He’s in his 20s, so I was certain he’d blow it all.
He’s a real Chad-jot down guy.
He lives in South Beach, parties, and says ‘bro’ every other word.
So I’m pleasantly surprised that he held his word and put it back.
Next month: $250k.
Another $250k, then another.
It’s part of the US Patriot Act.
So I call the guy.
all these exotic sports cars.
But here’s the catch: they’re all hurricane cars.
None of them work.
They’ve all been flooded, and insurance totaled them.
It turns out that there’s a huge demand for wannabe influencers to take pictures with exotic cars.
After that, he loads it on the back of his wrecker and takes it somewhere else.
His entire business model revolves around people giving over hard-earned cash so they can look cool on the Internet.
It blows my mind, but at least he’s doing well financially!"
u/Dad_Is_Mad
2.
“I met a guy one time who had a job that just made me wildly jealous.
He called himself a ‘geek facilitator.’
u/Shadpool
3.
“I remember a guy in Berlin who sold stuffed animal holidays.
u/Th3_Accountant
4.
“I know a lady who makes six figures chasing geese.
She has a couple of well-trained border collies.
She drives around to fancy corporate campuses and lets the dogs out to chase the geese away.
(It’s illegal to hurt the geese or disturb the nests.)
u/BasenjiBob
5.
He spent his days going from office park to office park, flying his hawk.”
u/G0es2eleven
6.
“I have a friend who is stupidly rich.
Like ‘fuck you’ money and then some.
He started by reclaiming and selling used sewage pipes the large concrete ones.
If someone was demolishing a site, he would literally go and ask for the things.
Most of the time, it was free, as he did them a favor hauling it away.”
u/ECU_BSN
7.
He would act drunk, flash some cash, and basically make it clear he was worth mugging.
Said partner was a hulking ex-marine who was built like a fucking freight train.
u/darkknight109
8. u/Handbag_Lady
“I was on vacation with my wife once in Siesta Key, Florida.
We met a lady (L1) in the hot tub who did this.
She was essentially a professional house sitter for a woman (L2) who had an abundance of wealth.
Her primary house was in New Orleans, but this lady we met lived at her backup house.
She was paid well over $200k/year, if I’m remembering correctly.
All of her food, rent, utilities, etc., were paid for by the wealthy woman.
I was wildly jealous.”
u/B_Bibbles
9.
The dude was like 35 and seemed perfectly content to do that indefinitely.”
u/Latvia
10.
“My cousin lives in NYC and works for a company that maintains corporate rooftop beehives.
u/DIAL_1-800-RACCOON
11.
“Professional ‘white guy.’
u/PunchBeard
“It used to be a common position in Japanese companies, too.
You didn’t hang around in lobbies, though.
Though, you would earn brownie points for doing it occasionally.
I’m not sure this is a thing anymore post-COVID.”
u/ztfreeman
12.
“One of our friends was in a friends-with-benefits relationship with a dude who liked getting pegged.
Word spread, and she made some for friends.
Then, she started selling them on Etsy.
She makes bank.”
u/DrBasia
13.
“I knew a guy who made glass dildos.
He could make around 100 dildos in four hours with the help of a couple of assistants.
He mostly just gathered glass and formed the dildos with a cherry wood mold.
He worked maybe 25 hours a month and made well into the six figures.”
u/beardedbrute253
14.
“Professional sheath cleaners.
The horse world is a strange place.
Part of horsey hygiene for male horses is having their sheath and penis cleaned every so often.
It’s a dirty job, but it can be quite lucrative if you’re not too squeamish.”
u/Undrthedock
15.
“I braid horse hair professionally.
Some folks can do 10-12 horses a night, so it adds up fast!”
u/totallyfreakinggay
16.
“I remember chatting with an older guy who mentioned that he made his money from his YouTube channel.
It was around 10-12 years ago, so I didn’t even know you could make money from YouTube.
He told me about his videos how he repairs household appliances and lots of people watch.
I looked him up that evening, and he had a huge following.
“I just looked him up again and there is no sign of him.”
u/Gc1981
17.
“In college, I took a class on how to start and run a small business.
One classmate decided he was going to sell tumbleweed.
Guess who quit college and started a successful business?
He eventually became the number one tumbleweed provider to studios around the world, shipping tumbleweed globally.
He made a heap of money selling what millions of people drive by and ignore every year.”
u/Elizabet_love
18.
“I know a woman who made a business out of hugs.
Nothing more, nothing less.
u/mifan
19.
“I had a brief stint as a ‘professional cuddler.’
Id just cuddle people for an hour or two usually just an hour.”
u/sanaailu
20.
He takes it home and has his kids separate it into different sizes of sand/pebbles/rocks.
He puts it in little packages and sells it to model train/mini-whatever enthusiasts.”
u/helluva_monsoon
21.
“I was located in an industrial park.
Two guys moved next door, going into the hand-made pool table business with no experience.
They were broke, and both lived in the warehouse.
They still sold some pool tables.
After a year, they got a house to live in.
About ten years later, they had a large showroom.
After 20 years, they were a national brand/chain.
kindly shoot me in the foot.”
u/Novel-Criticism-2718
22.
“I was a photocopier trainer.
I would travel from business to business and train them how to use their copier.
This was five years ago, and no one could believe it was my job.”
u/spameyeyam
23.
(Fake weed.)
He goes to any set that needs a bong teacher.”
u/DogEffective6452
24. u/BakedMitten
25.
Some people are just too scared to do it.”
u/WTBRaegO
26.
“I knew a barber who lived and worked out of an RV.
He had charisma for days and Lenny-Kravitz-level style, but he was also super mild and kind.
He’d work when he wanted to and always had a line.
People accepted that he didn’t keep regular hours or appointments.
Apparently, he had done this for years.
Once he got bored in a location, he’d take off and find a new city.
He was easily in the top 5 coolest people I’ve ever met.”
u/mustbethedragon
27. u/SundressZzSunbeam
28.
“A city parking service.
He charges less than monthly parking permits.
He spends the day moving cars around in time-limited spots.
Occasionally, a car gets ticketed, and he pays it because his profits are worth it.”
u/Practical-Match-4054
29.
I use 1/2-pound loaf pans, so no one is stuck with a lot of leftovers.
Baking begins in September and continues through October, so the cakes have time to soak up the sherry.
Business is pretty good.
I can easily do a few hundred dollars or more and still have folks clamoring for more.”
u/SpicySophia435
30.
I saw one on a TV show once.
u/msnmck
31.
“Probably my husband.
He is a storm chaser, and we own a severe weather forensics company.”
“Both of us were born and raised in Oklahoma.
My husband was weather-obsessed since he was a baby and began storm chasing when he was 16.
This eventually led to meteorology school (which he did not finish).
We got married very young, and during these years, he was still constantly storm-chasing.
We have developed software that helps pinpoint severe weather specifics down to every US home.
We employ many meteorologists and software developers along with support staff.
It’s been a long, difficult, yet very fulfilling journey.
He did not start ‘chasing’ hurricanes until 2017.”
u/Strange-Key3371
32.
He would apparently get massive lots/boxes from wholesalers and livestream as he went through them.
They could get a killer deal or waste their money on junk.
It was basically gambling, but not technically.
The kid was apparently making mid-to-high six figures doing this.”
u/Finn235
33. u/buffalo__666
34.
“Pretty tame compared to most of these, but I used to own a cat-sitting company.
So, I offered to go to peoples' houses and care for their cats.
I eventually hired staff to take off some of the burden.
People were always surprised when I told them I was a full-time cat sitter.”
u/amoryblainev
35.
That’s all he printed.
Now, he owns a large shop and prints nothing but pizza menus all across the country.
Making a ton of money!
Pizza menus!!!
Who would’ve thought?"
u/Olhenry
36.
“I’ve known someone who makes teeth on a computer.
He uses a CADCAM program to design crowns and bridges for dental laboratories.
He works remotely and supposedly does pretty well.”
u/faithfulpumpkin
37.
“There’s aguy in New Jerseywhose father showed him the secret location of baseball mud.
This man has exclusive rights to mud every MLB baseball.
He guards the location of the mud.
No one else knows where it comes from.
u/HoraceBenbow
38.
He became rich beyond his wildest dreams overnight.
u/alienanimal
39.
“This guy in my job holds a position that doesn’t exist anymore.
There are a few left in the company.
He shows up at 6 a.m., hangs out for a few hours, and goes home.
He hasn’t actually worked for years but has a contract that has to be honored.”
u/anotherbarry
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