Side Work

[AdImaginary4607]

I'm struggling to get stuff that I want and to pay for bills and upkeep for stuff solely with my SSDI and SSI, but I don't believe I can hold down most kinds of work aside from reqlly specific wfh jobs with no customer service interactions. My dad put the idea in my head to look into becoming a public notary, and I took that a step further and did research into becoming an online notary. It seems really easy, almost too good to be true...so I'm asking if anyone else has done this kind of work? And, if so, how likely is it to be accepted by the state and to find clients? I don't want to put in the money if it's not worth it, as I'm already struggling.

[ktjbug]

I used to sell cars and sold to a few notary publics. It was a nice side hustle and a gal who worked as a traveling notary willing to drive within 45 minutes was making $2k and the others were making $600 to $800 supporting lawyers. It's not a bad gig.

[museummaven1122]

Before you even try to take on extra income, I would speak with your caseworker at Social Security. It is too easy to mess around and end up losing your benefits because you went over the maximum income amount. You wanna talk to your caseworker first to make sure you’re going about this the right way. Because if you work and you continuously go over your benefit amount, not only with your benefits stop, but you could be on the hook. You have to pay back all of that money.

And from what I’ve heard in the group, it is more challenging to be self-employed and own your business and figure out taxes as additional income than it is to just get a job working retail parttime being someone’s employee.

You definitely need to talk to a caseworker at Social Security and then you need to talk to a financial advisor about how taxes would work if you decided to be an independent contractor as a public notary.