2022 is probably the year of the side hustle. A side hustle is a reoccurring or regular job opportunity that comprises a significant portion of income to your life.
A side hustle is not usually a part-time or full-time job but has the potential to become one in the future.
Over 50% of people try three or more side hustles in a year before they settle on one that works for them.
And over 41% of people with a side hustle really depend on a side hustle to help pay bills.
I can relate to this situation because I am a freelance writer with multiple side hustles that allow me to write. But I have been researching new side hustle ideas.
If you are good at solving real-life medical mysteries or taking stock pictures, you could make good money at a side hustle. You could even try to sell valuable comic books.
Buy/Sell Comic Book Collections
Most people have a comic book collection at home, possibly gathering dust in their attic or your closet. While this is a bit of a long shot, you never know….you might have a valuable cache of comic books stashed.
There are several good comic price guides. One I’ved used in the past is Quality Comix’s Online Comic Book Price Guide. Its super simple to use, just input the title and issue number of the comic. You will get a prompt that informs you of the general value of the comic book.
This is a very easy and free way for you to find out on your own if your comic books have any value as investment collectibles.
Create and Sell Stock Photos
If you are always taking photos, posting them to your social media account, and growing followers, then you could probably sell stock photos.
Stock photos are professional-looking and attention-arresting that can be used royalty-free for any purpose. A lot of the articles, cable TV news reports, and TV shows you see feature stock photos.
A stock photo could be a photo of a gourmet meal, foreigners living life in a far-away exotic locale, skyline, people playing sports, and so on. Stock photos elicit a mood or reaction from the viewer and coincide with the exhibition intent of a news broadcast, TV show, magazine, and so on.
You can even sell stock videos.
You don’t need to pay to use a stock photo for commercial purposes. That is why they are called “royalty-free.”
However, you must pay a license fee to use premium stock photos. There are many places where you can get generic stock photos for free, like Pixabay or Pexels. But there are many other stock photo sites that offer more professional, grandiose, and beautiful stock photos for a license fee.
These sites include, but are not limited to:
- Shutterstock
- Alamy
- iStock Photos
- Etsy
- Getty Images
- Stocksy
- Adobe Stock
- Fotomoto
How much money you make depends on the rules of the site. These sites charge members a subscription fee for access to tis library of old and new stock images.
You could be paid monthly or quarterly commission after someone buys a license to use your photo. The website could pay you $0.02 to $150 per photo depending on the quality and how popular it is for sale. Good photographers make $0.33 to $3.30 per image.
Then you will be paid a percentage of overall sales, 10% to 40%, whenever new subscribers buy a license for your stock photos. Carefully review the guidelines for selling stock images and videos for each site.
To make good money, you will need to sell hundreds if not thousands of photos regularly, so hustle. And these sites are not going to buy your generic selfies. You need to have skills as a photographer, good digital camera equipment, and an eye for attention-grabbing images.
No one is going to buy the images you are personally impressed with. You must sell images these sites want, so learn the market. Here are the selling guidelines for Shutterstock.
Crowdsourced Medical Detective
Are you obsessed with analyzing diseases, injuries, medical papers, medical diagnoses, and the medical field in general? Believe it or not, you don’t have to be a doctor or medical professional to help a patient in need.
Websites like CrowdMed crowdsource the advice of amateur medical sleuths, hobbyists, and consultants to solve misdiagnosed and unsolvable medical problems.
Over 12 million Americans are misdiagnosed or can’t get a definitive diagnosis for their medical problems every year. Up to 80,000 Americans die each year because of these problems.
People with misdiagnosed or unsolvable medical problems register on CrowdMed and create a page detailing their problems. The website then crowdsources the help of amateur medical detectives to try to solve these problems.
You could make anywhere between $200 to $1,000 if you can help CrowdMed-registered patients solve their mysterious and undiagnosed medical problems.
It would help if you were a practicing medical professional or student, but you don’t have to be. However, CrowdMed vets and interviews every potential medical detective on their site. You don’t need to be a medical professional, but you can’t just be a wannabe either.
And you won’t meet or personally diagnose patients. You will access medical records provided to the site and try to solve undiagnosed and unresolved medical issues.
Your amateur medical deduction skills or opinion could help a CrowdMed patient solve a serious medical problem.
You will have to prove in a CrowdMed interview that you have the credentials or useful, self-taught medical knowledge that could help potentially solve some problems.
CrowdMed won’t accept you on the site just because you have seen every episode of House M.D. or E.R. Be ready to prove your worth in a mock-diagnosis-style interview.
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Allen Francis was an academic advisor, librarian, and college adjunct for many years with no money, no financial literacy, and no responsibility when he had money. To him, the phrase “personal finance,” contains the power that anyone has to grow their own wealth. Allen is an advocate of best personal financial practices including focusing on your needs instead of your wants, asking for help when you need it, saving and investing in your own small business.