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Many side hustles involve performing some kind of service, such as:

 Doing hair, nails, or makeup for other people

 Doing a little bit of part-time plumbing, electrical work, or other skilled handyman-related tasks

 Walking dogs, doing pet-care visits during the day, or staying overnight at someone’s house for pet sitting

 Helping people pack their household goods and do a local move

Many gig-economy side hustles are service-related:

 Using your personal vehicle to provide ridesharing

 Shopping for and delivering groceries

 Delivering restaurant meals to people’s homes

For many service-oriented side hustles — grocery shopping and delivery or pet sitting, for example — you don’t need to make a significant upfront financial investment. Even if you’re providing, say, local moving services, you can still get into the side-hustle game without shelling out big bucks for a box truck large enough to move a household’s worth of furniture and boxes. You can set your side-hustle business up where every time somebody hires you, you head to Hertz, U-Haul, or some other place that rents moving trucks by the hour or by the day, and bill your customers for the cost.

Cindy has decided that she’s going to be a weekend bartender, mostly for home parties. She may need to purchase a few supplies to have on hand — a couple of bottle openers, a few corkscrews for wine, and maybe some drink stirrers — just in case the place where she’s bartending doesn’t have what she needs. But for the most part, Cindy’s side hustle involves performing some specific service — bartending, in her case — for some defined period of time.