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80+ Best Side Job Ideas To Make Extra Money in 2021

Last Updated: January 9, 2021 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 10 Comments

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Do you want to know, “What can I do as a side job?”

Today, I have a list of over 80 possible side hustle ideas for 2021. With these side jobs, you can make extra money in 2021.

So, what is a side job? I say side job meaning something that you do on the side of your regular job.

Side jobs are sometimes called side hustles, and the idea is that you put some of your extra time towards making more money.

You can find side jobs online, side jobs from home, side jobs outside your home, and pretty much wherever else. There are many different options when it comes to finding side jobs for extra money.

Over the years, I have spent a lot of time making extra money through side hustle jobs.

In fact, I paid off my $38,000 student loan debt in just 7 months by side hustling. I did several of the things on the list that you are about to read through.

Learning how to find a side job changed my life in a crazy way — it helped me to stop living paycheck to paycheck, pay off my debt, and leave my day job to pursue my job as a full-time blogger. [Read more…]

7 Myths About Work From Home Jobs & What It’s Really Like

Last Updated: December 7, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 1 Comment

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I have been working from home or while traveling full-time since around 2013, and since then I have heard so many myths about work from home jobs.

Some of the things that I’ve heard over the years include:

“Working from home must be boring.”

“You must have so much free time to get chores done!”

“Aren’t all work from home jobs scams?”

“Working from home isn’t a real job”

Whether you work for yourself and your office is in your home, or if you telecommute and work for someone else, I’m sure you’ve heard some of these myths about work from home jobs as well.

Truth is, so many people think that working from home is something different, until they get to experience it. [Read more…]

20 Of The Best Entry Level Work From Home Jobs

Last Updated: November 30, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 9 Comments

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Looking for entry level work from home jobs?

Are you wondering, “How can I work from home with no experience?”

I know it may seem like every job out there today requires several years of experience. This makes it very difficult to find a job, especially if you are brand new to the field and trying to get your start.

It can be difficult to find a way to make money from home when you are brand new, but it’s not impossible to find entry level work from home jobs.

Everyone has to start somewhere, and if you want to start working from home, then I have a great list of no experience work from home jobs for you to look into.

Now, just because these jobs, businesses, and ways to make extra money don’t require experience, it does not mean that they will be easy! Remember, good things don’t come easy.

You may have to learn a new skill, take a course, and so on. [Read more…]

What Is A Blog, How Do Blogs Make Money, & More

Last Updated: November 23, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 17 Comments

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What is a blog and how does it work? Can you really make money blogging? How much do bloggers make?

Over the years, I have received many questions about blogging. People want to know what is a blog, how they work, is it really a way for people to make money, and so on.

I completely understand all of the questions. While blogging has now been around for more than a decade, it’s still a fairly new way to earn money. I still have people give me funny looks when I tell them what I do for a living.

But, I didn’t really know what a blog was when I first started mine. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing.

I didn’t know how people made money from blogs or anything else like that.

Pretty much everything I learned about blogging was through trial and error, and I made a lot of mistakes over the years, haha! Honestly, it’s because of those mistakes that I’m where I am right now.

My life has completely changed because of blogging. I was able to quit a job I didn’t love, I travel full-time, and I can retire pretty much whenever I want.

It’s funny to think about how far I’ve come, especially since I had no idea what blogs even were. [Read more…]

User Interviews Review – Make $50 To $100 An Hour Sharing Your Opinion

Last Updated: November 16, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 6 Comments

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Welcome to my User Interviews review!

If you are searching for paid online studies, then I have a great website for you to learn more about today – User Interviews.

There are many consumer research companies that pay people like you and me to share their opinions. Companies then use these opinions and feedback to improve their products and services.

Pinterest, Spotify, Macy’s, Home Depot, Trip Advisor, and more use User Interviews to gather feedback from users about their latest products, apps, and websites. In exchange, participants make $50 to $100 per hour or more for sharing their opinions and feedback.

This User Interviews review is going to explain what this site is, how it works, and how you can earn extra money by sharing your opinions – which is one of the things I did in order to make extra money to quickly pay off my student loan debt.

Back when I was paying off my student loans, I did a lot of things to make extra money – I sold items on eBay, managed social media for companies, mystery shopped, and took paid online studies. [Read more…]

How I Grew From 0 Subscribers To Over $100,000 On YouTube In Less Than One Year

Last Updated: November 11, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 15 Comments

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Do you want to learn how to get started on YouTube and how to start a YouTube channel for beginners? Here’s how Erika went from 0 subscribers to over $100,000 on YouTube in less than one year.

Everyone has heard of YouTube, and pretty much everyone has watched at least one YouTube video in their life.

In fact, according to YouTube, there are over 2 billion users who watch at least one video on YouTube each month.

That is a ton of people!

If you’re interested in starting a YouTube channel, then please read further.

Today, I want to introduce you to Erika Kullberg.

Erika Kullberg is a nationally-recognized personal finance expert and has been featured in Business Insider, CNBC, U.S. News & World Report, the Washington Post and more. Her personal finance YouTube channel has grown to over 70,000 subscribers and 4 million views in less than a year.

Yes, this means that it is not too late to get started on YouTube!

I asked Erika to take part in an interview on Making Sense of Cents about her growth on YouTube. [Read more…]

16 Best Online Jobs For College Students & How To Start

Last Updated: December 6, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 3 Comments

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How can college students make money online? This list of the best online jobs for college students will show you how.

More and more people are attending college and working at the same time. This may be those who are going straight from high school to college, adults going back to college, those working towards more degrees, and so on.

I had to work throughout high school and throughout college, and I will admit that it was tough at times.

While almost all of it was in-person, hourly jobs, I would have loved to find something online instead! It would have made it much easier to balance work and school if I had a flexible, online job like I do now.

I didn’t find out about blogging until towards the end of my time at college, and I wish I would have learned about working online sooner as it would have helped me greatly. [Read more…]

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