In the
work at home world, we call our multiple work from home money earners our
“eggs.” This post is going to cover various work at home “eggs” or side hustle
ideas you can use to make money when work at your main job dries up. And
if you've been working at home for any length of time, then you know this
happens on occasion!
It's never a good idea to rely on just one job as a home-based
worker, because you never know what's going to happen.
I've
personally experienced companies laying off/firing workers, changes in
available workload, and pay rates suddenly dropping so low that the job was no
longer worth my time. So you've got to be prepared.
I polled
my readers on Facebook a while back and
asked around on forums to find out what sites and various industries most
people use for back up work from home. Below is a collection of some of the
specific sites readers mentioned.
Note –
Keep in mind some of these are just good for extra money, and
some possibly amount to part time home based jobs.
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Hustle Ideas – 12 Legit Options
Fiverr
So many
people are listing side gigs on Fiverr and earning income.
For many,
it's just a little extra money here and there. But for others, Fiverr pays the
bills!
If you
don't know what to list there, see this post with ideas for what to sell on Fiverr. I also got
some Fiverr pro-tips in another post after
interviewing people who have managed to earn money with the site.
Go here to try it.
VIPKid
VIPKid is
a company many of my readers have had great things to say about. They hire
home-based ESL teachers for Chinese children.
It's
possible to do this as a “side hustle” because it is very flexible work. The
company does allow you to set your own schedule, with no minimum or maximum
hourly requirements per week.
To
qualify, you must have any “formal” or “informal” teaching
experience such as mentoring, tutoring, coaching, or alternative education as
well as a bachelor's degree in any field.
Open to US
(except California) and Canada.
Cambly
This is a
work from home position for people who would like to teach non-English speakers
how to speak conversational English.
Basically
you do the work via webcam, interacting with people who have the Cambly app
installed. You do not need any professional experience, but you do need to
be a native speaker of English.
Slice the Pie
This is
another one that I've personally kept on the back burner for extra money, and it
was mentioned by a few people I polled.
It's very
easy — you just listen to snippets of songs and then rate/review them in a few
sentences. You can get paid once you have earned $10.
Payouts
are made on Tuesdays and Fridays. Again, this is just extra money. However,
staying active on the site means regular cash outs are possible.
Rover
If you
like animals, you may want to consider signing up with Rover as a pet sitter.
Basically, Rover is a middleman — helping connect pet sitters to people needing
the services in your area.
While they
do take a cut of your earnings since they offer the platform to help you find
clients, it still may come in handy if you've struggled to find clients to pet
sit for in the past.
Pet
sitting can very much be considered a “side hustle” because you call the shots.
You decide which appointments to accept, when to work, and according to Rover,
earning $1,000 per month is totally possible.
Obviously,
$1,000 a month isn't going to pay anyone's bills enough to count as a full-time
job, but it certainly counts for substantial side money.
Go here to sign up for Rover or read
our Rover review first.
Lyft
I'm sure
you're aware that there are now ride-sharing services galore that make it
possible to get from point A to point B without actually calling a taxi. In
fact, you've probably used some of these services yourself.
One such
service you can sign up to drive for is Lyft. What makes Lyft such an appealing
side gig is that you can work whenever you have time to work, and they let you
keep 100 percent of your tips in addition to what you're paid for the trip.
Lyft pays
their drivers once a week, and there is also an option to sign up for Express
Pay so you can cash out whenever you want to.
Go here to sign up to drive for Lyft or
read our Lyft review first.
Fancy Hands
Many
people suggested Fancy Hands, and it's a site I have used myself. Basically
this is task-based virtual assisting. Each task pays a different amount, and
you might be doing anything from checking to see if a store is open to
reserving airline tickets.
Quicktate
This
company hires remote transcribers, and it's ideal for transcription newbies because the work is
pretty easy and you don't need any real experience to get in. You just have to
pass a test.
This is
one company that has been around for a long time, and I've never heard anything
bad about them. The pay is low so most people only rely on it for extra money.
Textbroker
I admit
this has been a go-to site for extra money for me for quite some time. You get
paid to write articles for Textbroker's many clients. It's not hard to get
accepted at all, but unfortunately unless you can get bumped up to the 4-star
level, there's not much work to do.
Textbroker
pays reliably every single week on Friday provided you have the minimum $10 in
your account required to cash out. I've found the writing to be pretty easy.
Amazon MTurk
This is a
short task site with a variety of work available at any given time. You can
find everything from data entry to transcription and even some article writing.
I have
used this site myself many times in the past and occasionally like to log on
and do a few small jobs. For some this is just extra money but there are many
people who get more than just extra out of it.
Clickworker
My
personal experience with Clickworker is very limited, but this one gets
mentioned quite frequently on the forums and also from my followers on
Facebook. It's task-based work. The pay varies depending on the project you're
doing.
Go here
to read more about
Clickworker or here to register.
Humanatic
Work from
home reviewing calls for Humanatic. Basically you listen to recorded phone
conversations and tag them according to whether or not the call you heard was
sales-related.
I've done
this a little and the pay is extremely low (less than $5 an hour for me), but
it's kind of fun and I used to like to hop on and review calls here and there
in between other work. It adds up over time, and they do pay out weekly.
Best Types of Jobs for Fill-In/Back Up Work at Home
The best
type of back up work at home job is almost always going to
be something flexible so that you can pick it up or drop it as needed depending
on how things are going with other work you do.
Freelance
writing is always very flexible and so is transcription. These are additionally
two fields you can break into with little to no experience.
A person
on my Facebook page also suggested mystery shopping as a good industry to get
involved in for side money. While mystery shopping isn't done at home — with
the exception of telephone mystery shopper work —
it is very flexible, independent work.
For more
help on finding back up work, browse these other sections of my website:
·
The massive list of work at home jobs offering flexible
schedules. Lots of other options here.
·
Huge
list of 80 side gigs. These get you out of the house,
earning good money on your own time.
·
Big list of places that hire writers –
Almost always flexible work to do as you have time or in between other work.
·
Big list of places that hire
transcribers – If you're new to transcription, you'll want to
look through the list of sites that hire beginners near the top.
P.S. – Looking for more than just a
back-up work at home job? If so, I recommend getting a membership at FlexJobs, one of the most popular job search
sites focused on flexible and/or telecommuting companies. They guarantee their
listings to be scam-free as well. I've had my membership for over a year. You
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