Are you looking for a temporary job to pay off a debt or seeking to quit your day job cold turkey? Go ahead. You can always find ways to make money with these part-time jobs.
The best part of it is that you don’t even need a bachelor’s or a master’s degree.
- Personal chef
You don’t have to be Jamie Oliver to land gigs like this one, but it would certainly be useful to have a few tricks up your sleeve when it comes to cooking. A personal chef is often required at private parties or work events, so you can cook up a storm and make around $30 an hour.
This means that if you’re booked for a couple of hours every other night, you can make over $300 a week. Not bad at all! Make sure you surpass all expectations since good referrals could mean more gigs.
- Interpreter
Not an easy job in general, but it won’t tax a professional or a bilingual. However, you would need a degree to be an interpreter in court, for instance. Still, if you’re bilingual or have a language proficiency certificate of some kind, you could 100% work as an interpreter. The pay will depend on the language, but the mean hourly wage is just over $28, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Landscaping
Depending on the size of the project, landscaping can be fun and often calls for minimal physical labor. Still, when it requires you to get your hands dirty and work 20 hours a week, it can wear you down.
However, if you need some extra money, you could earn $20 and over per hour or over $32 if you’re a landscape designer. The pay gets even higher if you can operate heavy machinery. To find landscaping jobs, you can ask neighbors and friends, check sites like Craigslist, or get in touch with your local landscaping company.
While most landscapers have a college degree, you could become one with a high school diploma or GED.
- Online tutor
This is one of the best ways to put your knowledge to use and make money on the side.
Find out what subjects and levels you are capable of teaching and create an account on some of the following websites:
- Chegg Study
- Preply (for language learning)
- Mathnasium (for math tutoring)
- Skooli (for homework help)
- Pearson’s Smarthinking (for writing improvement)
Depending on your skills, experience, and advancement, you can earn from $18 to $30 an hour, according to ZipRecruiter. However, according to Tutors, you can make, on average, $30 an hour or up to $60 per hour for advanced subjects such as SAT prep, calculus, or LSAT instruction.
- Personal assistant
Not everyone can afford a personal assistant, but those that can pay from $20 an hour depending on the tasks they need you to do. A celebrity personal assistant makes anywhere from $10,032 to $254,999, with a median salary of $45,861, according to Comparably.
What can you expect to do as a personal assistant? Your clients may need you to run errands for them, which can vary from picking up the laundry from the dry-cleaners and walking their dog to driving them around, house sitting, and babysitting. They can ask you to work full-time, part-time, or as needed, which is why it’s best to put things in writing. They can be the best clients ever and let you work on your own time as long as things get done.
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One of the best ways to find a personal assistant job is through referrals, sites like Craigslist, or other job forums.
- Yoga instructor
If you know your yoga and think you can teach others, you can make, on average, $24.88 up to $50 an hour as a yoga instructor, according to Payscale.
However, you will need to complete 200 hours of teacher training, get certified, and maintain your certifications. Once you get your certificate, you can start teaching in studios, online, or through private lessons. Yoga teachers are in demand, so there is always room for one more.
These part-time jobs are only a fraction of the opportunities out there to bring extra income home. Some of them don’t even require you to leave your house. Find which one is the best for you, and start making money today!
