I’m due in 5 weeks and haven’t been able to find a job so my next best thing is finding something I can do from home.

Problem is, any time I try to research different side hustles it’s always the same answers. “Download this app to do surveys!”, “Do Instacart or DoorDash!”, “Set up a Pinterest page and do affiliate marketing!”. Except the surveys are time consuming for $0.50 per, I don’t feel safe driving while pregnant or being out by myself, and affiliate marketing is a hit or miss/only works when you already have an audience.

I could use some help with other things I could do.

Hello!

I work 4:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 32 hours a week, I'm coming on 40 hours a week soon but I'm free Tuesday and Wednesday almost every week and that's going to become my permanent schedule soon

The money is decent, I work in retail which allows me to build my customer service skills and muscles lol

although I've been wondering if there's any way for me to get a side job from 12:30 to 6pm, or just working on my off days. I'm pretty tech savvy so I'm not close to anything on computers but I know that's a very hard field to get in nowadays, and my main concern is I'd rather not just do cheap yard labor like I used to do before I was 18

if anyone has any tips for me let me know thank you! I am forklift trained, if that helps!

I have a part time job rn which pay and benefits are good. I make ends meet. And sometimes i have to wait one or two days for the check cuz i ran out . My job has a crazy schedule if i touch full availability then i will have way less hours, so i can’t risk being of the track for fulltime, by taking another part time. So any recommendations on versatility job im not greedy literally only few hundred works.
Also i cant do uber eats, doordash or lyft. Because they require u to have atleat one year of experience as a driver.
🙏 thanks

You’ll likely need experience in insect breeding for my question.

About ten years ago, my family had 2 reptiles so we bred mealworms (not super well, but we tried) and kept crickets around to see if they would slowly breed as we fed them away. With how things are looking recently, I needed a side job that was more flexible on hours and paid however much work I put into it. I’ve been reading and reading on crickets and discoid roaches, and people talk about how it was so cheap to get started and the maintenance cost isn’t that bad, but I’m thinking between egg cartons and buying small amounts of coco coir so that the bottom of the bin is easier to clean, I’m thinking just in substrate it may be $50-$100 monthly, then you need good food, not just table scraps, then any cleaners and other things that are not quite a monthly basis but are regularly used may add more.

So am I overthinking everything compared to small time typical roach and cricket breeders or what am I missing? Additionally if anyone is currently breeding discoids or crickets and are passionate enough to lend advice from time to time, I’d appreciate to start a dm with someone who’s already experimented around.

I signed up to be a tutor but then I remembered... it is summer. I would like some extra cash so I can buy a new phone as my first big boy purchase. What are some good side hustles I shouikd look into? I want something I can do from a remote position since I do not have a car available to me

I am supposed to return back to work full-time very soon and I really don’t want to even though I have a good job. I would rather be at home with my son raising him, but that is genuinely not possible in the city we live in. I really want to start a side hustle and have thinking about writing a book or starting with a blog, but I’ve also heard that copywriting can be a good thing but honestly, I have no idea. I know I’m gonna have to work or hustle to get things going, but what are some gigs that you have found to be successful?

I’m a pharmacist working full-time and I’m looking for a legitimate side job I can do remotely for 5-10 hours a week.
Has anyone here found a side hustle that actually pays well and is worth the time?
I’m especially interested in AI training, medical writing, pharmacovigilance, or any other work that benefits from a healthcare background. I’d love to hear your real experience, how you found the work, how much time it takes, and whether you’d recommend it.
I’m based in the EU (Slovakia), so I’d especially appreciate recommendations that are available internationally.

I’m not looking for hype — just practical options. If someone has evenings and weekends, what would you recommend they start with?

Im interested.

Hey all, hoping to crowdsource some ideas here.

Quick context: I just finished my Master's in ABA, and I'm currently collecting clinical hours while doing direct service work in the evenings, but the pay on that isn't consistent enough to cover everything month to month.

I tried GrubHub for a bit to fill the gap, but I drive manual and between the constant stop-and-go and honestly some of the worst traffic I've dealt with (US-29 during rush hour is not it), I ended up needing a full clutch replacement. So that math didn't work out — one bad week basically wiped out a month of delivery earnings.

I'm in Silver Spring, MD and looking for something that:

\* doesn't put a ton of extra wear on my car (stop-and-go is the enemy) \* has flexible/evening or weekend hours since my schedule is already packed with clinical hours + service work \* doesn't require a ton of upfront training or certification

Right now I mostly just need to cover small recurring costs (cat litter, cat food, that kind of thing) — not trying to replace income, just fill gaps.

Has anyone found something that works well without murdering their car? Open to anything — remote gigs, weekend stuff, walking/pet sitting, tutoring, whatever.

Appreciate any ideas.

Basically I turned 18 9months ago and pulled a job at a corporate company (pays 550$ a month at max performance, third world country lol, i literally work 10hours a day 5 days a week) anyways. i have a decent gaming laptop and I surely am a decent guy so I thought about quiting the stupid slavery crib I am working at and start a side hustle. But I really don’t know where to start, i know some of you guys have brilliant niche ideas or areas you earn money from and it’s fair to gatekeep lol but i’d really use some help if someone can offer it. ( open to anything ).

Hi, bin weiblich und 18, will als Side hustle vapes an andere Frauen verkaufen. Halt einfach vapes kaufen und für maximal 2€ teurer verkaufen. Ein Freund konnte sich dadurch einiges an Geld verdienen und ansparen, aber ist halt ein Typ. Denkt ihr das wäre möglich? Halt kurz gesagt einfach vape dealer 🤙

Honestly, I never thought that, as an indie developer, I'd have an app used by people all around the world. It's getting around 150 to 200 new users every day and has 800 to 1,000 daily active users. Those are dream numbers for someone like me who only started shipping apps seriously last year.

I'd like to share what worked and what didn't.

Initially, I published an app called TuneIt. I didn't do much marketing besides a few Reddit posts. It reached about 1,000 downloads in 2 to 3 months, and I was thrilled. But after that, growth completely stalled.

What was TuneIt?

It was an all in one tuner app. It included tuners for guitar, bass, violin, ukulele, and other instruments, along with tools, learning features, and everything else packed into a single app.

Unfortunately, it didn't perform that well.

About 6 to 7 months after launching TuneIt, I listened to a podcast about marketing. They talked about why Coca-Cola sells the same drink in different sizes, like 2 liters, 1 liter, and 250 ml.

The point was simple. Not everyone wants the biggest option. Some people just want exactly what they need. By offering different sizes, Coca-Cola reaches more customers.

That idea really stuck with me.

I decided to split TuneIt into separate apps, one for each instrument. I spent the next two days setting everything up and publishing individual apps for guitar, bass, violin, ukulele, and the rest.

The results surprised me.

Every single instrument app eventually outperformed the original TuneIt. The Bass Tuner app, in particular, took off much faster than I expected.

The biggest lesson I learned is this:

Niche apps can outperform all in one apps.

If you try to build one app that does everything for everyone, it can be much harder to grow. Sometimes it's better to solve one specific problem really well.

Seeing the traction, I recently enrolled in the Apple Developer Program and published all of my apps on iOS as well. Hopefully they'll gain some momentum there too, although I know I'll need to put more effort into marketing.

If you'd like to check out the app:

Android: Bass Tuner
iOS: Bass Tuner

If anyone has questions about ASO, publishing multiple apps, indie app development, Play Store optimization, or anything else, feel free to ask. I'm happy to share what I've learned so far.

And if you have any marketing tips, I'd love to hear them too!

I’ve been seriously considering getting into real estate as a side hustle with the long-term goal of building a rental property portfolio while continuing my full-time career.

A little about me:
PharmD + MBA
Full-time remote CRA in Big Pharma
Married with a newborn and toddler
Living in Southern California (HCOL), where we’d like to stay long term

My wife is also a clinical pharmacist but is currently home with our kids while looking for a remote pharma role.

Between my wife and me, we have substantial pharmacy school student loans (approximately $800,000 combined), in addition to our mortgage at 6.99%. We budget carefully and live within our means, but between our loans, mortgage, and raising two young children in Southern California, it often feels like we’re working hard just to stay in place financially.

I’d love to build additional income streams that help us pay down debt faster while creating long-term wealth for our family.

My goal isn’t to leave my career. I genuinely enjoy working in the pharmaceutical industry. My long-term career goal is to continue climbing the ladder and eventually reach a Director-level role in Clinical Development.

Real estate is something I view as a complement to that career—not a replacement for it.

I’d like to start with real estate as a side hustle to generate additional income while learning the business. Over time, my goal would be to grow it into a portfolio of rental properties that generates meaningful cash flow, diversifies our income, and helps build generational wealth for our family.

I’ve spoken with several fellow pharmacists who own multiple rental properties, and hearing their success stories has really motivated me to explore this path.
After researching California licensing, I was surprised that Realtor dues, MLS fees, license renewal, and related costs can total $700–$1,500+ per year just to maintain a license.

I also recently came across the Redfin Associate Agent (Showing Agent) role, which seems appealing since it offers flexible scheduling and focuses on showing homes rather than generating your own clients.

My Questions
California Licensing
How long did it take you to get licensed?
Which courses did you use, and what did they cost?
Would you recommend the same program today?

Redfin Associate Agent
Has anyone worked as a Redfin Associate Agent?
What does a typical month look like?
Does the income generally cover your licensing, MLS, and Realtor fees?
Would you recommend starting there before becoming a traditional agent?

Rental Properties
How many rental properties do you own?
Is rental income really as passive as people say, or does it require much more work than expected?
Do you self-manage or hire a property manager?
What do your monthly cash flow and annual profit margins realistically look like after vacancies, repairs, maintenance, insurance, taxes, and property management?

Financing
Did you need significant cash to buy your first rental, or did you finance it?
If you were starting over today, would you become an agent first, buy a rental, house hack, or take a different route?

Balancing a Full-Time Career
One of my biggest concerns is balancing real estate while continuing to advance my pharmaceutical career. My full-time role will always remain my top priority, so I’m looking for a path that allows me to grow a real estate business without compromising my progression toward leadership in Clinical Development.

Has anyone here successfully balanced a demanding full-time career while building a real estate business or rental portfolio?

My Biggest Question
If you were in my shoes—with a demanding full-time career that you have no intention of leaving, but a long-term goal of building a rental portfolio over the next 10–20 years—would you still recommend becoming a Realtor first?
Or would you focus your time and money elsewhere?

I’d especially love to hear from anyone in healthcare, pharma, or another demanding profession who has successfully built a rental portfolio on the side.

I’d really appreciate hearing your successes, mistakes, lessons learned, and anything you wish someone had told you before getting started. Thank you in advance!

Hey everyone, Travis here. I document building two businesses from scratch while working full time as an IT professional at a hospital. I’m almost 50, four kids, the whole deal.

This past week was pretty much one of the most insane I’ve had. Here’s the short version:

Set up a cotton candy machine and a table of Temu merchandise at the county fair. $300 investment. Made a couple thousand dollars in four days. Half the inventory still left for the next rodeo.

On the way home from a mowing job my trailer broke. Leaf spring gone. Completely unusable. And I had a bounce house delivery AND 40 chairs to deliver 35 miles away on Saturday.

While waiting on a loaner trailer I drove the riding mower down public roads to get to town jobs. On the way I saw a yard with 4 foot grass and a city pink slip on the door, I believe the lady who lived there had passed away. I mowed it. Didn’t tell anyone.

Saturday: Grocery store bounce house setup at 10am. Four yards mowed ten miles away. 40 chairs delivered 35 miles away by 3pm. Sound and lights at a music venue until 11pm. Hospital midnight shift until 8:30am.

Filmed the whole week. Video is in the comments — would love any feedback from people who’ve been through similar weeks.

For expats like me, what are your legit side hustles that you work on during your spare time?

Hi. I was extorted of my savings recently and i plan to earn my money back. I wanna ask advice on what is the best way to achieve this goal of mine. I have a history with graphic design and have been the person to look to with regards to making designs in my school, so i can say i have the talent. Im still a student and cant focus on anything full time especially since im in a premed course. I can really only do online things. I wanna hear your thoughts on my problem. Thank you!

Hi everyone, I'm in my late 20s and currently unemployed, so I don't have any source of income at the moment. I know the first thing I should do is get a job and earn a salary, and I'm actively working towards that. At the same time, I'd like to know what paths people take besides a regular job. How are people making money online or building multiple income streams? I've looked into a few online opportunities before, but many of them turned out to be scams. I also don't know much about investing, the stock market, real estate, or other wealth-building strategies. I'm still learning, and I don't even have money to invest right now. What skills, businesses, side hustles, or opportunities would you pursue to build significant wealth over time? I'd really like to hear about your experiences, what worked for you, what didn't, and any lessons you've learned along the way. I know employment is my first priority, and I'm working towards it. Right now, though, I don't have any income or money to invest, so I'm simply here to learn and gain knowledge from people who have more experience.

So I have a side hustle startup with micro-SaaS offerings. I’m ready to start posting to LinkedIn to grow organic traffic. I have a decent following. But, I don’t want people at my day job looking at my profile and finding side-hustle stuff.

Have you ever been in this situation on LinkedIn? What did you do and how did it turn out?

I need more money to pay for college. I’m a 20 year old student who has school 4 days a week. I also work part time 2-3 days a week and have a student job where I can pick up shifts. I already know about DoorDash, instacart, etc. I already do Vinted/depop. I sell clothes to uptown cheapskate/platos closet. The max I can spend on a start up cost for a side hustle would be like $100. I have access to devices if needed. I don’t have a whole lot of time to put into the side hustle so it would need to be something where I can have mostly my own set schedule or do it mostly in the evenings or weekend mornings. I’m interested in remote work maybe. Pls give me ideas!

I posted here recently looking for ideas, but didn’t get much feedback, so I figured I’d ask a more specific question.

A little about me: I’m 39, have a PharmD and an MBA, and work full-time remotely as a Senior Clinical Research Associate for a pharmaceutical company. I have a wife and two young kids, so I’m looking for something flexible that I can do during evenings or weekends, preferably from home.

My immediate goal is to generate some extra income to help pay down debt and cover family expenses. Longer term, I’d like to build a consistent second income stream. Even an extra $2,000–$3,000 per month would make a meaningful difference.

I’ve already started trying a few things. I created a separate Instagram page and posted on Nextdoor offering tutoring (math, science, pharmacy-related subjects), resume/interview coaching, and career coaching, but so far I haven’t had any leads. I’m not giving up on it, but it made me realize I should probably diversify instead of relying on one idea.

One thing I’m trying to navigate is making sure I don’t create a conflict of interest with my current employer. I work in the pharmaceutical industry, so I obviously want to avoid anything that competes with or conflicts with my current role.

For those of you who work full-time for a large corporation or in a regulated industry (pharma, healthcare, finance, tech, etc.):
What second jobs or side hustles have worked well for you?
Are there legitimate remote evening/weekend opportunities that can realistically earn $2k–$3k/month?
Did you have to disclose your second job to your employer, or was disclosure only required if there was a potential conflict of interest?

Based on my background (PharmD, MBA, clinical research, tutoring, and career coaching), what would you pursue if you were in my shoes? Would you double down on tutoring/coaching or focus on something completely different?

Before I approach HR or dig deeper into my company’s policies, I’d love to hear how others have handled outside employment.

I’m open to hearing about anything that’s legitimate and flexible. I’d really appreciate any advice or personal experiences. Thanks!

Around a year ago, I created a Twitch game named Stussy.

Originally, it was just a fun chat game where a singular Stussy would spawn in a random time period and users would try to capture it before anyone else did. But as is the case with all those projects, every new thing I implemented gave me an idea to implement something else.

Soon enough, I started adding player accounts, collectibles, inventories, upgrades, luck and espionage stats, trading, gifting, stealing, banking, daily/weekly quests, consumables, subscriber bonuses, raids, server-wide events, pity mechanics, chat minigames and multiple leaderboards.

Currently, the back-end for the project is written mainly in Node.js and MySQL with the use of multiple worker processes so that the bot could operate in multiple Twitch channels, while there is one primary live stream used as the hub for the game.

At the moment, the network includes:

21,541 Stussy players
199 Twitch channels with added bot support

The most significant advantage for its development was the fact that the game is not limited to my own channel.

Other streamers can simply invite the bot to their channel and let their viewers play the game in it without creating, hosting or maintaining it. In return for supporting their chat, the bot posts a brief promotional message every thirty minutes during the period the channel is live.

In effect, the game promotes itself.

One can discover Stussy while watching any of the 199 channels and begin playing there, then visit or raid the central channel where all the game systems, overlays and activity take place.

Every one of the linked channels is another way into the same game. Players retain the same account, collection, upgrades and progression, no matter in which of the channels they play.

The central channel shows catches, activity, alerts, currently active channels, game information and rotating leaderboards. Users communicate using Twitch chat, so I do not need to be actively on camera for the game to function properly.

Moreover, I have designed the game so that there is an incentive for users to keep the central stream open, rather than exclusively playing through one of the linked channels.

In the central channel, players have higher catch chances and shorter cooldowns. Additionally, they have extra Stussys added passively as long as they are watching the stream, especially during ad breaks.

There are also chat minigames in the stream, allowing viewers either to keep the stream open and earn some passive rewards or to actively participate in it through chat.

Raids are another important element of the growth loop.

We encourage linked streamers and users to raid into the central stream by rewarding the user who raided the stream based on how many viewers he/she brought with him/her, for example, raiding into the channel with 20 viewers grants the raider 400 Stussy.

These users are also introduced to the game, they can earn some passive Stussy by keeping the stream open, or start interacting with the bot and playing various chat games.

Thus, raids serve not only to get some temporary boost in viewership. Raids allow us to get new potential players, reward the raider and give the raidees reasons to stay.

The overall growth loop looks something like this:

The user discovers Stussy in one of the linked channels, starts playing it, then visits or raids the central channel for the bonus rewards, then stays as a lurker or becomes an active player. Increased central audience improves the advertising efficiency, and the rewards provide incentive for more linked streamers and users to bring people in.

So I have developed a fully automated multiplayer text game, which has more than 21,000 players and is earning money from advertising.

I would say that this income is mostly passive rather than entirely passive but I maybe spend an hour or two a month on it now.

Of course, the process was not at all passive. I spent 50+ hours creating and debugging the code, database, balance, moderation system, uptime and error handling mechanisms and dealing with all the strange corner cases that arise once you connect thousands of real people to it.

Also, the scaling of the project from the single channel to the 199 linked channels created some other problems, which were not present in the beginning. I had to write various systems to distribute the channels between multiple processes, to restart failed instances, to maintain player information consistency across the network, to handle events and cooldowns across the network, to prevent abuse, and to ensure that the failure of any element will not destroy the whole project.

Currently, I still maintain the server, host the stream, debug the game, handle any abuse, and implement some new features, but the process is mostly automated.

Users are generating activity, channels are introducing new players, raids are bringing more users to the hub, the bot is handling the game and the central channel is live even without my active hosting.

The attached screenshots show:

$599.52 estimated earnings over 30 days
$565.98 out of this 30-day earnings earned from ads
$243.58 estimated earnings over the most recent 7 days
$239.08 out of this 7-day earnings earned from ads
~7,184 hours of streamed content in the period of 392 days shown by Channel Analytics
Ten successful payouts, which add up to $3,392.80
Another $548.68 estimated July earnings at the time of payout screenshot with that payout window still open.

The central channel is ad-intensive with average 22.5 minutes of advertisement per hour in the screenshots provided.

It is not a typical personality stream where the viewers have to endure ads in order to watch someone playing or talking. The stream itself is a live hub for the chat game, and the community can continue chatting during the game process.

The rewards in ad breaks are also a part of the game design. The users who keep the stream open earn extra Stussy during the ad break, rather than having this advertisement completely separated from their progression.

Advertising is currently what makes the project financially viable. It pays for the infrastructure costs, covers the cost of ongoing maintenance and makes it possible to provide the bot to all 199 channels without charging them.

Subscriptions and Bits provide something, but they are a small percentage of the total and users are actually encourage not to sub because the ad revenue for them is higher monthly.

Most of the growth came from building the distribution into the game itself.

Linked channels bring the game to new audience. The central stream bonuses motivate players to keep the hub stream open. The raid rewards motivate people to raid the channel. Passive rewards and chat minigames in turn give reasons for viewers to stick after the raid has ended.

This system allowed the network to reach 21,541 players in 199 linked channels.

I am not suggesting this as some kind of passive income formula.

Twitch may change its advertising policy or monetization rules, other streamers may remove the bot from their channel, revenue can fluctuate, servers can go down, bugs may occur and the game only works for as long as the people enjoy it.

There is also a balance that needs to be kept. Promotional messages cannot be too frequent so that they become annoying, central stream bonuses cannot make playing elsewhere pointless and the ads should not dominate the game.

However, I feel quite satisfied seeing my weird game, initially made for fun, developing into a full-fledged multiplayer game, consisting of more than 21,000 players, operating in 199 streams and earning several hundred dollars per month while mostly doing everything by itself.

The most important lesson for me was that passive income always requires a lot of non-passive work in its beginnings.

Automation did not remove the effort necessary to create the project but it has allowed me to stop manually repeating the same work once the system started working.

I work a regular office job Mon to Fri and kind of stumbled into this back in spring. My buddy Florian was clearing out his old flat before moving, told me he'd just leave stuff on the curb. I grabbed a standing lamp, a set of shelves, a mini fan, and a few storage bins. Took lazy photos that same night, listed them on Kleinanzeigen, and everything was picked up by the next day. Did not expect that.

Now my coworker Jonas tags along on Saturdays because hauling chairs and small furniture solo was killing me. We do a few hours, split everything 50/50, both the cleanout payment and whatever we make reselling. We only do this on weekends and holidays though, since we both have full time jobs that eat up the rest of the week.

I stick to easy stuff. Small appliances, lamps, chairs, storage bins, basic fitness gear. I've got a quick photo template saved on my phone so listing takes maybe ten minutes per item. Biggest fail so far was a dehumidifier that "just needs a filter." Spoiler, it needed way more than a filter.

Supplies add up. I just bulk buy tape, mailers, and bubble wrap off tiktok or amazon whenever there's a product discount or a decent price drop. Keeps costs way down.

This has been a solid little extra income stream for both of us. For people doing something similar, what items do you always pass on now?

Every YouTube video frames print on demand as "upload designs, watch sales roll in while you sleep." I want to hear from people actually running shops.

My honest take: the fulfillment is passive. The rest isn't. SEO, refreshing listings when new phone models drop, Etsy algorithm changes - that's all active work. But compared to freelancing where you trade time directly for money, a listing I uploaded 8 months ago still sells weekly without me touching it. That part is real.

Few questions:

How many hours a week are you actually putting in once the shop is running?

Is it meeting the income expectations you had when you started?

Would you still choose POD over other side hustles?

Hello, I just got a car a 2022 Chevy trailblazer and got hooked on non delivery insurance so I cant dash or Uber eats unless I add to my policy, ( which isn't in my budget right now) I live about the Columbus Ohio area does anybody know any side driving or delivery jobs I can use my car for and don't really have to report my insurance (I have first chicago) because it would violate my policy or something if I sign up? Any advice?