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Your Side Hustles Are a Scam

They’ll Tell You Side Hustles Will Have Your Pockets Lined in No Time

The Real Lizania
9 min readJun 29, 2022
Photo by Katie Harp on Unsplash

Have you ever seen those articles or YouTube videos listing out the top side hustles to earn side income? Yup! We all have. They’ll paint it out to be a quick way to make a few bucks. They’ll share tips on how you can make hundreds or thousands of extra dollars every month.

They will lie to you.

I, too, have been scammed into watching dozens of YouTube videos or reading articles suggesting how easy it is to make extra cash every month, but this is nothing more than clickbait and a way for them to get more views.

Today, I will share my top 10 side hustles that I see most frequently circling the web, that I have personally tried over the years, and how you can avoid wasting your time.

1. Start a Blog.

I have started multiple blogs and have made pennies after putting countless hours into editing my website, creating content for my blog, learning web design, and spending quite a bit of money on promoting my blogs on Pinterest. I’m pretty sure WordPress owes me about .90 cents since I have not made enough money to cash out.

I spent nearly a year trying to build a food blog. I created dozens of recipes, bought an expensive…

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