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.

I’m a TikTok affiliate and do okay selling things I’ve bought or get sent samples of. It’s very easy to set up you just need to get 1000 followers (pretty simple) and away you go.

I also do surveys on prolific, I make £40-150 each week, depending what studies are available. What you are offered depends on your demographics.

I find the best way of quickly realising money is to sell old stuff I don’t need any more. Throw away almost nothing. Old tools, DIY bits etc, are always hot sellers.

Didn’t Susannah Jowitt (sp?) do an article on this recently? DM writer, perhaps two weeks ago. There were quite a few good ideas.

I do personalised tattoo design, I've got a degree and MFA in Illustration and book illustration is my day job but I do a side-line in tattoo design as my style works well with tattoo ink work. I did one for my husbands younger cousin and it just kind of went from there and I've a bit of a following now. Its not something everyone can do though, you have to have excellent drawing skills and originality to be able to charge what I do.

I love threads like this 🥰

Oh I use Canva. Can I DM you?

£100 a month from Amazon, could be more if I advertised I guess.

I also do Prolific. I just have it open on my desktop and do some if I feel like it. I don't do any that require software downloading or cameras but there's still plenty on there. I don't make much because I don't do much. There's a huge amount of AI training on there which I don't do and seems to pay more.

That is cheap! Ours is £65 cash in hand and often has 7/8 dogs

I do prolific too, make about £250-300 a month (I’m on mat leave)

Yougov surveys. Slow but you do get £50 money or shop vouchers every few months.

Do you know what type of demographic they prefer?

I seem to never get onto prolific. There is always a waiting list.

@Hairylegs202S blimey I do this for free via borrow my doggy , mind you I’m fussy about which dogs, doggys demand level, and ideally don’t want more than 3 or 4 days , although have had a couple of very self contained on demanding - lovelies for up to 2 weeks- I only ever have 1, although did have a neighbours lovely pair of red fox labs. Just for a day recently when she had an emergency

I don't - I think that you should stick to the truth demographic-wise, for example I'm autistic, so I get offered studies for autistic people, but I'm excluded from studies that want healthy volunteers - swings and roundabouts.

Do these boarding arrangements have proper contracts?

You don’t have to take my word for it. Try it if you want but I will eat my hat if you make £50 in 6 months. There are literally MILLIONS of colouring and puzzle books on Amazon. A lot of them professionally published. Someone starting now - with no advertising - is not going to sell anything. I’ve been on KDP for 12 years as I’ve published 9 full length novels. They’re tough enough to sell and they are unique. The other problem is using programmes like Canva, as if someone else has used the same image before you and the Amazon bots spot it - your account gets deleted. Hop on to the KDP forum if you don’t believe me and have a look for yourself. Unfortunately YouTube is full of morons promising people huge amounts of money for publishing notebooks, colouring books and other stuff, it’s all rubbish. Maybe 10 years ago but the passive income ship on that has definitely sailed.

I work in Arts Events as a welcome hostess on a casual basis. I started several years ago and was poached by an Art Gallery in Mayfair, which has now expanded to several venues / galleries / artists. I'm the woman in the black chiffon dress, smiling and pretending that she's a 1950s society hostess and encouraging you to have another glass of red wine... I really love it. It's the perfect job if you are chatty; like meeting people; have an interest in Artists, Art & Art history and can talk about it; are unfazed by artists, billionaires, celebrities or aristocracy. It's not all glamour as sometimes I'm washing wine glasses at the end of the night, or trying to find lost coats, and you have to be prepared to be on your feet all night and smiling. I'm hoping to expand my repertoire of venues to Christies & Sotheby's but I'm probably too old now (58) and not connected enough in a British society sense (They are notoriously snobbish). I've also given gallery tours.

If you have saleable stuff you can still make good money on Ebay as a private seller as its free to list. If youve collected or inherited a lot of stuff this can be a good way to gradually sell it off. Once you reach a certain volume you have to fill in a self assessment form and report the income. However there is a space on the form where you can report that the items are those you already own so there is no tax to pay. If its a very expensive item then you may have to pay capital gains tax but you would probably not want to sell something that valuable on Ebay.

Two other survey sites that seem to throw a decent for minimal Mingle and Opinium

If you’re skilled at something you can offer that as a service. Eg I recently got into consultancy.

Baby sitting? House/pet sitting ?

Google Amazon Influencer Programme. I make £18k a year for about 8 hours work a week. From home. In my own time. It’s easy. You just talk about things in your home that Amazon sell.

I published a colouring book on KDP and haven't made a single sale.
Have made a few hundred doing AI data annotation work. Have a look at Appen, RWS Moravia ans Telus. It's EASY and above NMW.