in between classes I would sell each
twizzler for like 25 cents do you know
how much money I used to bring home
after selling that whole jar of like 500
Twizzlers this was making bread in sixth
grade okay I think that's when I became
a hustler actually
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in today's video we are talking about
side hustles that you can start right
now right now so the way that this
country is set up you are going to work
forever and then retire and then die so
what I want you guys to remember is that
a side hustle is always a good thing
extra money is always a good thing
and a lot of times side hustles can turn
into not so side hustles more like
full-time hustles where you can be in
control of your own finances and that's
always a good thing that's starting with
number one my number one way to make
some extra money on the side is to
freelance now freelancing just basically
means that you are an independent
contractor you don't work for anybody
but yourself and you are giving services
to someone else
one of my favorite websites to hire
freelancers on is Pfizer comm and I will
have the link listed down below in the
description box so that way you guys can
check the website out for yourself just
in case you want to sign up to become a
freelancer there's other websites like
upwork.com thumbtack comm and literally
anything from makeup services to
photography services gigs for stylists
on there pretty much any talent that you
have that you're willing to do for
someone else you can definitely get paid
to do it
you just got to figure out exactly what
it is that you want to do for example I
am a freelance hair and makeup artist I
contract out my services to people who
need my services and I get paid to do
them it's things that I love to do and I
make money while doing it the best part
about it is most of the time you get
paid on the spot and there's not really
anyone else that you have to pay when
you're doing a service and you're
running your own thing number two is
blogging starting a blog or a YouTube
channel like a vlog is also a great way
to you know side hustle it out starting
a blog can be very lucrative there's
things like affiliate links and you know
you can work with different companies
and get paid to post I started my first
blog when I was in college I started my
youtube channel when I was in college as
well my first blog was on a site called
blogger.com
and I set it up there I used to post a
couple of times a week and then I would
promote my posts on Pinterest and before
I knew it my posts were getting so many
hits a day
they were ranking on Google and I was
making money from Google because there
were ads on my blog as well that people
were seeing and clicking on that were
relevant to the stuff that I was posting
and that's similar to the way that we
get paid here on YouTube it's just you
know when you guys see the ads that roll
before the video don't skip them ads
okay because I need my money those are
different ways that you can get paid as
a blogger now when you are a blogger
when you're getting paid you know you
only getting paid once a month from the
platform that you're working on most of
the time but like I say you could
definitely work with different brands
and do collaborations where you can get
paid you know more often number three is
to teach English online via websites
like VIP kid there's a couple of other
websites that I'll link to you down
below but there's a lot of work from
home type of gigs like that where you
can teach someone English online usually
these jobs run like in the middle of the
night because you're normally working
with someone or like a child who is in a
different country who's learning English
as a Second Language
so I don't think you need a degree to do
VIP kid I'm not a thousand percent sure
though so definitely do your own
research but I know that it is a good
way to make money
sometimes they pay between like fourteen
to twenty two dollars per hour depending
on what assignment you're on and I don't
know about you guys but that sounds
pretty good to me to be up you know
teaching someone to talk like I do so
I'm here for it number four is to open
up an eBay store now eBay is a very
lucrative
sigh I'm someone who shops on eBay a lot
a lot of people that I know actually buy
stuff from thrift stores and sell it on
eBay if you've ever read the book
girlboss or if you know the story of
Sophia Amoruso I think that's her name
but the founder of Nasty Gal that's
actually how she got her start she was
shopping in thrift stores and then
resell them online on eBay and she would
actually end up making a lot of money
from it but you couldn't sell anything
like electronics you can sell antiques
even if you have like extra stuff in
your house that you're not using let's
say like you have an old DVD player or
maybe a old camera that you're not
really using put it on eBay I'm telling
you I've made like a lot of money from
selling old shoes and equipment and
stuff like that I just don't use anymore
there are also other websites like posh
marcom where you can sell your clothes I
think they they let you sell any type of
clothing so it doesn't have to be like
any designer clothes or anything like
that it could just be anything out of
your closet you could put it up a
Poshmark
and sell it to someone who's looking to
add something like that to their closet
number five is air B&B let me put you
guys on game okay so Airbnb is an
awesome way to side house if you have a
extra room in your house or if you have
some type of rental property that's not
being occupied you could set it up for
Airbnb people on Airbnb make an average
of four to like $6,000 a month depending
on what location you're in just by
ripping out extra space in their home
and it's crazy because you literally
don't really have to do much but make
sure that it is a nice and presentable
environment for a guest to stay listen
on the website let it go live and you
know people will pay money to come and
stay in your space and just make sure
you're a great host you can get great
reviews and more and more people will
book you and you will make a lot of
money
number six is online surveys I know that
this is kind of a weird way to side
hustle but I'm telling you guys I have
done it before there are websites that
you can go to that will basically pay
you to do surveys or to my
test out different websites for them and
things like that you saw online surveys
are a great way to make money you can
really make anywhere from like two
dollars per survey all the way up to
like 25 30 sometimes even 50 depending
on what the survey is it's a great way
to side hustle a little extra padding in
your bank account you know number seven
is to start an Etsy store online Etsy is
one of my favorite websites to go and
find unique items i buy like when i have
events and parties and stuff especially
for my daughter I go and I buy my
decorations from Etsy you can set up a
store you can sell prints so let's say
you if you do graphic design if you want
to make some pretty quotes and put them
on Etsy for people to download for even
like a dollar per download you will be
surprised at how many people go on Etsy
to find things like this if you're
someone who makes jewelry maybe you make
shoes you make t-shirts mugs bath and
body products candles anything that you
can make at home you can sell on it it
would be totally worth it if you're
someone who does things like that to
sign up for an Etsy account and you can
literally make money in your sleep I
don't know about you but that sounds
like a pretty good side hustle to me
number eight is virtual assistant now
this is a really big locate position
okay because a lot of big business
owners and a lot of just entrepreneurs
need help with their businesses a lot of
times they outsource to virtual
assistants especially people who work
from home and you know don't really have
a office to keep an assistant and it
totally works to outsource to a virtual
assistant that works from their own home
online and virtual assistants get paid
anywhere from like seven dollars an hour
all the way up to like $22 hour
depending on what tasks you're doing
websites like upwork.com people per hour
there's a bunch of other like virtual
assistants websites that you can sign up
for even if you just want it to go
online and just advertise your services
as a virtual assistant you probably be
surprised at how many people actually do
need your services even if it's
something as simple as just shooting out
emails certain things take up a lot of
time and time is just really something
entrepreneurs don't have a lot of so
being a virtual assistant if you're
someone who's good
organizing if you're good at booking
definitely you know do a quick search
try to find some virtual assistant
positions because those are great side
hustles to have number nine is some type
of guardianship that could either be
babysitting dog sitting house-sitting or
when my favorite substitute teaching I
was substitute teacher for a while and I
taught at my old high school and it was
pretty fun you know I got to interact
with the kids and I was even asked to
stay long term now it's something you
get paid per day and you know you don't
really work for anybody
it's just kind of like you know you go
when you feel like it you don't when you
don't so that was a great hustle for me
because I wasn't always available
obviously I'm not preneur I work on
things you know outside of school
outside of you know that working
experience so I need the time that I
need to myself to work on my own
projects substitute teaching was a great
way to make some extra side money
without the commitment of being an
actual like full-time teacher now
babysitting that's another lucrative way
to make money because y'all goodness
childcare is expensive okay and I have a
daughter
even though I work from home I had to
pay for childcare she had to go
somewhere where she couldn't be running
up and down a hallway screaming so I can
get my work done
kids need 24/7 supervision especially
the little ones especially the babies
especially the toddlers and parents we
pay big money for child care especially
quality child care so if you know
someone in your neighborhood that needs
you know help with their kids inquire
let them know hey you know I'm
babysitting you could really make
anywhere from five dollars an hour to
maybe like $15 an hour
same thing with house-sitting a lot of
times when people go out of town
especially when they have like dogs and
stuff they need someone to feed their
animal to walk their animal and what
better way to make money than to do it
for them I definitely would sign up for
one of those websites like sitter city
comm or care comm or something like that
because most of the time people not just
gonna let you in a house without a
background check you know
unless you know them then you know of
course I definitely would look into
something like that as a side hustle
because I know people who actually
really make a lot of money babysitting
and how sitting in dog sitting and
substitute teaching and their great side
hustles so don't discount them number
ten is cooking and baking for other
people when I was younger my mom used to
make dinners on Saturdays like my mom
cooked really really good and people
were always asking her like hey can you
make macaroni for me came extreme beans
like they loved her food so my mom
decided to do was she used to make like
a huge pan of food on Saturday mornings
and then she would just tell people like
look I'm selling dinners she went and
got like the styrofoam boxes she'd make
like you know lemonade to go with it and
people would come and they'd pay like 10
to 12 dollars for a dinner and my mom
used to make bread on the weekends okay
and don't let it be a football game okay
because people are gonna be hungry and
we live right by the football field and
people would just comment order food and
you know that was a nice little side
hustle that my mom had now I know people
who meal prep especially for like think
about it there's a lot of people right
now in this world that work a lot of
hours and especially people who are not
married you know who are single like a
lot of single men they don't have anyone
at home cooking for them and nine times
out of ten they don't have enough time
to really go out and go food shopping
and then cook for themselves so a lot of
times men you know either eat out or
they hire like someone to come and do
meal prep where they'll just come and
drop off food for the whole entire week
I know a lot of busy professionals that
do that and there's a lot of money to be
made if you like to cook same thing with
baking people people like sweets
especially wouldn't Thanksgiving when
holidays come around and you know how to
bake broil put that to use bake cakes
for parties for birthdays for events
reach out to family and friends if you
know that someone's you know having an
event or has events or something like
that reach out let them know that you'll
cook and that can be a little side
hustle for you number eleven is bought
in bulk and sell now this is something
that I used to do when I was younger let
me tell you guys when I was in Middle
School my
I would take me to BJ's and I would get
like the big pack of Twizzlers from BJ's
it was like a big jar full of Twizzlers
that I would get and I would keep them
in my locker and what I would do is that
in between classes I would sell each
twizzler for like 25 cents do you know
how much money I used to bring home
after selling that whole jar like five
hundred Twizzlers this was making bread
in sixth grade okay that's what I
understood the power of making your own
money that's when I officially became a
hustler okay but yeah buying in bulk
you know let's say that you work in an
office where there's no snacks available
there's no vending machine there's no
food
get yourself a little you know cooler
maybe keep a couple of waters a couple
of juices maybe sodas go and buy some
you know snack bars in bulk some chips
and bulk and just sell them out of your
office
me really put y'all on game if you are
in college and you are in a dorm room go
to BJ's or Costco or Sam's Club and buy
snacks invokes a lot of people on campus
do not have cars they don't have
transportation and you know there's like
curfews on campus and stuff people can't
always leave their room to get what they
want people don't always have money to
order what they want so if you're that
person who's selling dinners you know
out of your dorm room let's say you're
using a community kitchen you're buying
food and bulk you're cooking it you're
selling dinners on the weekend
boom all your clients live in your in
your dorm trust me a lot of your
classmates will probably most likely be
your customers and you'll be surprised
at how much that money adds up okay last
but not least my twelfth side hustle
that you can start today is to drive for
uber or lyft obviously you need to have
a car for something like this but if you
do have a car then it is worth it to
sign up for uber or lyft and use any of
your downtime to drive you can get paid
on the spot you don't really have any
overhead besides like yeah making sure
that you have insurance on your car but
that's things that you need in your car
anyway but uber and lyft like I know
people who have like careers driving
lyft and uber and they make a lot of
money like people make a living driving
you know driving around so
definitely worth it to look into if
you're looking for a nice and easy quick
side hustle that you can start today and
get paid ASAP okay
so that is it for my list of side
hustles that you guys can start today I
hope you guys enjoyed this video if you
did give it a thumbs up and let's start
the conversation down below let me know
do you guys like are you familiar with
any of these side hustles that I
mentioned in this list do you do any of
those do you sell on eBay do you drive
or live do you air BnB out you know a
part of your home I want to hear about
it down below and also if you do not
have a side hustle do any of these
options that I've given you sound
attractive and which one do you think
you would it be trying out so I can't
wait to hear you guys answers I can't
wait to respond to you guys as always
thank you for watching I love you guys
so much and I'll see you in my next
video bye