Side Hustles For A Firefighter
As a firefighter you have valuable knowledge, qualities, and skills in fire fighting, fire safety, and emergency care matters that you can use to earn extra money through side hustles.
Some of these side hustles have the potential to ultimately earn you more than your income as a fire fighter.
Some of these side hustles can gradually be scaled up to become their own businesses.
Irrespective of your motive - whether you want to earn extra money while you do your full time job as a firefighter, or you want to leave your full time job as a firefighter, or you want to start a business - you can begin that journey with one or more of the following side hustles.
| Type Writing, WFH, PartTime | Hourly |
| Pay Average $50/article |
Safety firms, Corporations, Government entities, etc. need content writers, knowledgeable in public safety, fire safety and emergency care matters to write content for their website, blogs, publications, journals, etc.
Similarly people maintaining independent websites and blogs on public safety topics are consistently looking for content writers who can write detailed articles on topics specific to fire fighting and fire safety.
As a firefighter, you can earn side hustle income by becoming a part-time content writer
You can find content writing companies that hire freelance content writers specifically having knowledge and qualification in the fire and safety field.
You can also network and market your content writing gig, highlighting your fire safety and emergency care industry experience.
Long Term - Over time this side hustle has the potential to earn as much or even more than your full time pay. At that time you can determine if you want to make this as your full time job.
You have the opportunity to scale this side hustle and turn it into your own business.
| Type Writing, WFH, PartTime |
| Pay $0 - $10,000+ per Month |
As a firefighter, you can earn side hustle income by starting your own blog or niche website.
Since your blog or website will be in the topics of fire fighting and fire safety, this will benefit your firefighter job as well.
Earnings - You have the potential to earn thousands per month through your blog or website. Most of the earning come through display ads, affiliate products, and digital assets such as ebooks.
Long Term - Over time you have the opportunity to scale this side hustle and turn it into your own business, and hiring your own employees to maintain the blog.
| Type Content, WFH, PartTime |
| Pay $0 - $10,000+ per Month |
People often browse on Internet first trying to find answers to any fire safety matters.
As a firefighter, you can earn side hustle income by starting your own YouTube channel.
Since your videos and content will be in the topics of fire fighting and fire safety, this will benefit your fire fighting job as well.
Earnings - You have the potential to earn thousands per month through your YouTube channel. Most of the earning come through display ads, affiliate products, and digital assets such as ebooks.
Long Term - Over time you have the opportunity to scale this side hustle and turn it into your own business, and hiring your own employees to maintain the YouTube channel.
| Type Content, WFH, PartTime |
| Pay $0 - $10,000+ per Month |
Podcast has become very popular in the last few years as one of the means to consume content.
This popularity can be attributes to flexibility of listening to the podcast while doing other tasks such as driving, cooking, working out in the gym etc.
As a fire fighter, you can earn side hustle income by starting your own podcast and sharing content on fire fighting topics.
Since your topics will be fire fighting, a podcast will benefit your firefighter job as well.
Earnings - You have the potential to earn thousands per month through your podcast. Earnings increase gradually over time, as your podcast becomes more popular and gain more traffic.
Most of the podcast earning are made via sponsored ads.
Long Term - Over time you have the opportunity to scale this side hustle and turn it into your own business, and hiring your own employees to maintain the podcast.