Spot the pattern: Ryan Reynolds pitches Aviation, his very own brand of gin. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson shills for Teremana, his brand of tequila. Gwyneth Paltrow grosses out the world—and makes bank—with her beauty and health brand, Goop. They’re all rich, beautiful, and talented actors …
… and yet all of them are running side hustles.
And they’re not alone. A massive 44% of Americans say they have at least one side hustle. For many, it’s sadly a necessity in an era of high inflation and stagnant wages.
But that’s not the full story—for others, like the celebrities up top, it’s a lifestyle choice. It’s a way of grasping for freedom—whether it’s freedom from financial worry, from overbearing bosses, from relying on one source of income, or from being subject to unbalanced contracts and red tape.
Starting a side hustle is about building something, even if it’s small, that’s yours. If it grows big and you become a full-blown entrepreneur, great. If not, or you’re just working short-term gigs to boost your finances, that’s also something to be proud of. You’ve started working for yourself—which is more than a lot of people can say.
Who We Are
SideHustles.com is a project started by Mark Slack, Ed Huang, and Lawrence Ng under the wing of Onramp Lab. Its mission: to catalog, dissect, and disseminate the dizzying array of money-making methods available in this era of rapidly changing technology.
- Mark Slack is a Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW) with extensive experience in the career industry. He’s educated millions of readers about how to find employment and develop alternative sources of income, including from side hustles.
- Ed Huang has over a decade of experience designing and implementing employment resources to help people boost their careers and their incomes.
- Lawrence Ng is a digital entrepreneur who founded his first website in 2000. In his youth, he worked over a dozen odd jobs, and one of his goals is to help people in similar circumstances today. Read an interview with Lawrence Ng to learn more about his personal history with side hustles.
What We’re Building
SideHustles.com aims to become the central hub for people from all walks of life to learn about how to create new sources of income with their skills and their grit. From the humblest gigs to the grandest entrepreneurial plans, our content about each hustle is validated and enhanced by real people who are actually doing the work and making money from it.
If your organization has an audience that would benefit from free resources about working in the modern gig economy, learn more about partnering with us.
We’re Proud Of Our:
Fair Gig App Ratings
We’ve developed several industry-specific, unbiased rubrics to deliver fair ratings to gig economy apps. Learn more about our thought process for rating gig apps.
Strict Editorial Standards
We don’t push pie-in-the-sky ideas concocted by artificial intelligence—just realistic advice about what it really takes to get started and earn some cash. Our content is backed by in-depth research and contributions from experts. Learn more about our editorial guidelines.
Expert Contributors
Every side hustle we cover has unique challenges, from starting up to making your first paycheck. That’s why we hire and compensate experienced professionals to write, review, or add commentary to our articles. If you’re running a successful side hustle, please apply as a contributor.
We believe a working expert’s advice is invaluable for someone like you who is interested in trying a new profession and has the energy to take action.
Each expert has a profile that you can inspect to learn who they are and why you can trust their advice. When hiring experts, we take the following factors into account:
- How long they’ve been doing the job or side hustle
- How successful they are
- How well they can communicate their expertise to new learners
We do all of this because it’s extremely important to us that the information you read is both helpful and realistic, unlike a lot of content you may read elsewhere on the web.
Testimonials
Here are some testimonials from experts who have worked with us.
Karen Pulfer Focht, Photojournalist
“I enjoyed working with Side Hustles about what it was like to be a photojournalist. Victoria had researched the subject well, she brought up intelligent questions and, in the end, together we put out an article that I found to be very accurate and a realistic picture of what it was like to be a photojournalist. I would absolutely work with them again.”
Donna Thomson, Caregiving Author and Educator
“As an author and educator, it was a pleasure to work with Side Hustles. Their team is highly professional and my input was appreciated and well compensated.”
Kat Heagberg Rebar, Yoga Instructor and Author
Working with sidehustles.com was an easy, fun, and overall delightful experience. As an expert source, I was compensated well, and expectations and workflow were clear right off the bat. I definitely felt that my input was valued and am very happy with the finished result.
Kelly Swanson
, Motivational Speaker
I just loved working with Side Hustles. It’s a great way to earn revenue on my expertise. They made the process easy and they were professional to work with. I highly recommend this for those seeking to position themselves as experts in the marketplace.
Natasha Marchewka, Voice Actor
My experience with Sidehustles.com was positive from the outset. They actually work to find legit sources for their articles who have real world experience. Working with them on an article together was an in-depth work in progress where they received all my suggestions with respect and honored them in the final published article. Further, they were human and very pleasant to work with. I wouldn’t hesitate to collaborate with them again in the future!
