It's time for the 10 best side hustles of the year. What's up, what's up? Nick Loper here. Welcome to The Side Hustle Show. It's the entrepreneurship podcast you can actually apply. Now, the end of the year is upon us, which means it's time to reflect back on the side hustles that stood out. The ones that got people talking, the ones that I was most excited to share. Now, the mark of a good episode for me is when

I hang up the call thinking, like, dang, I need to drop what I'm doing and go do that. Whatever it was

we just talked about, I could totally do that. I should totally do that. And I try and exercise some

level of discipline and restraint because the shiny object syndrome is real. But when the shiny

object shines for me, I know it's

going to be a hit episode. So I have selected my top 10 for the year. If you're new to the show,

I'll do my best to reference episode numbers so you can go back and check out the ones that

you're interested in. I've also put all of those into a Spotify playlist that I will link up

in the description, make it easy to go add that to your device.

And if you're a long time listener, see if your favorites made the list. Which ones did I miss?

There's room for debate in all of this. Best is always subjective. These are in mostly chronological

and numerical order, starting at the beginning of the year with an absolute banger of an episode.

The most downloaded episode of the year, almost 75,000

downloads to date, was Jackie Mitchell and her $100 per day side hustle challenge. This was episode

594, and Jackie broke down how she successfully earned over $10,000 in 100 days from her personal

$100 per day challenge. A good chunk of that

income came from what I would call plug-and-play side hustles. For example, she mentioned paid

surveys, mobile game testing through swag bucks. Could be worthwhile if you like playing mobile games.

Now, her best paying spot for surveys was through a platform called Prolific. Prolific is going

always be at the top of my list. This is a survey site that researchers use. A lot of times,

they're post-grad students or medical researchers or psychological researchers. And they're paying

pretty well per hour for short little surveys. So maybe it's a 10 minute survey, but it pays like

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