This page is dedicated to side hustles, or side jobs. This could include part time work, working from home, passive income, and more. As someone who works full time while driving for Door Dash, selling shirts online, blogging with Finance Throttle, mining Bitcoin, making money with surveys, and running a consulting company, I have lots of content to share.
Being a punctual delivery driver is crucial for providing excellent service and maintaining a good reputation. Door Dash knows this is a major problem with its service. To combat this, Door Dash recently updated their Service Provider Platform Access Policy with LATE PENALTIES. To summarize, if you are consistently arriving to the place of business or the customer's home after the expected arrival time, you will be deactivated. HOW IS DOOR DASH TRACKING THIS? Door Dash is using Google Maps…
The New Year's is a time when people define their resolutions going forward. Many of you will have New Year's resolutions that focus on getting new material things, going after your dreams, confessing your love, or growing your careers. I believe it is important to invest $20 in a Vision Board. A vision board is just your basic cork board where you can pin down your goals in picture or word format. This Vision board should be hung up somewhere…
DoorDash is a popular on-demand food delivery service that can connect you with local restaurants. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. DoorDash operates in thousands of cities across the United States, Canada, and Australia. You can use the DoorDash app or website to browse local restaurants, order food, and have it delivered to their doorstep by a DoorDash driver, also known as a "Dasher." As someone who had been a dasher for over…
One recent summer, I spent time driving for both Doordash and Grubhub at the same time. While doing this, I noticed a few differences outlined below. Checkout my Dasher Tracker spreadsheet used to track your income, mileage, taxes, and more for Doordash, Grubhub, Uber Eats, and other delivery services. Grubhub He are a few things that Grubhub has that DoorDash does not: Order-ahead pickup: Grubhub offers an order-ahead pickup option, which allows customers to order and pay for their food…
Gig economy companies like Uber, DoorDash, and Lyft hire people as independent contractors. That means it is up to us to track our business expenses in driving food or people from point A to B. Door Dash Drivers are now required to fill out form 1099-NEC instead of 1099-MISC. Quarterly Payments Luckily for us, the federal tax rate is only 15.3%. That includes social security and Medicare. As a self-employed person, the IRS expects you to send in your estimated…
Updated 1/29/2023 Can you believe TurboTax was created back in 1984? It took TurboTax years to get the IRS to allow them to create an online tax filing service. As per the agreement with the IRS, TurboTax allows individuals making less than $66,000 a year to use a free version of TurboTax. All you need to get started with TurboTax is a W2 and an account (If you use Mint, its the same Log-in and you get a discount). TurboTax…
In 2021 I joined the $1000 challenge, a 1-year challenge where you invest $1000 in any way you want to see who makes the most money. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to try during the Pandemic. Because I run a personal finance blog, I decided to expand my experiment. I started my $1000 challenge in January 2021 by investing $5000 in FIVE different securities across FOUR categories: Crypto, Real Estate, Retirement, and an Individual Brokerage Account. I…
In the past year, much of the real estate landscape as changed. Becoming a real estate investor is harder than ever in this market. With inflated real estate prices, high mortgage interest rates, and the rising costs of PMI, home insurance, utilities, and home contractors, can you still make money as a real estate investor? Here are 8 ways you can maximize your earnings. Do Your Research & Calculate The ROI The ROI is your return on investment. Thousands of…
Let's say you are a master mechanic looking to buy land or a garage for the purpose of repairing vehicles. The commercial real estate agent and seller will tell you that the property is zoned for automotive repair. You sign the agreement and buy the property only to later find out that the property is not zoned or permitted for an automotive repair garage. The property you purchase may have technically have a garage on it, but it cannot be…
In recent weeks, Door Dash has upgraded their app with the ability to Dash on the way back to your starting point or zone, chat with customers through the app, and get your pay sooner with a debit card. At the same time, gas prices soared an average of $0.75 in the wake of the Russian - Ukrainian war. While many Californian's have reported $7 per gallon, the east coast is seeing prices around $4.45 per gallon. Even Costco and…
