Side gigs

[geo]

@CFAvsMBA

^ Yo Geo, are you new 'round AF Water Cooler? We ought to have an initiation into the brothahood. Answer the questions below as best you can.

Kind of. I’ve been a member since 2010 I think, but didn’t post much until I wrapped up the exams. Now I hope to help some other people and keep in touch with some industry peers (since I don’t work with alot of CFA charterholder types…).

I’ll play your game.

@CFAvsMBA

1. CFA vs MBA? Neither. Rolodex and hard work. I got my edge into the corporate finance world scanning expense statements (no joke).

2. Do you feel pitching 77 MPH in Little League is like 100 MPH in the Major Leagues? 77mph in Little League would be impressive.

3. When was the last time you cleaned your colon? Hmm…

4. What was the tier of your undergrad? Bottom of the lowest tier.

5. Do you happen to work in IB, ER, or PE at a top tier firm? No. My background is treasury/planning/corporate risk.

6. Do you own a rusty hacksaw by chance? I keep one handy at all times.

7. What’s your take on strip clubs? Not my cup of tea, but whatever people want to do with their time.

8. How was the service at your latest trip to MCD? Poor. I got nuked by a Big Mac.

How’d I do?

[system]

You did good kid. You have some assigned reading to get up to speed with the rest of us.

1. ESPN by Blake

http://www.analystforum.com/forums/water-cooler/91314897

2. Power of Oneness by CvM

http://www.analystforum.com/forums/water-cooler/91311217

3. Strip Clubs by CvM

http://www.analystforum.com/forums/water-cooler/91310516

4. Weekend Observation by CvM

http://www.analystforum.com/forums/back-office/back-office/91308016

5. Harvard hates me by Black Swan

http://www.analystforum.com/forums/water-cooler/91318013

Enjoy. You’ll be one of us in no time.

[geo]

@bromion

Thanks, I assume you were mainly writing about large cap stocks? A lot of the stocks I end up investing in have no articles for years and <100 people on the SA alert list, so I think I would have a lot of difficulty reaching even 5,000 views (regardless of article quality). I mainly specialize in finding “invisible” stocks that the market has a hard time seeing until the earnings grow, so actually SA might be a great distribution platform in a sense, but it’s a chicken and egg problem.

Surprisingly the biggest company I ever wrote about was RIM and that was not my most successful article. I covered mostly Canadian mid and small caps that had short distribution lists. I honestly found that quality prevailed though, and some of these articles made the top 10 list on the homepage, which generated serious traffic.

I think you could certainly do ok publishing Apple and Google nonsense, but there are different approaches. Also remember that SA articles get linked in Yahoo Finance. When looking at Google there may be hundreds of news articles, so your piece gets lost. When I write about a small or mid cap, it may be the ONLY article listed, in which case I could get more traffic.

SA is a swamp and I agree with some of the comments here that describe a lot of it as trash. But there are some gems. I honestly think if I went at it all out, I could build up enough of a following to perhaps publish a newsletter or something to supplement the income from SA and maybe make a go of it. Maybe one day.

[whatsyourgovt]

@CFAvsMBA

^ Yo Geo, are you new 'round AF Water Cooler? We ought to have an initiation into the brothahood. Answer the questions below as best you can.

1. CFA vs MBA?

2. Do you feel pitching 77 MPH in Little League is like 100 MPH in the Major Leagues?

3. When was the last time you cleaned your colon?

4. What was the tier of your undergrad?

5. Do you happen to work in IB, ER, or PE at a top tier firm?

6. Do you own a rusty hacksaw by chance?

7. What’s your take on strip clubs?

8. How was the service at your latest trip to MCD?

To appease the bros in this forum (maybe bro),

9. what do you dead lift?

10. blondes or brunettes?

11. do you have an asian fetish?

12. what type of jeans do you wear?

13. Can you go no fap for at least 30 days?

[EarvGotti]

@whatsyourgovt

@CFAvsMBA

^ Yo Geo, are you new 'round AF Water Cooler? We ought to have an initiation into the brothahood. Answer the questions below as best you can.

1. CFA vs MBA?

2. Do you feel pitching 77 MPH in Little League is like 100 MPH in the Major Leagues?

3. When was the last time you cleaned your colon?

4. What was the tier of your undergrad?

5. Do you happen to work in IB, ER, or PE at a top tier firm?

6. Do you own a rusty hacksaw by chance?

7. What’s your take on strip clubs?

8. How was the service at your latest trip to MCD?

To appease the bros in this forum (maybe bro),

9. what do you dead lift?

10. blondes or brunettes?

11. do you have an asian fetish?

12. what type of jeans do you wear?

_ 13. Can you go no fap for at least 30 days? _

I was just about to ask him #13 hahahahahaha

[krnyc2008]

@whatsyourgovt

@CFAvsMBA

^ Yo Geo, are you new 'round AF Water Cooler? We ought to have an initiation into the brothahood. Answer the questions below as best you can.

1. CFA vs MBA?

2. Do you feel pitching 77 MPH in Little League is like 100 MPH in the Major Leagues?

3. When was the last time you cleaned your colon?

4. What was the tier of your undergrad?

5. Do you happen to work in IB, ER, or PE at a top tier firm?

6. Do you own a rusty hacksaw by chance?

7. What’s your take on strip clubs?

8. How was the service at your latest trip to MCD?

To appease the bros in this forum (maybe bro),

9. what do you dead lift?

10. blondes or brunettes?

11. do you have an asian fetish?

12. what type of jeans do you wear?

13. Can you go no fap for at least 30 days?

You forgot the sensitive “free ball” issue

[EarvGotti]

www.elance.com is a good way to advertise your side gig services and find freelance work. A couple years ago i made a failed attempt at starting a business, but at least I got the website made cheap from Elance

[geo]

Elance is a swamp as well. 95 out of 100 job postings are minimum wage or worse. The few gems are gems though and were the source of many many many referrals for me.

[Greenman72]

Yeah, CvM left out no fap and going commando in his analysis.

Hack the sack, CvM.

[kevinf12]

I did tutoring for Finance and Accounting, generally MBA level, but sometimes undergrad. Over the years made from $25 and hour up to $75 an hour.

[guestuser]

@geo

Surprisingly the biggest company I ever wrote about was RIM and that was not my most successful article. I covered mostly Canadian mid and small caps that had short distribution lists. I honestly found that quality prevailed though, and some of these articles made the top 10 list on the homepage, which generated serious traffic.

I think you could certainly do ok publishing Apple and Google nonsense, but there are different approaches. Also remember that SA articles get linked in Yahoo Finance. When looking at Google there may be hundreds of news articles, so your piece gets lost. When I write about a small or mid cap, it may be the ONLY article listed, in which case I could get more traffic.

SA is a swamp and I agree with some of the comments here that describe a lot of it as trash. But there are some gems. I honestly think if I went at it all out, I could build up enough of a following to perhaps publish a newsletter or something to supplement the income from SA and maybe make a go of it. Maybe one day.

Good stuff, thanks! Based on observation, there is around a 50% chance that anything I’m looking at on the long side has zero writeups ever or in the last 5 years on any from VIC, SumZero or SA, so it’s encouraging to hear that you were doing something similar with good results (I can’t imagine there is much competition in article publishing for writers covering Canadian small caps). If it’s not really time consuming, I might start publishing – not looking to get rich on $75 a pop (if that) but the increased distribution may help. There are some times (actually pretty often) when really positive news will hit and the stock won’t even move until weeks or months later.

I used to own one stock that had grown the topline pretty well 10 quarters in a row and was starting to get leverage flowing through to the bottom line. It was a really cheap stock, but only $40mm cap with thin float and no research analyst coverage in over a decade. Zero movement in the price… I was waiting for a buyout so I didn’t really care, but it was weird. Someone published a nice write up on SA and the stock was up 50% in 2 days.

[former_trader]

Tutoring back in the day.

[comp_sci_kid]

Interesting. I have very strict non-competes. Any side gigs would require full disclosure

[whatsyourgovt]

@comp\_sci\_kid

Interesting. I have very strict non-competes. Any side gigs would require full disclosure

hahah @ disclosure. Compliance slows everything down so it’s best never to involve them.

[system]

@comp\_sci\_kid

Interesting. I have very strict non-competes. Any side gigs would require full disclosure

Any side gig or side gigs that may bring a conflict of interest? So you’d need to disclose if you wanted to help out with nightclub security on NYE as a one time thing?

[brain_wash_your_face]

Personal training. It’s amazing how much rich nerds need this.

[Turd_Fergeson]

slumlord.

[NANA_Hachiko]

For me, side gigs/jobs are things i want to do but couldn’t make it a career at the moment, if i were to do what i do at work as side business, i would be very bored very quickly. Not to mention potential conflict of interests.

Side jobs rarely make as much money as main job so they may as well be something fun and you enjoy! i love to experiment with new things and meet new people through these contract jobs. and who knows, perhaps in time, i can make them into a professional career!

[system]

^ Escort?

[BlueTrin]

@Turd_Fergeson

slumlord.

Trader during the day, slumlord during the night !