Among all these well-known courses there are some beautiful ones foreign strange chores out there. Consider the following five crazy ways to make extra money in 2025.
Train AI to be more human
As AI continues its rapid growth in all corners of society, tech companies are eager to master it. Pareto is one of many companies offering people to train AI and says it offers “industry-leading pay” twice a month.
If you look at Indeed’s job postings for “AI Trainer,” you’ll find more opportunities with exact pay (we see many remote positions at $40 per hour). No experience is required for some of these positions.
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Be a human billboard
Brands are so eager to be liked by consumers that they will do just about anything, and that includes using a willing human’s body as a vehicle. Yes, you can become a “human billboard.”
This job isn’t as crazy as it sounds. You are not paid to have a logo or slogan tattooed on your forehead, for example; Instead, you advertise a business by holding a sign or banner in public. The national average wage for this job is $26 per hour, with the highest rates in California, according to ZipRecruiter.
Participate in clinical trials or research studies
The idea of getting paid to subject your living body and mind to clinical tests would make an excellent premise for a science fiction novel, if it weren’t already part of real life in the US. You can sign up for condition-specific research at universities, behavioral studies, sleep studies, vaccine trials and more.
How much money you can make from this varies greatly (you can make between $150 and $13,000). You need to consider your health and the fact that this isn’t the kind of ‘gig’ you can do over and over again, so make sure you know exactly what you’re signing up for and that you know the risks.
Hire yourself as a ‘Professional Line-Sitter’
The problem with AI is that it still can’t do everything a consumer wants, like sitting in a disturbingly long line of people bombarding the door of an Apple Store on the day a new iPhone comes out. But that’s possible.
Professional line-sitting appears to have started in 2012, when Robert Samuel, unemployed at the time, came up with the idea of offering to wait in a long line for someone and getting paid $325 for the 15-hour wait. Samuel founded Same Ole Line Dudes, LLC and the job of professional line sitter became a thing. The national average hourly wage for these patient professionals is $17 per hour, according to ZipRecruiter.
Sell your belly button ribbon online
We went ahead and saved for last the most bizarre (in terms of not very realistic) way to make extra money in 2025: collecting and selling belly button fluff. The thing that turns the majority of us off apparently delights a very niche audience. There are documented cases of people selling belly button lint on sites like eBay and Craigslist.
What are the chances that you will actually make money with this? Thin. But it might be fun to try if you’re into body-related quirks and curiosities, or just want to see if you can really get away with something so ridiculous.
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