MARK KOHLERMain Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, LLC · Owner at Main Street Professionals, LLC

Easy Ways to Use Your Skills for Extra Cash!

16 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, Mark Kohler outlines practical ways to turn existing skills into extra income. He highlights two freelance platforms—Thumbtack, described as a city‑wide Craigslist for services where you can offer higher‑rate weekend work, and Upwork, where he personally does bioengineering consulting alongside his full‑time W‑2 job. He adds gig‑economy options like Uber or DoorDash as quick cash generators. Finally, he encourages building an online business that generates passive revenue, such as selling products or using affiliate marketing, allowing you to earn money even while working a day job.

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Two words, thumbtack and upwork. Those are two platforms, thumbtack being the little Craigslist for services. It's on almost every city in the country now where you can say during the week I'm a plumber, but on the weekend I can charge a higher rate and be a plumber on my own. Upwork is where I'm at a consultant and I'm working bioengineering during the work as a W2. But on the weekend I'm going to do consulting on upwork as a bioengineer consultant. So right there, that's using a skill. I want to add one other 1 real quick is I'd like how you say, hey, stop the bleeding, do some Uber or doordash. I like your idea of what is your skill. Here's another X factor. I like you starting a business business where you're making money while you're sleeping. So if you can create a business model where you're selling something online, you're selling a product or something where you're now doing affiliate marketing, use the skill strategy. I love that. But I also want to use the I can make money with clicks at night by creating something where I can make money even while I'm at my day job.