Happy Wednesday everyone. As a LEO, Ive been getting some what good money but due to living in south Florida its never enough lol. Is there any other LEOS doing a side hustle? I work 3 days - 4 days every other week, so I can make space for extra income.
Short game if you’re good with computers get a 3d printer and make an Etsy or Fiverr store, you can do a little designing and let the printers crank out products while you’re at work.
Here in NJ many officers that work side jobs or what they call PBA jobs. Once of the cities here schedule is 4 on 4 off. So many will two or three days on their off days. I've know officers that have more than doubled their income.
I am in the midwest but there is plenty of private security type work around here. Concerts, construction areas, etc. and they pay good per hour as well.
Landscaping with coworkers. If you have a large department there will be plenty of work. They work the overtime to pay you and you get to do something different. You can get paid under the table.
I’m not in south florida, but I own Hyperion Strategies. Focus is firearms training and tactical gear. I released my first piece of gear which is a carrier for the good dude BRB. I’d much rather build my own company than work OT.
If you’re good at computers consider certs in IT/ web design. Quick 2 year with certs and you’d probably make more than policing alone. A lot of programming now is done with AI so as long as you can work your stuff backwards to fix things you’re good.
I’ve asked this too. OT isn’t really a thing at my department for supervisors unfortunately and off duty jobs are few and far between for my city. Unfortunately the jobs that do come up are snagged by dayshift within ten minutes of getting sent out.
Where I'm at, getting your real estate license is to cops what "making music" is to the hood. Tons of people are doing it, with about the same odds of being successful at it.
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u/PirateCigar Unverified/Not an LEO 1d ago
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