The 9–5 Employee Making Six Figures Side Hustle
Tweet · Mar 03, 2026
I talked to a guy the other day making 6 figures while still working his 9-5.
You don’t have to quit your job to have a killer side hustle!
==Here’s the story==:
He was looking for something for his wife to do
In 2022 he was still working his w2 and bought a smaller bounce house and rented it out 10 times by end of the year
Start up cost was $1200 for the bounce house and $100 for the dolly
ONLY advertising on FB market place
By 2023 he saw potential and bought 3 more bounce houses… then 2 more
It was summer now and people asking for water slides. So he bought water slides
By end of the year had 8 houses
45k revenue in 2023
2024 he dove in and went big. He started experimenting with bigger stuff
He said “Anyone can do a small bounce house. But very few people that do bigger houses”
2024 ended up doing about 90k with 230 rentals
2025 - 122k and brought in 75k profit
Can anyone do this? YES.
If you can stay under a certain weight, you can load these in the back of anything
Biggest thing to think through— how many deliveries can you do in a day? Especially if it’s just a weekend biz.
Now, he’s still working a w2 and fits bounce house biz into that
His bread and butter house he charges $450 / day and delivery on top of that.
Blown away by what @jeshoopes has done!