100 Sources of Income

I have always been a fan of multiple sources of income.  When one income source dries up, no problem, there is always money coming in from other sources.  To give you some idea of the myriad of ways there are to have multiple sources of income, consider these money-earning opportunities:

1. Full time job
2. Work overtime/get a raise/seek bonuses when available at tour regular job
3. Part time job
4. Seasonal or annual job
5. Be an on call sub (teaching, bus driving, event staffing, etc)
6. Join the military
7. Apprenticeships
8. Freelance work
9. Contract work
10. Work through a temp agency
11. Create a brick and mortar business
12. Create an online business
13. Sell things on commission--real estate, cars, etc.
14. Buy and sell--garage sales, at Swap Meets, eBay, Craigslist
15. Sell your creations--Etsy, farmer's markets, etc
16. Gig work--Uber/Lyft/PostMates, Rover, etc
17. Gig work--online (MTurk, surveys, etc)
18. Rent out things you own--Air BnB, Turo, your driveway in areas with limited parking
19. Sell your body--plasma, hair, clinical trials, eggs, sperm, breast milk
20. Sell stuff--retail arbitrage
21. Home services--clean houses, babysit, organize homes, house sit
22. Help people--Task Rabbit, hauling/moving people's stuff
23. Mobile services--mobile car wash, mobile hair cuts, mobile pet grooming
24. Online jobs--tutoring, translating, customer service, tech support
25. Own a franchise
26. Teach what you know (college, community education, parks and rec programs, etc)
27. Royalties--from books
28. Royalties--from acting (movies and TV)
29. Royalties--from music (singing, composing, writing lyrics)
30. Royalties--from inventions
31. Build businesses and sell them
32. Buy things and part them out--cars, condemned houses and buildings
33. Develop and patent ideas/items and sell them
34. Develop apps/software and sell them
35. Create and sell t shirts/custom designed items online
36. Get certified to provide a service--notary, ordained minister, etc
37. Install apps on your phone that pay you to do this
38. Bird dog fee--from realtors, from car sales
39. Passive online income--from AdSense, advertising, affiliate links on websites and blogs
40. Be a virtual assistant/digital nomad
41. Sell products via drop shipping on Amazon and other sites
42. Create and sell online products (courses, videos, etc)
43. Drive RVs and cars from dealerships to RV shows, other dealerships, etc.
44. Flip things--houses, websites, domain names, Instagram accounts, etc
45. Coach people--fitness coach, business coach, lifestyle coach
46. If you see a problem, fit it for a fee--shovel snow, mow yards, etc.
47. Profit from your hobby--guide fishing trips, make wedding cakes, do sewing alterations, etc.
48. Put together an event and charge others to attend/participate (music festival, author book fair)
49. Do credit card/airline miles churning
50. Allow advertisers to wrap your car
51. Do busking in high tourist areas
52. Be a nude model for art classes
53. Get paid a bounty for finding software and app bugs
54. Enter contests
55. Search for unclaimed money/class action rebates (do this for others for a fee too)
56. Collect and recycle aluminum cans and other metals
57. Barter for things you can resell (a la One Red Paperclip)
58. Rent out your time (as a professional cuddler, as a LEGAL escort, doing singing telegrams, etc)
59. Be a tester--taste tester, condom tester, bed tester, mystery shopper, etc)
60. Become a politician (members of Congress make $174k a year!)
61. Apply for fellowships (the Thiel Fellowship pays $100k per year!)
62. Be a professional game player (video games, poker player, etc)
63. If you live in a touristy area be a local tour guide, create specialized tours for photographers/runners/etc
64. If you have specialized knowledge, be an expert legal witness for trials
65. If you have specialized knowledge, get on the speaking circuit for conferences/events
66. Launch a startup with VC money
67. Make viral videos (of you, your cat, your kids, your niche)
68. Sell your voice (voice over work, recording audiobooks, etc)
69. Be a social media influencer
70. Do media work (transcriber, editor, proofreader, graphics design and editing, etc)
71. Sell products in your niche (teaching plans and curriculum to teachers, protocols to medical professionals, etc)
72. Work in (barely) legal industries (we have legal prostitution in Nevada, several states have marijuana-related jobs, in-person and online gambling is legal in some areas, mercenaries are usually former military members, cam girls make a lot of money, etc)
73. Create and sell food (catering, bottle/package an old family recipe, enter food contests, food blogging/photography)
74. Less than savory short-term jobs--MLMs, time share selling, telemarketing, etc
75. Product demonstration--at Costco and grocery stores, in videos, on HSN, etc
76. Use analytics and data skills to help businesses for a fee (customer acquisition, streamlining AP/AR/purchasing/processes)
77. Be part of a paid focus group, mock jury, opinion survey
78. Be a model (hand model, leg model, cat walk model, hair model, etc)
79. Pension--Social Security
80. Pension--military
81. Pension--civil service
82. Pension--corporate
83. 401k/403b
84. IRA/Roth IRA
85. Investments--mutual funds
86. Investments--stocks
87. Investments--bonds
88. Investments--REITs
89. Investments--CDs
90. Investments--peer to peer lending
91. Investments--be a silent partner/investor in a business
92. Investments--day trader
93. Investments--currency trading (including Bitcoin and cyber money)
94. Real estate--rent houses
95. Real estate--rent a room in your house long term
96. Real estate--own apartment building
97. Real estate--rent agricultural/farm land
98. Real estate--rent office buildings/office space
99. Real estate--rent industrial space
100. Finally, if you see a need in the market, fill it (this could launch entire new industries!)