In the current economic climate of uncertainty and soaring prices, every extra dollar you can bring in counts. Recently, a Reddit user asked what are the weirdest side jobs that other users earn extra income with. We used ChatGPT to help us summarize the most interesting answers:
1. Baking fruit
cakes It may sound like a grandmother's hobby, but one person turned it into a profitable venture. Using special ingredients like pecans instead of walnuts and sherry instead of liqueur, and in relatively small molds, these fruit cakes yield several hundred dollars or more per season (September to October).
2. Hosting a "Parents' Night"
This is a night of watching over children so that their parents can go out without them. Accommodation includes a meal, outdoor play and movie marathon, sleeping in bags in the living room and breakfast before parents arrive to pick up their children. A resourceful babysitter charges about $50 per child, looks after 8-10 children once a month, and earns about $500.
3. Speaking yes costs money
One user said he "teaches English" online – or, more precisely, talks to people around the world about random topics. One of his 'students' is a kid who watches Pokémon and Godzilla with him – and the surfer does earn minimum wage, but in exchange for watching cartoons at leisure, so he doesn't complain.
4. Money thrown on the street Not one, but two surfers reported that they collected items thrown into the street
– mostly furniture – to restore them, and then sell them as vintage items at high prices.
5. Frozen/double
profit A person who operates a stall in a local flea market reported selling a certain type of candy that is not too common (freeze-dried candy), which is usually sold in malls at exaggerated prices. He buys them directly from the supplier at a wholesale price, and coupled with the fact that he doesn't pay rent on the stand, he can afford to sell them for a third of the price at the mall – and still make a 100% profit.
6. You've won a class action lawsuit!
Seeking class action lawsuits and joining when you're part of the group represented may not be a day-to-day job, but it pays off. One user reported that she has earned hundreds of dollars in recent years from class action compensation checks, and managed to impress her husband with this small, original income stream.
7. Hannah Wacash
One of the surfers said that in the past he used to work together with a friend as a valet (the driver of cars of people arriving at luxury hotels or events) at football games. They received a minimal hourly payment, but the tips given to them by some car owners greatly increased their income from this casual work.
8. Give me money
For those with a love for animals, keeping pets can be more than just a way to spend time with man's best friends (and cats). One surfer offers such a service to her neighbors in the building for $40 a night (half the rate that professional dogsitters take in her hometown) – and earns money, her dog friends and small gifts that neighbors bring her when they return from their trips abroad.
9. Hear? Take notes, take notes...
Audio transcription may not sound glamorous, but it can be a fairly profitable occupation. By transcribing audio for various uses, one person reported that he easily earns several hundred dollars each month.
10. Avri Gilad at leisure
Hosting trivia nights for about two and a half hours may not sound like the road to wealth, but for one user, it amounts to about $500 a month. Aside from paying for the directive, he noted that he also gets free meals and drinks at restaurants that host trivia nights.
11. A lucrative legal drama One
man who answered an ad on Craigslist spent three hours in a three-hour jury simulation—that is, a mock trial by a law firm to try to figure out where the wind was blowing if they were handling him—for $200 plus travel expenses.
12. Even corpses can earn
Participation as a "victim" in a military training exercise does not require any special effort, but one person earned $100 per day for three days of lying still, plus a $25 bonus for participating in all consecutive training days.
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