My sister is an elementary school teacher and every summer break, she’d ask me  to scrub and repaint the chairs/tables of their school. Most of my friends think it’s a boring job but it’s honestly peaceful here. Every day during the summer before another school year starts, I spend it together with a bucket of soap, a scrub brush and flat knife scraping off some glitter glue, stickers, dried up gums, and other filthy dirt. Cleaning was my most hated part of the process because you’d never know what else these kids are sticking on their chairs/tables, how many gums are there, and how long it has been. But the fun part is

Once they’ve been cleaned and dried, the fun begins. I grab the sandpaper, smooth out the metal legs, remove all the dust, line them up on some drop clothes and spray paint them in nice glossy paint. Within a minute of work, these chairs get transformed into entirely new looking ones. For a day, I earn $35, not crazy money IK but  I enjoy it so much.

It’s not hard when you have four guaranteed hours per weekday from 7:00 am to 3:30 pm, no weekends, and no irritated customers screaming at me. All I do is stick the ear bud in my ear, tune into whatever music or podcast I want, and by late afternoon, I’m done for the day.

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I don't have a laptop, so my phone is all I have. I'm 21 and a university fresher. Are there any side hustles I can do using just my phone? I'm quite ambitious but I just don't know what would be the best for me. Please recommend me something.

I used to be a local tour guide in our city, it was a practical job but I have plenty of competitors and it pays me less than my effort. When one vlogger that I toured complained about not getting a drone shot due to strict restrictions of drones around the area, it gave me an idea to be a human drone instead.

Everytime a tourist visits scenic spots, heritage streets, and eco parks where drones arenʼt allowed, thatʼs when I advertise my side hustle. I would bring an ultra-lightweight 3 meter long selfie stick, mount their 360 camera on top, and then sprint along the area.

Now this gig is really pure cardio because I will hold that selfie stick until I get the rest of the footage that they asked for where I literally sprint and get past tourists that are also walking around. The 360 camera does not get a glimpse of the selfie stick so on screen, it definitely looks like a drone shot seamlessly swooping 5 meters overhead. I kinda look ridiculous but I get paid $70 right away.

I started making extra money from used pallets almost by accident.

I was doing small hauling jobs with my pickup and trailer when a local brewery called me about a huge pile of pallets behind their loading dock. They needed them gone before a new shipment came in and paid me $500 to haul everything away. There were about 120 pallets, mostly the standard 48x40 ones. I was planning to take them to the dump, but before leaving I called a warehouse about 10 minutes away and asked if they bought used pallets. They said they paid $8 each for clean ones. I went back through the pile, pulled out the broken ones, and ended up with 100 usable pallets. A few trips later, the warehouse paid me $800 for them.

So that one job brought in $1,300 between the hauling fee and the pallet resale. I spent about $70 on gas, but I still couldn't get over the fact that I had been paid to remove something, then found someone else willing to pay me for the exact same thing. Now whenever I do a hauling job, I ask if there are pallets I can take too. I've picked them up from breweries, warehouses, grocery distributors, and construction sites, and if they're in decent shape, I usually try to sell them instead of dumping them.

I had to retire early and I'm home alone bored most the time. Someone on Facebook had an extra ticket to a show that was 11am. I went for free and got lunch out of the deal too. They posted on Facebook joking about going with their mom to her DR to keep her company during an iron infusion. So I messaged them and I went to the DR with her and told her I didn't want money and just to buy me lunch. After a few months word got out and I'm going to DR appts, running errands and I have a cuddle day once a week with a lady that has severe anxiety after her divorce. That's the weird one but she's cool. Just lay in bed with her while she sleeps for a few hours, gets up and makes me lunch and we talk until her kids get home. Some weeks I do this Monday thru Friday everyday while my wife is at work so I'm saving a bunch of money on groceries (a few people tell me to order something to take home to my wife, she takes it for lunch the next day) and most the time they pick me up from my house so I'm not spending money on gas.