15 hobbies that can generate income

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Before taking a part-time job at the expense of a hobby, think about it. Perhaps it is your favorite activity that will give you not only joy, but also money.

Motivating posts on social media often suggest turning a hobby into a job. It's not always a good idea: if you make fun work, how will you relax afterwards?

And yet you shouldn't write off hobbies when it comes to making money. Sooner or later, the end product of your hobby will become too much. Why not share it with those who are willing to pay for your work? Moreover, every ruble will come in handy on the farm.

You can make money on almost any hobby.

1. Needlework

The most obvious way to make money when it comes to hobbies. The list of hobbies in this area is extensive:

• knitting (crochet and knitting);
• embroidery;
• creation of toys;
• scrapbooking;
• sewing;
• modeling flowers from revelor;
• burning out;
• soap making;
• creation of home cosmetics and perfumes.

The list is endless, and finding your buyer is not that difficult. True, if you want to earn not occasionally, but constantly, you will have to add PR and SMM to the list of hobbies. It will be necessary to find and master sales sites, communicate with potential buyers.

I make toys out of wool. For a person who is far from dry felting, this is a rather strange process: I take a wool-like wool and poke it with a needle many, many times. And it turns out a toy. I've been doing this for five years now. I sell toys.

For those who want to make money selling handmade products, I advise you to find your own kind of creativity so that the lesson does not start to enrage you in a week. Do not buy the cheapest material for testing, take the middle price segment. Otherwise, it may turn out that you have talent, but nothing happened due to poor materials or tools.

Do not forget about the rule of 10 thousand hours: it is considered that this is exactly how much you need to spend on a business to become a master in it. Do not skimp on advertising, participate in contests to declare yourself. And get rid of the impostor syndrome, when it seems that you do not know how to do anything and are trying to sniff people with some kind of nonsense. Let them decide for themselves.

2. Computer games

You can, of course, take aim at esports, win a major tournament and get hundreds of thousands of dollars in prizes. But this path is long, thorny and does not leave time for the main work, which you need to go to if you want to live up to the championship.

There is an easier way - to raise the characters. Among the newcomers, there are people who do not want to play weak heroes. Some of them are willing to pay for high level characters. To participate in a deal, you just need to have the right product. If you spend a lot of time in the game and enjoy pumping heroes, this is a great opportunity to earn money.

The method is not suitable for those who stick to the character with all their soul or identify themselves with him.

Charming people should be reminded of the good old-fashioned streaming - paid streaming of gameplay. But just playing is not enough here. Now viewers have seen almost everything - you have to work hard to attract the audience. An additional bonus will be knowledge of English, so more people can understand you.

3. Board games

You can organize tournaments or get-togethers of like-minded people, hold corporate events for those who want to play on the tables, not dance. This is how you kill several birds with one stone:

• popularize board games;
• you play yourself, and often in new companies;
• make money.

For mass events, a site is required. It is worth looking for places that will provide it cheap or free, as they are interested in attracting visitors. Look out for anti-cafes, libraries, and board games stores.

4. Drawing

You can draw pictures, sell drawings on photo stocks, make posters, illustrations, create cartoons, stickers for instant messengers.

Much depends on what exactly you are drawing and what techniques you use. It is important whether you want to create by inspiration or are ready to follow the terms of reference. In the first case, a unique style of work, a bright personality and an entrepreneurial vein will help you out, since you will have to look for an audience that will appreciate what you are doing. In the second case, you will need customers with projects that you have to implement.

5. Plant breeding

There are huge communities of people who buy seedlings of indoor and garden plants from each other, wait for delivery from the other side of the country, groom and cherish their green pets. If you are a social phobia agronomist, it's time to post on the Internet photos of your fist-sized strawberries and a blooming Decembrist all year round with the signature “sell”.

6. Video editing

If you like to edit videos, but you do not have ambitious plans for creating copyrighted content, you can offer your services to someone else. Many are interested in them, from video bloggers to large companies that urgently need a motivating video for a corporate party in the morning.

7. SMM

A full-fledged SMM is not an easy job, often boring and monotonous, with analytics and numbers. When content generation is a hobby, you can do the fun stuff, albeit for little money. For example, if you have a talent for creating memes, looking for funny pictures and videos with the hilarious cats on the Internet, many resources will pay for it.

8. Blogging

Not the easiest way to make money is your blog, public page or Instagram page. Fifteen years ago, a LiveJournal account was considered promoted if it had a thousand subscribers. Now a much larger audience is expected from a blogger.

And yet you can make money on your page, especially if you are ready to broadcast unique information to your readers. Money will come to you either by donations or from advertisers who want to showcase the product to your subscribers. Another way is to pay from the site where you post content, which is essentially the same ad revenue, only indirectly.

Ivanna Orlova Copywriter, creator of the fan page “Bill Skarsgård | Bill Skarsgård | Our Belyash in VK.

My long-standing passion for Swedish culture brought me to the little-known films with Bill Skarsgård. I began to look for information about him, like-minded people and was disappointed: the groups that were found on VKontakte were boring, weakly active, and clearly abandoned.

There was only one way out: do your own thing. It turned out to be a kind of platform with a sincere atmosphere for fans to communicate. But then the movie "It" came out, in which the object played Pennywise, and the number of members of the group increased. There was no intention to monetize anything. I screwed the donata button when I studied the possibilities of the admin panel, for a laugh I signed: "To the admin on pivas." And what was my surprise when they began to click on it!

Not to say that my idol feeds me - so, he feeds me: the sums usually fall from 100 rubles and more, the registered maximum is 1,500 . Recently I held a ten-day prize quiz-marathon in a group, and several people also donated with gratitude. In general, on the pins … but these are my pins!

9. Fitness

When you can rub carrots on the cubes on your belly, and your biceps are tighter than adamantium, it's hard to refrain from teaching others how to eat and practice. If you direct the desire in the right direction, then you can get for this not reproachful looks from friends who buy burgers, but money. However, training is required.

Now there are many online trainers on the Internet who work without any certificates, but it's better not to do that. Otherwise, you risk harming and making not only money, but also a stain on your karma.

10. Cooking

Home pastry chefs are popular. The commercial success of custom-made cakes is evidenced by the fact that the tax service has become interested in this area.

There are enough cakes, cupcakes, pies, sweets on offer, but this does not mean that you will not find a place in this market. People are hungry, so culinary services will be in demand.

11. Overexposure of animals

You love animals, you can easily find a common language with them, you have a large apartment and work with a free schedule. Why not become a nanny for someone else's dog, cat or hamster when their owners go on vacation. In return, you will receive money and a lot of new emotions that the furry creature will give you.

12. Equipment repair

Perhaps, since childhood, you liked to disassemble and assemble watches, receivers, a food processor, and you have reached the degree of mastery when after all the manipulations there are no unnecessary parts left. If everything is working properly at home, but a screwdriver and a soldering iron are haunted, fix other people's things - for a fee, of course.

13. Photography

There are several ways to make money in this segment, and they are well known:

• conduct photo sessions;
• take pictures of holidays;
• sell images through stocks;
• take photos for newspapers and magazines;
• offer related products (photo books, photos on canvas, and so on), look for contractors, leave a commission.

Breaking into a market where everyone who has a camera considers himself a photographer is not easy. And the first step to success is not to shoot with a camera, but with your head. The higher your skill, the fresher your ideas, the more original your approach, the better your chances of success.

Victor Vodolazky Photographer, teacher, Panasonic Lumix ambassador.

First I was forced to take up photography, then I fell in love with it, and then I exchanged my main job for it. Before leaving for my hobby, I spent 12 years in journalism and advertising. Then there were 9 years of business, my own studio, a photography school. Now I still shoot - for myself, for money.

For beginners, I would recommend thinking three times before monetizing your passion for photography. Any business lives by the law of the market. And the competition in this segment is high. First, you need to learn how to shoot with high quality, then - to sell yourself with no less quality. Find your target audience in between. Realize that you made a mistake and correct your position. And constantly grow, learn and develop.

14. Shopping support

If you love to shop, masterfully memorize the entire assortment and know how to find diamonds in the “All 50” baskets in second-hand stores, many people need your services. Someone wants a yellow shirt with 7/8 sleeves, but by no means 3/4, someone needs the cheapest oak laminate that grows in the Middle Urals, and they themselves will not cope with the search. You can fulfill desires and make money on it.

15. Tricks

Your childhood dream has come true: you know how a rabbit appears in a hat, and three balls turn into one. But a magician, like any artist, needs an audience. Which, by the way, are often willing to pay if you show your art at their celebration.