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Ask HN: How can I add 10-15k to my annual income this year?
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Re: Ask HN: How can I add 10-15k to my annual income this year?
#12I do not think that you have too many options. Part time job, develop an app, start a SAAS project, contract work. All of these things are easier to type as an answer to this question than they are to actually do.
If you cannot change jobs now, why don't you add to your skill set over the next year with the view of using these enhanced skills when you can look for a new job?
Re: Ask HN: How can I add 10-15k to my annual income this year?
#13Honestly it isn't that hard to save 7k and make an additional 7k. Do something mundane, like write a craer that assembles vote data on different issues in various municipalities in your state then sell it to a newspaper.
Re: Ask HN: How can I add 10-15k to my annual income this year?
#14Are you a programmer? Try to find freelancing work..
Isn't most freelance work a race to the bottom? This would be great, but most online job boards seem to go to the lowest bidder (who normally works for $10-12 an hour)
I get paid ~$150/hour for freelance work I perform on the side of my Big-Corp job. If you sell yourself as high quality you can get paid as high quality.
Re: Ask HN: How can I add 10-15k to my annual income this year?
#15Arbitrage in any market you may know well (used cars, used laptops, domain names, etc.).
Re: Ask HN: How can I add 10-15k to my annual income this year?
#16 1. Build something on the side that creates recurring revenue
2. Build something on the side that you can sell for $10-15k
3. Build multiple things that, when combined, sell for $10-15k
4. Negotiate a raise at your current job
5. Start doing freelance work
6. Get lucky in the stock market
7. Get lucky in a casino
8. Get lucky in a lottery
9. Inherit some money
Re: Ask HN: How can I add 10-15k to my annual income this year?
#17Are you a programmer? Try to find freelancing work..
Isn't most freelance work a race to the bottom? This would be great, but most online job boards seem to go to the lowest bidder (who normally works for $10-12 an hour)
Remote freelance work is a race to the bottom. A better way to earn some extra money is to build a small service (SAAS) like OLark, or, Launchrock, and charge $10/month. Support your customers with a passion, add customers slowly, and before you know it, you will have 100 customers. That will earn you $12K every year forever. It is far better than doing odd programming jobs for others, there is no capital required, and, it is a far more certain way to make extra money than developing an App for iOS or Android.
Re: Ask HN: How can I add 10-15k to my annual income this year?
#181. Build something on the side that creates recurring revenue 2. Build something on the side that you can sell for $10-15k 3. Build multiple things that, when combined, sell for $10-15k 4. Negotiate a raise at your current job 5. Start doing freelance work 6. Get lucky in the stock market 7. Get lucky in a casino 8. Get lucky in a lottery 9. Inherit some money Why do people in tech think we work in some magically bel…
No. 1 is the easiest. See my more detailed comment below.
Re: Ask HN: How can I add 10-15k to my annual income this year?
#19http://www.mikeperham.com/2013/10/01/how-to-make-100k-in-oss...
The missing step in that post is: "Step 0: Write very popular and useful thing"
Isn't making money about doing something?
It's close imposible to get money without making something useful. If you are programmer your treasure is coding, so if working for someone else as freelancer is for somebody not good idea, because it won't make enough money and you have already full-time job, probably only another way is making something on your own.
Re: Ask HN: How can I add 10-15k to my annual income this year?
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't most freelance work a race to the bottom? This would be great, but most online job boards seem to go to the lowest bidder (who normally works for $10-12 an hour)
Remote freelance work is a race to the bottom. A better way to earn some extra money is to build a small service (SAAS) like OLark, or, Launchrock, and charge $10/month. Support your customers with a passion, add customers slowly, and before you know it, you will have 100 customers. That will earn you $12K every year forever. It is far better than doing odd programming jobs for others, there is no capital required, a…
That's by far the best response