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Americans watch nearly three hours of television a day. That got us wondering how much they’d earn, if they were participating in some of the activities that they were otherwise merely were watching. So, we took a look at side gigs inspired by popular television shows and analyzed their income potential.

Bottom line? You could make a lot of money if you made better use of your screen time.

In no particular order, here are seven side gigs inspired by popular t.v. shows. And we include estimates of how much you could earn if you spent your three hours a day working like your favorite t.v. characters.

The Bear: Chef

In The Bear, a talented young chef named Carmen Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) inherits his family’s sandwich shop and decides to turn it into a Michelin-Star restaurant. But as the show illustrates, chefs don’t really have the option of working in simple three-hour increments. After all, shopping, prepping and cooking an elegant meal can take a full day.

But cooking is still a great part-time side hustle. You simply need to take the 21 hours that you’d otherwise spend watching tv each week and concentrate that time into two or three days — ideally weekends. SideHusl.com’s analysis found that a talented chef could rake in some serious dough offering meals on just Friday and Saturday nights

Consider what could happen if you offered meals through EatWith. This international foodie site helps chefs market meals that they host in their own homes. You design the menu, determine the days and times, how many guests can attend each meal, and the price.

One New York chef offers Asian Seafood dinners for $111 a plate on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, for instance. (That’s a food-only price. But diners are welcome to bring their own alcohol.) With a 14-guest maximum, a full table would gross this chef $1,554 per night. If you assume that ingredients cost one-third of the per-plate price, this chef earns roughly $1,000 per meal.

Do that two nights a week and you’ll earn $2,000 weekly and roughly $8,000 per month. Not bad for a weekend side gig.

Ted Lasso: Coach

A college football coach is enlisted to coach a professional English soccer team in Ted Lasso. Despite knowing nothing about soccer, Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) turns the team into a contender. And Lasso’s boss offers to make him the highest-paid coach in football.

Coaching is a great side gig. But there are some not-too-subtle differences between a sitcom and reality. First, your chance of getting a coaching gig with no relevant experience is remote. Secondly, even though you generally do get to set your own rate of pay with coaching side hustles, you’re not going to make millions. The typical part-time coach charges somewhere between $40 and $60 per hour.

That said, if you play a sport and/or have coaching experience, this is a time-flexible side hustle with plenty of demand. Several sites, including CoachUp, TeachMeTo and Athletes Untapped, enlist experts to coach almost any sport — basketball, baseball, pickleball, golf, surfing, la crosse, soccer, and the list goes on. You decide what sports to coach, when, where, and what to charge.

Assuming you charge $40 an hour — on the low end of normal — and coach the full 21 hours that you’d otherwise be watching t.v., you’d earn $840 per week, or roughly $3,360 per month.

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