replicate that.

.12. i got a $7 check from a class action lawsuit last month.

.13. i often have a lawsuit of some sort going, as the plaintiff.

.14. then there's my law practice. it's more of an expensive hobby than a source of income, but i have a new case i'll be filing sometime this year. i only do cases involving elections.

.15. an elderly relative died, and i'm waiting on a check from the lawyers.

I don't get paid for the 5 minutes of standup i do at crackers at 8 pm on thursday nights, but sometimes they don't charge me for my pineapple juice. if any of you come see the show, please let them know an aardvark sent you.

.16. I'm heavily invested in tesla; my paychecks from the dishwashing job go to buy more shares.

.17. if you need something done, i might know a guy. only legal and ethical projects. i would appreciate some kind of finders fee if it works out.

.18 I'm not doing any grantwriting right now, but i've done some in the past.

that's the general idea. oh and of course plasma. probably made $3k over the past year.

# posted by gt @ 10:54

Saturday, February 25, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tcLmE9wBfE&ab_channel=DIYGardenChannel

grow a banana tree from a banana.

hints: start with a green banana. use aloe vera as rooting hormone.

# posted by gt @ 02:05

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