Transform your hobby Into a Lucrative Career

Serving people is your quotient of happiness. If you are a woman looking for either a great career option or a change from a boring job, go for things that you love and that make you happy. When you pursue avenues of your interests, there are more chances that you will be more satisfied and rather make more money too. With an abundance in diital as well as physical platforms, this is just the right time to revisit your hobbies and transform them into your full-fledged career.

Below is a list describing how your various hobbies have the potential to earn you money, respect and job satisfaction:

Writing

There are people who are marvellous writers but the beautiful words remain hidden in the pages of their diaries. You need to be vocal with your writings and share them with people on social media, start your own blog, write a book and get it published. People are looking for good content. With the power of your writing, you cannot only earn good money but fame too. You can approach content marketing agencies and other brand blogs and offer your writings for a price. You can develop your own blog in a niche and offer space to brands in exchange for a small fee. Once your blog gains fame, you can increase the advertising fee.

Expected Income: As a freelancer, 15k-25k a month Full time job, 2lakh-6lakh annually

Be a Mua - MakeUp Artist

Makeup has become a very lucrative business option. People are spending on make up for every small and big occasion, without any second thought. If your canvas is a face and you like to play with brushes and cosmetic products, you can invest time and energy to become a makeup artist. You can have your own salon, academy or can promote yourself on digital platforms. You can also start self makeup classes. In the last five years, the beauty industry in India has grown tremendously. Women have started spending huge amounts on cosmetics. They are now more conscious of their looks and are ready to invest time and money to learn how to do their own makeup. Did you know that you can earn something between 10k to 50k just by doing a single bridal makeup? But, yes, you got to be trained for this kind of gig. No worries, there are makeup academies where you can get right training and get certificates too. "The industry in India is still growing with respect to US and European markets and there are a lot of career avenues in the makeup and beauty industry now," said Nupur Gupta of Nupur Gupta Traning Academy.

Expected Income: The average income you could make out of this hobby is 30k-50k a month.

Tattoo Art

The craze for tattoos is widespread, not just among the youth but people of different age groups like getting tattooed. The craft requires great deal of practice and dedication as mistakes are permanent. No degree is required to ink a person rather learn from a skilled tattoo artist. Choose to be one only if you are really passionate about the craft, as getting a tattoo is a big decision for any individual and you need to be the best.

Expected Income: 30k-40k a month, suggested by Sarthak Tenzin, owner of a Tattoo Training Academy.

 Image Consultant

Have you always been a people's person? Has meeting new people and hearing to stories always interested you? Do you feel the urge to transform people's lives? If, yes then here you go, you have got just the right interests to become a successful image consultant. There are no standard educational requirements to enter this field, but there certainly are some training programmes which cover aspects like fashion, behaviour and communication. You can start off with joining small educational institutions, corporates, can work with a celebrity or even take one on one clients. This is an emerging field in our country and the career prospects are huge.

Expected Income: The payment is on an assignment basis, beginners can charge 7.5k-15k per session and very senior and establishd ones per session charge range is 25k-50k.  

Cooking

Everyone needs food, yummy food. Be it a five star or a roadside chat vendor, the key to profits earned is the dish being cooked. So, if cooking is your passion and serving people is your quotient of happiness, you have a good business potential. You can definitely think of opening up a small cafe ? if you can invest. But, on a safer side, you can immediately start a small scale business as a home chef or start a cloud kitchen and deliver to places nearby. You can experiment further as a recipe blog or be a YouTuber and show your cooking to the whole world and earn huge ad revenues.

Expected Income: Opening up a small restaurant or even a tiffin service for one meal for 50-60 customers will easily fetch you anything starting from 20k to any further amount depending on the number of customers and price of your menu.

Stand Up

If you like to make people laugh, you can pursue stand up as a career. Stand up as a performing art was earlier male-dominated and for niche segments, but has become quite mainstream now. Many women have earned their respectable spaces as standup comics. Also, not just in English and Hindi but these days stand up shows are being organised and performed in various regional languages like Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, etc. by different comedy clubs. You can start as part-time standup comic, enroll in these clubs. Also, make your own videos and upload on social media channels. You can first start performing on various occasions just to entertain people. Once you gain popularity and people start inviting you, you can place a price tag on your services.

Expected Income: 30k-10lakh a month. This huge range is because it depends on how big a star you become and how much people are ready to invest in your show tickets.

Photography

If your world aesthetic is different and you naturally tend to dig out beautiful frames in any odd scenario, you need to grab your DSLR and move ahead. Let your camera lead your path. There are various genres you could be interested in. Some of them being street, fashion, portrait, wildlife, wedding, miniature etc. To start, you can apply under big names in photography as assistant photographers, work in e-commerce sites, privately owned agencies, be a freelancer in collaboration with websites and bloggers and if you are capable of investing start out your own company.

Expected Income: 40k-80k a month.

Event Planning

It is time to use your managerial skills in a productive manner rather than wasting it. An event has got a thousand areas to address. For an event to be a success, detailed planning and smooth execution is required. People have begun having events for small occasions and successes. This area has huge potential for a professional. You can work with big hotels, wedding planners, event management agencies and there is no such vocational qualification mandatory to get a job.

Expected Income: It entirely depends on the number and the scale of the events that you cover. On an average In India, you can save up to 15k-20k every event.

Food Critic / Food Blogging

If you are someone who takes great pleasure in tasting , analysing and researching a wide variety of food, you can consider becoming a food critic. You can showcase and build your reviewing skill at a newspaper, magazine or even an online publication. You can also work as freelancers. There are many big restaurants that run on the review of some very popular food critics. You just need to build a good profile and have aa ample number of social media following.

Expected Income: 6lakh- 10 lakh annually depending on your experience and following.

Hope you will take a step forward towards what you desire to become. This might help you outgrow the fatigue of a 9 to 5 job and explore other exciting avenues.