Why roll over on those 6 hours? What if you ca get paid to sleep in the bunk at another flying gig? 24/7/365 including any missed green slips (or equivalent) at another airline.

How dare they!?

 

Wouldn’t they just come back and say “well fly more hours for more pay for us…?”

They’re not restricting you from using your skills, just restricting you from using those skills to make someone else a profit. Can’t imagine working a side hustle CFI gig would pay more that picking up a turn..

 

Subway. Sandwich artistes get $15/hr.

 

Yes I thought about this scenario, but not everyone lives in a place that you can easily do so.

My standpoint is purely philosophical. I don’t believe a corporation should be able to restrict your one trade with zero reason and not be prepared to compensate you for the outside loss of additional income.

Don’t want me flying outside? Sure, no problem. Here’s a bill for the $500 I lost because you restricted me from flying.

At the end of the day I do believe it’s pretty rare for Delta to say no anyway but it does happen time to time.

 

Ya I'm surprised they denied him because I've received approval to do instruction in my flying club. I don't really consider it a side hussle, more of an excuse to get out to the airport and fly my own plane more. Picking up a turn is far more lucrative, but not nearly as fun lol. I really wouldn't expect the company to reimburse me for a denial though.

 

You are an employee, not a contractor. As an employee you agreed to work under the FAA approved operations manual which outlines the exclusive rights to your professional services. Delta and ALPA have excluded contractors from operating Delta flights per the PWA, so the only way you enjoy the benefits of working for Delta is as an employee. I see it as an opportunity to decide how much you are willing to contribute to Delta for compensation of your professional services. I routinely make average or better pay for below average utilization of my 1000 hours.

 

I’m surprised that no one has said being an ALPA “volunteer,” is their side hustle! LMAO!

 

You are now responsible for at least a dozen coffee/beer/bourbon sprayed keyboards.

 

Those Karbon jackets with the epaulettes are pretty lame. Please tell me you didn’t put that in the uniform survey!

Back on topic to the one who posted about outside work while on disability. Can they restrict what you do when you’re on disability? That’s surprising because it seems at that point you’re just trying to make ends meet.

 

Happy New Year fellow Side Hustlers!!

There was a lot of discussion this time last year on options trading strategies. I gave up by April. How did the rest of you fare in 2021?

Options
Overall options were profitable thanks to a few well timed TSLA covered calls. My S&P Iron condors were money losers due to strong gains in April. I got frustrated with position management and stopped trading except for a few more covered calls. I'm planning to venture back in with a few trades in my fun money account.

Stocks
The low margin rates at IBKR lured me into dividend stocks like XOM, T, IBM, and a few others. I've eliminated the margin to keep it available as a low interest line of credit for the first half of 2022.

Real Estate
Sold a few properties, failed at my first 1031, executed a partial 1031, Bought a NNN property and made a few passive investments in syndications.


Real estate remains the Side Hustle of choice for 2022. This year's focus will be a development project using land purchased in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. It isn't nearly as exciting as stocks, options or running an active business, so I think I'll take up mountain biking for entertainment.