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🗓️ 8 July 2025
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Could standing in line be your next side hustle? In this episode, we explore the strange but real world of paid line-sitting—and whether it’s actually a smart use of your time.
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0:00.0 | Lemonada. |
0:02.7 | There are side hustles that make sense on paper, and then there are side hustles that just |
0:15.3 | sound too weird to be real, until you realize someone out there is actually making money |
0:19.7 | doing this thing. |
0:20.9 | And today's question falls into the second category. |
0:23.9 | We're going to hear from Marcus. |
0:25.8 | He actually recently heard about a guy who gets paid to stand in line for people. |
0:30.0 | We featured at least one of these professional line standers before on the podcast. |
0:33.9 | Whether it is a hot sneaker release, a new iPhone model, a buzzy restaurant with no reservations, |
0:39.2 | this person essentially rents the spot in line and makes money doing it. |
0:44.1 | So Marcus is wondering, you know, this seems kind of like a random thing, but could this be my next |
0:49.0 | side hustle? |
0:49.9 | Maybe we could also look at the question, is it actually worth doing? |
0:53.0 | Or might there be a better way to spend that time? |
0:55.8 | Because there's all kinds of things you could do for your side hustle. So part of the big decision you need to make is how to narrow down, filter your choices that you make the best possible choice for you. But I'll talk about that in my answer. The question is standing in line for cash a legit side hustle, detailed version from Marcus, and my answer coming right up. |
1:14.7 | What's up? What's up? I want to tell you today about our partner ZipRecruiter. You know, |
1:19.2 | ZipRecruiter. If you don't, you should. Perhaps as a good introduction to them, let's talk about |
1:23.7 | speed and quality. You don't usually get both of those things together. You don't go |
1:27.6 | through a fast food drive-thru and expect a gourmet meal to go. Or if you do, you're probably |
1:32.6 | going to be disappointed. If you use some automated fancy AI tools to do online tasks, |
1:38.2 | sometimes that works well, and sometimes it doesn't. Perhaps you have experienced that. Speed and |
1:42.7 | quality, they don't always go together, |
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