Eight Great Side Hustles For Programmers Looking To Make Extra Money

If you’re a software engineer and you have some moderate experience, there’s no doubt that many recruiters are constantly messaging you on LinkedIn, emailing you or somehow finding your phone number and calling you.

There is nothing wrong with this. Often you have a job you like and don’t want to look for a new job.

That Coder Hustle Though

At the same time, while you enjoy your job, you may have a lot of free time or need some extra cash to save up for something or have extra slush money.

Here are some side hustles that programmers can do to make some extra money.

1. Mentoring

This is a growing industry: there now exist multiple websites where you can join as a software engineer and “mentor” or tutor other programmers for cold, hard cash.

These are great because they’re usually remote over the Internet and are typically one-off meetings. Plus, mentoring is scheduled ahead of time and only takes a couple of hours on average.

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The downsides of these are mostly in terms of your time risk. You are tasked with helping fix people’s…