10 Weird and Whacky Ways to Make Money: Get Paid to Sleep

10 Weird and Whacky Ways to Make Money: Get Paid to Sleep

This one is for all the sleepy heads in the world! If sleeping is something you love doing. Then why not get paid to sleep? But how and where can you get paid to sleep? Who on earth would pay you to sleep? Quite a lot of places actually!

For starters, bed and mattress manufactures always need people to test their beds and mattresses before they are finally released to the general public. You can find employment as a professional bed tester for these manufacturers. Often you will be hooked up to heart and pulse and dream monitoring machines they give you before you go to sleep at night so they can tell just how comfortable you was or whether a certain bed caused more brain activity (the sign of dreaming) than others.

It's not just beds but quilts and duvets too. You can find work as a professional Duvet Tester like this lucky gal from London. Jo Unsworth gets paid by John Lewis to test out all their duvets and quilts from their bedding department full time! All her friends and family think that she has the best job in the world and Joe just thinks they're probably right according to an interview held by the Daily Mail about her duvet testing job. I think it did help her case that she already had a degree in textile management and background in branding and retail but power to Jo!

It's not that hard to find bed, mattress and duvet tester jobs where you can make money by sleeping with these items and then telling them about your experience with them. You can search on job sites for them or even contact your bed and mattress manufactures in your country/region and send them your CV and that you love a good nights sleep or any skills or previous bed testing experience you have for other places would probably help if that is what they do.

• Search on SimplyHired.com Bed Testing Jobs.
  
• Search on Jobbydoo for Bed Tester Jobs.
  
• Search in Indeed for Get Paid to Sleep Jobs.
  
• Follow other bed testers on LinkedIn.
  

The LinkedIn bed testers could be contacted and asked if they would share where they get hired from. Or you can pitch them as a bed manufacturer yourself and ask them what experience they have and what other places they work/worked for. This would give you some insider tips and insight into what it involves and where to apply if this is something you might actually be serious about and want to do to make money with.

Sleep researchers and doctors also hire professional sleepers so they can study them while sleeping and learn about sleep induced problems like apnea etc. The catch is you'll probably have to stay in their surgery for a while and be hooked up to heart machines and brain monitoring machines and the like. That shouldn't really effect your sleep too much and you'll probably wake up with a bad hair day due to all the stuff they used to stick the electrodes to your head and that but hey, when was the last time you got paid just to go to sleep?

To find work as a sleep researcher, Google search for "sleep study research work" and the like. Including the job sites as well which occasionally or often have them.

And hotels also need people to test their rooms and the beds in them too. Instead of you paying the hotel to stay in their hotel, they pay you to stay instead. To sleep more to the point. A couple years ago, Hotel Finn in Helsinki went viral when they advertised that they was looking for a professional sleeper to test 35 different hotel rooms and beds and write and blog about the quality of sleep they got in each room. They got over 600 applications by people from all around the world.

Some sleep studies actually pay a lot of money but that is because it does often involve being hooked up to machines and poked and prodded and monitored closely while you are sleeping. Some of them may even involve not sleeping. As in, staying awake and sleep deprivation to monitor how deep you sleep when you do. Or even waking you up quickly and suddenly using a loud sound of some kind!

But if you can handle all this, the longer you participate in their sleep studies, the more you'll likely earn. In one example, the Harvard Division of Sleep Medicine pays $10,125 for a 37 day study. You can find other such studies you may be able to apply for depending on your age group or other demographics.


So yeah, it's official, you can make money by sleeping. It's now how I like to make money sleeping. I like to wake up and see I've had new sales in the night and that's what I call the best way to get paid to sleep! But if you love sleeping and think you have the skills and experience to apply for a professional bed or duvet tester, or even take part in some sleeping trials. Then it could be a truly rewarding vocation that pays!

How about you? Have you ever got paid to sleep and test beds and bedding?

Is this something you'd like to do and would given the opportunity?