Do you like getting paid to do nothing?
Who doesn’t, especially if you don’t put literally any effort
The idea of making money while you sleep has been a dream in the 20th century
Especially after the emerge of the internet and the birth of so many opportunities that can be done completely online
In today’s post, I am going to list all the things that make you get paid to do nothing
Are the getting paid to do nothing a reality?
Yes but not real full time job at least when you start it
You got to keep your current job and carry on doing these tasks
How knows perhaps later on you can manage to have it as full time
Remember there are jobs that look to others as simple and doing nothing thing
While in fact there are lot of efforts and countless of hours you have to add into this business
A pure example is blogging as you spent the first one or two years really putting so much effort – later on you can leverage other people efforts but not when you start
Get paid sleeping and testing beds
Imagine you go sleep and make money
Who would hate to do that
Yes that’s true
There is a company called Wakefit
It announced a job offer paying $1,400 to sleep 8 to 9 hours at night for 100 nights
Successful candidate should demonstrate the ability to sleep within 10 to 20 minutes
Wakefit will provide the selected candidate with its own mattress and a fitness tracker
You have to wear them during the sleep time
Get paid by standing in queue
In this job all you have to do is to stand in line for someone to cover them while waiting for tickets, restaurants, special events and many more
Actually it is a new idea especially if you don’t want to do it for yourself
I remember in big events I always drop my wife beside the line so she can save us time till I park and join here
It would be better if you can find someone an angel who informs you when it is almost ready for your turn in queue
That’s why I found an app called LineAngel (recently not working)
It pays you for this purpose with expected pay of $18 per hour
Another app called InLine4You
There is TaskRabbit, I told you about it earlier
It is a kind of generic for many tasks, one of them is the stand in line task
Get paid to download apps
Yes there are tons of app that pay you to download apps and try them
I will list the well known – at least what I heard about
Swagbucks is a complete reward and locality program, one of the tasks there is to download apps
Grab Points, and AppRedeem available in Android only
AppKarma, Cash For Apps, FeaturePoints, FreeMyApps and Irazoo available in Android and IOS
Get paid selling your plasma
There is a new scientific research where you make money to donate your plasma
The expected pay is between $20 to $50
Where you will donate your blood and a machine is going to separate the plasma
Because researchers cannot do plasma donation online you have to search for “get paid for donating plasma near me” and look for places in your area
Get paid tasting food
Do you know if you work as a food taster you can make an average pay between $30,000 and $60,000 per year
Also you can work as a mystery shopper where you go and eat at a restaurant as a regular customer and report your feedback
Some companies require you to eat while on camera to record how you react to their food
There is also a way of working just to eat food as a food critic
Get paid selling your poop
Similar to plasma, you can make money by selling your poop
I know what you would think
What researchers and clinics are going to use my poop for?
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) is a new medical treatment
Where it is involving transferring your stool to another patient’s gut
This helps to treat some microbiome related conditions
Get Paid by listening to music
Do you love listening to music?
What about giving your opinion about new bands or songs and you will make money to listen to their music
If you like the idea you can sign up to the following sites to explore
Slice the Pie
HitPredictor
UniqueRewards
Earnably
Playlist Push
Get paid for home sitting
When I read about how you can make money by sitting at home
I thought what is this ridiculous idea, you want me to stay in lockdown
No, this is not what it means, there are burglars looking for empty houses
But if someone is staying there like temporarily living till owners come back
You take care of the house and watch for anything that can happen while owners are away
You can sign up for TrustedHouseSitters
Where you make money to stay with the pet
Get paid by being a friend
Although it is kind of immoral to pretend to be a friend with someone
But at the end, this is taking place with the complete knowledge of the person looking to make friends
I wrote a complete post about getting paid to be an online friend
Actually some people are really desperate to have someone to listen to them and walk with them
Go there and find the list of sites accepting sign ups
Make money collecting cashback
This is literally getting paid to do nothing
While doing your day to day shopping
These websites below will reward you with cashback for all your purchases you make online
Rakuten with its new name, before the old name was called ebates
MyPoints get $10 Amazon or Visa gift card just by signing up and spending $20 in any store online
Mr Rebates
TopCashBack
Quidco
Get Paid by babysitting
If you love kids, you can make money for babysitting
The good thing about this job is you can do it with 2,3 or 5 kids at same time
You stay at home and parents drop the kids at your location
If you like this job, you can sign up to Care.com
Get paid to walk
I know what you would think
Walking is an effort so you are not getting paid to do nothing
But if you are already walking as a daily routine
You can download some apps to pay you for walking
Sweatcoin available on iPhone and Android
StepBet available on iPhone and Android
FitPotato, Paidtogo, Ufity, Higi
Get paid by walking dogs
Similar to babysitting, if you are already walking your dogs
Why don’t you make money for walking dogs for others
You can use Rover, fetchpetcare and petsitters.org
Get paid reading books
If reading books is really a passion you have
This job can be really one of the best getting paid to do nothing
You can join the following sites and make money to read their suggested books
Kirkus Media
Reedsy Discovery
Book Browse
Online Book Club pays between $5 and $60
U.S. Review of Books
Women’s Review of Books pays $100 per review
Moody Press
New Pages
Publishers Weekly
Tyndale Blog Network
Booklist Publications pays $12.50 to $15 per review
Instaread pays $100 per summary
NetGalley
getAbstract
Writerful Books pays between $10 and $50
Get paid taking surveys between $100-$150
You are actually helping a researcher
So these are not regular survey sites
User Interviews
FieldWork – US only
FocusGroup – US only
20|20 Panel
Recruit and Field
American Consumer Opinion
Probe Market Research
Survey Feeds
These are not a real get paid for nothing
But your contribution is from the comfort of your home and very rewarding
Get paid as mystery shopper
Do you want to act as a mystery shopper, it is very similar to acting as a spy
This is a typical getting paid to do nothing job
You are a spy acting to help specific companies to collect feedback about their products and services
One day they may ask you to visit newly opened restaurants and order food there
Later you have to provide a long feedback about the lineup and the quality of food
Do you like this job? if so and you want to be a mystery shopper then sign up to Marketforce.com and Secretshopper.com
Make money selling pictures of yourself
This is a long game of taking pictures of yourself and uploading them to many sites like stock photo sites and mobile apps
You will make money but you have to be patient and build your social media profiles especially instagram
I have a detailed post about this making money taking photos of yourself business and where to find suitable sites to promote your pictures
Make money by renting your car
Sometimes you have your car for a long period sitting in your garage
This is another great job for getting paid to do nothing, your car will do
Also you can go for 2-3 weeks vacation where you leave your car at home
But by using Turo you can rent your car while you are away
You can check Getaround and TravelCar too
Make money by renting your RV
Similar to renting your car, if you own RV luckily you have a gold mine
I remember I arranged for a trip using an RV for 4 hours drive up north in Ontario
You rent any RV for around $150 per day
Sites like RVShare and Outdoorsy to list your RV
Make money renting your extra room or basement
If you have a room and you are willing to rent it
Or if you don’t use your basement then you can rent it on AirBnb
Another typical example for getting paid to do nothing
Make money renting your extra space for storage
What if you don’t want someone to share your home but you are OK if you rent your extra storage let’s say a wide area in your garage or anywhere in your home
There are lot of people who are looking for extra space to store luggage and sealed boxes
Remember you won’t see any customer, you just take their stuff and stock it there
If you are OK with renting your extra storage then sign up into Neighbor.com
Make money by lending money
If you have extra money and you don’t know how to invest them
Fortunately there is a solution for that by using lending club
It is a peer to peer lending with excellent return rate better than bank interest
You money will be acting for you getting paid to do nothing
Get paid to play video games
I am not into video games but my friends love playing games
Anyway those who really play video games, good news you can make money out of it
The following sites below pay you to play games
WorldWinner from GSN
Exodus 3000
Second Life
PlayAndWin.co.uk
Paid Game Player
Pogo
PCH Games
Bananatic
While these sites pay your for testing video games
PlaytestCloud
Rockstar Games
Beta Family
Beta Testing
Blizzard Entertainment
Make money by watching ads and videos online
Another way for getting paid to do nothing and make money by just watching ads
Most of these ads are easy to sign and nothing to buy right now
They just want to collect users to build their customers base
Does this interest you? if so, you can sign up to the following sites below
Swagbucks
Daily Rewards
Inbox Dollars
Irazoo
Ipsos I-Say
Get paid to unlock your phone
Unlocking your phone is something you do it many times per day
Right now you can make money by unlocking your phone
You can use the apps below for unlocking your phone and make quick cash
Adme
Perk Screen
SlideJoy
ScreenLift available in Android only
S’more
Make money by sharing your internet connection
Actually it took me some time to understand this type of making money
You make money passively by sharing your device network connection
All you have to do is download these apps below on your phone
Then the installed app starts sharing your unused data with its network
Another way of paying you when the installed app connect you to a content delivery servers where the app uses your device to share bandwidth intensive content such as images, videos, audio, streaming, heavy websites, IPTV, VOD, social media, or VoIP services
Forget about the complications and the devil is in the details
You can sign up using the following apps below
In the end, I shared many examples of getting paid to do nothing but there are many more