What are some good side hustles? Want something productive/make some extra cash to fill spare time. I live in NYC if that makes a difference.

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Productive, no, but house call cat sitting is very satisfying.

Making house calls to feed cats is the easiest - $25/visit, $40/day if 2 feedings a day. With a full-time job, you can do 2 clients with 2 visits a day @ $40/day, and 2 clients at $25/day - $130 a day net. The friendlier cats will hang with you and you can work from the client's home. Upshot for anyone in NYC is also a chance to see a lot of different apartments.

I don't recommend dog walking. Dogs are a lot more fun overall, but very demanding of your time, and if your schedule slips, you've got a bigger mess to clean up.

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No, we just did it on our own. Super grass-roots, old school. Started out with flyers in our building and a neighboring building. Bought a domain name, made a mini-website, and bought an ad in a neighborhood blog. That gave us more business than we could have ever handled.

If you're willing to stay in the city for big travel holidays (e.g. MDW, Thanksgiving, Hannukah, Christmas, etc.) you can charge a premium as well. Wife and I did Manhattan below Canal St, and we were charging $50/visit on holidays with no discount and regret not charging more. I think Christmas week in 2016 we cleared over $4k between the 2 of us. Can't say that was fun - it was running from apt to apt for a week straight.

Get a few steady clients, and you're set for disposable income.

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