a 2nd business ?

[ronl1975]

Curious if anybody has another business other than in the sign industry ?

[D2S]

I work full time at a bank and help my dad out with his business (Excavating) Oh yea I do Scrap also....... Really wish to just do signs full time, its coming soon.

[houseofgrafix]

I coach soccer and get paid very well!

[zmatalucci]

I also have a monument company.

[Artildawn]

Does freelance graphic design count?

[kraigsnowden]

I do video production as well. Been doing that since 2001, but I'm not sure it'll ever go full time. I enjoy that more than sign making.

[SignTech]

teach drumming at night ........ not tonight tho .......

[ronl1975]

wow sounds like I gotta get off my A** ! :)

[Flame]

I have a retail motorcycle shop, a small parts production business and also deal with clipart/images. Keeps me busy. :)

[cleanmywound]

when times were good, buying and selling houses. Land surveying and construction layout for a good friend as needed. My partner and I have 15 years each doing that.

[Stealth Ryder]

Raise horses, good money but takes years to see a profit on my investments...

[Craig Sjoquist]

several ... has 6 different websites services and products adding more
works for several other type of business doing jobs, ..I hire out at $25 per hour
also scrap, and buying more equipment to make use of

[imagep]

Not technically a seperate business, but we also have an offset printing department and a screen printing department.

My wife is the Prez. of a non-profit organization, sometimes that feels like running an entirely seperate business, I spend most of today working on stuff for that today, along with another volunteer.

[scarface]

This is all i do currently. May open another smaller business but have no idea doing what just yet.

[signrios]

i'm thinking of renting a space and start selling signs and phones under the same roof!!
cellphone retail is very profitable, and less labor intensive than making signs
my wife and i are are targeting that market next.

does that count.

[sinetist]

Not really another business but I do all kinds of other creative stuff besides signs. Here's (http://members.shaw.ca/ZihuaJ/GlyphPage/PetroglyphPark.htm) an example of an ongoing interesting sideline I have.

[Stealth Ryder]

Cell Phones, I dunno.... I had Cingular from 2001 until 2006, made good money early on but the longer it went the less desirable the commission's were... Eventually it got to the point in 05 to where it was just not profitable anymore... People want CHEAP phones, the cheapest phones will cost you $125.00 or more, hard to give a FREE phone when it cost you that much... Also, the commissions went from $200.00 for a 2 year contract to less than $60.00............

[Typestries]

we have an ornamental grass nursery too. It's a fun stress reliever but a ton of work. We're state certified and sell wholesale to my landscape sign clients and garden centers. Almost no retail, thankfully.

[Fred Weiss]

I publish clipart and host a 24/7 party for other sign people on the internet.

[N2Harpz]

I teach watercolor classes .......

[D&Tgraphics]

Up until recently I was also a DJ on the weekends. I'm now starting to dabble with video editing.

[Idea Design]

I work full time as a civil engineering designer in addition to my sign/screen printing company.

[BB SIGNS]

im a funeral director. belive it or not thats how my sign started. doing temp grave head stones. moving slowly to fulltime sign maker (trying)

[Rick]

Graphic design... trying to get my son involved with gigposters, band promotion/event graphics and apparel.

[Border]

I play Keys in a local rock band that I started but would call it more of a hobby that I get paid for rather than a 2nd business. -At this point anyways... I've written and recorded a couple of originals which I think are pretty good and have had good success in the local bar scene. Would love to see even one of them take off! I can dream right??? Then there's my girlfriend. She is raw talent. Sings like Bonnie Raitt, plays guitar and harmonica and has some really awesome original stuff out there.

[dakotasignwerks]

i also have an autoglass and accessory shop. tint windows, remote car starters, car audio, lift kits, wheels and tires, etc. etc. etc. very busy. and we have to do it all or business would suffer. too many hacks in a town of 15K

[d fleming]

signs, screenprinting and tinting under 3 roofs. Professional musician by night.

[Fuzzbuster]

Got my cutting thing beside the oven

Just started up my sticker shop right outta my Pizza place


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Signs only

[ATXsigns]

I'm casually still looking for a position in my previous career, semiconductor engineering. The other side work sprouted from the main signs work has been pool-theme shirts, printing services and promotional product imprinting. For now I just look for anything I can sell and outsource. Don't have enough capital yet. Or income. :P

[anotherdog]

Graphic design, print offset, Heat press T-shirts, websites, photography and just about anything else I can sell.

[btropical.com]

signs, auto salvage ,towing 24/7,auto sales,classic car resto, window tint, wife and girlfriend do a karaokee show

[mark in tx]

Wife has a barber shop. I do sound reinforcement on the weekends. (I Deejay at a strip club)

[rambo555]

I'm an Integration Engineer for a barcode Printer Manufacturer.

[scrmn]

signs, auto salvage ,towing 24/7,auto sales,classic car resto, window tint, wife and girlfriend do a karaokee show

your girlfriend?

[JoySigns]

Picture framing and my husband makes split bamboo fly fishing rods.

[watchdaride]

window tinting

[cptcorn]

Freelance Motor Sports Photographer...

[Jillbeans]

Besides making signs full-time since 1985 I also am a mom to three.
That in and of itself is another job!
Love....Jill

[anozira02]

Now I do part time architectural design work, landscape designs and small additions. Also I am working on my new E-commerce signs related website....It's going to be awesome....I am 69. I do enjoy making signs and T-shirt graphics.

[Pat Whatley]

signs, auto salvage ,towing 24/7,auto sales,classic car resto, window tint, wife and girlfriend do a karaokee show

Get rid of the wife or the girlfriend and you won't have to work so many jobs.

[btropical.com]

I spend my money on my wife and girlfriend and beer and racing the rest I just waste <<<< tag line off somebodys avatar

[D3G]

I party at Fred's place

[Pro Image]

I'm a PIMP...................

[gwestitown]

I have a print brokering business, and I also typeset and freelance graphic design. I have worked 15 years out of the house. I added signs and vinyl lettering about 3 years ago. I kept getting requests for signs and then taking them to a person to get done and resell. It was a hassle so I bought a cutter and started doing it myself. Wish I would have been doing it for the whole 15 years. I also sell a lot of stuff on Ebay (that's my mad money, travel money). Recently bought a vertical panel saw from craigslist...it's so sweeett!!

[threads1]

Custom embroidery for 23 years (to be truthful, my wife runs the business), pro photog for about 15 years but got tired of travelling, retired professional alchoholic. I also have a cabinet shop I call my "Man-Cave" but lately all I have done in there is honey-do's. I have only been making signs for less than a year now but I really enjoy it. My only wish is that I should of done this a long time ago.

[JimJenson]

The wife and I own a few rental properties.

[Berferful]

We've been a copy center/print shop for over 30 years.

[speedneeds]

My wife and I currently run a full time auto repair shop. We have been doing vinyl signs, t-shirts and sublimation for about 3 yrs, building the business hoping to go full time signs soon.

[B Snyder]

Besides making signs full-time since 1985 I also am a mom to three.
That in and of itself is another job!
Love....Jill


You got that right! Since my wife returned to work in September I have been staying home with my 3 kids (currently 6 mos, 6 mos, and 3.2 yrs old) during the day. My shop phone calls are forwarded to my cell now and I go into the shop from 6pm til midnight.

[Signco Inc]

Snow Plowing. I would not make my guys work outside when its 20 degrees. But I will make them sit in a warm truck and plow snow.

[ONLINE SIGN GUY]

I own the sign business full time and also a tattoo studio....i just own that , im not one of the tattoo artists....

[k.a.s.]

Make signs.

We farm, our main thing is the pumpkin farm in the fall where we have, hayrides, corn maze, animals, and other fall atractions. www.kingswaypumpkinfarm.com We raise about 30 acres of pumpkins and have about another 250 acres of corn, soybeans & wheat. Also have about 15 beef cattle.

We have a building that we use to store cars and boats in the winter.

And we have about 5 rental properties.

I'm always busy.

Kevin

[ToddM.]

I'm a millionaire...mainly do signs as a way to pass the time.

I also have a problem telling the truth sometimes.

[Kentucky Wraps]

I'm beginning to think I should start charging as a Business Consultant & Marketing Department. I bet you all feel the same.

[Zambookajoe]

Im a sign maker in the daytime and a signmaker at night, Dont know if that counts but god we are busy.

Id like to open a fishing guide business, just no time

Maybe Ill start selling dope, some guys are making a killing with that LOL!!

[round man]

I work on computers and plotters part time and go to school for computer technology when I'm not doing murals and signwork

[intense_design]

I do Bookwork for a Semi truck Repair shop.

[jhilldesigns]

My second job is drinking :thumb: (doesn't really pay all that well, but when you do what you love, you don't care that much)

[Gino]

My second job is drinking :thumb: (doesn't really pay all that well, but when you do what you love, you don't care that much)


Yep, what she said.............:rock-n-roll:

[ProWraps]

she?

[ddubia]

I don't own the shop I work in, but when you enter our reception area it's actually a Hot Sauce Shoppe and a Sandwich Shop. Bottles of hot sauce, rubs, garlics, etc, on shelves on every wall. The owner, (being a chef quality cook), did a promotion one Saturday for some smokers he bought to sell by offering pulled pork sandwiches for $6. A large kaiser roll, 1 full cup of smoked, pulled pork, several tablespoons of his homemade BBQ sauce then covered with a 1/2 cup of homemade cole slaw. He sold 87 sandwiches on that day with no advertisement. He was done with that it was only a one-day thing.

On Monday morning people were calling in wanting to order carry-out for lunch. He had meat left over so sold another 39 sandwiches that day. Seeing some possibilities in it he opened a small restaurant along with the hot sauce shop and had been slammed for three weeks Wed-Sat 11am-5:30. He's selling sandwiches of smoked pulled pork, smoked beef brisket and smoked chicken (with a peachy BBQ sauce). Everything is homemade right in our small hallway of a kitchen at the shop which has been upgraded to meet our city's health codes.

So now our reception area is for the sign shop, a hot sauce shop and a sandwich shop/ restaurant that seats 12. One day soon I'm going to post a thread with plenty of pics. It's a pretty unusual yet interesting place now.

I am involved, by choice, only in the sign shop. There's plenty of sign work to do and since I'm the major sign maker here I don't want to spread myself too thin, get them dependent on my help with the food and then get slammed with sign work being the only one to to do it. We do have an employee originally hired as sign shop help who is more and more asked to help with the other stuff. We also have a secretary who used to own a pizza shop so she's been real handy with the food biz.

I'm still "just" a sign guy. But the owner of our shop is plenty busy in other things with this new combination of businesses.

[fieldcenter]

A lot of quality people here. Love the millionaire comment!

Manufacture Rep for Eco Solvent Ink products -
Manufacture Rep for Philips Media products -
Manufacture Rep for CIS for Desktop Printers Products -

Francis

Fieldcenter
J-STAR / Good Start!!

[wildindian]

Male Model and Porn Star.

[Rooster]

Just a little freelance jackassery during evenings and weekends.

[klemgraphics]

Auto body repair, accessories, window tint, lift kits, performance parts, just about anything I can sell to make some $$$. Then I go home and the wife spends it all on home improvements which I can call another job for me. Leaves me just about enough time to sleep a couple hours and do it all over again.

[proline51]

my main income "right now", is my power engineering job. but the sign business is slowly gain ground. an hopefully one day i will be able to go half time at the mill, and full time in the sign biz. things are really starting to get hecktic, and the wife is putting pressure on me to take some time off, but i just tell her, " as long as you keep spendin', i gotta keep workin' LOL" that usually dosn't go over that well. as you can imagine.:doh:

PLD

[SlightlyChilled]

Full time cable guy. But a real one that works on the main lines and fiber.Fell into the sign thing last year now trying to learn all I can before I make a push. Like I have said before I have loved vinyl graphics sense I was little boy. When Oakley made that big marketing push with the window stickers in the 80's man I was in love.

[stickermonkey]

Besides making signs full-time since 1985 I also am a mom to three.
That in and of itself is another job!
Love....Jill

You got that right Jill!! I'm the mother of 2 kiddos, (4 if you count my husband & the furry kid!) ha!

I also design and sell printing (offset print broker), we have a lamination service & qick copy & fax service as well. Used to do t-shirt & sublimation printing onto mugs and all kinds of stuff too...but it was a pain in the ***.

We've fairly recently expanded into Advertising Agency work. I love anything that is creative. It was a natural progression as we do a lot of buisness start up brand design...it's just convenient for the customer to have us handle their branding and advertising for them.

:) It keeps me busy! But this weekend....I'm OUTA here!! Cottage bound.:wine-smi:

[jhilldesigns]

Yep, what she said.............:rock-n-roll:

He. :beer

[dwt]

I tint glass (home-auto-office), make signs, spray in liners. Wife owns a therapy clinic and every few years we license other therapist by teaching continuing education credits. Always looking for another angle.

[JasperST]

I do some sub work for Fermi Labs, almost have the unified field of everything wrapped up. I've got my own particle accelerator buried under my back yard but I'm laying low for now. I think the power company is on to me...or maybe they think I'm growing pot.

[WOODBS]

My second job is to enjoy life, no worries, and work toward that island to retire on...

[centerpiecegraphics]

I work in brokerage operations for one of the big banks. hoping to spend 100% of my time in graphics and signmaking. i just started the signmaking business last march and operating from home.