Side hustles that can net $1000/month

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Pet sitting. Dog walking in your neighborhood.

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Please tell me as a CPA who wants to retire what I can do so I can finally leave my boss in the dust. And no, I hate doing taxes.

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Anonymous wrote:I would dog sit in your home. We pay $400 a week when we go away.

Do you think cat people would go for that?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a mom who has no time to organize my photos and put them into photo books. I’ve wondered about that as a side hustle for someone.

You are looking for me. I have scanned thousands of pictures from 1895-2025 and organized them into fun albums for family members. I love to do it and am good at it. Where would you look to find somebody like me?

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Anonymous wrote:Overnight babysitter for school-aged kids - if you can find your way into a network of parents/families who have a need for that and you are qualified.

Tutoring at the middle/high school level, $75-$100 per hour.

Boarding pets in your home - especially if you can build a network vs. doing it through Rover or another service - can be $50-$100/night.

Two data points for tutoring. We paid a Calculus tutor $55/hour for our HS kid. The tutor was in college at MIT. We also paid $100 an hour to a retired high school teacher to augment language learning for our kid.

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I think each job may not pay well (video editing, dog walking, pet sitting, free lance writing, etc) but it's the experience you get in the beginning that will help you scale. Once you scale, $1k a week will be well within reach. The challenge is when you scale, it takes way more time and effort.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a mom who has no time to organize my photos and put them into photo books. I’ve wondered about that as a side hustle for someone.

You are looking for me. I have scanned thousands of pictures from 1895-2025 and organized them into fun albums for family members. I love to do it and am good at it. Where would you look to find somebody like me?

I do this too. I own a business for it to keep it legit. I pay for a website and some tools. Own machines.

No one is hiring for it recently. At the end of the day, people aren’t willing to spend on these projects, as the economy sits right now. They say they want it, but they don’t.

Also a perception of them having to spend time to get it right (like cleaning before the cleaner). They don’t actually need to. So I get sad and may shutter my business.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you write? It involves a lot of unpaid hustle, especially at first, and it doesn't pay all that great at first, but if you build it up, you can make decent money with freelance writing/editing, if it is a skill that you have.

How do you get these jobs? I’m a great writer but I have no idea how to turn my skill into a side hustle…

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Anonymous wrote:I make an extra $25K teaching fitness classes before/after work

Np. What is your background and what do you teach?

I started with Zumba, then Barre, then a bunch of different dance workouts, and now Pilates. Huge demand for Pilates. I teach at gyms, dance studios, pilates studios. I think when I retire one day I will do aqua and senior fitness.

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Very curious how someone who writes well gets a side hustle doing this. Can someone tell how they started?

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I babysit for high end hotels. It’s $35-45/hr plus tip, and it’s easy work! I usually make $1000-5000 a month. School breaks are my busy time. Last week I made $1800 and this week so far $1200. I work a regular nanny job in the afternoons, so I work at hotels mornings, evenings, weekends.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a mom who has no time to organize my photos and put them into photo books. I’ve wondered about that as a side hustle for someone.

You are looking for me. I have scanned thousands of pictures from 1895-2025 and organized them into fun albums for family members. I love to do it and am good at it. Where would you look to find somebody like me?

What would you charge? All my photos are digital in a google drive, if I send you a folder of 200 vacation photos and want a book, what is required from me? Do you need an itinerary so you know how to label pages? Names of people and places and creatures and such?
I do this too. I own a business for it to keep it legit. I pay for a website and some tools. Own machines.

No one is hiring for it recently. At the end of the day, people aren’t willing to spend on these projects, as the economy sits right now. They say they want it, but they don’t.

Also a perception of them having to spend time to get it right (like cleaning before the cleaner). They don’t actually need to. So I get sad and may shutter my business.

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Catering. It doesn't require building a skill set or starting a business or buying special equipment, and it does pay. Caterers are always in need of people - like ALWAYS. And there is no big commitment required.

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Anonymous wrote:I have teenage athletes, and there seems to be a market for putting together sports highlight reels for college coaches/recruiting. The services we’re seeing advertised are quite pricey. No idea how long it takes to put the reels together, but search for these companies and get an idea of the format

Sports officials (referee/umpire) also make around $40/hour

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Anonymous wrote:Can you write? It involves a lot of unpaid hustle, especially at first, and it doesn't pay all that great at first, but if you build it up, you can make decent money with freelance writing/editing, if it is a skill that you have.

How do you get these jobs? I’m a great writer but I have no idea how to turn my skill into a side hustle…

No better than paid ChatGPT…