40 Practical Side Income Ideas
Dave Job is a term developed by the followers of the financial teachings of Dave Ramsey.
He is the founder of Dave Ramsey Radio Show (1992) which was initially developed for helping people one-on-one who were struggling with financial issues.
A Dave job is a job that you pick up on the side to earn extra cash to put towards your debt.
Additional advantages of a side job or Dave Job:
In addition to the additional income that you generate, you could also get tax write off for most of the Dave job (side job) related expenses. For example, the vehicle mileage (for side jobs such as Uber/Lift Driver, Pizza Delivery, food Taxi et), portions of you phone bill, smart phone cost (Uber/Lift drivers), internet (for on-line tutoring jobs), computer related expenses (for on line tutoring) etc.
If you rent a room in your home though AirBnb then portions of your home repair bills as well as your real-estate tax and mortgage interest can be tax deductible as a business expense.
Bonus List of Side Hustle or Side Income Dave Jobs
- Mystery Shopping:
If you like to shop, and like to make some extra-income when you do shopping, then mystery shopping (for more information you can read the “Secrets if Mystery Shopping“) is a perfect side income idea for you.
We hope you know what mystery shopping means. Mystery shopping or secret shopping is a process or program used by companies to do market research, evaluate the customer service of their staff, or compliance with government regulation or company policies by their staff. A mystery shopper is a regular customer hired for doing such evaluation, on behalf of the company doing the research. The Mystery Shopper will be compensated for their time by a fixed remuneration for their assignment after they submit a detailed report on their shopping experience in a specific format specified for that mystery shopping assignment.
In addition, the customer will be re-reimbursed for the cost incurred in shopping for the item specified in that assignment.
Even though the service provider company can themselves hire Mystery Shoppers, often times due to practical reason, the mystery shopping service is outsourced to specialized companies.
To find legitimate mystery shopping companies, please review our post showing the Directory of legitimate and reputable mystery shopping companies.
List of Potential Side Income ideas or Dave Jobs
- Deliver Pizza
- Waitress, Barista on Evenings and Weekends (Olive Garden, Star bucks )
- Working as a chef on the local restaurant on Friday, Saturday nights
- Merchandise for department or grocery stores Kroger, Walmart
- Picking up seasonal work during busy shopping seasons (Spring season as Home Improvement stores, Christmas and New Years on most department stores)
- Rent a spare room through AirBnb
- Rent your car when you don’t need it (turo.com)
- Phone Customer Support during evenings and weekends (LiveOps)
- Work for Amazon Flex to deliver package over the weekend
- Work as a care giver (care.com)
- Selling your crafts on etsy.com
- Become a Best Buy Geek Squad
- Selling stuff on Amazon.com and ebay.com
- Drive for Uber/Lyft
- Donate Plasma
- Part-time retail sales jobs
- Teaching/Coaching martial arts, sports, umpiring sports competitions to local school children
- Tutoring Locally or on-line (from your home)
- Babysitting on weekend nights, date night babysitter every Friday, Saturday nights
- Pet walking
- Teach ESL English on-line to children in China
- On weekend evenings, offer to deliver food (food taxi) from busy popular high-end restaurants that don’t provide delivery service
- Write and sell on-line courses on topics in which you are an expert
- Publish a YouTube channel on topics that you are passionate about
- Clean and organize others’ homes on the weekends
- Picking up children from school
- Newspaper delivery
- School crossing guard
- Security guard (Find security guard jobs in your zip code)
- Bus cleaner
- Take photos of foreclosures for banks
- Cleaning offices for small business in the area
- Family day care educator – Before and after school care
- On line marketing (Jamberry.com, Lipsense lipstick – lipsense.com, Avon, Herbalife, Norwex, Partylite, younique, scentsy )
- Home salon with beauty therapy (Tanning, Waxing, Massage, Manicure, Pedicure)
- Teaching Piano or other musical instruments
- Bookkeeping and accounting for local small businesses
- Portrait and Wedding Photography
- Spray Tanner
- Taking on line surveys – Free Gift Cards for Paid Surveys and More (Swagbucks -http://www.swagbucks.com), Opinion Outpost (https://www.opinionoutpost.com, iPoll – https://www.ipoll.com, InboxDollars https://www.inboxdollars.com)
When I was looking for a “Dave job” as a SAHM, I wanted something where I could work at home. Another thing I was looking for was something with residual income, because I want to be paid more than once for my work! I didn’t find much out there (unless I was going to write a hit song or book, or sell insurance – not interested), until I came across a set of people who were using social media to match people up with products they needed. It also had great training, PLUS an ongoing income component! I’m VERY happy I was able to finally find something that met my needs! 😀