If you have been watching the news or reaching into your pocket to pay for essential items, then you know that times are rough.
Inflation and the price of everything are going through the roof. The cost of living relative to food, retail items, gasoline, and everything else is more expensive than they have ever been in decades.
So, my advice to you is that if you can manage to get a side hustle, do so.
The 21st-century gig economy is alive and kicking. The only limit to the types of part-time work you can find is in your imagination.
Broaden your job search options. Check out as many freelance gig sites as possible. These include:
- Craigslist
- Fiverr
- Upwork
- Linked
- Toptal
- Freelancer
- TaskRabbit
- People Per Hour
- Indeed
- Flexjobs
- Freelance Writing Gigs
- Blogging Pro
Send out five, ten, or 20 resumes a day to improve your odds of getting a response.
And don’t give up. Some potential employers may not get back to you for a few days.
And spend time researching as many jobs as possible. Some side hustles can potentially pay as much as a full-time job.
Here are three.
GreenPal Lawncare Specialist
Do you have a green thumb? Are you skilled in landscaping and lawn care tending? Then you should consider becoming a Greenpal Lawncare specialist.
GreenPal is a specialty lawn care service company. Greenpal franchises its name and logo out to anyone who wants to work for them as a vendor.
And unlike other franchising opportunities, there are no signup fees or franchise fees of any kind.
It’s free to apply to work for GreenPal.
Start by creating your work profile on Greenpal. Then, local registered GreenPal users, your future clients, can bid on your services to have their lawns mown and maintained.
The catch here is that you will be competing with other local GreenPal lawncare vendors in your area. Also, you should live in a population-dense area with a lot of homes in need of lawn care.
You should also hustle hard, promote your services online locally, and try to build your own clientele.
GreenPal’s official website says that while most of its vendors work part-time they can also take on as much work as they can handle.
As a GreenPal vendor, your rates would usually start at $55 per hour. But your potential rates could be double that depending on local demand.
Greenpal will take a 5% commission fee from every payment you get.
Telecommuting Curriculum Writer
In this post-Covid world, telecommuting work is where it is at. If you have any skills that you can do at home, then you should consider becoming a remote worker.
If you have any teaching experience and can write, you can get work as a telecommuting curriculum writer. There are a lot of schools with remote classes that need new or refreshed curriculums.
You don’t necessarily need to have been a teacher before, but some employers may require it. Some employers may require curriculum writer applicants to have a teacher’s license and teaching experience.
You should have a bachelor’s degree and experience as a writer when applying. Some explorers may ask you to write a sample of a potential curriculum to consider your application.
The typical part-time curriculum writer can make about $34 per hour. So, you could make anywhere between $24,000 to $70,000 (or more) annually as a remote curriculum writer depending on your experience.
Bookkeeper
A bookkeeper and an accountant are two different vocations.
Bookkeepers are responsible for tracking all of the revenue going into and out of a company.
An accountant does perform some duties that a bookkeeper performs. But an accountant offers their client advice, guidance, fiscal reports, profit margin projections, and more relative to the needs of the client.
Bookkeepers are just responsible for providing their client’s raw financial data in regards to the company. Bookkeepers don’t offer advice or financial strategy, they just crunch raw financial data.
Bookkeepers usually perform activities like:
- Facilitate payroll
- Create financial statements
- Data entry work
- Facilitate accounts payable and receivable
- Handle taxes and tax compliance rules
Your chances of getting work will increase if you have a verifiable track record as a bookkeeper. It helps if you have a degree and bookkeeper-based certifications, but is not needed to get work.
The average remote bookkeeper makes $25 to $50 per hour.
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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.