One Thousand Ways to Make Money

jasonnoguchi · #1 (**permalink**) 10-28-2009, 09:13 PM

Lets build a list of a thousand ways to make money together! Be as specific as possible so that it is actually practical and beneficial to everyone.

Let me start with my list:

1. Getting a job (the lousiest way in my opinion)
2. housing agent
3. insurance agent
4. MLM
5. freelance web design
6. freelance labor
7. stock trading
8. option trading
9. forex trading
10. futures trading
11. writing a blog
12. writing a book
13. authoring a website
14. run a home based server
15. singing at pub
16. singing at weddings
17. building a small brick and mortar retail business
18. operate an ebay business
19. freelance consulting
20. part time nanny
21. private tutoring
22. home based catering
23. freelance editing
24. completing surveys
25. delivering flyers
26. designing flyers
27. desigining logos
28. teach martial arts in your local park
29. tennis partner
30. golf caddie
31. take part in local contests
32. buy lottery

there should be much more but I am gonna leave it to you guys to contribute more ideas.

davecc · #2 (**permalink**) 10-28-2009, 09:31 PM

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buy lottery

...really?

jasonnoguchi · #3 (**permalink**) 10-29-2009, 07:16 PM

lottery gives you the highest leverage with negligible amount of money. Like everything with extremely high leverage, don't expect to win all the time.

buildmybudget · #4 (**permalink**) 10-29-2009, 07:34 PM

Sell your own paintings or artwork at local craft fairs.
Build and sell furniture.
Sell magazine subscriptions..

sofocused978 · #5 (**permalink**) 10-29-2009, 07:44 PM

stacking fish at the online poker tables.

lovcom · #6 (**permalink**) 10-30-2009, 12:07 PM

Jason, nearly all the items in your list ARE JOBS!

lovcom · #7 (**permalink**) 10-30-2009, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by jasonnoguchi

lottery gives you the highest leverage with negligible amount of money. Like everything with extremely high leverage, don't expect to win all the time.

Jason, your idea about using the lottery to make money does not fly with those of us that took 6th grade math ;-) For us, we tend to go on to college, study something that will provide us 6 figure incomes and well, I know this is not as romantic and idealistic as you might want, but it works for me. ;-)

KTP · #8 (**permalink**) 10-30-2009, 12:20 PM

32) Win a $1.4 million prize for doing nothing. (Note: Can probably only be done every 4 years and might require being a minority).

cptacek · #9 (**permalink**) 10-31-2009, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by KTP

32) Win a $1.4 million prize for doing nothing. (Note: Can probably only be done every 4 years and might require being a minority).

He didn't win it for doing nothing. He got it for what he is planning on doing.

I plan on going to acting school*. Can I get an Oscar this year?

*not really

cptacek · #10 (**permalink**) 10-31-2009, 12:03 PM

Babysit
Adult sit
wedding consultant
make balloon arches or other decorations for celebrations
decorate cakes
mow lawns
grow a garden and sell produce at a farmers market or privately
make jams and jellies to sell

jasonnoguchi · #11 (**permalink**) 10-31-2009, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by cptacek

He didn't win it for doing nothing. He got it for what he is planning on doing.

I plan on going to acting school*. Can I get an Oscar this year?

*not really

Neither did any of the Oscar winners get an Oscar on the year they went to acting school, if at all they went to one.

There is a saying, you can't win what you don't play. We only live once, let's give everything a shot!

Broken Arrow · #12 (**permalink**) 10-31-2009, 08:16 PM

Well, even if lotteries are viewed as a money-making scheme, it's not a very good one at all.

cptacek · #13 (**permalink**) 11-01-2009, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by jasonnoguchi

Neither did any of the Oscar winners get an Oscar on the year they went to acting school, if at all they went to one.

woosh!

lovcom · #14 (**permalink**) 11-01-2009, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by cptacek

Babysit
Adult sit
wedding consultant
make balloon arches or other decorations for celebrations
decorate cakes
mow lawns
grow a garden and sell produce at a farmers market or privately
make jams and jellies to sell

This exercise is kind of silly because most, of not all those jobs don't pay real money.

Raise your standards people! Don't you want better for your life?

Study something that has a high paying future and get a realy job paying real money.

Life is too short to subsist on low wages doing menial work, even if that work is honest, and if one is hard working.

The best way is often to go to college, major in something that has a high paying future, and doing your best so you can build a career that will provide for you and your family.

Something that provides options you your life, and really that is the nugget of truth in all I write here: OPTIONS!

jasonnoguchi · #15 (**permalink**) 11-01-2009, 06:06 PM

Get jobs that pay real money? interesting... let me stretch it a bit, how about becoming the ones who create companies which provides jobs that pay real money? ;-) Someone needs to create jobs, why not you?

disneysteve · #16 (**permalink**) 11-01-2009, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by lovcom

This exercise is kind of silly because most, of not all those jobs don't pay real money.

So what? How many threads have there been here where the suggestion was made to get a 2nd job to help get out of debt? Lots of things listed so far could qualify as 2nd jobs even for someone who has a good career.

I'm a physician with a 6-figure income. Despite that, I sell on ebay and half.com. I've had sales of about $800 so far this year without really even trying. In the past, I've made $1,000/month when I was really working at it.

I do a lot of medical surveys and market research programs. I made over $1,000 doing them in October.

My wife used to do cake decorating. She just did it for friends and family and didn't charge nearly enough but still got $30 or so per cake. She could have sold many more cakes but wasn't in it for the money.

My brother-in-law had a good job with a major bank but in his spare time, wrote a book (about saving money, actually).

None of these things bring in enough to live on, but they definitely help, and for someone in trouble with debt, they could be the difference between making it and not.

connor_zen · #17 (**permalink**) 11-01-2009, 07:21 PM

This is a good project for your kids (and you too) that I did when I was about 14 to make money:

Start a local coupon book. Go to different stores and have them give a discount on their product and pay you a set amount of money to appear in your coupon book that you then create and distribute to people. Charge $50 per ad per month. Get 20 ads in the book and you've made $1,000, which should be more than enough to cover costs (you can use your own computer to create the layout with Adobe Photoshop Elements and print at your local printing company) and pocket a good bit of change. Repeat every month.

Another one that's pretty good (I didn't try it, though) is to paint people's address numbers on the cement ridge between their sidewalk and the road in front of their houses (see local codes to make sure it's legal). All you need are a large number stencil, some paint, and a brush. Charge $5 or $10 per house.

sgfinancialfreedom · #18 (**permalink**) 11-01-2009, 07:56 PM

You can try selling options to make money too.
This is highly leveraged though so you need to know what you are doing

lovcom · #19 (**permalink**) 11-01-2009, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by disneysteve

So what? How many threads have there been here where the suggestion was made to get a 2nd job to help get out of debt? Lots of things listed so far could qualify as 2nd jobs even for someone who has a good career.

I'm a physician with a 6-figure income. Despite that, I sell on ebay and half.com. I've had sales of about $800 so far this year without really even trying. In the past, I've made $1,000/month when I was really working at it.

I do a lot of medical surveys and market research programs. I made over $1,000 doing them in October.

My wife used to do cake decorating. She just did it for friends and family and didn't charge nearly enough but still got $30 or so per cake. She could have sold many more cakes but wasn't in it for the money.

My brother-in-law had a good job with a major bank but in his spare time, wrote a book (about saving money, actually).

None of these things bring in enough to live on, but they definitely help, and for someone in trouble with debt, they could be the difference between making it and not.

I understand Steve, however I think selling on eBay or Half.com, or baking cakes can be more of a labor of love, and it can be fun....and these things can provide a windfall of $$.

But we're not really talking about those types of endeavors here, are we?

I thought the theme of this tread is to make money with a list of jobs, and I say this more as a need then a fun thing. I suspect you do the eBay dance for the fun of it, and as a consequence, this fun happens to make you some money, and same for your wife's cakes.

But for someone that needs more income, needs to augment their too little day job income, those jobs listed may well be a good stop-gap, but I would consider most of those (if not all) to be a terrible long term solution.

For those needing to make more $$, sure go ahead and walk a few dogs, but also do this: go back to school and learn some new skills that will lead to a lot more pay and security. I'd rather spend time doing homework after dinner for several months or a few years then to use that time to make chump change and burn through time we can never get back.

I too make will into the six figures, and I often do the eBay selling dance myself, as I find it fun and it can be addicting, and I dare say entertaining too, but do I need to do this to make extra money? Not at all. My brother in-law does well too, and he has the eBay addiction really "bad"...he buys unused Mary Kay and Avon products and then sales them for a termendous mark up, so he does between $500 and $1,000 every month, but for him this is sport, and entertainment. He "games" it, and the haggling, the bargaining to him is much more valuable then the actual profit, or so it seems.

lovcom · #20 (**permalink**) 11-01-2009, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by jasonnoguchi

Get jobs that pay real money? interesting... let me stretch it a bit, how about becoming the ones who create companies which provides jobs that pay real money? ;-) Someone needs to create jobs, why not you?

I wish I could hire a bunch of other IT developers, but my clients would often rather hire an off-shore firm. The govnerment says off-shoring is "good for America". :-(

Yes, this is the worse job market since the Great Depression, but if one can, one should take some time to at least attend college part time and learn a skill that will (1) pay real good, and (2) shows a demand now and in the foreseeable future. Even a Jr. college or community college can teach someone enough skills to make real money, so if one can't afford Ivy League or State University, that is not often an impediment.