What was your first ever hustle? (Mini story included)

[Address_Unknown]

When I visited my dad's side of the family when I was around 9-12, all the kids would pump gas at the gas station to make side money. We would ask adults if we could pump their gas. This got us used to rejection and hustling. I didn't necessarily need to do this because my dad had money but I did it just to do it....

I was 11. Me and my best friend/next door neighbor had an idea for a lemonade stand. Me and my mom baked cupcakes and made iceys (from Kool-Aid mixes/different flavors mixed) and my friend prepped the lemonade (regular and strawberry). Our table was all set up. We were engaging adults who walked by. We made a decent amount of money and decided to do it again because we had such a great result. Ppl were really supporting us.

Around middle school, I was also drawing people for money. Not much money but I was known for my drawing and kids would pay me a couple bucks to draw them.

Lemonade stands. I considered doing that shyt as a kid down here but like half the people on my strip had diabetes so I had to abort that plan.

Plus we never really had the traffic to make it feasible so that would have been a bust.

 

[Address_Unknown]

Entertaining story OP. I used to sell drawings.

Thanks, man. Also in regards to selling porn tapes, it didn't take too long for me to upgrade. Read the second story I posted about getting busted in highschool for selling blues after I realized I had the means to make my own tapes instead of charging fools to watch 'em at my spot.

 

[The Guru]

Selling bootleg DVD's Dragon Ball Z kept me fed.

 

[smokeurobinson]

Buying hard to find 75 cent candies and selling them for a buck in school.

 

[Rollo Goodlove]

I used to sale coolaid bears I was clocking so much grip

 

[Hoodoo Child]

Performing at different venues on a drifter's salary

 

[Behind-the-wheel]

Old school hacker here.
Used to crack bank and retail server access and host gif porn, documents and other shyt for peeps back in the day.
Made some good money off of that too...back before internet hosting was a thing.
A few of them servers still work...sittin on a damn dial up line and shyt to this day.

Funny seeing old low-res porn from back in the day and messages people passed thru those servers...lol.