Taking advantage of the holidays to earn extra money is a common idea of many young people. Nowadays, more and more young people are "choosing to 'make money' between lying flat and having fun". They don't want to daydream, they just want to start from reality and grasp the reality in front of them. On social platforms, young people are also keen to "welcome the God of Wealth", and they hope to catch the "pouring wealth" in 2024 than "marriage". Moreover, this generation of young people also has more ways to "make money". For example, some people use AI to customize mobile phone wallpapers or red envelope covers, and make a fortune in a muffled voice; Some people helped people write Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival until their hands cramped, and they received a lot of money; or working overtime to do nail art for customers, so busy that they can't take care of eating; There are also people who don't go home during the Spring Festival in order to help others raise pets during the holidays; There are also people who go to the temple fair to set up stalls and earn "a lot of money".
The following is the self-report of five young people, "It is cool to make money for a while, and it is always cool to make money", there are many ways to make money, there is always one suitable for you! Although it is a little hard and a little tired, as long as you make money, your heart is beautiful.
Use AI to design Chinese New Year wallpapers and red envelope covers, which is fun and "rich".
AI Dream Bear 26 years old customer service.
I didn't expect that during the Spring Festival this year, I made a small profit by "selling" the cover of red envelopes. I work as a customer service for a company, drawing is my hobby, and I usually like to design some fun things, which I occasionally post on social platforms. I have my own social platform account, in fact, I don't have many fans, but since the second half of last year, I started to draw some ** with AI and post, and the number of fans of the account has slowly increased. Some fans will ask me for some ** original pictures,At first, I sent them for free.,Later, a fan told me,I can charge some money appropriately.,I started to try to charge a little fee.。
The fees for my works are different, usually 2 yuan to 5 yuan per order. At the beginning, the business was not good, and there were not a few orders a month, but as the fans and I gradually got acquainted, there were more people who wanted the original picture, and I could earn about 1,000 yuan a month.
During the Spring Festival, I accidentally found that wallpapers with Chinese New Year elements sold very well, and one wallpaper even sold hundreds of orders, and I immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to "make money".
I started to use my off-duty time to focus on designing some wallpapers and red packet covers with New Year's elements, and in the process, I found that the AI-generated works looked better and sold better than the ones I drew myself, so I switched to designing them exclusively with AI.
This Spring Festival, I didn't take a break, and I used AI to generate mobile phone wallpapers or red envelope covers in my spare time. If someone asks for the original picture, I will charge a symbolic fee of 3 yuan to 10 yuan per photo, and a few of them are selling quite well, and they have sold hundreds of orders. Now that counted, these wallpapers and red envelope covers sold for almost 2,000 yuan.
However, the competition for using AI to design these wallpapers and red envelope covers is also quite big, and the patterns designed must be distinctive, if you just design a few ordinary patterns, it will be difficult to sell. For example, there is a wallpaper that I think is very good, but no one likes it.
I prefer to make wallpapers, the review of red envelope covers is more difficult, generally make 10, and only 1 may pass the review, which is a waste of time, I will not do red envelope covers these days, only wallpapers.
I'll continue to do this in the next few years, and I think the AI design is quite interesting. Although I am still in the stage of "generating electricity for love", I see that many people on the Internet have "made money", and maybe I can continue to use this to make some extra money in the future.
What's more, it would be very rewarding if you could create the scene you wanted with AI painting. For me, it's not just satisfying my hobby, but also "making money", so why not do it?
I wrote Spring Festival couplets at home during the Spring Festival and earned 3,000 yuan.
Su Su is a post-90s calligraphy enthusiast in a small town.
This Spring Festival, I really didn't expect the business of writing Spring Festival couplets to be so hot, and next, I have to think about this business.
I was a calligraphy enthusiast during my college years. After graduating from normal school, I returned to my hometown to work in a third-tier city, and I still did not give up my love for calligraphy after work.
However, calligraphy is not enough to rely on love alone, what is more needed is persistence, to endure loneliness, in order to hone the will and heart, if the heart is not quiet, can not sit still, then the written words are very sloppy, but also reveal impetuousness; If the hand is not steady, you will not see the smooth and strong strokes.
A few years ago, I just wrote and played at home, and in my free time, I copied the works of some well-known calligraphers, and then my friends liked my words very much and encouraged me to write more, so that more people could see my works.
So, I began to wonder whether to set up a special calligraphy studio in my hometown, because my town does not have a special calligraphy studio, and there is still a great demand for calligraphy works in the town.
In 2019, after careful preparation and design, my personal calligraphy studio opened, mainly providing advertising copywriting and font design for individuals and businesses.
Perhaps as I grew older, my writing and perception of calligraphy became more and more profound, and my own characters became more and more calm and atmospheric.
Especially in the last two or three years, when the Chinese New Year is approaching, my Spring Festival couplets custom business is becoming more and more prosperous, especially in the first two days of the Chinese New Year, so busy that I don't even have time to eat.
In addition to the locals, some friends from far away also came to me to ask for words, after writing by express delivery, roughly calculated, a Spring Festival by writing Spring Festival couplets I have entered more than 3,000 yuan.
Actually, until now, I haven't clearly marked the price of the Spring Festival couplets I wrote, everyone looks at it and gives money, but if you want to make the studio bigger, the follow-up standardized pricing must be a must.
Speaking of which, I did this kind of unintentional willow insertion, when I first started to practice calligraphy, I really didn't expect to make money from it, but now, people around me are more and more fond of handwriting calligraphy, especially during the Spring Festival, many people have been tired of industrial production of calligraphy, and began to pursue the timelessness and artistic conception of traditional Chinese handwritten calligraphy, which also gives me a new opportunity to make money.
Milk tea is sold at the temple fair, and "my hands cramp when I am busy".
Lulu, 30 years old, owner of a bubble tea shop.
This Spring Festival, I rented a stall at one of our temple fairs, selling online celebrity foods such as milk tea and egg waffles. I didn't have a day off, and I was "so busy that my hands cramped" every day.
Since the beginning of the temple fair, ** has been very large, starting from 10 o'clock in the morning until 10 o'clock in the evening, and it cannot be stopped for a moment.
A few years ago, I opened a bubble tea shop, and my store was opened on the first floor of a local New World shopping mall, which was an entrance, but before that, because the mall ** was not very good, the milk tea business could only barely maintain.
During this period, we were still closed for a while due to the withdrawal of New World from the mall, and we were very anxious and didn't know whether to stick with it. But when I thought of investing so much and quitting, I was unwilling to quit, so I gritted my teeth and persevered.
In the second half of 2023, this mall will re-attract investment after renovation, ** will start to increase, my milk tea business will also improve, I will also start to get busy, and I will also recruit a few employees in the second half of the year.
A few years ago, when I heard that the mall was going to organize a temple fair, my partner and I decided to get a stall to sell milk tea, as well as Internet celebrity foods such as roasted milk in crockpots, roasted pears in cans, and ice cream in egg waffles. At the beginning of the temple fair, the popularity was unexpectedly prosperous, every day ** is very big, my colleagues and I were so busy that we couldn't stop, from the beginning of the temple fair to the fourth day of the first month, we shouted loudly every day, and after a few days, my throat was hoarse.
I haven't had time to take stock of the income of the past few days, but judging from the sales situation, these days can basically cover the amount of the previous few months.
Although my partner and I did not rest during the Spring Festival, we were still very down-to-earth and had a sense of accomplishment when we were "busy and happy". This year is the Year of the Dragon, which is a good start, and I hope that with this momentum, this year's milk tea business will get better and better.
Doing nail art during the Spring Festival, business is so good that it explodes.
Lingling, 25 years old, nail salon employee.
I've been doing nail art for two years, and I didn't expect the business to be so hot before the Spring Festival this year.
In fact, the nail business in 2023 is better than in 2022, I was an apprentice in this shop in 2022, but at that time there were very few people doing nail art, and sometimes there was no business for several days. Because the store is very small, and the store is the owner's own home, she has always insisted on opening and has not closed, and I just took this opportunity to learn and practice in the store.
Business is starting to get better in the second half of 2023, starting from the summer vacation, more and more little girls come to do nail art, they like to do it with the style from the Internet, these little girls basically don't ask, they come in and ask if they can do it. That summer, our monthly income was almost equivalent to the income of the entire first half of 2023.
Later, as the business improved, the boss hired two more people, but they were still busy every day, like me, on average, I had to do nail art for four or five customers every day.
Before the Spring Festival this year, for some reason, the business in the store suddenly became popular, and the stores used to open at 10 o'clock, but due to the many people coming to queue up, we changed to open at 8 o'clock in the morning.
How busy are you? I sometimes don't take care of eating all day, starting at 8 a.m. and ending at 11 or 12 p.m., customers have to make reservations every day, and we have to do a good job of scheduling, and many customers can't do it at all without making an appointment in advance.
There are also more and more styles of nail art, many of which are found by customers from the Internet, and one customer even found an Internet celebrity with the same style and asked me to help her do it, but it took about 6 hours to complete.
There are also changes in fees, different styles charge differently, before the Spring Festival, we also increased the price, before 80 yuan can do solid color nails, now it is 100 yuan. If you want to make a new style, diamond or something else, of course it will be more expensive.
Because I have "good craftsmanship" and can do some styles that my colleagues can't do, I have a lot of "repeat customers", and some customers specify that as long as I do it, so my commission is also higher, I calculated it, and my salary this month is still quite considerable.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, there are many people who come to do nail art, and many customers are waiting to do their nails and then go home for the New Year, so we did not rest on Chinese New Year's Eve, and it was also my most tired day, I only returned to my hometown on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, and after I came back, the sisters and neighbors around me heard that I would do different styles of nails, and also came to me to do it.
At the beginning of my new year. After two days of rest in the first and second years of junior high school, I started to help my neighbor get his nails done in the third year of junior high school. There are also familiar customers who sent me messages and asked me when I would go to work, saying that the newly made nails were accidentally broken, and she wanted to get them all over again.
So, I suddenly decided to go back early and go and do it for her alone.
I have a plan to open a nail salon by myself this year, and I think everyone has a love for beauty, as long as you have a skill, you are willing to study and learn, it shouldn't be bad.
Feed cats and dogs for 9 days during the Spring Festival, and the income will exceed 10,000 yuan.
Lele, 29 years old, pet shop owner.
This Chinese New Year holiday can soothe the anxiety I have been feeling for a few months since I started my business, which is unexpected.
In July 2023, after I left my original unit, at the suggestion of my family, I started my own pet store to sell pet supplies and foster pets. Although my store is in a residential area, there are many communities nearby, but the business is not good, a few months before the opening, it can be described as deserted, and the monthly income is less than 10,000 yuan. During last year's National Day, I found new business opportunities. I usually take on pet boarding, and there are customers in the surrounding community who occasionally board pets in my store, but there are not many of them, only once or twice a week.
But during the National Day holiday last year, a few customers wanted to travel and asked me if I could receive door-to-door feeding orders, including cats and dogs. I wasn't usually busy, so I decided to take these orders, and I gave ** 50 yuan a day, and I picked up 4 cats and a dog every day. The dog still needs to be walked once a day, so I will add another 30 yuan.
In this way, my daily income from feeding during the National Day holiday was nearly 300 yuan, which was equivalent to my profit for one day at that time.
Slowly, the people around me knew that I could feed on my behalf, and customers would often come to me to feed on my behalf, which gradually became the main income of my store**.
Before the Spring Festival this year, some customers said in advance that they would put their pets at home to feed me, and I originally planned to go home to accompany my parents for the New Year, but with more and more customers coming over, I calculated that only the Spring Festival these days, the income is a lot, so I discussed with my parents that I will not go home for the Spring Festival this year, and I will feed my pets in the store. Now, I have received a total of nearly 50 pets to feed, some of them are fed at home, and some are fed in my store. To this end, I also deliberately made a schedule, calculated the time and distance every day, and arranged the feeding plan reasonably.
The feeding ** I received is different, depending on the size and breed of pets, and some pet owners require special services such as bathing, so the daily cost ranges from 50 yuan to 200 yuan, and the Chinese New Year's Eve to the fifth day of the first lunar month are the most special days, I raised the price a little, and customers also said that it was acceptable.
I calculated that during this Spring Festival holiday, my income from feeding alone will exceed 10,000 yuan. Although I can't go home for the New Year, I still feel good with this income.
Of course, this is not a long-term business, but I have found that many peers can also receive a lot of business by posting foster care posts on some social platforms. I plan to post and receive orders online after the Spring Festival, which can be regarded as an additional way to start a business.
And I found that now customers are very willing to spend money on pets, and more and more people have pets, I am still very optimistic about the pet business, I believe that as long as I am willing to work, my pet store business will definitely get better and better.