Side Jobs/Business

[NTXPilot]

Besides delivering pizzas and real-estate flipping, which everyone and there mom does, what kind of jobs/businesses do some of the pilots you've met have on the side? Any own their own business? Just curious.

 

[spudskier]

I'm a freelance director and technical director for broadcast sporting events... (used to be my full-time career in television - behind the scenes) You can break in depending on where you live if you know the right people as a utility op. (unless you have previous experience) It's not the most fun work (when you start out anyway) but it gets you to a LOT of sporting events and all access passes to whatever events you're working.

i.e. Pistons, Cavaliers, Red Wings, Blue Jackets, etc...

Most of it is afternoon and evening work so when I'm not flying with students, I make my real money at a sports gig.

 

[Carl_Spackler]

I hear you can make some good money stuffing envelopes at home.

 

[NTXPilot]

I could live with the sports events; stuffing envelopes...thank you, no.

 

[BRIGADEAVIATOR]

My friends and I started a small clothing company. www.heading270.com
Pretty much a part time gig for most of us but gives us more of a reason to show up to more airshows each year. Besides we got pretty annoyed at all the lame "remove before flight" stuff you see everywhere now.

 

[Workin'Stiff]

Don't make very much while I'm sitting on reserve. So I've got my business, making aircraft stickers... http://www.tahansen.com

I make stickers of pictures of aircraft... Workin' to get it in Sporty's now so the whole world can see 'um....

 

[mnixon]

Don't make very much while I'm sitting on reserve. So I've got my business, making aircraft stickers... http://www.tahansen.com

I make stickers of pictures of aircraft... Workin' to get it in Sporty's now so the whole world can see 'um....

Make some freighter crap. not the fake fedex/ups freighter stuff....!

 

[BRIGADEAVIATOR]

Don't make very much while I'm sitting on reserve. So I've got my business, making aircraft stickers... http://www.tahansen.com

I make stickers of pictures of aircraft... Workin' to get it in Sporty's now so the whole world can see 'um....

I know what you mean we're setting up a care package to send off to Sporty's next month.

 

[Workin'Stiff]

haha... so i should head out to the airport and find the "nastiest" lookin' 402 and make a zillion stickers of that???? I'll get right on that...

For those of you waiting for a certain airline / operator, I'm workin' my way, in essence, from biggest to smallest.... With some exceptions.... But now that I'm on straight reserve and little free time on my days off, it's going to be harder for me to jumpseat around and get some more pics... FYI....

 

[Workin'Stiff]

I know what you mean we're setting up a care package to send off to Sporty's next month.

Get ready to sit around for a long time to hear back from them... I guess they have a new product committee that only meets a couple times a year... But best of luck! I've got my fingers crossed...

 

[mcjohn]

Nice web site tahansen. Nice T-Shirts heading270. Very creative.
Here's something that may be a little interesting - My wife is going to a training program in June to become an etiquette professional. You know like those books "Mrs. Manners" etc... The program gives her all the curriculum and info to start up your on program/school. She then hopes to open a shop with a store in front that sells all kinds of retro goods for adults and kids and then have the classrooms for training in the back. She says she wants to have a job where she can always bring her kids (she's pregnant with 1st)

What do I do on the side?
I'm a bell attendant at a snazzy hotel (or as the guests sometimes say 'Bellboy' or 'Bagboy')uke:
I'm currently laid off, and sitting around stressing about my next move in aviation. The new flight school, where I was just hired, is dead for the winter, so I'm going out to Kansas to get my CFII and MEI. Hopefully that will give me a better student load back home (NC) so that I only have to go back to bell hoppin part time.

 

[NTXPilot]

Nice stickers.

 

[THE Flying Ace]

You can always do Amway. Or now they called it Quixtar. LOL

 

[Superpilot92]

I drive part time as a Limo driver. Make good money for a side job. Meet alot of people. Tips are good. Also I work when I want and around my Flight Schedule.

 

[Lostdog65]

haha... so i should head out to the airport and find the "nastiest" lookin' 402 and make a zillion stickers of that???? I'll get right on that...

Well then...head over to Sac Mather (MHR) some morning and snap one of the 402's on the ramp there! Try N2613B or N36908. Both are pretty worn but get the job done...in other words...she ain't pretty but she can fly!



Eric

 

[Fugawe]

An old airline Capt told me years ago to make sure you always have something on the side (for income/investments) -- wish I'd listened 10 yrs ago.

As the airline shakedown, draw-down, furloughing, etc began it's current cycle, many are scrambling for the 'something on the side'. Doesn't seem like a big deal to the 20-somethings with lots of earning years ahead of them, but it is for many others.

Guys/gals began doing all sorts of stuff: mortgage brokering, car sales, plane sales, auto-body repair (met a 777 CA who started a Dent-Master franchise), bounce houses, real estate broker, flipping, stock trading, etc, etc.

Tough to do some of these things if you fly a regular schedule. It's easier to do something you can do from almost anywhere with a phone and computer.
Also, the lower the start-up costs and investment, the easier it might be.

But...nothing that is free or cheap really works, and there is NO get-rich-quick plan.

A couple things I do know that work for many are:

http://optioneer.com/
--Fairly simple index option trading program. I've made over 30% annualized the past few years, and I'm very conservative. I've done over 50 trades, and lost on 2 of them. Knew nothing about this stuff before trading with them. It is NOT day trading. You trade your own money, using your broker. Optioneer is simply the info source to help you make trades.

http://waterfrontresortinvestments.com/
--Not flipping. Investing in waterfront (mostly) developments, holding for appreciation, then selling or leasing. Co has strong record. The 'bubble' has never crushed this type of investing.

I ain't selling anything -- you do what you want. If you're serious you'll find something that works for you. If you're not, you'll poo-poo most any idea that pops up and you'll flounder along for years whining about what shoulda/coulda been.

Fugawe

 

[Deltoid]

I have been involved in the Computer IT industry for years while I was learning to fly and getting time and ratings. I even got my B.S. in computer science, I never put my eggs in one basket. Once in the airlines I went on to get many IT certifications widely recognized and required in the industry and still freelance to this day to keep in it and make side bucks.

In addition I became a Notary for my state and got certified to do loan signings which can been done at any venue for example people's houses on a contract basis. Minimal financial investment involved.

I never trusted this industry and never will.

Deltoid