Category: Blog

  • California drivers get a raise and benefits

    California drivers get a raise and benefits

    California ride share and delivery drivers will get a raise and some insurance benefits, thanks to a law recently approved by voters. Widely watched in other states, this law could serve as a nationwide model. 

  • How to find a great side hustle

    How to find a great side hustle

    While online platforms make it easy to find a side hustle, you’ve got to navigate a site’s terms to find a great side hustle that pays well and offers good working conditions.

  • Fast-cash side hustles

    Fast-cash side hustles

    While the government wrangles over pandemic relief, bills still need to be paid. Fast-cash side hustles can help.

  • September side hustles

    September side hustles

    Overwhelmed parents will drive demand for September side hustles this year, as “distance learning” forces frazzled mothers and fathers to seek help.

  • Pandemic’s impact on workers

    Pandemic’s impact on workers

    The pandemic’s impact on workers has been devastating. In addition to fueling a sky-high unemployment rate, even people who have kept their jobs are earning less.

  • How to get and keep remote work

    How to get and keep remote work

    How can you get and keep remote work, without sacrificing your career, family life, or sanity? 10 tips.

  • Get paid to read

    Get paid to read

    If you’re good at spotting grammatical and spelling errors, you can get paid to read. A number of sites enlist freelancers to copyedit and proofread everything from business documents to books.

  • Never retire: Working past retirement age

    Never retire: Working past retirement age

    Karen Winters and Rex Shields are part of a trend. They’re seniors working long past traditional retirement age, full or part-time. Millions like them are aided by gig platforms offering money-making options

  • Today’s best driving jobs are in delivery

    Today’s best driving jobs are in delivery

    Uber and Lyft used to be the undisputed leaders in providing jobs for independent contractors who wanted to drive for a living.  The global pandemic changed that.

  • 12 best tutoring platforms

    12 best tutoring platforms

    Children all over the country are struggling with distance learning necessitated by the Coronavirus epidemic. That spells opportunity for those with teaching and tutoring skills.

  • Demand for child care is likely to soar

    Demand for child care is likely to soar

    School closures are likely to create opportunities for people with the patience and skills to provide child care services, either by launching a home-based day care center, camp or simply sitting.

  • Make money with art and crafts

    Make money with art and crafts

    If you have an artistic side and the tools to create anything from paintings to rocking horses, you may be able to make money with art and crafts.

  • Teaching platform for imaginative souls

    Teaching platform for imaginative souls

    Instead of teaching a formal curriculum designed to make kids proficient enough to pass tests, Outschool is all about experimentation and engagement. 

  • 12 ways to rent your possessions

    12 ways to rent your possessions

    With unemployment in the stratosphere, it may be comforting to know that you can make money without a job. There are 12 ways to rent your stuff. Some of them are highly lucrative. 

  • Rotten side hustles and better alternatives

    Rotten side hustles and better alternatives

    They try to seduce you with promises that you can make big money having fun in your spare time. But, in reality, dozens of online platforms that promise fun and easy opportunities are sucky side hustles.

  • Seasonal jobs: Poor pay in great locations

    Seasonal jobs: Poor pay in great locations

    If your career is still on a pandemic-induced hold, you might want to check out seasonal jobs. These positions are notoriously poorly paid, but are located in scenic camps and resorts. Call it your “gap” summer.

  • Side hustles for wedding season

    Side hustles for wedding season

    As vaccination rates rise, long-delayed weddings are getting scheduled. That opens up a wealth of side hustles for wedding season.

  • Starting a personal shopper business

    Starting a personal shopper business

    Unlike Instacart, which get shoppers to work for them, Dumpling helps you start your own personal shopper business. It simply provides billing, marketing and support

  • How to build your own website

    How to build your own website

    In the Covid age, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a writer or a realtor, you need a website to avoid becoming invisible. Here’s how to build one in an hour. Cost: $12 a month.

  • Is publishing a book a good side hustle?

    Is publishing a book a good side hustle?

    At a time when cheap self-publishing options have turned book publishing into a burgeoning cottage industry, authors have mixed opinions about whether publishing is a good side hustle.

  • Remote jobs for the Coronavirus era

    Remote jobs for the Coronavirus era

    If you don’t want your finances to expire while you sit out the pandemic, you’ll need an alternative. Consider remote jobs for the Coronavirus era

  • Your daytimer is deductible and other year-end tax tips

    Your daytimer is deductible and other year-end tax tips

    Self-employment gives you a litany of tax breaks that aren’t available to employees. But many require that you take action before year-end if you want to claim them on 2019 returns.

  • Side hustles for happier holidays

    Side hustles for happier holidays

    Holiday displays now go up in late summer — before most families have fully digested their back-to-school shopping. But seasonal hiring starts early too. That gives you plenty of time to earn the $1,000 the average family spends on the holidays, before the holiday bills mount.

  • Side hustles to pay off holiday debt

    Side hustles to pay off holiday debt

    Looking for a few good side hustles to pay off holiday debt? If you’re like most Americans, that’s no easy task. The average person ran up $1,325 in debt this holiday season

  • 5 reasons to side hustle

    5 reasons to side hustle

    Side hustles are flexible, part-time jobs that a lot of people engage in outside of their normal working hours for five good reasons. Here are the reasons and how a side hustle can help.

  • Earn good money and get fit

    Earn good money and get fit

    Being a referee or sports official is the perfect side gig. You earn great money — usually $40 to $100 per game — and get fit at the same time. Demand is good year-round.

  • Side hustle to pad your resume

    Side hustle to pad your resume

    Recruiters say side hustles show imagination, initiative, commercial savvy, customer service and other desirable skills in job applicants

  • How to use your car to make money

    How to use your car to make money

    You can use your car to make money without having to drive a single extra mile if you’re willing to emblazon it with ads, rent to tourists or photographers.

  • Top-rated side hustles, from A-to-Z

    Top-rated side hustles, from A-to-Z

    SideHusl.com’s editors wanted to see if we could find top-rated side hustles for every letter of the alphabet. We failed. But we did find 24 of 26.

  • Side hustle to seven figures: 7 steps to success

    Shaan Patel took his side hustle to seven figures in less than a decade. His tips on choosing and pursuing a side gig may help take your side hustle to seven figures too.