Side hustles that make you money

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Anyone have a side hustle that makes decent money? By decent I mean NMW or above, not £50 a month on Etsy selling crocheted hats.

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Surely anyone with a real side hustle isn’t going to share on here.

Well it's not a side hustle anymore, it's a 15k a year part time job and limited company. I provide a drawing service for design businesses.

I do lots of online surveys/interviews.
It's not NMW as it is variable i.e. last month I did a 90 minutes online interview about public transport and got £140. Yesterday I spent an hour doing surveys and earned about £4.50! Then one on perfumes(I had been sent to try) that lasted 12 minutes and was £30. Today I did one on pets that lasted 10 minutes and that was £5. it would be lovely if you could just pick the high value ones but often the great ones come from a survey which is 50p for 10 minutes work but at the end you get on a trial or community and then you get very well paid for your input. I love it.

For above NMW side hustles it’s going to be a skill that you have that not everyone could do realistically, so look at your current job or skills set and see if you could do side jobs or freelance related to that.
my side hustle basically stemmed from that, it’s my adjacent to my job.

@CerialkillerWould you mind sharing a bit more about what that entrails? (obviously drawing, but what kind, what sort of design etc)?

@PiggyPokkyFoolWould you mind sharing how you got started with that? Are there particular sites you use?

I've just gone part-time - am old and want to retire. Some of my contacts have discovered this and I've been offered £900 a day for a bit of advisory HR work. Gobsmacked. Not doing it btw.

So I'm architecturally trained and produced technical cad drawings, scale plans, 3d renders and animations for various companies. Landscaping, interior design, timber buildings, sculptures etc.

Lots of fabrication diagrams for quants/quotes, visualisation, planning views etc. it's been building slowly over about 3 years and growing every year.

I publish books on Amazon using KDP. They aren’t novels/stories, think things like puzzle books, colouring books etc.

What is KDP please?

Thanks @Cerialkillerand @PiggyPokkyFool
The design stuff sounds great, sadly not the kind of drawing I’m trained in.
I tried the surveys thing once (can’t remember the website) and then got spammed with all kinds of calls and junk emails. But maybe I did the wrong kind of thing, will check out this site.

What platform do you use?

To those doing surveys aren’t you afraid of someone misusing your data and personal information?

I’m a lecturer and have two side hustles.

I do writing work for our qualifications regulator which pays very well but is as ad hoc as ad hoc can be, so it’s a nice wee bonus but definitely not a reliable income stream. Jobs can take forever to do, or no time. The last one I did took me about an hour all in, and the fee was £550. I’ve done the “same job” numerous times, and it’s taken hours of writing with loads of revisions, so it really varies!

I also manage the social media (mainly Instagram) for a local business, plus creating direct marketing emails, newsletters, and updating the website more sporadically - my subject area is marketing/digital marketing. This doesn’t pay anywhere near as well, but I love doing it and it’s great to be able to show my students real life examples of the theory I teach. If I could be arsed/needed more £ I am sure I could get more of this type of work.

I’m on the reader panel for Hearst magazines (I subscribe to Red) and do bits of market research there which can pay quite well too - but often in eg Amazon vouchers rather than cash money. Again that’s very ad hoc though.

I’d love to hear more about this please? I’ve looked into creating a colouring book before and tried out Canva but couldn’t get to grips with it. Would love to hear more.

Do you make anything to speak of? Surely there re 10,000 colouring books on Amazon to choose from? Or maybe 10 million

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teaching guitar (or other instruments), baby sitting, pet sitting.

The woman I leave my dog with when we go away charges £25 a night, cash in hand.

She's at home all the time, so main hustle rather than side hustle. Lots of demand, she has to turn people away.

Seriously, don’t bother. You only have to read the KDP forum to realise that publishing colouring books and journals makes absolutely no money. Amazon has been swamped with them for years now as millions thought it was a good way to make a passive income and there’s dozens of people everyday complaining that they’ve published 10 puzzle books and haven’t sold one in 6 months. It really isn’t worth your time and effort.

I do surveys on a site called Prolific Academic. It's students or people in academia doing specific studies. They pay anything from 15p to £5+ depending on what they are.

I avoid the ones that want me to download something or where I have to give my phone number (although I do think it's pretty regulated).

You cash out via PayPal when you have £6 cleared. You have to do a lot of them on a desktop and have your computer open all day so you jump on the survey when it appears. I've made £350 since May. It's just easy money that I do whilst I'm sat reading or watching TV.

I do some freelance teaching, but it's a niche subject that I deliver well.

If you want a few thousand quickly you can do matched betting, but it's not forever, you get banned very quickly.

Well @Touty it hasn't happened in 20 years and you are giving it to established professional companies so I have found it safe so far.
However we only have to look at what data people lost in the case of recent cyber attacks with M&S etc. to know that nothing is 100% safe.