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Simply ask people you meet if they know anyone who needs some chores done for cash.
Chores tells people that you are looking for short term stuff. Cash tells them you want informal work.

Use Craigslist gigs to find one day events and quick jobs.

Think about what you have done in the past and things you enjoy doing. How can you use that to make money? Can you play musical instruments, draw, tell jokes, sing, do street magic, make jewelry, crafts?

Do you have any skills? People who can fix things always have plenty of work.

Computer skills will allow you to work anywhere you have a good internet connection. Codecademy.com can teach you programming, web design. /r/digitalnomad

Sign up with all of the national temporary employment agencies. Take all the short assignments. Then when you move to a new city ask them to forward your information to the new city.

Keep a set of clothes just for catering jobs. Black slacks and white shirt. They feed you, pay well and send you home with left overs. Call all the catering outfits in an area and fill out an application if needed.

If you have a tarp and a compact compressible sleeping bag, you can sleep anywhere there are weeds tall enough to conceal you from view. Join couchsurfing.com and other hospitality exchange sites and fill out the profile, upload several pictures of yourself. Look for couch surfing events and attend. Friend people you meet there and write reviews for them. Ask them to do so for you. Contact hostels and offer to work in exchange for a room. You should never have to pay for a place to stay.

Coolworks.com has many job offerings that include accommodations and food for employees.

Carry a means to cook simple food. Gas canister stoves are very cheap and canisters are sold at Walmart for ~$5. A stainless steel cup or a stainless steel dog bowl without rubber feet from dollar tree will let you boil water or heat food. Use aluminum foil for a lid to save fuel. Use a cardboard and foil wind screen with any stove and boil time will be shorter. Fire restrictions in the west prohibit other kinds of stoves. Cat food can alcohol stoves and wood burning beer can stoves are free alternatives but not in California. Use a clean 5 hour energy bottle to collect alcohol based hand sanitizer from toilets for fuel. Use another 5 hour energy bottle to collect non foam soap from restrooms. If you are camping, don’t cook or eat where you sleep. Cook in a park and go to a different area to sleep. Critters smell food and come around to investigate. A dog or raccoon can be annoying but a bear may force you to launder your underwear.

Since you don’t have to spend money on accommodations and food will be free or cheap your need for money will be very little. Avoid addictive behaviors like a plague. Drugs, alcohol, pornography, gambling, tobacco, indiscriminate sex and prostitution will drain your finances dry in a amazingly short time.

Study how to acquire food without using your own money. Hit a library or used book store and look for books on wild edible/medicinal plants, herbs and mushrooms. Foraging, ethnobotany, entomophagy, bush tucker and wild crafting are fun hobbies in themselves. Hunting, fishing, frog gigging, crawdads, clams, mussels, seaweed, berry picking and gathering nuts. Make sure to follow the law of the state you are in and get a license if one is required. Try road kill. Ask at any farmer’s house if you can trade some labor for some food. I never met a starving farmer.