If you have talent, you can showcase your skills right on the street
1. Become a Street Performer
Even if you don't have an outstanding voice or physicality, there is always something for which a grateful audience will give money. It can be magic tricks or teaching how to perform them, or living statue performances. Or even just helping street performers. It all depends solely on your imagination and communication skills.
2. Work as a Masseur
Even if you don't have a corresponding diploma, making people feel good with stroking and gentle kneading is not that difficult. The main thing is to find a tube of cream in your luggage, trim and clean your nails, arm yourself with the most disarming smile — and go to the beach or places where people seek relaxation.
3. Farm Work
Perhaps fruit picking and farm work is the most popular activity among hippies, idealists and masochists. Nevertheless, it is a simple and common way to earn a little money and at the same time provide yourself with a roof over your head. Although the work is quite hard, its difficulties are fully compensated by being in the fresh air and communicating with new, often unusual, people.
4. Construction Work
As in our country, it is quite possible to find such work abroad. By hiring on as a laborer, you will achieve that your wallet will grow fat, while your waistline will rapidly shrink. But you should try this field only if you are confident in your own health.
5. Work as a Painter
A more humane variety of construction work is painting buildings both outside and inside. Special skills are hardly required for this, and the employer also provides tools and clothing.
6. Hostel Work
Unlike star-rated hotels, hostels are more lenient towards employees they hire. And usually, after visiting a few places, you will eventually find an open position as a cleaner. Perhaps cleaning up after students who have checked out is not the most pleasant task, but it does not require excessive time and effort, and sometimes brings new interesting acquaintances.
7. Kitchen Work
In tourist places there are always many restaurants, and in some of them you will definitely find a job as a 'gofer' or dishwasher. By immersing yourself in the crazy rhythm of a restaurant kitchen, you may well get a taste for it, and this may serve as an impetus to change your field of activity.
8. Volunteer for Experiments
Large clinics and research centers often need volunteers to test new drugs. You can look for such a way to earn money on the website Get Paid to Guines Pigg.
9. Donate Blood
So what if you feel a little dazed afterwards? Besides the fact that blood is well paid, bloodletting is good for your health. And, after all, you might save someone's life.
10. Sell Your Body
If you like admiring your reflection in a train window or in a mirror, maybe you should try selling yourself as a model? Of course, you are unlikely to make the cover on the first try, but many art schools and novice photographers need material for practice. Such ads are usually published in small local newspapers. A similar way to earn money, but in motion, is to participate as an extra in the filming of a movie. At the same time, you can boast to your friends that you interacted with a bunch of world celebrities. No one will be able to verify it anyway.
11. Bottle Collecting
You don't have to view this activity as a humiliating way to earn money. And by collecting and returning discarded containers, you contribute to environmental conservation. In Europe, collection points for glass and aluminum are usually located near large supermarkets.
12. Participation in Sports Events
If you are a sports fan, then chasing golf balls or polishing tatami mats can be a great way to get acquainted with the sports games popular in the area.
13. Work at an Exhibition or Fair
If you have experience setting up a camping tent and stretching sun awnings at friends' dachas, try applying your knowledge and skills by helping to assemble and disassemble exhibits at exhibitions or set up tents at Sunday fairs. As a result, there is a good chance of finding a job selling what will be exhibited.
14. Translate a Restaurant Menu
Surely you have come across rare "gems" in menu translations into your native language. Offer the manager of the establishment to bring their menu in line with reality, and at the very least you will earn a good lunch.
15. Sail Off to Another Place
After all, no one forces you to stay permanently in the same city or even country (if you, of course, have a visa and documents). Head to the nearest port and try to get hired as a helper on a yacht or cargo ship. Or look for work on Global Crew Network.
Whatever the reasons that forced you to seek a livelihood, it is better to perceive them not as a cause for frustration, but as an opportunity to gain new, sometimes very interesting, life experience that you would hardly have dared to undertake in a normal situation.
Based on materials from Turist.ru