Earn Money While Commuting

Many people commute to work everyday usually taking more than an hour to arrive to the office and then taking more than an hour again to arrive home. Many people usually while away the time while they commute usually playing mobile games or relax by reading a book. Still others just blankly stare outside the vehicle they are in and repeatedly watch the same places over and over again.

Do your office work while you commute especially if you bill by the hour. For example if you are a lawyer you can do your legal work for your client while you are commuting and bill your client for the time you spent.

Be a courier and deliver from one point to another along your route. Many other online articles have recommended this especially recommending one use online sites that enable one to earn by doing odd jobs. In the US this could be such sites as TaskRabbit.

If you do not want to use such sites because of the competition or if you simply do not have access to such sites you can use social media to advertise your route and schedule to see if anyone might think of a job you can do while commuting.

As previously mentioned one can do deliveries even shopping for the goods if need be. Another thing one can do is to bring children to school if there is a school in your route and there are children in need of chaperoning to school.

If one is a doctor, nurse or anyone with a medical background one can search for people who need a level of regular medical attention along their route. These people could be the elderly or people with permanent disability or sickness that require regular checkup and care.

A cook can prepare food for a restaurant before it opens in the morning or when it prepares for evening customers. This is especially true if the cook can prepare food fast.

One can offer to clean the premises of another company after hours while returning from their main job.

One can help with a store’s morning preparations like stocking and displaying merchandise and can help out in the evening closing hours by putting the merchandise in storage.

One can also bring a display bag filled with one’s merchandise for every other commuters to see and probably buy. One does not need to wait until one has reached their destination to sell their merchandise.

They can start selling even while still commuting to their destination. For example one can sell small sized breakfast food in the train or bus they are riding. They can even just put signs telling people they sell a certain product and to ask if they are interested.

One can also manufacture the products they sell while commuting. One can do cross stitching and sew clothes like those for dolls while sitting in public transport. Obviously one should take note to prevent other commuters from being disturbed while one is doing these.

A great number of other online articles have recommended doing online work while you are telecommuting. I find this very difficult to do because of the limited time one has while commuting. Maybe one can partially do an online job like writing while commuting and finish at a later time in the day.

One can however do a lot of online business because online business have more leeway in deadlines than online jobs. One can work on blogs, ebooks, graphic drawings, programming projects and other digital products while commuting and not worry much about finishing the job when their commute ends.

Anyone can also bring their digital camera or just use their mobile phones to record their environment. There are now many Youtube videos getting a lot of views which shows how a person’s route looks like. Walking routes along the major capitals of many countries are popular themes of such videos.

You could record extraordinary everyday scenes from your route and submit them to online photograph database platforms like Shutterstock. You could record for example birds on an urban background. Hint: pictures of people and crowds doing their everyday activities are popular in Shutterstock.

Conclusion

There are many earning opportunities that can be available in what one could consider a boring everyday routine like commuting to work. One just needs to study their routine and their environment to unearth these opportunities. If one spends 2 hours a day commuting to work this would be equivalent to 20 days a year. This is a lot of time being wasted if one does not properly use it.