9 Quick Side Hustles from Home
Even Kick A** writers need extra income at times? Quick side hustles from home can help. You can earn extra cash in a fairly short amount of time with some of the side hustles listed here. They don’t require upfront cash investments.
The best part. They can be done from home. You can, if you want to, find other quick sources of income requiring you to be away from home (pet sitting, dog walking, or a part-time retail job). But the ones here can all be done from home.
Besides the benefit of working from home, these jobs typically pay within a week. And most typically pay a lot better than minimum wage, or what you’d earn as a Walmart greeter. How much you get paid, and when, will depend upon the job itself and how much time you can give to it.
For several jobs listed below you can check employment marketplaces, such as DICE, Glassdoor, Indeed, Upwork, Virtual Vocations, and ZipRecruiter, Some of these job search sites require you to register with them in order to find jobs. Some allow you to set up job alerts. Most offer part-time positions. A few companies are owned by the same parent company, but they offer different services.
1. Testing Websites
Before launching a website, some companies or web developers will pay people to test websites. They typically would want you to give them feedback on your user experience. You only need to know how to use a website and provide useful feedback. The testing doesn’t take long to do. While testing jobs may be outsourced to web testing companies, you could work through a freelancer site, such as Fiverr. These companies offer website testing jobs: Amazon Mechanical Turk, Testbirds, TryMyUI, Userfeel, Userlytics, UserTesting, and UserZoom.
2. Transcription
As a writer, you’re likely fairly fast at typing. Writers are generally also good listeners. This skill set can be a good match for doing transcription work. For transcription work, you’d be listening to and transcribing (typing) audio files, such as interviews, lectures, legal reports, medical reports, or podcasts.
How much you can earn depends on what a company pays, but also on how fast you can type. Transcription jobs can also be found on job boards, such as those mentioned above. Companies who hire transcribers are the following:
Aberdeen
Appen
Babbletype
Birch Creek Communications
Cambridge Transcriptions
CastingWords
Focus Forward
GoTranscript
Quicktate
Rev
Scribie
SpeakWrite
Speechpad
TranscribeAnywhere
TranscribeMe
Transcript Divas
Ubiqus
Verbal Ink
3. Customer Service
With more people shopping online now, more companies hire remote customer service representatives. This position works well if you like talking to people and have good spoken communication skills. Some of the jobs have live chats or emails for customer questions. Some companies who might hire are 1-800-FLOWERS, Alorica, American Express, Arise, Convergys, Hilton, Liveops, and Sykes.
4. Renting Out Your Vehicle
If you’re at home and not using your vehicle as much, you could rent it out. Some sites offering peer-to-peer carsharing from private car owners are Getaround, HyreCar, and Turo. If you do this, be sure your insurance provider allows it, and consider any additional insurance costs.
5. Renting Out Spare Space
If you have a spare room or even space on your couch, you could rent it online. Online rental sites, such as Airbnb, Booking, HomeAway, Homestay, or Vrbo, are generally free to join and list your rental space. The companies take their percentage, which isn’t too high. For instance, Airbnb takes only 3%, which isn’t bad considering they pay for the advertising and web space.
Renting out your space while you’re at home could be a challenge if you aren’t a people person. In that case, it might work better if you’re away from home.
6. Renting Out Parking Space
If you don’t have a space room to rent out, how about renting out a parking space? If you live where parking is at a premium, you could rent out a parking space. Take a look at JustPark and SpotHero.
If you live anywhere else, you could consider renting space for people to park their RV overnight. As RVers travel from one location to another, they often need a spot for one night while they’re between destinations. Not all RVers care to spend the night in a Walmart parking lot or a truck stop. They’d rather stay in a local neighborhood. CurbFlip or JustPark. Check with your city or country first to make sure it’s legal in your area.
7. Sell Items You No Longer Need
This is a win-win. You can create more space in your closet and storage area and help others who are looking for a good deal. Besides selling items locally on Craigslist or NextDoor, you could sell items on Amazon, eBay, Decluttr, Offerup, Poshmark, ThredUP, or TradeMore.
8. Set Up a Gig on a Freelance Site
Some of the employment marketplaces mentioned above offer freelance jobs. However, other sites allow you to post Freelance work you’re available to do. Clients buy directly from you. For instance, Freelancer and Fiverr. As a writer, you can offer your strongest skills. Writing, of course, also editing and proofreading. You might also be skilled in graphic design, social media, or other areas.
9. Write Articles
Besides your own blog, you could write for other blogs or write online articles for websites. These gigs typically don’t pay well, but it can add some extra income. Also, consider contacting companies or individuals with websites and offer your services as a writer, editor, proofreader, or researcher. In addition to freelance jobs, you can find on Fiverr, Indeed, or Upwork, you could find writing gigs on these sites.
A List Apart
BloggingPro
ClearVoice
College Humor
Cracked
Freelancer
Greatcontent
Guru
HireWriters
IncomeDiary
iWriter
Listverse
LoveToKnow
Mediabistro
Online Writing Jobs
PeoplePerHour
ProBlogger
RankPay
SitePoint
Textbroker
The Penny Hoarder
Wise Bread
WL Marketing
WordAgents
Zerys
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What experience have you had with side hustles? Which ones work best for you? What other ones would you at to the work-from-home list?
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