205. How to make up to $5,000 per month on unemployment benefits or on welfare
The idea is to create a personal website about yourself with hustle jobs you want to do for family and friends.
You promote your personal website with flyers in your neighborhood and with business cards you give to family and friends.
Here are examples:
- You can ask $200 per month to your parents, grandparents to go shopping for them once a week with a shopping list (saves them money)
- You can ask $200 per month to do the laundry or housekeeping for your relatives (you pickup their laundry and deliver it back ironed)
- You can ask $200 per month to do daily cooking for your parents or grandparents
- You can ask $200 per month to do gardening for your parents or grandparents
- You can ask $200 per month to clean the house or appartment of your relatives twice per month
- You can ask $200 per month to drive your (grand)parents around during the weekend, or $400 per month to drive your parents to work and back during the workweek with your car (saves them on car maintenance, fuel costs and car insurance and they have a personal driver)
- You can ask $400 per month to babysit at your place
- You can ask $200 per month to do daily dog walking for your relatives or do pet sitting
- You provide hair-dressing, personal massage, nail-make-up or face-make-up service at people their homes for $50 per hour.
How many older people and young people don't have the time to go to the hairdresser or don't like to visit and wait as a customer 30 min - 1 hour to be serviced? Time is money! + Fuel costs to drive to the saloon...
You go and visit them and charge them $50 per hour...
- Pet sitting for $1,000 per month: Similar to babysitting, pet sitting is a great idea because lots of people have pets and they want to know they are being watched by someone reputable when they leave town. My neighbor just paid $40 per day for someone to stop by twice a day to walk & feed their dog and check on the cat. It probably only took an hour or two max per day, so that’s conservatively a $20 per hour rate. Watch one household of pets per day for thirteen days per month, and you’ll have an extra $520 in your pocket! If you can line up several clients in the same area to maximize your time, you’ll earn that extra cash with even fewer hours worked.
- Personal trainer for $1,000 per month: If you have a passion for fitness and exercise, then you might consider moonlighting as a personal trainer outside of your regular job. In doing so, you’ll not only keep yourself more active, but empower other people to get in shape. Best of all, you might do pretty well financially. Personal trainers earn an average of $50 per hour, but some can easily charge up to $100. To become a certified trainer, you’ll need to go through a course which will not only require some of your time, but also, your money. But if you’re willing to make the investment, it could pay off in the long run.
- Mow lawns for a side hustle for $1,000 per month: Mowing lawns can actually be a quite profitable business. I know of a few people who constantly have mowing jobs. They make somewhere around $30 to $50 per lawn and do around 20 to 30 lawns a week.
If you're already doing lawns, then there may be other services that you may be able to add as well. You could also clean gutters, do Spring or Fall yard cleanups, garden, and more.
There is one drawback though. Depending on where you live, there may not be grass all year-long, which means that there might be a period of around 6 months where you don't have any work. Usually during this time though, many lawn companies switch to being snow-related companies – such as shoveling snow or plowing snow.
- Become a house cleaner for $1,000 per month: In my area, I find that reasonably-priced house cleaners are hard to come by. Using a maid service is not an affordable option for many people, especially stay-at-home-moms with limited incomes. So if you can set a rate below a standard cleaning crew rate (I was quoted $85 per hour for a two-person cleaning crew) and do a good job, you will have plenty of work.
- Babysitting for $1,000 per month: If you love kids, then babysitting on nights and weekends is a good way to beef up your bank account. Depending on where you live and the job in question, you might earn up to $20 an hour watching other people’s children. Granted, you’ll need to be willing to give up a decent chunk of your personal downtime to hit the $1,000 mark on a monthly basis, but think about it this way: Babysitting often means sitting on somebody else’s couch while children are asleep. And really, that’s not so hard. Just be aware that some families will want you to become CRP-certified before hiring you. If so, you’ll need to complete a brief course, but a non-expensive one at that.
- Others:
1. Hand-wash cars
2. Do yard work (from just cutting grass to trimming shrubs, to trimming trees then finally finish about with outright landscaping)
3. Wash windows (of house/apartment)
4. House/apartment cleaning
5. Plant maintenance
6. Teach children, help them with their education, like school work
7. Teach them to play an instrument (music lessons)
8. Do someones grocery shopping (with shopping list)
9. Take care of laundry
10. Iron other people's clothes
11. Cooking, doing the dishes
12. Become personal chef: you do the grocery shopping, fix the meal, and do kitchen clean-up
13. Become a green consultant (offer them ways for them to save on energy use)
14. Clean up computers (like install/upgrade software, install new computer, make backups, teach them how to use a computer, install a wireless network)
15. Keep people's tech up-to-date (like Changing VHS videos to DVDs, scanning old photos, moving CDs to MP3s, or other format changes can make you some additional income)
16. Take care of their house while they are on vacation
18. Dog walking/pet sitting
19. Babysitting
20. Do pool cleaning
21. Women could offer beauty services at-home like haircuts, hair styling, manicure/pedicure, massage, makeup and beauty instruction.
22. Offer personal massage or massage on the beach
23. Personal assistant or private phone secretary
24. Become the car mechanic of family or friends
26. Do electricity work, like installing 10x fold lower consumption LED lightning
27. Do restauration, renovation or painting jobs
If you do manage to do schedule all these services you provide, you could be doing a full-time job paying you as much as a job in a company does, at your own rhythm.
- for $500 per month, you take care of your (grand)parents so they don't need to go to retirement/nursing home. 2 hours per day for 30 days per month like help them get a bath, clean their house/appartment, prepare meals, etc Or you live in with them and take care of them for $1,000 per month, this solves the expensive retirement/nursing home problem of seniors/elderly.
- for $200 per month, you cook (and clean dishes) at your (grand)parents place 1 hour per day for 20 days per month.
- for $1,000 per month, you do a painting job, repainting and cleaning the windows and doors
- for $1,000 per month, do house renovation
- for $200 per month, you clean the house or appartment of your friends or family 2 hours every 2 weeks.
- for $200 per month, you do the gardening of your neighbors garden 2 hours every 2 weeks.
- for $400 per month, you do the laundry and housekeeping 2 hours per week or 1 hour per day.
- for $500 per month, you do babysitting at a friend's place.
- for $100 per month, you handwash 2 cars (inside and outside) once per month.
- for $500-$1,000 per month, you build websites for others
- for $1,000 per month, you run the business Facebook page and Instagram page of small companies and become Facebook/Instagram/social media advertising manager, running Facebook, social media ads for the company
Combined, you could make over $5,000 per month easily doing jobs for family and friends while you are unemployed or on welfare!
