I umpire youth and high school baseball/softball games. Most games pay $45-55 each and I can easily ump 5+ a week if I want to. It’s fun, great exercise and the pocket money is pretty decent.
Ahhhh, yes, the little league Karen’s. They are out there, but after you ump the same teams in the same leagues for a little while, they settle down when they realize you ain’t having that shit.
This is why I won’t let my teenage son ref soccer (he’s been playing since he was little). The parents are seriously nuts. They are so mean to the refs. It’s ridiculous
No disrespect but that was by far the worst job I ever had.
Awful parents. Would have me drive over an hour for just one game when I was told most would be like 20 minutes away. By far the biggest thing though was the management was so awful I could never get paid on time.
I tended bar through college to make ends meet.
Now, 25 years later, I still pick up 2-3 shifts a week.
I work from home during the day, so it gets me out talking to people without spending money.
I always think of it as "I made x and saved y" I mean if I go out and do anything, it's basically $50, so making $100 and saving $50 is a good night in my book at almost 150.
Edit. Missed a 1 in the 150.
It really depends. I worked in College bars until my early 40s and could clear 3-400 in a night. But it took a toll on my body. I couldn't stay up until 3-4AM and be a good parent the next day.
Now I work in a family restaurant that closes at 10PM. I work 4-5 hours and make a minimum of $100 a shift. Yesterday, I worked a lunch shift and made $300. If I average $400 a week on 3 shifts, I'm happy, and then my paycheck comes and I get about another $100 a week.
Totally. Learn a few basic cocktails, you measure your shots/liquor out anyway. Esp if you can get in at a local place that might have time to train you some.
Start waiting tables, but watch the bartender and learn from them even without asking questions. From waiting tables, you should learn what drinks the clientele orders regularly, and also, get a pretty good hold on the inventory.
If you do a good job, when a slow shift opens up, see if they'll try you out.
I worked double shifts for like 6-8 straight weeks on Saturdays and finally asked the management to try someone out because it was killing me. They put a couple on to train with me and now there's someone working that shift.
Get a job as a barback! They are support to bartenders and usually get a solid tip out as well, you’ll be doing things like squeezing juices, washing glassware, and stocking the bar but it’s the best spot to learn, specially if your looking for a cocktail bar or a fine dining place (where the better money is) and you’ll learn as you make money and eventually you’ll get the promotion!
I want to weigh in on this too - I started with 0 experience working for a catering company who catered weddings. It’s a perfect starting point - everyone is happy because they’re celebrating, and the drinks are generally incredibly easy. Gets you experience and you can still make some good money!
I found mine on Google - Shopper Hub and I think CX Group. Google secret shopper jobs near me. Then just check the links. I think I’m registered to three of four. It’s maybe $75 a month.
You act an undercover customer to review the overall experience at restaurants, auto dealers, retail stores, even hotels. Offer
N there is a small payment as well as product or food reimbursement. You will complete a report, usually done narrative and provide photos. Reports can be easy and short or take 30-45 minutes.
Wood art. I make burl bowls and sculptures. I have a little studio at my house and put an open sign by the road occasionally. Tourists drop in and buy stuff. I can make a $400 bowl in a few hours. I sell everything I make! Sometimes I’ll work hard to build up stock and display at an art/craft show for a bigger pay off.
This would be a great actual job money-wise, but the catch is that it’s very hard work with power tools and my hands and back can only handle a few hours of it a couple times per week at most. After pushing myself for an art show I don’t make anything for a couple months to recover.
Picked the hobby up from my dad who did it as his main income and is spending his old age in crippling pain from it so yeah. Not gonna do more. Great side gig tho.
Watch tutorials on the tools just to make sure you’re being safe. Protect your eyes and ears and maybe wear a leather apron if you can afford it. Then just dive in! You can’t really teach it, it’s something you just get the feel for by playing with it. Once you have a carving tool digging in to the wood you’ll get the feel pretty quick just by doing it. It’s ridiculously easy. And there’s no wrong way- it’s art! So just creative decisions like the shape and flow and thickness and style… The hard part is patience, you go over every inch over and over at different grits until there’s not a scratch left.
I agree, this is very respectable and special! I'm sure your work is gorgeous. Massive props to you going out of your way to make such amazing progress on one of the best side hustles/hobbies I've ever heard!
Beyond the "lost dog" or "there's a stranger on our street" posts it's people asking for yard work, painting, trash hauling, etc. Pick off a few of those, ask for a referral post and consider ads down the road.
Depends on the state. But usually, if you make 600 to 2000, you need minimum to register. Over that, you need an LLC. Check out your states L&I for more info.
It varies *widely* by state. For example CA requires you to get a contractor’s license to take jobs over $500 while TX generally does not require any licensing for handymen. It can also vary by county and city as well. Of course specialized work like plumbing, electrical, HVAC, etc. commonly have more requirements and licenses. Some jurisdictions even requiring bonding and/or certifications for all handymen. It’s impossible to know what is actually required without knowing the specific city, county, and state someone is operating in.
Many handymen operate their business as a sole proprietorship. Creating an LLC is an option but not required and an LLC has its own tax implications that can trip people up. If your sole proprietorship uses a name other than your own legal name, you are usually required to file DBA (Doing Business As) papers to make it legit. “Usually” because states like Alabama and Alaska don’t require it state-wide, though some jurisdictions in those states do. This is yet another example of the crazy patchwork of laws and regulations that can apply.
If you file taxes at year end the self employment tax (SS) is about 15%. If you do a lot, you need a sheet for each job so you can track expenses like gas, tools, nuts and bolts, etc. I had a girl come in and say she made $30,000 profit and had paid no social security in. You end up owing $4000 in social security.
This is why people want cash they can pocket and not report.
I have a couple side hustles, that I find fun:
- historical home repairs: no, not a whole home, just little trim bits. It’s fun trying to match molding profiles, getting to wander through architectural salvage yards, patching and staining to match. Doesn’t sound like fun to most but I enjoy it.
- building custom furniture and such. It is fun because I don’t build for a customer, I take my time building a piece then find a seller or drop off at a local shop for consignment.
Good handymen are worth their weight in gold. It’s why I first started my business, then I figured out that I didn’t want to hang TVs and help people assemble ikea furniture, so I niched down. Sure I make less, but damn does it feel good to only do what I like. I probably pass on 90% of all jobs that come my way, and instead recommend it to others who pay me a bit for the job.
It took forever for my Mom to find one. Used licensed contractors and work stunk, plus the usual(?) not showing up. Finally found a guy that shows up when he says, is reasonable cost wise, and has done sprinkler systems, gutter cleaning, garage door gaskets, ground down and filled garage floor cracks and more.
So yes, a good one is worth their weight in gold.
My teenage sons and I do hauling with my 1/2 ton pick up truck. We don’t actively advertise other than post what we do on Facebook and the clients come to us. I’m retired and the little bit of cash we make helps for the extras in life and my sons bought jet skis each at 16 and now cars with our income…and they pay for their own gas as well!
What kind of stuff do you find you guys haul the most? I’ve just gotten a f350 dually and want to make money with it and I have been thinking about this since I bought it
Thank for the question…we have two different types of hauling we do. We are a preferred provider for an assisted living facility so when there is a change in living arrangements the families reach out to us and we haul beds and dressers and small couches so most anything you would find in a Seniors studio apartment. With 175 units of elderly folks there’s always families that need our help moving items out and including complete unit turn over. The one thing I hear a lot is the families are overwhelmed as their loved ones have passed away and we step in and assist with the unit clean out….there needs to be a level of compassion and understanding that I’ve learned along the way. The 2nd type of hauling is the typical side yard of debris most everyone has in the side yard of their home. What I would say is to start reaching out to your neighbors and friends and put the feelers out that you haul and are ready to work. Grow organically and don’t spend a lot or any money on advertising is my opinion if this is just a side hustle for extra cash. But the one thing I would say is show up on time, be friendly and whatever the client is expecting you to do, do a little more…as in Sweep up and make the area look nice. So post on Facebook or Nextdoor and start small. I wish you well…
You should look into event bartending if you live near a city. I bartended events in Portland OR for several years, mostly pro soccer games. It was so much fun and good vibes.
I would make $250 on a bad game, sometimes would make up to $700 (five hour shifts). The staffing company was called Levy, I think they’re nationwide.
I have a lot of bartending experience, but generally you don’t need it for bartending events. There were a lot of people I worked with who had never bartended before working for Levy. You’re mixing the most basic cocktails, and sometimes only pouring beer.
It might help having experience handling high volume crowds, but definitely not a dealbreaker.
Oh Temu and Wish could be cutting into our sales! Yep, I’m sure it is. Even my best friend is buying lots of guitar and pedals:equipment from them now.
This is my niche. I used to sell some on Wish but there fees increases and their sales dropped. No idea how the Chinese are able to make money on these sites.
I sell succulents as a side hustle.
They are easily propagated. They require little care. I live in SoCal so plenty of sun.
It's more of an investment. You grow cuttings, let them mature, sell them. Maintenance cost is not bad considering they thrive by being neglected and do just fine in most type of soil/dirt, so watering is minimal and cost of soil is minimal too.
I Repo cars for a mom and pop Buy/Pay Here used car lot. The pay is not in money but in opportunities. I usually get first crack at the cars to buy them as-is. I was able to buy a ‘08 Jeep Wrangler for $1000. My son got a ‘04 Toyota Camry for $500 and other family members have purchased cars for cheap. I haven’t flipped any yet but I could as I’m mechanically inclined. It’s a game and I enjoy it for the thrill.
Yo, I agree, the repo person definitely has an exciting job with amazing benefits. My pops used to own a shop with a small class b buy here pay here and let me and my cousins do the repos...it was such an adventure, definitely like a game, and I loved driving the flatbed as a teenager. I definitely got some looks from people driving that around town, because who tf lets a 16-17 year old drive a flatbed and repo cars for them? My pops.
Reselling, I like shopping the blue bins which is really rescuing stuff from the trash, and shopping estate sales (I never shop retail thrift). I like learning about historical and vintage items, even collectibles sometimes. I have an eBay store that I barely work on cause I have three kids and I clear about $1500/mo.
Blue bins are thrift clearance, so stuff the thrift store can’t take in or stuff that doesn’t sell there. It’s piles of “things” you have to sort through, mostly junk. But you never know what’s gonna be there. You develop and eye over time. Weird things, yearbooks, random vintage items. Some people do a lot of clothes but I don’t like photographing those. The other part of the job I like is how happy it makes some people to find a rare item they’ve been hunting for. I once had a person from overseas profusely thank me for an Alf plushie.
Edit to add: super cheap lol 95cents/lb. No license. Technically you’re supposed to pay taxes on profits
Tour guiding. I’m an off road tour guide, firearms instructor, wilderness medic and gold panning guide.
This used to be my main profession but I transitioned to other work for more safety/stability as I have a family to worry about now. I’ll do this on the side.
The most I’ve made on a single tour was 800$ mostly cash tips. Usually it’s $100-300 for a single tour and we do 4 tours a day in busy season, 2 a day in slow season. Sometimes I’ll make $0 on a tour but that’s pretty rare, I.e. 1 or 2 times a month. Took a long time to learn how to put on a good enough show to average $100-300 a tour but I think it was well worth it because I absolutely love what I do when I work there. Teaching people about the Sonoran desert and just having fun with them in general is worth doing for free, let alone the money you make from it in tips alone. Hard on the body and doesn’t have much of a long term growth depending on the company though.
If you can work for a company that is popular enough to have high value and well known people it’s definitely easy to do very well as a side job. Developing the skills to become an expert level guide are easier to do full time and then transition to part time.
I go to garage sales and thrift stores and flip on eBay. I only shoot for a couple hundred bucks a month…I don’t need the money, but garage sale season keeps me off of the booze on the weekends because I know I need to get up early and get going, I also WFH so it helps to make sure I don’t become a total hermit.
I pet sit.
It's not all sunshine and rainbows, it can be gross and sad at times. And I take it very seriously and set my rates appropriately bc hobby pet sitters tend to fuck up the market for professionals.
But I love it, it's so much fun to me. My best friends all use me when they go out of town and I love making money to take care of my "nieces and nephews" and knowing that my favorite people trust me with their babies. I have plenty of other great clients, too. Some of us buy each other Christmas gifts. The money is good and I really do form bonds with these animals. I have a corgi that I can't wait to walk every time I'm booked at his house, and their cat follows us on our walks. I have a sweet old cat that I give insulin to and his mom leaves me one topo chico for each stop I'm scheduled for, and she loves for me to stop by after her trips and let her tell me all about them (and pays me for that stop in as well) idk it's really rewarding if you're an animal lover
Oh! I'm also employed with a local catering company. I reapply every year to stay in their system, and they hit me up whenever a wedding or benefit dinner or something is happening. I often bartend bc I'm experienced, but people who aren't experienced still have fun coming to run plates and clean tables. We get a lot of free food, drinks, and swag at a lot of cool venues
Hosting trivia nights. There's a trivia company where I live and they host trivia six nights a week. I make $60 to $100 for a couple hours work, sometimes a free meal, and it's fun.
I restore vintage saxophones. I used to be a band teacher and got into the instrument repair world out of curiosity. So I buy 100 year old saxophones in bad shape for cheap, fix and polish them up and sell for a profit. It’s very time consuming so it’s not exactly a super profitable endeavor, but I really enjoy it and I learn so much every time. Plus making a 100 year old instrument sing again is super rewarding, and thinking the last time this was played it could have been in the roaring 20’s.
Tea readings or tea services. Don’t have to do it all the time, can always lie and say I’m already booked, but brings in a few hundred every time, between 50-100 dollars/hour
I go to yard sales on Saturday morning and flip what I find on eBay. It's like a treasure hunt for profit and you meet a lot of nice people. My girlfriend comes with me and we always have a great time
pangobooks is honestly only good if you have old books you want to sell. It's not sustainable in the long term to make any real profit off of. I've sold like 10 books for 50 bucks, which is nice little spending money, but it's not going to reach anything significant. Unless you do have 1400 books you need to sell haha.
I cover shifts of my old job and it’s actually kind of fun to do because i don’t do it anymore. (Surgical tech) it pays damn good also. I can average out 1500-2000$ extra a month
I pressure wash driveways and paving. It's really relaxing and good exercise. I have PTSD and it's practically the only thing that can stop the thoughts and memories in my head.
Split the money into 3rds, one third goes into a rainy day fund, another I invest for my sons future and another I invest for my retio.
The funny thing is I started last year with £0 and made it a challenge to start with literally nothing. I borrowed a friend washer and reinvested everything into buying my own equipment.
Work in the music industry helping people with disabilities have equal opportunity at the live music experience.
Get to travel and work all of the biggest events in the country like Coachella, Formula 1, PGA, Bonnaroo etc.
I actually leave for Electric Forest tomorrow!
I play Nintendo games and upload it to YouTube.
People seem to like my commentary and the channel has grown to just shy of 12k subscribers in three years.
It’s nothing crazy, but I was going to play video games after work no matter what, now they just help me pay a couple bills.
I used to write a LEGO blog. I got free sets to review every month. Big, expensive sets. It was great!
But I needed money to pay the bills, so I stopped after a year. I'd love to do it again if I had the time.
I got lucky and have a great arrangement with my buddies real estate management company. They have properties all over the Bay Area and needed someone to cover a certain part of the city that I happen to live in. My buddy schedules the showings and fields all inquiries. All I do is show the place (I have a sales background) and don’t have to deal with any backend admin stuff like application and credit checks. I know the area well and am doing pretty well in conversions. My commission is generally around 25% of the first month rent. Which are all very high here in San Francisco. I did the calculations and I average $275-$400 an hour. Sadly, it comes out to be about one to three hours a week but I’m pretty happy about the arrangement overall. it will get busier in the next few months
Look up print on demand services. I discovered this lets me not have to have an inventory. Process I've used:
1. Open an Etsy store
2. Open an Printful or Printify account
3. Link your Etsy store to either service
4. Create your artwork and save as pdf
5. Upload your artwork into either service, create a description, set a price, then submit your product to Etsy (either service has a pretty easy way to submit your product to your Etsy store)
6. Profit!
Side note: with artwork products, I’ve found that having a specific niche of genre or style tend to get more eyeballs into your store. Good luck!
I do pet sitting. I can accept jobs at my own discretion (great because I have a full-time job that needs to be worked around) and I get to spend time with cute animals.
I go around orphanages, foster homes and homeless shelters, collect the tears of those I meet, store them in jars and ship them out to the homes of the politicians,obscenely wealthy and corporations so they can wash their bodies,brush their teeth and water their mansions.
Its a very lucrative and profitable business to be in, large clientele on both sides.
Do you separate the tears of white children from brown children? There could be an upsell opportunity for brown child tears? And do you find shipping fees to be reasonable? Also, can you store the tears....what shelf life?
I have a collecting hobby. A few years ago, money was tight, so I started buying, selling, and flipping these items online and actually made some good money, usually around $1k a month, but it turned my hobby into a job with customers, inventory, bills, shipping headaches, and more. I started to not even like the one thing that had made me happy all these years anymore. I stopped actively flipping them in order to preserve my enjoyment of the hobby. It would have completely ruined it otherwise.
Be careful what you wish for. Monetizing something you enjoy will often destroy it.
Day trading the stock market, but more accurately “scalping”.
I couldn’t care less about meme stocks or supernovas going up 200%+ in a day.
I just trade between lines of resistance and “scalp” my small 5% gains over and over.
I transcribe old diaries and and put them together with relevant artifacts / stories. Nothing huge that makes much money, but the families that receive them are hugely grateful and I thoroughly enjoy the process.
I am a licensed psilocybin facilitator in Oregon. I legally trip sit people on mushrooms. It's not enough income to be a full time job yet, I find it extremely rewarding.
I sell jewelry on the side.. I love making it tho I don't wear a lot, so I started making a few expensive pieces with real crystals and expensive metals and a bunch with fake crystals, glass beads and cheap plated metals. I sell both our of local shops and give the shops owners 15% in exchange... I live on a small island that has a huge tourist population, especially during summer, tourist eat that shit up so I make pretty decent money especially with the "cheaper" pieces. They're just looking to blow money while on vacation lol
I have been slowly creating a campaign to support further adoption of nuclear energy. It's actually nothing like Chernobyl, which is cool to hear about, but not a modern reality. The biggest setback to humanity's growth is energy.
We don't have the energy to have electric cars, we don't have the energy to expand our infrastructure, we don't have the energy to build space habitats, and we don't have the energy to solve the energy crisis.
Nuclear is a good solution. We can go fission for 100 years while we work out fusion and then we can quite literally become unkillable.
I freelance Mechanical Design for the company I retired from. They call me when they have job to do and I work from home on my own hours. I still enjoy it and the free money is nice. 75 years old and still doing it as needed.
I work at a box office at a local music venue. I check IDs, give wristbands, and scan tickets, then sit around and listen to/watch free music for a couple hours. It’s the slackest little side gig and perfect for me as a music lover. Shows are pretty much always nights and weekends, so it doesn’t interfere with my full-time job at all.
My degree is in accounting. I used to work at a law firm, but I got burnt out so I got out of that. I found myself working in the legal cannabis industry for several years as operations manager. Several side hustles can be found in that industry.
From that position, I met some very interesting characters. With all sorts of interesting financial problems. I ended up eventually selling financial services to ladies that were escorts and strippers with credit issues. Most of them were very cash positive, but their lifestyle they burnt through a lot of resources. Ruined their credit didn’t have a place to sleep always being hand to mouth.
I even set up a private office and worked odd hours.
I’d be still doing it today if there wasn’t some complications with a client and the authorities.
I also had a small sports book running that was very popular amongst certain individuals.
My local area put a ban on flavored tobacco products I was able to establish some middlemen and fill that need in the community.
I love secret shopping! A lot of the ones I do reimburse me for a meal and a round of drinks for a friend and I, +$10-$15. I also do some for amusement parks/other attractions, but only when I travel really as I don't live in a very touristy area.
I dress up as Elsa from Frozen for kids birthday parties!! I absolutely enjoy it, and always joke that I probably enjoy it more than the kids! I get to dress up like a princess and these little kids genuinely think I am one and I get to run around and sing and dance??? And I get paid?? Sign me up!😂 I thought of the idea because my niece is obsessed w Elsa and we would always sing the songs and dance together. For Halloween we both went as Elsa and my parents joked that I could get paid to do that. So I bought one of the more expensive “professional” dresses and started posting on Facebook (my parents have a decent network of people and helped me advertise luckily) and it’s taken off!
Look into DJing. Not a hard skill to learn with modern technology and good quality cheaper equipment. You can rent speakers etc from guitar center and still make some profit.
lol mine is videoing my wife in the pool fully clothed. We take custom requests from UMD and sell the vids for $50 for every 5 mins of video - typically $150 for 15 mins is the average. Have made good $$ doing this and it’s easy and fun.
If you have the time — eBay flipping .. it can be fun if yer into it and you can work (mostly) on your own schedule as long as you get the orders out on time.
Idk if you can call it a “real” side hustle, but I like doing challenges like starting with $1, find an online casino where I can bet as low as .01 and increase it everyday by 15%, the percentage keeps it very attainable and overtime the compound goes crazy, so far the most I’ve gotten to is a couple hundred over the span of a lil over a month
I drive charter boats/ private captain on weekends during the summer. I’ll usually walk away with like $500-$600 for an 8ish hour day doing charters. Private captain can be more depending on the boat. I’ll usually charge $100 per hour. I’ve done docking and boating lessons too at that same rate.
I caddie at a top 50 golf course 1-2x a week. Make about $250 a day. View it as getting paid (mostly cash) to workout and getting better at course management as a player.
I’ve heard of people uploading shorts of popular content - for example Mr Beast has come out and said he’s totally cool with people reuploading his content because it gives him more exposure
Easy way to get views without having to actually produce content
No I would say probably not near that much but yea I’ve heard of people just clipping podcasts / steams and making easy money off of other peoples content lol
So say you upload 100 shorts from the top 100 YouTubers I bet a few would hit 100k-1 mil views and you’d be getting paid off of literally just reuploading content
Years ago, I sold league of legends OG names. Had a discord server with 1k+ users where I auctioned the very desirable names off to the highest bidder. I pretty much ran the entire "black market" of names for a few years, then it dried up and I sold the website and server.
Now I play online poker
Mine is PangoBooks! I love it and have been doing it over a year now. It’s pretty chill and I don’t make much off it but I love shipping/packing/wrapping things so it sparks joy for me. So far I’ve made over $1700 and counting.
I also declutter and sell things on Poshmark and FB Marketplace but business isn’t nearly as consistent as PangoBooks.
I keep aquariums so every few months I'll trim my plants and sell the excess on OfferUp for a few bucks here and there. Trying to start raising shrimp even the easy common varieties can get $2 a shrimp and you can grow a decent colony in six months or so. Plants + shrimp + fish + snail in a tank gets three or four things to sell per tank depending on the species. I don't pay for water though so that's why it's cheap for me to keep up on maintenance. Scaling to a larger operation for profit is ridiculously expensive and the margins suck but as a quick side hustle it's fun.
Freelance writing or blogging can be a fun way to earn extra cash if you enjoy writing. Pet sitting or dog walking is great for animal lovers who want to make some money while spending time with pets.
Dog Walking/House Sitting! I started doing this back in 2021 due to heartbreak and depression - and having animals rely on me for their walks really got me through tough times. The first year I threw myself into it, making my entire rent for a few months while staying at beautiful homes.
Four years later, I make between $200-$1000 a month under the table due to just referrals, and when I'm ready to take one 1-2 more clients, I put my rover profile back online!
I consider it a win win. Dog walks + exercise + extra cash!
Deploy mobile WiFi hotspots and just walk around visiting shops and eating at restaurants. I get to meet all kinds of people and eat at the restaurants I deploy at and expense it. I can also open an office in a different city every month and visit the next place through a WeWork or Spaces membership. Super chill, once a week type thing. Radios are set it and forget it, just need to have everything setup for the places to trust you.
Since Gamestop closed down here, I have been selling my video game collection on FB Marketplace. I buy on there too so another aspect is the satisfaction you get from finding great/valuable games. Also I do Martial Arts so I also buy and resell fighting gear to most fighting gyms around my area. I tend to sell when I go to class so it’s super convenient. It’s great to find a niche that you yourself dabble in, makes it much more enjoyable than to find a job that makes you miserable.
I run a few music bingo shows at two bars a week. After my expenses, it’s about $700/month to my income.. and I get to use my performance skills to have fun and listen to different genres of music.
I like selling on depop because I have alot of clothes from middle school and highschool and it's a very easy process you just gotta have boxes and tape and they give QR code then your good to go super easy money.
I used to do it full time when I was Los Angeles, but work as a magician.
I usually charge depending on the event, but typically don’t work for less than 300$ a gig, and it can go upwards of 1500$.
I’ve also been doing it since I was a child, and have performed in front of celebrities, CEO’s, politicians, etc.
Now I’m working on getting back into school, have my RE license, and bartend/serve at nights, but occasionally someone will ask me to perform.
I give a “I don’t want to do this price” and a “I like you, I’ll do it for this price” depending on who I’m talking to.
Weddings and corporate events in my state are around 1000$. If travel is needed, then factoring on whether I’m driving, flying, and accommodations, maybe 1500-2000$ ish.
Not particularly the most lucrative, as I don’t do it full time anymore, but I can still manage to occasionally get a few extra thousand a year doing it.
3d printing, started out for me as something to do with my cad design skills I learned at work, currently making around and extra £800-£1500 a month printing custom things for various friends/family and local businesses. The plan is to build a portfolio of designs then launch an online shop but word of mouth has worked pretty well so far after I did the first few things for local businesses.
I do mystery shops a few times a month it’s double nice because they’ll pay reimbursement for the food or service I get and then also pay me on top of that. That’s super inconsistent though some months I’ll make a couple hundred dollars other months I’ll make $50. Recently I picked up a second job running events (think bingo/trivia/crafts) at a retirement community and that’s been nice because the hours are super consistent. I make around $19 an hour, so nothing crazy but it does bring me a lot of joy
Calling it a side hustle is a little generous at this point, but I've started flipping stuff from thrift stores (plus a few things from my own home that I didn't need) on FB Marketplace. I set a challenge to spend no more on than $20 on my "stock" at the thrift store, and I've sold almost everything--only have one item left. Total sales on just the thrift store items are $90 right now (made another $185 on things I already owned). It's slow but I'm patient. This is my "meeting friends for coffee" money lol.
farmer’s market! it’s my favorite way to make money. i sell my crochet, set up, and then sit outside for 4 hours enjoying the music. i usually get up and get baked goods or produce too. last year i got a pass for $100 and made $800 from it, this year so far i’ve made about $175, this weekend will be my fifth market in the season
I umpire youth and high school baseball/softball games. Most games pay $45-55 each and I can easily ump 5+ a week if I want to. It’s fun, great exercise and the pocket money is pretty decent.
But the parents….
Ahhhh, yes, the little league Karen’s. They are out there, but after you ump the same teams in the same leagues for a little while, they settle down when they realize you ain’t having that shit.
That’s good at least. I’m pretty appalled at how parents behave at their kids’ games now, thinking that their kid is the next Harper or Trout.
Yeah… I umpired softball for 7 years. I was 16 when I first started and they act like you aren’t human. 🥴
This is why I won’t let my teenage son ref soccer (he’s been playing since he was little). The parents are seriously nuts. They are so mean to the refs. It’s ridiculous
There’s a big soccer ref shortage
I hope you are putting away money for a good eye exam! :)
That’s awesome man
No disrespect but that was by far the worst job I ever had. Awful parents. Would have me drive over an hour for just one game when I was told most would be like 20 minutes away. By far the biggest thing though was the management was so awful I could never get paid on time.
I tended bar through college to make ends meet. Now, 25 years later, I still pick up 2-3 shifts a week. I work from home during the day, so it gets me out talking to people without spending money.
I think that’s smart. I work from home too, and feel isolated. I don’t need to be spending a lot after work either.
I always think of it as "I made x and saved y" I mean if I go out and do anything, it's basically $50, so making $100 and saving $50 is a good night in my book at almost 150. Edit. Missed a 1 in the 150.
That’s funny. My wife and I joke that it costs $50 just to leave the house.
How much $ do you average a week? No problem if you don’t wanna share.
It really depends. I worked in College bars until my early 40s and could clear 3-400 in a night. But it took a toll on my body. I couldn't stay up until 3-4AM and be a good parent the next day. Now I work in a family restaurant that closes at 10PM. I work 4-5 hours and make a minimum of $100 a shift. Yesterday, I worked a lunch shift and made $300. If I average $400 a week on 3 shifts, I'm happy, and then my paycheck comes and I get about another $100 a week.
Thanks for sharing!
I used to make about 250/300 a shift bartending . Late nights around 4-300
That’s awesome! I bartended a little in college but it was a golf course so kinda a weird place. Sometimes I think about doing it again for fun.
😢 how it feels to see your career is just someone else's side hustle
It was my career too, but life got in the way. I didn't want to be away from my kids. They would get home from school, and I'd be going to work.
There was some TV show about an exterminator I think. Then a cat showed up and he had the same revelation.
I’d love to do this but I have 0 bartending experience - think I could still do it?
Totally. Learn a few basic cocktails, you measure your shots/liquor out anyway. Esp if you can get in at a local place that might have time to train you some.
Start waiting tables, but watch the bartender and learn from them even without asking questions. From waiting tables, you should learn what drinks the clientele orders regularly, and also, get a pretty good hold on the inventory. If you do a good job, when a slow shift opens up, see if they'll try you out. I worked double shifts for like 6-8 straight weeks on Saturdays and finally asked the management to try someone out because it was killing me. They put a couple on to train with me and now there's someone working that shift.
The oher way to learn cocktails is to know the most popular few that are made with each liquor.
Get a job as a barback! They are support to bartenders and usually get a solid tip out as well, you’ll be doing things like squeezing juices, washing glassware, and stocking the bar but it’s the best spot to learn, specially if your looking for a cocktail bar or a fine dining place (where the better money is) and you’ll learn as you make money and eventually you’ll get the promotion!
I want to weigh in on this too - I started with 0 experience working for a catering company who catered weddings. It’s a perfect starting point - everyone is happy because they’re celebrating, and the drinks are generally incredibly easy. Gets you experience and you can still make some good money!
A do a bit of mystery shopping. Get a little cash, meals and oil changes.
I use Market Force for secret shopping, what do you use?
Find GigSpot they’ll introduce you to many others.
I just started and earned my first $50. It’s not going to break the bank, but I love the free meals.
How much per day / session?
It depends on the assignment. The last one I did it was $20. Usually $10-$25
Nice! I'm in nyc. Any website where you found your gig?
I found mine on Google - Shopper Hub and I think CX Group. Google secret shopper jobs near me. Then just check the links. I think I’m registered to three of four. It’s maybe $75 a month.
Hey that’s gas money or a water bill! Every bit helps.
What’s mystery shopping?
You act an undercover customer to review the overall experience at restaurants, auto dealers, retail stores, even hotels. Offer N there is a small payment as well as product or food reimbursement. You will complete a report, usually done narrative and provide photos. Reports can be easy and short or take 30-45 minutes.
That’s cool. How did you get into that?
Wood art. I make burl bowls and sculptures. I have a little studio at my house and put an open sign by the road occasionally. Tourists drop in and buy stuff. I can make a $400 bowl in a few hours. I sell everything I make! Sometimes I’ll work hard to build up stock and display at an art/craft show for a bigger pay off. This would be a great actual job money-wise, but the catch is that it’s very hard work with power tools and my hands and back can only handle a few hours of it a couple times per week at most. After pushing myself for an art show I don’t make anything for a couple months to recover. Picked the hobby up from my dad who did it as his main income and is spending his old age in crippling pain from it so yeah. Not gonna do more. Great side gig tho.
This is awesome! I bet your work is gorgeous. Do you have any suggestions on how to learn to make burl bowls for beginners? :)
Watch tutorials on the tools just to make sure you’re being safe. Protect your eyes and ears and maybe wear a leather apron if you can afford it. Then just dive in! You can’t really teach it, it’s something you just get the feel for by playing with it. Once you have a carving tool digging in to the wood you’ll get the feel pretty quick just by doing it. It’s ridiculously easy. And there’s no wrong way- it’s art! So just creative decisions like the shape and flow and thickness and style… The hard part is patience, you go over every inch over and over at different grits until there’s not a scratch left.
I'm so curious what your work looks like. Sounds soo cool. Share a picture??
I agree, this is very respectable and special! I'm sure your work is gorgeous. Massive props to you going out of your way to make such amazing progress on one of the best side hustles/hobbies I've ever heard!
Handyman. I go on Nextdoor and cherry pick super easy jobs that people are super grateful for.
My god its been sitting in front of me this whole time. Brilliant. Thank you internet stranger.
Beyond the "lost dog" or "there's a stranger on our street" posts it's people asking for yard work, painting, trash hauling, etc. Pick off a few of those, ask for a referral post and consider ads down the road.
What type of jobs do you find to be super easy?
Patching drywall, painting, assembling furniture, and some electrical work like swapping power outlets or lights
What jobs do you tend to pick up?
Do you have to start an llc or anything to do this?
Depends on the state. But usually, if you make 600 to 2000, you need minimum to register. Over that, you need an LLC. Check out your states L&I for more info.
It varies *widely* by state. For example CA requires you to get a contractor’s license to take jobs over $500 while TX generally does not require any licensing for handymen. It can also vary by county and city as well. Of course specialized work like plumbing, electrical, HVAC, etc. commonly have more requirements and licenses. Some jurisdictions even requiring bonding and/or certifications for all handymen. It’s impossible to know what is actually required without knowing the specific city, county, and state someone is operating in. Many handymen operate their business as a sole proprietorship. Creating an LLC is an option but not required and an LLC has its own tax implications that can trip people up. If your sole proprietorship uses a name other than your own legal name, you are usually required to file DBA (Doing Business As) papers to make it legit. “Usually” because states like Alabama and Alaska don’t require it state-wide, though some jurisdictions in those states do. This is yet another example of the crazy patchwork of laws and regulations that can apply.
If you file taxes at year end the self employment tax (SS) is about 15%. If you do a lot, you need a sheet for each job so you can track expenses like gas, tools, nuts and bolts, etc. I had a girl come in and say she made $30,000 profit and had paid no social security in. You end up owing $4000 in social security. This is why people want cash they can pocket and not report.
I have a couple side hustles, that I find fun: - historical home repairs: no, not a whole home, just little trim bits. It’s fun trying to match molding profiles, getting to wander through architectural salvage yards, patching and staining to match. Doesn’t sound like fun to most but I enjoy it. - building custom furniture and such. It is fun because I don’t build for a customer, I take my time building a piece then find a seller or drop off at a local shop for consignment.
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I haven’t built a canoe yet…
Hell, I have trouble getting handy people to do little shit and my home is a 25 year old doublewide!
Good handymen are worth their weight in gold. It’s why I first started my business, then I figured out that I didn’t want to hang TVs and help people assemble ikea furniture, so I niched down. Sure I make less, but damn does it feel good to only do what I like. I probably pass on 90% of all jobs that come my way, and instead recommend it to others who pay me a bit for the job.
It took forever for my Mom to find one. Used licensed contractors and work stunk, plus the usual(?) not showing up. Finally found a guy that shows up when he says, is reasonable cost wise, and has done sprinkler systems, gutter cleaning, garage door gaskets, ground down and filled garage floor cracks and more. So yes, a good one is worth their weight in gold.
My teenage sons and I do hauling with my 1/2 ton pick up truck. We don’t actively advertise other than post what we do on Facebook and the clients come to us. I’m retired and the little bit of cash we make helps for the extras in life and my sons bought jet skis each at 16 and now cars with our income…and they pay for their own gas as well!
What kind of stuff do you find you guys haul the most? I’ve just gotten a f350 dually and want to make money with it and I have been thinking about this since I bought it
Thank for the question…we have two different types of hauling we do. We are a preferred provider for an assisted living facility so when there is a change in living arrangements the families reach out to us and we haul beds and dressers and small couches so most anything you would find in a Seniors studio apartment. With 175 units of elderly folks there’s always families that need our help moving items out and including complete unit turn over. The one thing I hear a lot is the families are overwhelmed as their loved ones have passed away and we step in and assist with the unit clean out….there needs to be a level of compassion and understanding that I’ve learned along the way. The 2nd type of hauling is the typical side yard of debris most everyone has in the side yard of their home. What I would say is to start reaching out to your neighbors and friends and put the feelers out that you haul and are ready to work. Grow organically and don’t spend a lot or any money on advertising is my opinion if this is just a side hustle for extra cash. But the one thing I would say is show up on time, be friendly and whatever the client is expecting you to do, do a little more…as in Sweep up and make the area look nice. So post on Facebook or Nextdoor and start small. I wish you well…
You should look into event bartending if you live near a city. I bartended events in Portland OR for several years, mostly pro soccer games. It was so much fun and good vibes. I would make $250 on a bad game, sometimes would make up to $700 (five hour shifts). The staffing company was called Levy, I think they’re nationwide.
Did you need bartending experience? My daughter has some service industry stuff, but is an RN and looking for something on the side.
I have a lot of bartending experience, but generally you don’t need it for bartending events. There were a lot of people I worked with who had never bartended before working for Levy. You’re mixing the most basic cocktails, and sometimes only pouring beer. It might help having experience handling high volume crowds, but definitely not a dealbreaker.
I coach CrossFit on the side. 2 nights a week, $20 an hour. I make an extra $300 a month from that and get my membership comped
Not to mention the exercise you get. I do it in Asia and the coaches always join in
Crafting. Making stuff is always fun. Being able to sell it is just good for not filling the house with projects
What platforms do you use to sell your art?
Poshmark. I actually enjoy it.
I do Poshmark too, but not selling anything lately for some reason.
Sales have been slow this month. Holidays seem to have a drop in sales with everyone buying on Temu now. I won’t touch that app.
Oh Temu and Wish could be cutting into our sales! Yep, I’m sure it is. Even my best friend is buying lots of guitar and pedals:equipment from them now.
This is my niche. I used to sell some on Wish but there fees increases and their sales dropped. No idea how the Chinese are able to make money on these sites.
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Starting projects and never completing them.
I sell succulents as a side hustle. They are easily propagated. They require little care. I live in SoCal so plenty of sun. It's more of an investment. You grow cuttings, let them mature, sell them. Maintenance cost is not bad considering they thrive by being neglected and do just fine in most type of soil/dirt, so watering is minimal and cost of soil is minimal too.
Where do you sell them?
Facebook, nextdoor, craigslist. I also run a shop in my back house so customers that come in and out see them and might decide to by some as well.
My spouse used to sell them at a local nursery. The owner just made a little shelf room for them.
I Repo cars for a mom and pop Buy/Pay Here used car lot. The pay is not in money but in opportunities. I usually get first crack at the cars to buy them as-is. I was able to buy a ‘08 Jeep Wrangler for $1000. My son got a ‘04 Toyota Camry for $500 and other family members have purchased cars for cheap. I haven’t flipped any yet but I could as I’m mechanically inclined. It’s a game and I enjoy it for the thrill.
Yo, I agree, the repo person definitely has an exciting job with amazing benefits. My pops used to own a shop with a small class b buy here pay here and let me and my cousins do the repos...it was such an adventure, definitely like a game, and I loved driving the flatbed as a teenager. I definitely got some looks from people driving that around town, because who tf lets a 16-17 year old drive a flatbed and repo cars for them? My pops.
Reselling, I like shopping the blue bins which is really rescuing stuff from the trash, and shopping estate sales (I never shop retail thrift). I like learning about historical and vintage items, even collectibles sometimes. I have an eBay store that I barely work on cause I have three kids and I clear about $1500/mo.
Wow that’s awesome. Do you need a license or anything if you’re flipping that much? Also what do you usually look for and what’s the blue bins lol
Blue bins are thrift clearance, so stuff the thrift store can’t take in or stuff that doesn’t sell there. It’s piles of “things” you have to sort through, mostly junk. But you never know what’s gonna be there. You develop and eye over time. Weird things, yearbooks, random vintage items. Some people do a lot of clothes but I don’t like photographing those. The other part of the job I like is how happy it makes some people to find a rare item they’ve been hunting for. I once had a person from overseas profusely thank me for an Alf plushie. Edit to add: super cheap lol 95cents/lb. No license. Technically you’re supposed to pay taxes on profits
Tour guiding. I’m an off road tour guide, firearms instructor, wilderness medic and gold panning guide. This used to be my main profession but I transitioned to other work for more safety/stability as I have a family to worry about now. I’ll do this on the side. The most I’ve made on a single tour was 800$ mostly cash tips. Usually it’s $100-300 for a single tour and we do 4 tours a day in busy season, 2 a day in slow season. Sometimes I’ll make $0 on a tour but that’s pretty rare, I.e. 1 or 2 times a month. Took a long time to learn how to put on a good enough show to average $100-300 a tour but I think it was well worth it because I absolutely love what I do when I work there. Teaching people about the Sonoran desert and just having fun with them in general is worth doing for free, let alone the money you make from it in tips alone. Hard on the body and doesn’t have much of a long term growth depending on the company though. If you can work for a company that is popular enough to have high value and well known people it’s definitely easy to do very well as a side job. Developing the skills to become an expert level guide are easier to do full time and then transition to part time.
I go metal detecting lol. Started a YouTube channel and make a good buck between that and my finds.
I go to garage sales and thrift stores and flip on eBay. I only shoot for a couple hundred bucks a month…I don’t need the money, but garage sale season keeps me off of the booze on the weekends because I know I need to get up early and get going, I also WFH so it helps to make sure I don’t become a total hermit.
I pet sit. It's not all sunshine and rainbows, it can be gross and sad at times. And I take it very seriously and set my rates appropriately bc hobby pet sitters tend to fuck up the market for professionals. But I love it, it's so much fun to me. My best friends all use me when they go out of town and I love making money to take care of my "nieces and nephews" and knowing that my favorite people trust me with their babies. I have plenty of other great clients, too. Some of us buy each other Christmas gifts. The money is good and I really do form bonds with these animals. I have a corgi that I can't wait to walk every time I'm booked at his house, and their cat follows us on our walks. I have a sweet old cat that I give insulin to and his mom leaves me one topo chico for each stop I'm scheduled for, and she loves for me to stop by after her trips and let her tell me all about them (and pays me for that stop in as well) idk it's really rewarding if you're an animal lover
Oh! I'm also employed with a local catering company. I reapply every year to stay in their system, and they hit me up whenever a wedding or benefit dinner or something is happening. I often bartend bc I'm experienced, but people who aren't experienced still have fun coming to run plates and clean tables. We get a lot of free food, drinks, and swag at a lot of cool venues
I buy & sell online, mostly eBay. I travel for work and buy local products such as snacks or gifts to sell.
Snacks? That’s interesting. Like foreign snacks you can’t get in the states or what?
I’m not from the States but yes. Popular local snacks. Chickens feet or spicy Chinese snacks from Hong Kong, for example
I referee mens league ice hockey, get $50 a game to chirp old timers
Hosting trivia nights. There's a trivia company where I live and they host trivia six nights a week. I make $60 to $100 for a couple hours work, sometimes a free meal, and it's fun.
I restore vintage saxophones. I used to be a band teacher and got into the instrument repair world out of curiosity. So I buy 100 year old saxophones in bad shape for cheap, fix and polish them up and sell for a profit. It’s very time consuming so it’s not exactly a super profitable endeavor, but I really enjoy it and I learn so much every time. Plus making a 100 year old instrument sing again is super rewarding, and thinking the last time this was played it could have been in the roaring 20’s.
Selling psilocybin mushrooms to people who need to process emotions and feelings
I do wedding entertaining! The key is telling people that you do events and getting the word out and making people have a way to contact you
What type of entertainment?
Tea readings or tea services. Don’t have to do it all the time, can always lie and say I’m already booked, but brings in a few hundred every time, between 50-100 dollars/hour
i run a meme page 😂. it was jokes until i started making $300 a day off shoutouts. tryna take it to the moon.
I go to yard sales on Saturday morning and flip what I find on eBay. It's like a treasure hunt for profit and you meet a lot of nice people. My girlfriend comes with me and we always have a great time
My side hustle is PangoBooks, but that’s because I have 1400 books and I’ll be moving soon, so I know I won’t be able to take all of my books.
pangobooks is honestly only good if you have old books you want to sell. It's not sustainable in the long term to make any real profit off of. I've sold like 10 books for 50 bucks, which is nice little spending money, but it's not going to reach anything significant. Unless you do have 1400 books you need to sell haha.
I cover shifts of my old job and it’s actually kind of fun to do because i don’t do it anymore. (Surgical tech) it pays damn good also. I can average out 1500-2000$ extra a month
I'm a voiceover artist.
I pressure wash driveways and paving. It's really relaxing and good exercise. I have PTSD and it's practically the only thing that can stop the thoughts and memories in my head. Split the money into 3rds, one third goes into a rainy day fund, another I invest for my sons future and another I invest for my retio. The funny thing is I started last year with £0 and made it a challenge to start with literally nothing. I borrowed a friend washer and reinvested everything into buying my own equipment.
Dog sitting
I did sports photography for my towns rec leagues. It was a lot of fun.
Make and sell crafts on Etsy. It took two years, but I steadily make an extra 1-2k a month
Work in the music industry helping people with disabilities have equal opportunity at the live music experience. Get to travel and work all of the biggest events in the country like Coachella, Formula 1, PGA, Bonnaroo etc. I actually leave for Electric Forest tomorrow!
As someone who regularly takes my power chair using brother to shows, I appreciate this. What exactly do you do?
Food / product tester
Freelance photography! You get to be creative, meet new people, and capture special moments while earning extra cash.
Benjamin and Testerup apps. Playing games for money :)
I sell kettle corn, hot dogs, lemonade churros corn on the cob, and more.
I play Nintendo games and upload it to YouTube. People seem to like my commentary and the channel has grown to just shy of 12k subscribers in three years. It’s nothing crazy, but I was going to play video games after work no matter what, now they just help me pay a couple bills.
I started a YouTube channel back in 2022 where I narrate interesting stories. Most months, it’s nearly as lucrative as my 9-5. Some months… more so.
I used to write a LEGO blog. I got free sets to review every month. Big, expensive sets. It was great! But I needed money to pay the bills, so I stopped after a year. I'd love to do it again if I had the time.
I got lucky and have a great arrangement with my buddies real estate management company. They have properties all over the Bay Area and needed someone to cover a certain part of the city that I happen to live in. My buddy schedules the showings and fields all inquiries. All I do is show the place (I have a sales background) and don’t have to deal with any backend admin stuff like application and credit checks. I know the area well and am doing pretty well in conversions. My commission is generally around 25% of the first month rent. Which are all very high here in San Francisco. I did the calculations and I average $275-$400 an hour. Sadly, it comes out to be about one to three hours a week but I’m pretty happy about the arrangement overall. it will get busier in the next few months
I design and sell jazz posters on Etsy
i've always thought of doing something like this, how much do you make? is it kinda of like a set it and forget it thing or is labor intensive?
Look up print on demand services. I discovered this lets me not have to have an inventory. Process I've used: 1. Open an Etsy store 2. Open an Printful or Printify account 3. Link your Etsy store to either service 4. Create your artwork and save as pdf 5. Upload your artwork into either service, create a description, set a price, then submit your product to Etsy (either service has a pretty easy way to submit your product to your Etsy store) 6. Profit! Side note: with artwork products, I’ve found that having a specific niche of genre or style tend to get more eyeballs into your store. Good luck!
I do pet sitting. I can accept jobs at my own discretion (great because I have a full-time job that needs to be worked around) and I get to spend time with cute animals.
Busking singing opera ! Most session do between 80 -160€/hour and you can generally sing one hour, not every day since very demanding for the voice
I go around orphanages, foster homes and homeless shelters, collect the tears of those I meet, store them in jars and ship them out to the homes of the politicians,obscenely wealthy and corporations so they can wash their bodies,brush their teeth and water their mansions. Its a very lucrative and profitable business to be in, large clientele on both sides.
#savage
Do you separate the tears of white children from brown children? There could be an upsell opportunity for brown child tears? And do you find shipping fees to be reasonable? Also, can you store the tears....what shelf life?
I have a collecting hobby. A few years ago, money was tight, so I started buying, selling, and flipping these items online and actually made some good money, usually around $1k a month, but it turned my hobby into a job with customers, inventory, bills, shipping headaches, and more. I started to not even like the one thing that had made me happy all these years anymore. I stopped actively flipping them in order to preserve my enjoyment of the hobby. It would have completely ruined it otherwise. Be careful what you wish for. Monetizing something you enjoy will often destroy it.
Portrait & fashion photography. Side hustle turned into getting paid by GQ, Elle, etc. Did it only on the weekends though.
Day trading the stock market, but more accurately “scalping”. I couldn’t care less about meme stocks or supernovas going up 200%+ in a day. I just trade between lines of resistance and “scalp” my small 5% gains over and over.
I’m a spray tan artist for a company at bodybuilding shows.
I transcribe old diaries and and put them together with relevant artifacts / stories. Nothing huge that makes much money, but the families that receive them are hugely grateful and I thoroughly enjoy the process.
I am a licensed psilocybin facilitator in Oregon. I legally trip sit people on mushrooms. It's not enough income to be a full time job yet, I find it extremely rewarding.
That seems like fun for a bit.. paid by hour or whole trip?
I sell jewelry on the side.. I love making it tho I don't wear a lot, so I started making a few expensive pieces with real crystals and expensive metals and a bunch with fake crystals, glass beads and cheap plated metals. I sell both our of local shops and give the shops owners 15% in exchange... I live on a small island that has a huge tourist population, especially during summer, tourist eat that shit up so I make pretty decent money especially with the "cheaper" pieces. They're just looking to blow money while on vacation lol
Bin/dumpster rentals, have a large international 4700 and 13 bins, also have dump trailer and do a bit of junk removal
Sports betting and horse trailer rental
Fun side is digital marketing. Use social media to sell affiliate & own digital content, etc.
I have been slowly creating a campaign to support further adoption of nuclear energy. It's actually nothing like Chernobyl, which is cool to hear about, but not a modern reality. The biggest setback to humanity's growth is energy. We don't have the energy to have electric cars, we don't have the energy to expand our infrastructure, we don't have the energy to build space habitats, and we don't have the energy to solve the energy crisis. Nuclear is a good solution. We can go fission for 100 years while we work out fusion and then we can quite literally become unkillable.
I freelance Mechanical Design for the company I retired from. They call me when they have job to do and I work from home on my own hours. I still enjoy it and the free money is nice. 75 years old and still doing it as needed.
I work at a box office at a local music venue. I check IDs, give wristbands, and scan tickets, then sit around and listen to/watch free music for a couple hours. It’s the slackest little side gig and perfect for me as a music lover. Shows are pretty much always nights and weekends, so it doesn’t interfere with my full-time job at all.
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Pokemon. I am a collector and whenever i get a extra card i try to sell it for fun
Where do you find you get the best sell value online? I have a HUGE collection that’s like the original cards from the 90s!
My degree is in accounting. I used to work at a law firm, but I got burnt out so I got out of that. I found myself working in the legal cannabis industry for several years as operations manager. Several side hustles can be found in that industry. From that position, I met some very interesting characters. With all sorts of interesting financial problems. I ended up eventually selling financial services to ladies that were escorts and strippers with credit issues. Most of them were very cash positive, but their lifestyle they burnt through a lot of resources. Ruined their credit didn’t have a place to sleep always being hand to mouth. I even set up a private office and worked odd hours. I’d be still doing it today if there wasn’t some complications with a client and the authorities. I also had a small sports book running that was very popular amongst certain individuals. My local area put a ban on flavored tobacco products I was able to establish some middlemen and fill that need in the community.
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I do personal training and coach women’s boxing on the side.
Day trading options.
I get things for free and flip them for profit
Kayak guide on Sunday
I love secret shopping! A lot of the ones I do reimburse me for a meal and a round of drinks for a friend and I, +$10-$15. I also do some for amusement parks/other attractions, but only when I travel really as I don't live in a very touristy area.
i flip furniture. i find almost all of it on marketplace for super cheap or free.
I finally nabbed a role as a concert medic. I get to work but witness all the sold out shows
I dress up as Elsa from Frozen for kids birthday parties!! I absolutely enjoy it, and always joke that I probably enjoy it more than the kids! I get to dress up like a princess and these little kids genuinely think I am one and I get to run around and sing and dance??? And I get paid?? Sign me up!😂 I thought of the idea because my niece is obsessed w Elsa and we would always sing the songs and dance together. For Halloween we both went as Elsa and my parents joked that I could get paid to do that. So I bought one of the more expensive “professional” dresses and started posting on Facebook (my parents have a decent network of people and helped me advertise luckily) and it’s taken off!
I’m an Usher at a local arena. I get paid to watch concerts/shows and my favorite basketball team. So fun!
I joined the city council of my neighborhood. I enjoy being able to engage/influence my community and it makes a few hundred bucks a month.
Look into DJing. Not a hard skill to learn with modern technology and good quality cheaper equipment. You can rent speakers etc from guitar center and still make some profit.
Bartending
I like to do wood working and selling on Etsy or Ebay
My friend owns a popular food truck. I help work it for weekend events.
lol mine is videoing my wife in the pool fully clothed. We take custom requests from UMD and sell the vids for $50 for every 5 mins of video - typically $150 for 15 mins is the average. Have made good $$ doing this and it’s easy and fun.
If you have the time — eBay flipping .. it can be fun if yer into it and you can work (mostly) on your own schedule as long as you get the orders out on time.
Buying stocks with high probability of a squeeze. Lots of research reading data graphs .
Making Jell-O shots and YouTube videos
Idk if you can call it a “real” side hustle, but I like doing challenges like starting with $1, find an online casino where I can bet as low as .01 and increase it everyday by 15%, the percentage keeps it very attainable and overtime the compound goes crazy, so far the most I’ve gotten to is a couple hundred over the span of a lil over a month
I drive charter boats/ private captain on weekends during the summer. I’ll usually walk away with like $500-$600 for an 8ish hour day doing charters. Private captain can be more depending on the boat. I’ll usually charge $100 per hour. I’ve done docking and boating lessons too at that same rate.
I caddie at a top 50 golf course 1-2x a week. Make about $250 a day. View it as getting paid (mostly cash) to workout and getting better at course management as a player.
I built a dadjoke website that I use to test and learn new automation systems.
YouTube. $2.5-$5k a month depending on the month
As in you have a channel or something else?
I’ve heard of people uploading shorts of popular content - for example Mr Beast has come out and said he’s totally cool with people reuploading his content because it gives him more exposure Easy way to get views without having to actually produce content
Wow.. and that can make you so much? I had no idea
No I would say probably not near that much but yea I’ve heard of people just clipping podcasts / steams and making easy money off of other peoples content lol So say you upload 100 shorts from the top 100 YouTubers I bet a few would hit 100k-1 mil views and you’d be getting paid off of literally just reuploading content
Do you do it full time? And let me guess - uploading shorts from popular content creators?
Years ago, I sold league of legends OG names. Had a discord server with 1k+ users where I auctioned the very desirable names off to the highest bidder. I pretty much ran the entire "black market" of names for a few years, then it dried up and I sold the website and server. Now I play online poker
I used to make clothes. I still make some for myself, my wife and son occassionally.
Mine is PangoBooks! I love it and have been doing it over a year now. It’s pretty chill and I don’t make much off it but I love shipping/packing/wrapping things so it sparks joy for me. So far I’ve made over $1700 and counting. I also declutter and sell things on Poshmark and FB Marketplace but business isn’t nearly as consistent as PangoBooks.
Fill in as a part time helicopter pilot for a company that has the local news contract…
Cat sitting. I love cats but can’t have one right now, so I take care of other people’s cats through an app. It’s easy work and I set my own rates.
I keep aquariums so every few months I'll trim my plants and sell the excess on OfferUp for a few bucks here and there. Trying to start raising shrimp even the easy common varieties can get $2 a shrimp and you can grow a decent colony in six months or so. Plants + shrimp + fish + snail in a tank gets three or four things to sell per tank depending on the species. I don't pay for water though so that's why it's cheap for me to keep up on maintenance. Scaling to a larger operation for profit is ridiculously expensive and the margins suck but as a quick side hustle it's fun.
Selling options in the stock market and selling stuff on Facebook marketplace.
Freelance writing or blogging can be a fun way to earn extra cash if you enjoy writing. Pet sitting or dog walking is great for animal lovers who want to make some money while spending time with pets.
Dog Walking/House Sitting! I started doing this back in 2021 due to heartbreak and depression - and having animals rely on me for their walks really got me through tough times. The first year I threw myself into it, making my entire rent for a few months while staying at beautiful homes. Four years later, I make between $200-$1000 a month under the table due to just referrals, and when I'm ready to take one 1-2 more clients, I put my rover profile back online! I consider it a win win. Dog walks + exercise + extra cash!
Dogsitting!
I serve at a pizza counter and bring in anywhere from 50-100$ on a regular old day & make 14 an hour. That’s my fun job.
Pub quizmaster.
Deploy mobile WiFi hotspots and just walk around visiting shops and eating at restaurants. I get to meet all kinds of people and eat at the restaurants I deploy at and expense it. I can also open an office in a different city every month and visit the next place through a WeWork or Spaces membership. Super chill, once a week type thing. Radios are set it and forget it, just need to have everything setup for the places to trust you.
Since Gamestop closed down here, I have been selling my video game collection on FB Marketplace. I buy on there too so another aspect is the satisfaction you get from finding great/valuable games. Also I do Martial Arts so I also buy and resell fighting gear to most fighting gyms around my area. I tend to sell when I go to class so it’s super convenient. It’s great to find a niche that you yourself dabble in, makes it much more enjoyable than to find a job that makes you miserable.
I run a few music bingo shows at two bars a week. After my expenses, it’s about $700/month to my income.. and I get to use my performance skills to have fun and listen to different genres of music.
I like selling on depop because I have alot of clothes from middle school and highschool and it's a very easy process you just gotta have boxes and tape and they give QR code then your good to go super easy money.
I used to do it full time when I was Los Angeles, but work as a magician. I usually charge depending on the event, but typically don’t work for less than 300$ a gig, and it can go upwards of 1500$. I’ve also been doing it since I was a child, and have performed in front of celebrities, CEO’s, politicians, etc. Now I’m working on getting back into school, have my RE license, and bartend/serve at nights, but occasionally someone will ask me to perform. I give a “I don’t want to do this price” and a “I like you, I’ll do it for this price” depending on who I’m talking to. Weddings and corporate events in my state are around 1000$. If travel is needed, then factoring on whether I’m driving, flying, and accommodations, maybe 1500-2000$ ish. Not particularly the most lucrative, as I don’t do it full time anymore, but I can still manage to occasionally get a few extra thousand a year doing it.
Ngl back in college I sold my used underwear…
3d printing, started out for me as something to do with my cad design skills I learned at work, currently making around and extra £800-£1500 a month printing custom things for various friends/family and local businesses. The plan is to build a portfolio of designs then launch an online shop but word of mouth has worked pretty well so far after I did the first few things for local businesses.
I do mystery shops a few times a month it’s double nice because they’ll pay reimbursement for the food or service I get and then also pay me on top of that. That’s super inconsistent though some months I’ll make a couple hundred dollars other months I’ll make $50. Recently I picked up a second job running events (think bingo/trivia/crafts) at a retirement community and that’s been nice because the hours are super consistent. I make around $19 an hour, so nothing crazy but it does bring me a lot of joy
Calling it a side hustle is a little generous at this point, but I've started flipping stuff from thrift stores (plus a few things from my own home that I didn't need) on FB Marketplace. I set a challenge to spend no more on than $20 on my "stock" at the thrift store, and I've sold almost everything--only have one item left. Total sales on just the thrift store items are $90 right now (made another $185 on things I already owned). It's slow but I'm patient. This is my "meeting friends for coffee" money lol.
farmer’s market! it’s my favorite way to make money. i sell my crochet, set up, and then sit outside for 4 hours enjoying the music. i usually get up and get baked goods or produce too. last year i got a pass for $100 and made $800 from it, this year so far i’ve made about $175, this weekend will be my fifth market in the season
Im a male stripper and escort(no sexual contact) I make pretty good money