Looking to earn extra money outside your day job? Whether you prefer working with your hands or building something online, there's a side hustle that fits your skills and schedule. Here are 95 proven ways people are making real money in their spare time.
Photography and Creative Services
1. Freelance Photography
Love taking pictures? Turn that camera into a money-maker. Start by shooting free sessions for family and friends to build your portfolio online. Learn your gear inside and out, master your editing workflow, and you'll soon be capturing precious family moments for paying clients.
Once you've got your equipment dialed in, consider renting it out through platforms like Fat Lama when you're not using it. Wedding photography becomes the natural next step - after all, couples will pay premium rates to capture one of life's biggest moments.
2. Stock Photography
Got a collection of beautiful family photos or scenic shots? License them through stock image sites like Shutterstock, Unsplash, and iStockPhoto. Every time someone downloads your image, you earn royalties. Build up your portfolio and start landing corporate clients for higher-paying gigs.
3. Writing Greeting Cards and Creative Content
The fiction market is booming. Writers with vivid imaginations can earn over $2,000 monthly writing erotic fiction in their spare time. Poets can make $200 or more per published piece through greeting card companies. If you've got way with words and can handle initial rejections, this could be your goldmine.
Product-Based Hustles
4. Phone Case Business
The mobile accessories market is exploding, and handmade sellers are cashing in big. You can launch your phone case business within days, then sell on Amazon Handmade, Etsy, and Fancy. Branch out to trade shows, promotional product vendors, and other online marketplaces. Scale it right, and this side hustle could become your full-time business.
5. Commission-Based Sales
Great with people and comfortable taking risks? Freelance commission sales might be perfect for you. Startups constantly need part-time salespeople willing to work for commission only, especially in their early days. This makes it ideal for spare-time work.
Develop your sales strategies, sharpen your cold-calling skills, and negotiate for equity. If you're pitching a great product for a successful startup, the payoff could be massive. Start your education with Daniel Pink's "To Sell is Human," then level up through online courses on Udemy and CreativeLive. Check AngelList for sales opportunities that match your interests - you don't want to get stuck selling products you couldn't care less about.
6. Tax Preparation
Not the easiest side business, but someone needs to make sure the numbers add up at year-end. Individuals and businesses, especially time-strapped entrepreneurs, desperately need experts to help prepare tax returns. Udemy courses can get you started, and with just a few hours of practice and training, you'll have upgraded your tax prep skills significantly.
Education and Tutoring
7. SAT Tutoring
Aced your standardized tests back in the day? Parents across all income levels will gladly pay $50+ per hour for the right tutor if it helps their kid get into their dream college. High schoolers need help with the SAT, ACT, and other college entrance exams that stress them out.
8. Presentation Design Consulting
Even PowerPoint presentations sometimes need professional help. Many companies will pay experts to create presentation decks for investor pitches and lectures. This skill can become a solid side business earning $15 or more per slide you design.
Travel and Lifestyle Services
9. Travel Consulting
Love traveling and always hunting for flight deals? Create your niche as a private travel agent. Start with recommendations for friends and family who trust you to find the cheapest flights. Build a Facebook or LinkedIn group for people wanting the latest travel deals, and eventually turn this into a full-time business teaching others how to make their dream trips reality.
10. House Sitting
This won't replace your regular income, but it's an incredible way to live in different places for free while earning money. If your full-time job offers flexibility, you can house-sit in your spare time and experience new locations without accommodation costs.
11. Babysitting
Love kids? Weekend and evening babysitting is a fantastic way to earn extra cash. Depending on your location and the job type, you might earn $20 per hour watching other people's children. Be prepared to sacrifice significant personal time if you want decent income from this gig.
Babysitting isn't just for teenagers and college students, despite popular belief. Some families require CPR certification before hiring, but you can complete an affordable, short course to get certified. This side hustle can bring in reasonable money working nights and weekends if the odd hours don't bother you.
Property and Maintenance Services
12. Property Management
Know someone who rents out property? They'd probably love help managing it. You can make reasonable money with this side hustle doing relatively little work on your end.
It requires willingness to adjust your schedule on short notice and some hustling spirit. You'll handle repairs, collect rent checks, and stay available for emergencies. Property managers are crucial for real estate investors with large portfolios, so this business idea definitely has benefits.
13. College Admissions Essay Editing
If editing and advising college students on writing compelling essays sounds appealing, you're onto something good. Many parents will pay decent money for you to edit admission essays and provide constructive feedback to their children.
Just make sure you're editing, not writing their essays for them. Help them get their message across effectively. This can become an amazing business that spreads through word-of-mouth referrals in your community.
14. Electronics Repair and Flipping
Many people abandon broken phones, cameras, and laptops without even trying to figure out what went wrong. If you can repair electronics, why not make this a side hustle? Refurbish these items and resell them during your free time.
Unique Income Opportunities
15. Become a "Looker"
Did you know you can earn money just by going somewhere to look at something? WeGoLook has over 10,000 "lookers" including retired veterans, process servers, and teachers seeking extra income in today's sharing economy.
How It Works: Complete an application, pass a background check, and get the mobile app. When assigned a task, dress professionally and be friendly with clients. You'll need to complete "Looks" via your smartphone.
When you see a job in the app, be first to request it. You'll get the property or item location plus owner/seller contact details. Reach out quickly to set up a meeting. Once there, take photos and answer simple checklist questions, then upload images and complete a brief report.
Expected Earnings: Anywhere from $20 to over $200 per job. For example, you might video an apartment for an out-of-town buyer or renter. If you're quick and lucky, you could land five looks weekly at $30 each for $150 total - just for looking at things and reporting back.
16. Pop-up Shop
While traditional retail has high barriers to entry, pop-up shops let you keep costs down and limit time investment while maintaining your full-time income. Most money from selling clothing, snacks, or other items goes straight to your pocket instead of overhead like rent and utilities. Check Shopify's guide for step-by-step pop-up shop setup instructions.
17. Brew Beer
Love drinking beer? Why not try making it yourself? With proper skill and patience, you might brew something others will pay to drink. Find an easy starter kit like Mr. Beer online, invest time perfecting your craft, create a unique brew, and distribute it to family and friends for feedback.
Transportation Services
18. Uber or Lyft Driving
Drive for one of these internationally growing app-based taxi alternatives. Uber and Lyft can still be decently profitable ways to earn money on weekends and nights. You work only when you want.
Before jumping in, research and calculate costs: gas, mileage, tires, and vehicle wear and tear. It's not guaranteed profit every weekend. Reports show Lyft drivers earn around $12-17 per hour. Create your account and use the app whenever you have spare time and need additional income. If you enjoy driving, you'll get a $250 bonus after your first 100 Lyft rides, plus keep all tips.
19. Rent Your Car on Turo
Own a vehicle you rarely use? Earn side money renting it through Turo. For peace of mind, all vehicles carry $1 million insurance coverage and drivers undergo major prescreening.
Collecting and Reselling
20. Art Collecting
Don't confuse this with hoarding - this side hustle requires patience, time, and passion. If you have an eye for great art, start by visiting your local university's art department. You won't make millions, but many art students are happy to sell their work after negotiation. In a few years, that piece you bought for small money might be worth thousands.
This business requires significant patience and ample storage space for artwork.
21. Catering
Great cook whose meals friends and family love? Transform your skills into a side hustle. Try EatWith as a starting point. With enough rave reviews, you might turn your cooking skills into a full-time gig leveraging your network for catering jobs.
This hustle depends heavily on satisfied referrals, so over-deliver for initial clients and ask if they know others who might need catering services.
22. Electronics Store Dumpster Diving
Unbelievable but true - there's money to be made from valuable items large stores throw away. Big electronics retailers discard everything from tablets to printer cartridges. If you can stomach searching dumpsters, you might earn decent money this way.
23. Licensed Product Distribution
It won't happen overnight, but licensing an imported product for domestic sales can be a viable side hustle with potentially huge future payoffs. Make smart investments selling products you believe in, and you could reap benefits for years to come.
Professional Services
24. Local Business Consulting
Accumulated valuable certifications or skills in your industry over the years? Consider leveraging these skills in your free time by offering consulting services to local business owners.
Whether you're a business strategist, professional marketer, or expert in other fields, business owners will pay you to help solve organizational problems - as long as you can write effective cold emails that convince them to hire you. This is a business idea you can start today.
25. Book Selling
Many homes have books gathering dust. Why not turn them into money? Bookscouter helps you sell at the highest possible price by comparing prices from multiple book-buying websites. You can almost instantly find who'll pay most for your books.
Book prices change frequently and vary greatly among buyers, so comparing buyers using various criteria helps determine where to sell at the ideal price.
Selling Others' Books: Don't own books? Books are among the easiest items to find at estate, garage, and yard sales. People disposing of them usually don't know their actual value. The best approach through sites like Bookscouter is specializing in specific categories like historical fiction, mysteries, children's books, or romance novels.
This way, you'll know book values and how much to pay while ensuring profit. You'll often find books at giveaway prices at estate and yard sales because people want them gone. You might buy books for $1-2 only to discover they're worth $10 or more.
Textbook Sales: If you have college-age kids, you know how expensive textbooks are. Bookscouter can be ideal for selling used textbooks. People earn over $200 monthly just selling textbooks.
Simply enter the book's ISBN in Bookscouter, select the top offer, and send it to the reseller. Resellers typically pay by check or PayPal.
Gig Work and Tasks
26. Field Agent Work
Earn money doing various jobs for Gigwalk clients. Their business model connects clients with people to do small local jobs like photographing store displays.
What You'd Do: Field agents collect various information types. Sometimes you'll take photos for information verification, capturing product usage or in-store customer experiences. You might also collect opinions and conduct surveys.
For data assignments, field agents use data collection methodology plus technology like barcode scanning to ensure quality. Working as a field agent might also involve getting feedback from primary customers about services at target locations.
Getting Started: Download the Field Agent app and complete your profile by answering basic questions. Answer accurately - this ensures you see appropriate jobs in your area. In the app's main navigation, you'll find job lists where you search for interesting tasks. Once you pick a job, you have 2 hours to complete it, so make sure you're near the target location before accepting.
Earning Potential: Generally, Field Agent jobs pay $2-12 per job depending on the task type.
27. Airbnb Hosting
Have a spare room or entire unused home? Airbnb is a great option. It's an amazing way to make money renting out your couch or extra bedroom. You'll also meet new people and potentially make friends if you're open to it.
You can rent out your complete apartment and manage it through Airbnb as a side hustle. However, this isn't passive income - you'll be on call whenever there's a guest and must keep the place clean for incoming visitors. Beyond just renting space, you can take it further by providing personalized experiences for additional fees.
Fitness and Wellness
28. Personal Fitness Training
Into fitness with the right mix of business sense and charisma? Part-time training in your spare time can be both financially and physically rewarding. Once you build a client base and reputation, you could turn it into a full-time business.
29. Yoga or Meditation Instruction
Yoga's growing popularity means rising demand for instructors, making this another appealing, profitable side hustle. Contact local yoga studios about teaching evening classes or provide in-home services for premium rates. Chase this form of physical and emotional balance during spare time while boosting your bank account.
30. Translation Services
If you're proficient enough in another language to handle spelling and grammar, translation is an amazing spare-time side hustle. Find numerous remote translator and freelance jobs on FlexJobs to earn extra money.
31. Tour Guiding
Live in a destination travelers frequent? If you enjoy meeting people worldwide and love your city, starting a local tour company is one of the best side hustles combining both interests.
Music and Entertainment
32. Music Instruction
Know a musical instrument well enough to teach others? How about using sound design or music creation skills to teach based on your experience? Private music instructors across all fields charge $20+ per hour depending on experience and skill level. It's an amazing way to transform your music passion into profit.
33. DJ Services
Take time to hone skills in music development or mixing expertise. Once you can do this, your side hustle as a local event DJ could become more profitable. You'll need comprehensive knowledge of music production, sound design, and mixing before expecting your first gig. Developing a completely new skill set isn't easy, but it's possible.
Crafts and Handmade Goods
34. Clothing Alterations and Tailoring
Style, fashion, and grooming remain viable after-work side hustles. If you know how to mend clothes, you have a growing market of budget-conscious customers or personalization enthusiasts.
35. DIY Teaching
Nothing beats teaching newer people about your hobby, craft, or passion as a side hustle. Check DIY portals like DIY Network, Mahalo, and Instructables for ideas on earning reasonable side income just by showing others how to do stuff you enjoy. There are also numerous ad-supported channels where you can learn almost anything to teach others.
36. Baking for Profit
Baking easily translates to making money. Bring in extra income by mastering the oven, kneading flour, and satisfying everyone's sweet tooth. While some entrepreneurs bake full-time, you don't need to leave your day job to pursue this immediately. Depending on your experience level, start with simple items before attempting complex creations.
Task Services
37. TaskRabbit Work
Nothing wrong with doing other people's chores? TaskRabbit might be perfect for you. Earn extra money doing jobs like mowing neighbors' lawns or walking dogs. Top platform taskers reportedly make $6,000+ monthly, making this a full-time opportunity for some.
38. Investment Management
Hiding cash in savings accounts earning almost nothing? Consider using it better through smarter investing as your side hustle. Yes, there are risks to watch, but many personal finance professionals advise learning about the stock market if you plan to increase wealth. They also recommend avoiding diving too deep into trends like cryptocurrencies without adequate understanding.
39. Managing Others' Investments
Helping others build wealth is also a fantastic way to grow your finances as a side hustle. With finance and stock market credentials, you can earn consulting fees or commissions advising clients on achieving top returns on investments. This can be profitable if you deliver great results to clients - otherwise, it's a fast way to lose family and friends, so exercise caution.
Professional Services
40. Bookkeeping and Accounting
Many startups and small businesses now outsource jobs outside their core business. This makes these skills an opportunity to start a numbers-focused side hustle. Because businesses always need to monitor cash flow, freelance bookkeepers and accountants benefit from rising demand for part-time assistance.
41. Car Detailing and Washing
Many vehicle owners lack time to personally care for their cars, let alone make them shine. With simple equipment like tire black, polishing wax, and car shampoo, you can start earning reasonable side income making vehicles look fresh in spare time after work and weekends.
42. Caregiving Services
Providing elderly care often requires comprehensive credentials, so this isn't a business many can start instantly. These credentials might include training certificates, licenses, tax forms, and business permits depending on your state, care level you'll provide, and whether you plan full-time or part-time operation.
If you already provide unpaid care to an elderly friend or relative, check Medicaid provisions for possible reimbursement. In all cases, you need genuine love for the elderly, common sense, and extensive knowledge of CPR, first aid, and basic elderly care to succeed in this hustle.
Home Services
43. Carpet Cleaning
Carpets provide cozy, warm homes but accumulate allergens, stains, dust, bugs, and grime over time. Take advantage of this by creating a carpet cleaning side hustle or working as an independent contract cleaner in spare time.
Either way, you'll need proper equipment like carpet brushes, vacuum cleaners, and cleaning chemicals to start. Find out about renting equipment for entire weekends and line up customers to service to cover rental costs. If you make good profit, you can eventually invest in buying your own equipment, enhancing margins and potentially moving this to full-time business.
44. House Cleaning
Want to expand services and earn more? Choose to make entire homes clean and neat. House-cleaning services include lawns, windows, carpets, and require broad ranges of cleaning tools.
You can hire janitors or maids for actual cleaning while handling administrative, sales, and customer service aspects. Alternatively, start small doing the job yourself as a contractor, learning the ropes before launching your cleaning operation.
45. Child Care
Many families with children, including single parents, have limited time resources. This creates high demand for part-time childcare providers - an excellent side hustle idea.
If you care about kids and have available time, you can earn substantial side income watching children while parents are away. Just identify specific age groups you're comfortable with and start after getting appropriate certifications. With the right environment, you can expand this into something more substantial.
Technical Services
46. Computer Repair
Technical experts planning to earn extra side money can leverage hardware and software skills by providing home-based computer repair services.
If this fits you, start this side hustle independently before deciding to invest more and grow operations. You can offer local home service as a starting point, also providing remote support via video-calling services and online messaging before moving into retail settings.
47. Computer Training and Lessons
People of different ages, including retirees and children, need technical expertise to stay competitive and appreciate digital age benefits.
If you're technically skilled, you can earn money providing tutorials and lessons in your community. You can also do this online using platforms like Udemy or YouTube as a side hustle. Create your own tutorial website with online payment interfaces.
48. Contract Customer Service
Some firms subcontract customer service operations, and many support home-based contractors. Start by registering on freelance websites like Fiverr and Upwork to test this initially.
If you're a customer service expert with management skills, you can create and manage online virtual teams while serving clients as a legitimate customer service organization. You can also offer customer service training to individuals and teams.
Pet Services
49. Dog Walking
Dogs are wonderful animals, but many owners aren't always available for walks. If you love dogs, this is a fantastic gig providing regular profit just by taking great puppies for park walks.
With many pet lovers leading busy lives, dog-walking services thrive in many cities. Apps like Wag connect dog walkers wanting to pursue this business idea with pet owners needing help.
50. Pet Sitting
Who wouldn't love earning money caring for beautiful puppies or fluffy cats? The prevalence of unattended pets results from busy lives, creating job opportunities for people with attention, patience, and available time.
Check Rover and DogVacay for opportunities. Some people make over $1,000 weekly caring for pets.
51. Pet Grooming
If pet-sitting isn't enough, expand services to include pet grooming or start with just grooming. This requires proper training plus operating licenses depending on location. You'll also need grooming equipment.
According to PayScale, pet groomers earn around $17,000-$40,000+. This makes a great side hustle if you can attract weekend clients.
52. Pool Cleaning
Diving in pools during hot weather is entertaining, but cleaning them is a chore. Many pool owners hire others for cleaning. If you need extra money and don't mind physical activity, this can be a profitable spare-time side hustle.
E-commerce and Online Business
53. Amazon Private Label Sales
As one of tech's most valuable leaders, Amazon also has a huge global marketplace where almost anyone can benefit from growing ecommerce trends with the right business idea.
Like everything involving money, you need to do work to earn it. Here, you must research generic products like mugs and keychains you can attach your brand to. You'll also need to create internal sales strategies helping generate profit from your private label side hustle.
Sports and Recreation
54. Sports Game Officiating
Enjoy sports? This can be a great side hustle. Refereeing non-professional games at college sports fields and community parks can be an exciting way to turn your passion for outdoor activities into income. You can do this weekends and nights after full-time job hours.
55. Sports Team Coaching
If you love sports, nothing would be more exciting than playing for your favorite team. However, earning money to coach a sports team and staying close to the action is the next best thing. Besides picking up new skills, you'll earn money getting your team in proper shape.
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics states average sports coach pay is around $30,000+. If you want this as a part-time side hustle, expect roughly half this income.
Manufacturing and Printing
56. T-Shirt Printing
The t-shirt retail business is worth massive money. But what if you want to get involved in manufacturing? T-shirt printing translates into viable hustles for many people yearly. However, it can consume much spare time, so know what you're getting into. This billion-dollar industry houses numerous part-time entrepreneurs alongside corporate factories - you can take your slice in spare time too.
57. Vehicle Advertising
Yes, you can turn your car into a revenue generator driving for platforms like Lyft and Uber. But there are other ways to convert mileage into money as a smart side hustle.
Vehicle advertising has potential to generate $100-$500+ monthly income. Regardless of your car type, your vehicle's exterior is prime real estate for running ads. Check Carvertise, Wrapify, and similar platforms for information about starting this side hustle and connecting with local advertisers.
Specialized Services
58. Window Cleaning
Many homeowners love clean windows but lack time or expertise to clean them properly. The same applies to many office managers. This increases demand for window cleaners, making it a great side hustle, especially if you can land window cleaning contracts for large office buildings.
59. Amazon Mechanical Turk
Mechanical Turk functions similarly to GigWalk and TaskRabbit. It's an online platform where Amazon gathers tasks for people willing to do them and those willing to pay.
On this platform, you'll find the strangest jobs imaginable, made possible by a parallel online platform running on visits, likes, surveys, reads, CPCs, and pins plus other metrics.
However, don't expect to become a millionaire with this side hustle. Small sums Mechanical Turk users earn rarely turn into anything substantial even using all spare time. It's ideal for internationally-based individuals with internet access and lower living costs than the United States.
60. Yard Work Services
A large portion of small businesses and homeowners have lawns needing maintenance. Many hire independent yard work providers for lawn care needs. Starting and maintaining yard work service businesses requires equipment, training, and expanding client networks.
In the United States, full-time groundskeeping and landscaping workers reportedly make average wages around $25,000. Those doing this as weekend and evening side hustles can expect much lower earnings.
Public Speaking and Events
61. Public Speaking
If you have a way with words and speaking ability, public speaking can be a great side hustle choice. Many professionals, medical practitioners, politicians, and experts earn additional income delivering seminars, speeches, and presentations. Professional motivational speakers average around $90,000 from just that income portion.
62. College Counseling
College counselors come in all forms. Their main job is guiding students through crucial life periods. Counselors typically focus on career advice, athletics, financial aid, and admissions.
Various institutions seek part-time counselors, making this a fantastic side hustle. You can also start your own practice, charging $20-$100+ per hour for consultative services if you're subject matter proficient.
Seasonal Businesses
63. Seasonal Decoration Creation
Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Mother's Day are among traditional holidays that work as great reasons to dive into crafting and selling seasonal decorations. After all, businesses and people pay decent money for them.
Christmas tree sales alone in the United States totaled over $1 billion in 2014. Add other items like wreaths, holiday lights, and baskets, making this a year-round revenue-generating side hustle.
64. Snow Plowing
Holidays are great, but winter brings snow - vast piles hindering traffic. Snow can be fun temporarily, but someone must clear it so we can continue our lives. Earn extra money during spare time providing ice-removal services.
Fashion and Textiles
65. Handmade Clothing Sales
With growing popularity of online craft marketplaces like Etsy, people with reasonable artisanal skills like woodworking and sewing always have accessible markets for product sales as side hustles. If you've always wanted to design and create clothes by hand, start transforming fashion ideas into hand-sewn, real garments and earn money from this even while sleeping. Clients worldwide check your Amazon and Etsy stores.
66. Antique Refurbishing
The antique market isn't as famous as before. However, if you love rare old items and have skills to restore them to former glory, you can still earn money from this industry.
Starting part-time antique refurbishing businesses might require investing money in building standard workshops and stocking them with proper treatments and materials for excellence. Start small by borrowing friends' equipment when possible, learning trade fundamentals as a side hustle before investing funds in lots of equipment.
Fitness and Movement
67. Dance Instruction
Many people, even those denying it, enjoy moving their bodies. It's also fantastic exercise. If you once had to leave dancing shoes behind for a reasonable office job, nothing prevents earning money doing it as a side hustle around your full-time work.
As part-time dance instructors, you get portions of what full-time counterparts earn, but it can translate to reasonable weekly amounts with consistency.
68. Bicycle Delivery
It might seem unbelievable, but most freelance bike messengers make more money than some office workers. You might not make millions, but you'd certainly earn decent amounts. Even Uber is planning delivery services, and companies like Amazon and WunWun emphasize same-day delivery, enhancing demand for people pursuing this idea. If you have a great bicycle, it might be your ticket to earning decent extra income.
Beauty and Personal Care
69. Makeup Services
If you have a talent for helping people look their best and know how to work magic with eyeliners and lipsticks, try using beauty skills to pursue this easily profitable side hustle.
For under $2,000, you can start your own makeup artist business, potentially becoming foundation for a viable business generating profit mainly through word-of-mouth and referrals from satisfied customers.
70. Car Flipping
Car flipping can be an amazing way to turn your vehicle passion into a side hustle. However, you need capital and risk-taking capacity for success. Buying and selling cars follows other "buy low, sell high" business models, but profit potential per hour invested can be high.
According to 3HourFlip.com, the trick is learning how to attract car deals to you, reducing time invested and enhancing profit on every sale in this side hustle.
Marketing and Business Development
71. Small Business Marketing Consulting
If you're experienced with SEO, marketing, or getting others excited about services and products you regularly use, consider fine-tuning skills and using them as a marketing consultant for local small businesses. This is especially true if you can become a local SEO expert helping local clients achieve higher search result rankings.
Businesses of all sizes constantly need more clients, which is where you can help with your side hustle idea.
72. Professional Organizing
If organizing your home comes naturally and you enjoy helping others, consider a professional organizer side hustle. As downsizing requirements grow in various organizations, you can use decluttering and organizing skills to start making industry-standard $50-125 per hour with minimal costs.
Professional organizers aren't just useful for hoarders. More and more people hire professional organizers to stop wasting money and time from daily disorganization stress. The best part is doing this as a weekend and after-work side hustle when customers would also be home.
Event and Space Services
73. Event Space Rental
People constantly search for unique wedding, meeting, and party venues. Why not make money off space you already own by renting it for events? If you own unique locations like boats, warehouses, or studios, companies like Tagvenue will connect you with customers seeking special event hosting locations.
74. Floral Design
There are numerous yearly occasions when people must order flowers, including weddings, birthdays, and Valentine's Day. The best part about this side hustle is once you familiarize yourself with it, you can keep costs low with great flower sourcing locations, and margins are around 300 percent or more on cut flowers, making this viable in appropriate areas.
Recycling and Environmental
75. Recycling Services
This is dirty work definitely not for everyone. Recycling containers from thrown-away products can become really good side income with your best efforts.
Going to events like outdoor concerts and street fairs can be great container-hunting locations. You can sell these items on eBay for $4/pound.
76. Business Litter Removal
Like recycling, this side hustle requires physical work ability. If you love working outdoors, you can make reasonable side income cleaning up litter outside offices, retail stores, and industrial properties, especially for organizations with large parking lots requiring frequent cleaning.
Property management companies need litter-free properties, and you can do this with cheap equipment. Charge $30-$50 per hour and bill customers the same monthly contract price. Check Clean Lots to learn more about starting litter-removal services.
Career and Professional Development
77. Career Coaching
Figured out how to land higher-paying jobs without hassles? If you have knacks for helping coworkers or friends navigate dream job processes, negotiate better pay, get raises in current positions, or nail interviews, others will pay for your assistance - making this an ideal side hustle requiring minimal excess time.
Start by posting advice on your blog. Become a career coach on platforms with existing audiences of people seeking career advancement like The Muse. From there, emphasize helping others achieve actual results, develop case studies supporting this side hustle, and eventually charge for outcomes you provide customers.
78. Life Insurance Sales
Enjoy meeting new people? Then insurance product sales, especially life insurance, might be a fantastic way to bring in additional money and grow residual income during free time.
Selling insurance as a side hustle can quickly provide stable $500-$2,000 monthly depending on time invested. To begin, you might need online courses improving topic knowledge, then pass your state's licensing exam. The biggest challenge as a new agent is generating sales beyond just family and friends. After that, the rest involves lead generation and networking to develop this side hustle.
79. Resume Editing and Writing
Everyone knows finding and landing ideal jobs can be challenging, especially if you've been stagnant in one position for long periods and your resume doesn't look appealing and fresh.
Before becoming a professional resume writer, learn how to write resumes yourself. Practice by redoing coworkers' and friends' resumes. Your next step should be joining resume writers' associations, continuing to prove credibility, and eventually finding your way into more viable opportunities.
Physical Labor and Moving
80. Part-Time Moving
Maybe you don't want desk jobs or online work, and you have no physical limitations - this side hustle is a great choice. If you also enjoy working with others, being an on-call mover suits you. When people move, they always need helping hands. Offer this service and earn income.
Whether helping someone change apartments or collaborating with local movers needing extra hands, side-gigs as movers can be quite profitable.
There's also an app helping with this business idea called Bellhops. Sign up and start working as a mover immediately after completing the application process. The wonderful aspect of using this app is they have booked clients ready to plan moves, meaning you'd have continuous moving job streams based on location, just by registering and setting available hours.
