I will do the video for your business for 150 eur and share on my social medias

Deal or no deal? 😁

i have a problem with side hustle lists - they're mostly written by people whose side hustle is writing side hustle lists. dropshipping, print on demand, "start a blog". nobody checks if a normal person with a job and two free evenings can actually do the thing.

so here's the honest math first. the average side hustler makes around 885 eur a month, but the median is closer to 200 eur 🧐. that gap is the whole story - most people pick something casual and get casual money, a smaller group picks something with real leverage and gets real money. these five are picked for one thing: the distance between "i'll try it" and first money is days, not months.

first - sell your face, but not your followers. ugc. brands are paying regular people to film short videos with their products - not influencers, you need exactly zero followers, they just license your kitchen and your honest voice for their ads. beginners charge 150-300 per video and the whole studio is the phone you're already holding. film three practice videos this weekend with products you own, that's a portfolio. i know (i tried myself) that small compnaies are wiling to buy yoru services if you tell that look - no ai - real me, I will do the video for you and post on my social about your product. yes - no buyers will come to you from my network, but you will have the video where you will use my testimonial and real life unboxing, trying, testing etc of your product or service. you get the idea 😁

second - the ai plumber. every small business owner has heard they should "use ai" and has no idea where the pipe goes. around 70 percent of small businesses haven't automated a single workflow - not one. if you can set up a chatbot that answers the same ten questions, a booking flow, an invoice reminder - that's 500 or more per setup, or 200 a month per shop if you maintain it. you don't need to be a developer, you need to be two youtube tutorials ahead of a bakery owner. i mean this as a compliment to bakery owners - they're busy baking. (didn't try this myself, but received a lot of recommendatiosn that this works)

third - other people's dogs. walking, sitting, boarding through apps like rover. unsexy, i know. but it pays around 20 eur an hour, boarding runs 35-75 a night, the money lands within days, and it's the only hustle on this list that improves your mental health instead of taxing it. the dog does not care about your kpis.

fourth - buy boring/ugly, sell clean. marketplace flipping - furniture, strollers, tools. the margin isn't in finding treasure, it's in doing what the lazy seller wouldn't: clean it, photograph it against a plain wall in daylight, write a listing with actual sentences. a 15 euro chair becomes a 50 euro chair with an hour of work. people doing this seriously make their first sales within two weeks, the good ones pull thousands a month part time. or even better - ask neighbours or other's who wnat you to come and sell their stuff - clean, organise, fix, take images and sell.

fifth - make it once, sell it forever. templates - notion dashboards, spreadsheets, canva kits that solve one boring problem. honest part: the people making 10k (saw on youtube) a month from these have audiences, and without one your first sale takes the longest. but everything after it is pure margin, there's no stock and no shipping, and the best marketing is specificity - build the exact tool you wished existed at your own job. in my honet opinion this was working well before ai. but again, try first maybe will work. i don't know 🤷

and the part nobody puts in the headline - none of these replaces a salary in a month. whoever promises that is selling a course. but every one of them can put the first extra hundred in your account within two weeks, and the first hundred matters more than the next thousand - it rewires how you see money coming in.

pick one. start ugly. the polished version can come after the first payment.