SIDE GIGS

Here’s a list of a few side gigs that you could be doing now for either active or passive income.

Dental hygienist or part-time dentist on Saturdays (I did that for a couple of years after graduation).

reating and selling online CME

Drive for Uber or Lyft

Medical Consulting

Brand ambassador for scrubs company, toothpaste company, cosmetic company, etc (Instagram is a great place to get noticed)

Join a telemedicine or teledentistry company (I did that for a little while)

Chart Review

Creating and selling courses (I did so with my Doctors out of Debt group coaching program)

Be part of Clinical Trials

Be an expert witness

Complete medical Surveys

Review Health Insurance Claims

Perform dental exams or physicals for military members (I did this for 2 years during my debt repayment journey and used the extra cash from that side job solely towards repaying my loans. That’s mostly what I used to have a successful debt snowball strategy revisited (on steroids).

Part-time position at a nursing home (I did this for a few months. I wasn’t a fan at all as I found it to be depressing but 2-3 hours a week of doing that helped)

Per diem/locums tenens positions (I enjoyed doing that)

Do moonlighting

Offering concierge medical services

Invest in real estate (my favorite!!)

Invest in crowdfunding

Invest in tax liens

Invest in syndication

Do Airbnb

Invest in multi-family property. Take out a physician loan, acquire a multi-family property. Live in one unit and rent out the other units).

Invest in peer-to-peer lending

Invest in the stock market

Invest in REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts)

Offer public speaking on health topics

Do commercial real estate deals

Host webinars or workshops for aspiring healthcare professionals

Write a book or start a blog about your experience working as a doc, or anything else you are passionate about

Write or illustrate children’s books about health or anything else. (My colleague and I wrote Lily and the Talking Piggybank, Let’s Learn About Money, which was a huge success)

Start a YouTube channel

Produce educational videos for patients.

Start a vending machine business

Provide career counseling for doctors transitioning into non-clinical roles

Write grants for medical research

Sell stock photos of medical settings

Become an influencer in the health and wellness space

Start a vending machine business

Do affiliate marketing (build a blog and monetize it with ads or affiliat

Sell items on Craigslist, Etsy or Ebay (I sold a few things on Craigslist and made fast cash like that). It wasn’t much but it helped!

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