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submitted 9 months ago by hahattpro@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

He have good full time job as software engineering (5 years experience).

He begin side hustle. He join a real estate agency. (which seem unreasonable because he should work in IT industry side hustle, which he have 5 years experience) But most of the time he taking class, and post picture of class on social media.

I am worries. It feel like a cult.

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[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 44 points 9 months ago

You may want to give us some more details. It sounds like your friend is taking a course about real estate, but so far I don't see why these people are a cult.

If you can explain to me why they are a cult, then you can also explain it to your friend, and that's a good first step to get them out.

[-] lmaydev@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago

There's no detail here at all.

He can do whatever he likes in his free time really. Plus finding a side hustle in IT that actually makes any decent money isn't that easy.

If the class is asking for lots of money and trying to get them to recruit it could be more worrying.

Do you have a link to the classes website?

[-] porkins@sh.itjust.works 22 points 9 months ago

If he needs to pay the real estate business to get started and if he needs to recruit other people, it is likely MLM (pyramid scheme). There is a database of those here.

[-] _danny@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

IT side jobs don't really exist, especially if you're looking for cash. You'd almost be better off picking up a part time shift flipping burgers.

[-] PlexSheep@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago

What do you mean? Software is everywhere. If nothing better, helping with online presence of small business.

[-] _danny@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

From what I've seen, your $/h for any type of part-time software work is going to be very low.

You know who has no idea what the going rate is for a decent website? Small business owners. That's why they don't have one to begin with.

I've found that if you're going to freelance, you need to do it full time. Your going to be passed over if someone can do it twice as fast for the same rate, so you really have to slash your prices if you want any business.

[-] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

Real estate is where the money is.

Really depends on the type of class, etc. It sounds pretty benign the way you describe it.

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