What can you do to earn fast cash?
A list of 25+ ideas.
These fast cash ideas are mostly untested, but come from Facebook-ians. Try at your own risk! A few require some basic certification. This list may not be up to date!
- Rover
- Swagbucks
- Petsitting
- Babysitting
- Dogwalking
- Meowtel
- Task Rabbit
- Lauriate Brain (medical surveys)
- English Second Language Tutoring
- Kid Tutoring (reading, math, etc)
- SAT Tutoring
- Instacart/Doordash/Ubereats/Shipt/Grubhub
- Donate Plasma
- Fetch/Ibotta rebates
- Rev
- Inbox Dollars
- Neighbor.com (rent out storage space)
- Reseller (FB marketplace or auction houses)
- Dropshipping (Amazon, Aliexpress Poshmark, Mercari, Shopify…)
- Waitressing
- Amazon Pallet resales (FB Marketplace)
- Retail flipping
- Garage Sale flipping
- Bake and sell cookies/cakes/candy
- Cleaning houses Taskrabbit, Care.com
- Disabled caretaking
- Yard work/mowing/snow shovel
- Basic home repair for elderly
- Bartending
- Prolific/Crowdtap/SurveyJunkie surveys
- Research study participation (local universities)
- Poshmark/Etsy your own crafts
- Consulting (if you have a strong skill)
- Auto Detailing
- Virtual Assisting
- Digital Asset Organizer
- Photography for Free Image sites (people tip you)
Fast cash isn't fast...
Nor does it come in large quantities. Be cautious of MLMs and Get Rich Quick schemes. They always, ALWAYS are scams or end up with you piling money into them without enough return on your time investment.
When doing fast cash methods, always check Google with the name of the cash-giving service plus the word “scam”!
Getting cash quick is ok for short term things...
Such as paying off a small loan or saving for something you’d like to buy, or putting a little away into savings for emergencies.
However don’t use it as a replacement income method! Fast cash methods are tempting, but promise more than they give. Using many of the methods below, you’ll end up spending hours upon hours working – and ending up with $20. Effectively, you’ll be making less than $1/hr. Try out the thing, but if it doesn’t net you enough after hours of work – drop it and try another!
There’s another issue with many of the above methods. Many people fall back onto them as a last resort, after struggling to find jobs. Disability, accessibility, lack of skills, or lack of resources lead people to be tempted to use fast cash methods. If you feel that you have no other choice, reach out! I can show you jobs you CAN do.
There are plenty of jobs available that can work with people with any limitation in the world. Allow me to throw a few job ideas your way, just send a quick email to my Contact page above, and I’ll send a few quick, un-targeted ideas towards you so you can get started – and if you need help getting your resume to the point where you can confidently apply for any of them, the CAMP course will get you there!