100 Side Hustles Ideas to Make Extra Money

I've taken some ideas from a real reddit thread outlining REAL side hustles from different types of people. Obviously all of these ideas won't work for you and your skills and passions, but it's an interesting list to look at and see what other people are up to.

Here we go:

1. Painting/weathering and adding electronics to Model trains

2. Start a weekly meal preparation service

3. Watercolor renderings of peoples homes

4. have a photo-booth I take to parties/birthdays/corporate events

5. Flip Motorcycles

6. Party entertainment gigs! (fire/silk/hula hoop/juggling/stilts/LED shows for weddings, birthdays, grad nites, state fairs, corporate events)

7. Wedding business where I escort your dog to your wedding and handle them for photos or for ceremony assistance

8. Airbnb a detached room your property

9. Do graphic design. Make cool illustrations and post them on Instagram, and slowly get some freelance

10. narrate audiobooks through ACX

11. Start a YouTube channel and get monetized

12. Get a beehive and sell honey

13. Make source documents for clinical research sites (might need some research background)

14. Make random software (if you know how to code)

15. Lawncare (can make 400k/year)

16. Own a residential rental property

17. Write tech reviews for news sites

18. Get a few niche websites and pay people to write blog posts

19. Be a timer for races, contact directors and see if there’s work (need some knowledge about sport)

20. Handyman stuff, like tearing down stuff, putting together furniture, fixing lightbulbs

21. Make buttons for bands, companies

22. Work at at local brewery (and get free beer and food)

23. Career guide (review resumes, prepped questions)

24. Referee soccer

25. Rent your car out on Turo

26. Take people on boat trips (spearfishing, whale watching, scuba diving)

27. Dog sitting

29. Buy cars, fix them up and sell them for more

30. Mechanical Turk

31. Sell collectibles on Ebay

32. Photography for other businesses

32. Woodworking and carpentry

33. Create a news website with ads

34. Donate blood or semen or eggs

35. Invest in oil wells and oil well worker apartment complexes

36. Come up with a creative solution to everyday problems and craft a small business, sell on Amazon (ie: bug resistant dog food)

37. Help people with credit repair

38. Pick up overtime at your regular job

39. A gaming youtube channel with ads

40. Invest in mutual funds or any companies with dividends

41 Record college lectures and sell them to people so they don't have to go

42. Ebook publishing

43. AirBnb out your house house and say with family or some place cheaper for a few days

44. Face paint at children's parities, markets, local events

45. Get donations from Patreon supporters by creating an open source project or tool people want/need

46. Breed and sell rare aquatic snails and ship them to people in boxes with holes on top

47. Be a landlord, but side hustle as a handyman

48. Direct to consumer e-commerce out of your garage

49. Make mock exams for your profession and teach courses in your field

50. Play music, with bands or artists at private weddings or public events

51. Maintaining aquariums

52. Buy and sell guitars

53. Fundraise for a non-profit

54. Do data stats or stats consulting on the side

55. Draw peoples avatars and game personas

56. Teach a community class 2 nights a week

57. Re-sell rare sneakers

58. Make and sell reusable paper

59. Create wedding spreadsheets

60. Dropship with chinese suppliers

61 Dabble with translating (ie: English to Spanish) www.proz.com

62. Build a campervan and rent it out

63. Custom PC builds and PC parts flipping

64. DJ parties, weddings and pubs/nightclubs

65. Ubereats or other delivery jobs

66. Buy things with your credit card for people that don't have one or afraid to use one, and get the benefits

67. Automatic investment strategy and downloadable app to auto invest in companies that you buy from

68. Bartend and get tips $$

69. Give people fantasy football advice throughout their season

70. Drive for Uber on weekends

71 Be a chick-fil-A cow mascot on weekends

72. Catering here and there, but it's definitely not passive

73. Teach for an online platform in your field

74. Teach guitar or other instrument lessons

75. Make things by reusing discarded items

76. Buy past season outdoor gear and resell the next season

77. Become a Dungeon Master and run games.

78. Sell event tickets

79. Digital marketing consulting

80. Amazon FBA (Fullfillment by Amazon) Ship a product to Amazon warehouses

81 Any part time job that requires higher qualifications

82. Teach Brazilian jiu-jitsu or other sport you're passionate about.

83. Start a clothing company

84. Sell watercolor illustrations as prints, buttons, magnets, stickers and postcards.

85. Run a WordPress consultancy, mainly build new sites but focus on automated backup and maintenance.

86. Sell magic the gathering cards

87. Work one weekend a month as a nanny

88. Paint parking lots

89. Finance/deal blog to help people save money

90. Selling Disney collectibles, specifically pins.

91 Restroom attendant at fancy places

92. Online transcription editing

93. Financial advising side business

94. 1:1 tutoring for high school and university students through Wyzant

95. Product development and design consulting, take an idea from a sketch to CAD, prototyping and manufacturing overseas

96. Create graphics for streamers and gamers on twitch, youtube and twitter

97. Be a bicycle mechanic

98. Sell cotton candy at different events

99. Sell Yu-Gi-Oh cards and Pokemon cards through local facebook groups and events

100. Astrology readings (10 pg. PDFs describing to work with different planetary energies)

...and that's it, hope it's inspired you to think a little differently! Good luck with your various side hustle endeavors.