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I spend almost every weekend out in my garage tinkering on something. From January through April this year, it was mostly working on my son's car to get it ready for a road trip (see next generation under projects and builds) as well as a working on getting a 63 Falcon running better for a coworker by resetting the cam timing and then addressing timing and carb. Got all that buttoned up, had one weekend to relax, then on to other projects. This weekend I'm dealing with broken manifold studs on a late model Dakota and I still have people calling me asking to fix stuff for them. All the while, my car sits, relatively untouched since last year. If I work on my car, it's spending money, because there's always something more to buy. If I work on other people's stuff it makes a little to put toward it. This doesn't even get into the non-car things that can be done on a weekend to spend money.

Devin
 
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this weekend so far sold stuff totaling 120 and purchased stuff totaling 335, so I'm in the hole at this point, and I welded some cab corners into a buddy's truck project and hauled a load of trash to the dump for him for gas money and a promise of his help when needed..


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I spend almost every weekend out in my garage tinkering on something. From January through April this year, it was mostly working on my son's car to get it ready for a road trip (see next generation under projects and builds) as well as a working on getting a 63 Falcon running better for a coworker by resetting the cam timing and then addressing timing and carb. Got all that buttoned up, had one weekend to relax, then on to other projects. This weekend I'm dealing with broken manifold studs on a late model Dakota and I still have people calling me asking to fix stuff for them. All the while, my car sits, relatively untouched since last year. If I work on my car, it's spending money, because there's always something more to buy. If I work on other people's stuff it makes a little to put toward it. This doesn't even get into the non-car things that can be done on a weekend to spend money.

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I did the math once, and my potential weekend business would take the first four months of every year to just pay for insurance.

I coached softball instead.
 
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Working weekends was one of the main factors on why I decided to change careers 3 years ago. Before, it was mandatory, now I make the decision on if I want to work weekends if I dont have any plans and could use the extra days pay. With that sort of decision, I dont mind working weekends where before in my old line of work (automotive service), a majority of the shops required you to work weekends. I despised it and my paychecks never showed any extra benefit to working that day compared to shops I worked that, which were open M-F.

That said though, thats actual work related though. If your working on side projects over the weekend to make money from the way I am reading your post, thats different, if I get a side project that I can complete within reason and the money (or barter perhaps) is worth the effort, ill gladly put a weekend towards the project instead.
 
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When I was tech I would buy the weekend shift off a co-worker. Our dealership only did services and customer pay on weekends. Some crazy flag hours. Spend $100 on the shift and make $300-400 on the shift. Now I'm self employed and spend my weekends either working physically or meeting clients on bids. If I'm not doing either, I'm dropping money on my own home or yard or wasting money somewhere. I try to take a vacation a year though. Last year I did 2 big ones. But if I work weekends just as a finisher/form setter it's an extra 15-20k a year.
 
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Take one or two weekends a month to spend and the others to work.... nice balance between spending and spending too much ;)
 
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