I’m back.  Fresh from those God-awful finals. Ugh! I’m so over college and I would totally quit except…I’m already out at least $50K so I might as well finish.  I may even consider grad school to pay that back. Anyway, anyway let’s talk.

This may have to be a new category on the blog but I’d like to talk to you about Hustles.  Now these hustles are some peoples valid job titles/descriptions that require almost no education/professional training at all.  Basically, I’m a little mad I ain’t think of it first.  But the hate never lasts long with me so I’m actually giving these folks a handshake and a salute because they’re definitely getting paid!  Here are some hustles you can get yourself into:

Streetwear Consultant:  You consult various stores/boutiques on streetwear.  Boutique may pay you anywhere from $50-$85K to do so.  By consulting I mean tell them which brands to buy and/or why they should buy them.  But hey isn’t that the buyers job? No.  You’d only be consulting on streetwear and store/boutiques sell more than streetwear right?

Persuasion Architect:  Paying anywhere from $70K-$90K, a Persuasion Architect, in my opinion, is a real classy word for pimp.  As a P.A. your job is to sway markets/customers/people into buying more/buying into a certain product or brand and essentially getting results.  Wait, P.A’s can even be paid as little as $7/hour.  Anyone in retail could say they were a Persuasion Architect.

Creative Helper: This pays $12-$15/hour and you just sit around and be creative and, you know, help.  Requirements: “Helpful to be proficient, Helpful to have graphic design experience”. Werd?

Color Separator: This one is real odd.  Apparently a screen printing company in NYC needs someone to separate the colors for them.  They’ll pay you $10-$15 per color.  They left some stuff out and now I have questions.  How many colors does one separate on average? 5? 50? 500? If you find out let me know.

Sam I Am: Doesn’t pay much but the title is that interesting I had to post it.  A ‘Sam I Am’ is a door-to-door salesman. I didn’t even know door-to-door salesmen still existed.  And since when were they called Sam I Am’s?

That’s all for now. If you all come across any interesting side hustles hit me up: lola@comeupkids.com.

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