If you are looking for awesome side hustle ideas to make some extra money, this article is for you!
I wrote a blog post earlier about side hustles that would be a great fit for introverts, but this blog post is for everyone, some of them are more for extroverts, and others are more introvert-friendly.
Side hustles will help you create more than one income stream and allow you to develop new skills and grow as a person. If you have some time left to fill with a hobby that can bring home more money, why not do it?
Let me share 13 great side hustles that you can do alongside your 9-5 job!
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13 Awesome Side Hustle Ideas To Make Some Extra Money
Side Hustle Ideas for People Persons / Extroverts
1. Babysitting
For the babysitting side hustle, you have to love kids, being a people person alone isn’t enough. If you like spending time with babies and children, this might be your dream side hustle! You get paid to play games with little kids or to watch TV when they have to sleep and the parents are still out.
Most of the time, this side hustle is a first job for students but you can totally do this job as an adult. Google babysitting jobs in your area and you never know which opportunities arise! You could also go for mouth-to-mouth advertising. A coworker of mine has this as a side hustle and mostly gets her clients from mouth-to-mouth advertising. You could also advertise your services through social media.
It is important to be trustworthy, as people trust you to take care of their children. So you could start babysitting kids in your family and friends circle first, get some positive reviews, and go from there to attract unknown clients.
It doesn’t pay much (unless you find wealthy parents who would love to pay you more money to take great care of their little darlings), but you don’t have to do all that much and you get to do it after work. You could even work on another side hustle when the kids are asleep if that isn’t amazing!
2. Personal Assistant
If you read the job title ‘personal assistant’, the job description and tasks that you have to do can be very broad, so read the whole job description carefully before applying.
You could do this as a full-time job, but you can also work as a personal assistant as a side hustle. Being a personal assistant has tasks that can vary from being a caretaker, doing laundry, doing chores around the house, going to the store with your client, helping them get dressed, etc. to being a personal assistant to a business owner and taking care of emails, sending letters, calling customers, scheduling appointments, making sure they have a taxi, booking restaurants or trips, etc.
Think about what type of personal assistant you want to be and apply for jobs on job sites. If you like helping people, this might be a good job for you.
3. Tutoring
Maybe you wanted to be a teacher growing up but didn’t pursue it because the thought of standing in front of a full classroom terrified you. Or you are a teacher and would like to earn more money by teaching some more in your free time. Either way, tutoring is one of the amazing side hustle ideas for you!
Tutoring students can be very rewarding, as you help them learn better and increase their knowledge of a topic. You can tutor all ages so choose the ones you like best. Do you like teaching things to children or do you prefer teaching adults or maybe even the elderly? You can also choose your working area, do you want to work in your own place, the student’s place, or maybe even have a tutor session online?
There are so many possibilities and so many factors you can adjust to your preference. You can also choose your prices, but when you are first starting, don’t go too high if you don’t have any experience. Focus on building expertise and then you can charge more.
4. Give Music Lessons
For all the musicians out there, there is a way of making money from music that has nothing to do with being in a band or performing on stage, namely teaching music lessons! If you love to play music, maybe you would love to teach it as well.
You could give music lessons as a private tutor and work from home or start as a music teacher in a music school. If you work for yourself, you could even choose who you like to teach to! If you don’t like to teach to small children for example, then you could only teach adults that want to learn how to play an instrument.
Sharing your knowledge and gift of music with others is a great way to spend your free time and make an extra dime. You can schedule as many hours as you want and seeing your students become musicians is wonderful.
5. Become a Coach
Another side hustle from the side hustle ideas for people who love people is becoming a coach! These days, coaches seem to pop out of the ground like mushrooms, as everyone appears to be a coach. And why is that? Maybe, because coaching is a very fulfilling profession that you can easily start as a side gig!
It is recommended to take some courses about coaching before you call yourself a coach, get some credentials first. But the beauty of coaching also lies in the fact that you can choose which aspect of a person’s life you want to help them with.
Do you love finance and want to be a financial coach to help people get their finances in order? Or maybe you like sports and want to be more of a personal trainer/coach? You could also become a lifestyle coach or a coach for healthy eating, the list of coaching possibilities is endless.
If you already have an area of expertise even better, take a few courses about how to coach people and you can start finding clients. If you don’t have expertise yet, build it first so that you can truly help people for the better.
You can coach people from home and/or offer your services through video calls. If your coaching practice grows and you would like to make it your main job, you could also rent or buy an office space to separate your work from your home.
Side Hustle Ideas for Introverts
6. House Sitting
You are not likely to get rich from house sitting, but you will get the chance to explore a new town or even travel abroad and have your local accommodation for free!
House sitting can be solely watching the house and watering some plants, but in some cases, there are also pets that you have to take care of. Some owners might want you to do even more chores, but here is the possibility to make more money from the house-sitting trip.
You can find great opportunities on websites like trustedhousesitters.com, and MindMyHouse.com for example.
7. Sell Your Clothes
If your closet is bulging and you need to make room for new clothes (or to minimize decision fatigue), you can sell your clothes. Or maybe you have little children who grow out of their clothes in no time, and you can also sell those.
There are many different platforms online on which you can sell your clothes. Examples of online stores are Facebook Marketplace, eBay, and Vinted. These platforms are well-known and that way also trustworthy.
If you don’t want to make money from your clothes, you could also go the more charitable option and donate them to charity. You could also donate some of your clothes and sell the others.
8. Online Courses
Creating and selling online courses can be a great side hustle for digital creators. This is one of the more creative side hustle ideas that can also create passive income after a while!
If you have great knowledge or skills about one or more topics, you can create an online course to teach others.
Most introverts are capable of filming themselves to teach an online course as there is no interaction or interruption possible. If you don’t like to show your face, you can create videos where you share your computer screen where you don’t have to show yourself at all.
You will need some skills like teaching, instructing, even filming, video editing, and marketing your courses. Most of these skills you can learn online from other online teachers!
You can sell your courses on platforms like Udemy, Coursera, Skillshare, etc., and/or create a website where you sell your courses. The last option will give you more say about pricing but the others already have an audience that you will need to sell your courses.
9. Sell Your Creations on Etsy
Do you need more side hustle ideas for creative introverts? Selling your creations on Etsy is a great one!
Whatever you like to create, there is a way to sell it to someone. This could be anything from pottery to posters, jewelry, knitwear, etc. If you are an artist, think about selling your artwork on platforms like Etsy.
It’s also a good idea to open your own e-commerce store because if you happen to violate Etsy’s rules (without even knowing it most of the time) you will get suspended and lose your customers and shop.
Side Hustle Ideas that can be good for both
10. Start a YouTube Channel
Starting a YouTube channel is a side hustle that you should pursue in the long run, as you don’t make money straight away. This is one of the side hustle ideas that can be great for both introverts and extroverts! It could also turn into a stream of passive income if it is successful after some time.
If you have something to share with the world, you might consider starting a YouTube channel. This could be anything as long as you are motivated and inspired enough to make a whole lot of content about it.
You can start a faceless YouTube channel if you want to stay anonymous. People are often afraid that their relatives or friends will see their attempt to become a famous YouTuber but for many people, this doesn’t work out and they don’t want to lose face. With a faceless channel, nobody needs to know what you are doing.
It is probably easier to gain more traffic sooner if you show your face, depending on your likeability and skills with the camera. But in the beginning, most people won’t have any views so this is a good time to experiment and grow your skills as a YouTuber.
Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that you will make money from YouTube, but if you are successful, you can make tons of money with it!
11. Start a Photography Business
Photography is a form of art that many people are interested in pursuing. If you have a great eye for detail and esthetics, it might be something you could be really good at too.
Being an extrovert can help with building a network of clients in the first place. This is where extroversion can be a good quality. But introverts can also connect with people, they can have wonderful one-on-one conversations about the things they are passionate about, which is photography in this case. Between photoshoots, you will also have a lot of alone time, editing the photos that you took.
Introverts could also make money by selling their photos online through stock photography websites, where there is no client interaction needed.
Extroverts or social introverts could make extra money by giving workshops about photography and teaching others their camera techniques or editing skills and habits.
It would help to build a website and social media page to attract clients and as always, start by getting some business from family and friends to get you started with some positive reviews!
12. Food Delivery
Driving around on a bike or by car and delivering food to people who ordered, it is an easy side gig with the certainty of making money.
Most people don’t necessarily want to have a conversation with the food deliverer, so that’s why this is a great option for introverts, it’s just a simple money-for-food transaction and off you go to the next address. If you are extroverted, you could spike up a conversation if you feel like the customer is into that.
Think about working for companies like Uber Eats or Deliveroo.
13. Join Scientific Research Programs
Become a test person and help science develop and grow by participating in studies and scientific research programs.
You could check out opportunities at universities and hospitals in your area and if you meet their criteria, participate!
This is earning money while helping science evolve which is great. Most of the time you don’t have to do much to get the money, sometimes it is taking a new type of drug, filling out questionnaires, or doing some tests.
Conclusion
There are tons of side hustle ideas nowadays, as our day-to-day wages don’t rise as fast as inflation, starting a side hustle can give you more financial freedom.
Even if your income is fine, it is always a good idea to start a new stream of income, in case something happens with your main stream. Financial security is so important to have peace of mind.
The most important thing with side hustles is to pick one or more that suits your personality. If your only motivation is money, you probably won’t last long because you will have to do this after regular working hours. There are enough side hustle ideas on the internet but pick the one that interests you!
If you want to leave your current job, starting a side hustle is also a great idea to see which other sectors might interest you or to start your own business on the side and perhaps make it your full-time job someday.
Which side hustle ideas do you want to try or maybe you are already doing some of them? Please share your experience in the comments! 🙂