If you have skills as a writer or researcher or are willing to sharpen them up, you can make a decent salary as a remote medical writer or remote detective.

Much work in the medical industry is just paper pushing and document organizing busywork. A lot of doctors and medical institutions need writers to help them with a variety of tasks.

There is a whole work-based industry for medical detectives – these are people good at researching and brainstorming and can help doctors identify rare and undiagnosable diseases.

If you are qualified to be a medical writer, then you can also add to your income by becoming a medical detective. 

You can do these jobs remotely and make a salary anywhere between $29,000 to $200,000.

Medical Writer – ($94,000)

Medical writers are writers who specialize in writing professional medical documents that are used to serve a variety of audiences and industries related to the medical industry. 

Medical writers write medical-related documents that could be used by doctors, medical insurance companies, medical practitioners, medical instrument and product companies, pharmaceutical companies, and so on. 

As a medical writer, you might be tasked with writing assignments like: 

• Medical reports or clinical research studies based on research and data given to you by a client
• White papers
• Abstracts
• Books, textbooks, articles, and pamphlets
• Medical device grant proposals and marketing strategies
• Ghostwriter assignments
• Speeches
• Podcast dialogue

Your skill as a medical writer may be used for medical journalism, marketing new pharmaceutical products, authoring textbooks or documents for medical students or patients, and so on.

You don’t need any certifications to be a medical writer. However, you must be knowledgeable and well-researched about the topics you write about. Your intelligence and experience with the subject matter, medical research abilities, and editing skills will determine your credibility and pay rate with clients.

You should have some medical educational experience, understand complex medical terms, and stay apprised of current medical advancements. Being a good writer is not enough, you should understand the topics you apply to write about – you won’t be able to fake your way through this profession.

A highly professional, intelligent, and dependable medical writer could start out making $94,000 annually. Some medical writers make up to $200,000 annually.

Medical Detective/Medical Investigator ($51,000 to $92,000)

If you have the writing, research, and analytical skills to become a medical writer, you can also apply those skills as a medical detective.

A medical detective, also known as a medical investigator, is someone who can remotely assist doctors and medical institutions who are stumped and mystified by medical conditions and problems that they can’t classify, diagnose, or understand.

It is easy to take the medical industry for granted when you have a problem that can be diagnosed and treated. Not everyone is that lucky because there are MILLIONS of medical diseases and ailments that have yet to be identified, can’t be diagnosed, or effectively treated.

Over 25 million Americans suffer from diseases, ailments, and medical conditions that can’t be identified, or diagnosed, or are so rare doctors don’t know how to treat them. About 1 out of every 13 Americans have this problem.

In other words, over 7.5% of the American population would get a blank stare or baffled facial expressions if they went to a doctor or emergency room with their medical problem. The problem is so prevalent that April 29 has been officially declared “Undiagnosed Disease Day,” to help raise enhanced awareness about the issue.

There is another one called “Rare Disease Day,” which is held on the last day in February.

You will never want to work as a medical detective.

Many doctors and medical institutions invite medical students, scholars, and amateurs with impeccable research skills to study medical files of unidentifiable medical problems to help brainstorm solutions.

As a medical detective, you will be given access to private medical files and data concerning mysterious medical problems to add your insight and help find solutions.

You don’t need to be a doctor or medical student to be a medical detective, but you do have to have a serious mindset about researching various medical conditions to help doctors solve baffling medical problems. Medical detectives don’t just make random guesses – you will have to research like a medical student to help find answers.

Organizations like CrowdMed are actively seeking out medical detectives to solve unsolvable medical mysteries, classify and name new diseases and medical problems, and brainstorm solutions.

And if you have what it takes to be a medical writer, you can also become a medical detective from the comfort of your own home. The average medical detective can make anywhere between $29,000 to $92,000. 

The average medical detective’s salary is $51,000.

Conclusion

Everyone needs a side hustle today. But you need to have the requisite skills to be a medical writer or detective.

If you don’t enjoy intense research, cross-referencing facts, writing, and brainstorming, then these professions are not for you. If the salary sounds good to you, then you need to brush up on these skills. 

Here are five websites that offer free writing classes ( Some of these sites may require you to pay to get an official certificate and record)

• edX
• Coursera
• uDemy
• Alison
• FutureLearn

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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.

You can make any concept or idea into a business. And whatever you start as a lowly side hustle could become a larger business entity later.

How much money you need to start the business is relative to the scale of desired operations.

There are many businesses that you can launch for $1,000 to $5,000. Here are two side hustles that you can start and potentially launch as full businesses later:

• Power washer
• Tour group itinerary planner and leader

If you are willing to network, hustle, make connections, and make a coherent business plan, you could start a business for just $1,000. But it won’t be easy – nothing worthwhile is never easy.

Whether you start a business for $1,000, $100,000, or $1 million, you may want to protect yourself by launching it as an LLC. Let’s talk about that first.

What is an LLC?

A Limited Liability Company, or an LLC, is a kind of business entity that you can start on your own or with business partners. An LLC combines the best worlds of small business functions with those of corporate world business asset protection practices.

To put it simply, an LLC acts as a legally separate entity from the individuals or people who own it. An LLC is not a human being, but if you understand your local laws and have a good lawyer, an LLC can be used against litigants as if it were a real human being with assets instead of you.

When you own an LLC, your personal assets, tax, and debt obligations are wholly separate from the assets, tax, and debt obligations of the LLC. Even if you lost a lawsuit levied against your LLC, your personal assets and finances would be considered legally separate from the LLC.

The process of forming an LLC is a lot more complicated than the basic explanation I’m presenting to you. LLC start-up requirements differ from state to state. Make sure to consult with a lawyer as you start an LLC.

What are the benefits of owning an LLC?

• An LLC exists unto perpetuity until legally dissolved by all members involved
• Limited liability (This means that while your investment and startup costs and debts related to the LLC could be at legal risk in a lawsuit, your personal finances and assets never will be)
• Pass-Through Taxation (This means that each member pays taxes via their individual equity and ownership of the LLC – unless the LLC is registered as a C-Corporation, the LLC and its members cannot be taxed uniformly as one entity
• Less operating restriction as opposed to owning a corporation

The cost of applying for an LLC could be as low as $0 to $700 depending on where you live. (There are also some annual or ongoing operating fees associated with running an LLC relative to the type and the state residency of main headquarters.)

Do yourself a favor – get a lawyer to help you with this process. What you have learned here are just basic guidelines to orient you to the process – LLC laws are different in every state.

What you don’t know can end up costing you a whole lot in the long run.

The United States is the most litigious country in the world. More lawyers reside in the United States than in any other country. Giant global corporations protect themselves with lawyers – do the same even if your company was launched with $1,000.

Pressure Washer

The startup cost to get pressure washing equipment can range anywhere between $500 to $4,000 on the low end. (Some industrial pressure washers can retail for as much as $30,000 or more.

But there are many places where you can rent or buy used pressure washer equipment relative to where you live.

Getting a pressure washer within itself will not make you successful. You should differentiate yourself by finding businesses like commercial properties, warehouses, factories entertainment arenas, sports fields, trucking, van, and cab-based businesses, and other similar businesses, and make personal networking connections.

You need to know how to operate and troubleshoot such equipment and have reliable transport.

The average power washer company can make anywhere between $11 to $25 per hour. Find clients with fewer competition options and you can charge more.

Local or International Event Planner and Tour Guide

Have you ever been the victim of tourist trap scams? These usually occur when a shady tour guide operator company uses marketing to lure tourists on a trip and get them to spend money on trinkets and food.

This is an arrangement that the tour guide operator made beforehand with a collective of businesses. Everyone involved gets a cut of the profits or at least guaranteed business if the tour guide presents the tour group as sacrificial sheep to be fleeced.

Have you ever thought about doing this? Not fleecing tourists, but planning itineraries, acting as a tour guide, and leading tour groups during week-long or longer vacation excursions.

The world is opening up after the global lockdowns and people want to travel. And Americans are just as likely to travel domestically on vacation than internationally.

To do this, you need to make arrangements with a small hotel to house tourists. You could make the travel arrangements yourself. And you also need to make connections with local restaurants and small businesses on the premise that you can bring tour groups looking for souvenirs, eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner, and have incredible travel experiences.

And this is not about scamming people – you could act as the tour leader to guide tour groups through customized itineraries designed by you.

How much you spend on start-up costs depends on you, your proximity to interesting locations, and your skills in planning tour-guided trips. Startup costs that focus on introducing tour groups to unknown but special tourism spots local to you should not cost a lot.

The farther away the trip from your home, the more expensive the startup and operating costs will be.

If you’re familiar with Mexico or Canada and know several low-cost-of-living areas that tourists might enjoy visiting, your start-up costs could remain low too.

The point is that you need to be able to make preexisting business connections with businesses that can act as a collective to welcome tourist groups guided by you. How much money you could potentially make will depend wholly on those factors.

You can promote yourself and your exclusively designed tour guide itineraries on websites like TrovaTrip. You can also sell your own travel guides based on out-of-the-way but interesting locales on your experiences on Thatch.

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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.

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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Side hustling has been the bread and butter of my ability to reach many of my financial goals for the past two years.

Juggling a full-time job, a side hustle, and being a mom and managing my home all with having only 24 hours each day to work with hasn’t been easy by any means, but I make it work.

Many people ask me how I do it all, and sometimes I wish I had a better answer than simply managing my time better but that’s what it comes down to. Working is a priority because I need to eat and live.

Side hustling is a priority because I need to pay off my debt. Being a mom is a priority because it’s my main responsibility and I love it. You get the point. In order to get everything done each week without going crazy, I need to be very careful with how I manage my time and my productivity.

Here are a few productivity and time management hacks that will help you make time for your side hustle so you can increase your income and meet your financial goals.

Cut Out Time Sucks

We all have them. Time sucks are unproductive hobbies or activities that basically waste our time. It’s easier to get sucked into them and before you know it, you’ve wasted 30 minutes that could have been used doing something more productive.

My main time sucks are T.V. and social media/browsing nonsense online. It’s tough because I manage social media profiles for a few clients, so when I log on to schedule Facebook posts for example, I can easily get caught up with other unrelated activities on Facebook like checking out my friend’s profiles, liking and commenting on things, etc.

It can add up to be a huge waste of time so I now set aside designated social media times so I can get online for a few minutes throughout the day and get that out of my system. Ideally, I’d like to spend only 30 minutes or less of leisure time on social media and that can be broken down into 5-10 minute blocks.

Cutting out time sucks completely may be unrealistic, so it’s important to at least designate a few minutes throughout the day to indulge in your time sucks so you can get it out of the way.

Limit T.V. Time

I’m going to make an assumption that watching T.V. is a huge time suck that a lot of us share which is why you’ll need your own separate strategy for limiting T.V. time.

I’ll admit that I love watching T.V. I have my list of favorite shows to catch each week and it’s a great way to relax and unwind after a long day. However, I understand that when you have a side hustle, television can cut into your spare time and hold back your progress.

This is why you should set designated times during the week to watch television and track the time you currently spend watching T.V. If you think you don’t have enough time to side hustle, add up how many hours of T.V. you watch each week and you may find the culprit.

I only watch T.V. mainly on weekends now and if I’ve finished a significant amount of side hustle work during the weekdays. I don’t watch T.V. every weeknight because I have other priorities, and giving up a few hours of T.V. time helps me get way more accomplished.

Go to Bed an Hour Later or Wake Up an Hour Earlier

I wouldn’t recommend doing both since sleep is important. Find out whether you are a morning person or a night person based on when you are most productive.

Since I am more productive throughout the morning, I choose to wake up earlier so I can get more side hustle work done. I generally lose productivity and motivation throughout the day so I get less work done at night.

However, getting up earlier, even if it’s only an hour one week days will give you 5 extra hours to work on your side hustle each week or 20 extra hours a month at minimum. Plus, you’ll probably get more done since you’ll be working during your most productive hours.

Utilize your Break Time Wisely

When I get a break at my full-time job, I often use the extra time to work on my side hustle. Whether it’s checking emails, editing a post, fixing something on my blog, or commenting on other blogs, I make use of the small break I have so I’ll have less work to do when I get home from work and rest up.

If you have any other breaks throughout the day or a long commute via public transportation, you can utilize the extra blocks of time to get more work done with your side hustle.

How do you make time for your side hustle?