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When I was a teenager, my main source of income was online Usability testing. It was pretty inconsistent, some weeks were 10$, some were 60$, but it took fairly little effort and time. All I had to do was click through a website and narrate how my experience with it was.

It probably pays way less nowadays, but I remember that usertesting.com was my main website for this back in the day because they paid 10$ per test (even if it's just 10min) and had plenty of opportunities. If you want to try it, make sure to state your household income/education level/job is a bit more than it actually is. You do get more tests that way

Be hot, sell nudes?

Feet pics on only fans.

It depends on what you call "having a job". Unless you have capital to put to work, there aren't many ways to make money without actually working.

However there are things you can do entirely from your home. One thing is arbitrage, where you buy stuff cheap on sites with low information, and sell expensive on sites with high information. I've got a friend who's been living off of that for 15 years, he just goes on leboncoin (french craig's list), buys old collectible shoes and suits from people who don't know what they're selling, and sells that on ebay to collectors. I had another friend digging up old saxophones on local markets in Mexico, refurbishing them and selling them to the US. It's pretty reliable but of course you need a lot of knowledge of a specific niche.

Another classic way is ecommerce / dropshipping. Not in a "get rich quick/easy" way, cause it can be slow and a lot of work to get off the ground, but it doesn't require a lot of initial knowledge or even a lot of "business acumen". You try to sniff out products that can be bought low on Ali Express and sold high in your home country. You build your personal pipeline which allows you to quickly put a product on the market and test how it sells. Then you add and drop products until you find some that are worth your time. As long as you're not sentimental with what you're selling and drive only by the metrics, this can, in time, turn into a day job that pays okay.

There are ways, so many ways. I myself make 100,000€/week with the methods which you find in my book named "Rich, rich, rich - Easy, easy, easy". For you it costs just just 40€ (last 11 chapters not included). PM me for becoming rich!

Porn, obviously. Lot of other sexual things to earn it online.

Non porn? Writing, if you're very very very good but probably wouldn't be asking this if so. If you're middling you can do it for like 30 cents an hour. You could try being a hitman I guess. Uhh....maybe being the front man for a pornographer? If you're a man your pickings are slim. If you're a woman just open your holes and sacrifice your dignity I guess.

There are! Problem is that most of them seem to be either "jobs" that companies don't want to pay a full-time employee for, or require lots of entrepreneurship skills that I don't think fits most people... I don't see how someone living in a developed country would benefit more from an online gig than getting a shitty minimum-wage job at the local grocery store, but there definitely are options

A few non-scummy ones (at least by my standard) I could think of:

• Most practical one I could think of is to teach English/foreign languages. The East Asian countries (especially China) have a huge demand for these types of roles, and I'd presume they have platforms where you can do it as a freelance tutor (at least that's what my parents told me lol)
• If you have any in-demand skills, it is possible to become a self-proprietor to do contracts for businesses... ranging from the classic IT consultant to selling art commissions on Twitter/X
• If you are good at crafts, I believe it is possible to make a small but reasonable amount of money by selling crafts online on places like Etsy, some ppl are really into these and I think ppl generally have a very positive view of these type of careers. Bonus is you might even be able to do some in-person events at conventions/markets/etc
• If you have a fun personality (or if you are a complete train-wreck), content creation/streaming. Standard Twitch streaming, YouTube streaming, making edutainment like the funny bike guy, if you are willing to let go of some morals then Kick... Quite fun if you are into it, but competition is fierce and most people don't make it; and a lot of people who "made-it" chose to relocate to low cost-of-living countries where they only need like $500 a month so....
• Extension of previous point, if you have any sex-appeal... lots of places to "sell your body" online and make decent profits. Not doable without good genetics though

Run a laptop farm for North Korea.

If you do stuff for money, you got yourself a job. It might not be a full time job, but it's still a job.

A lot of that scammy shit or doing stuff like surveys usually amounts to a pittance if not an outright loss and/or serious legal problems.

It sounds like you are looking to be hired into or create for yourself, a job of some kind: Find something you are good at already or go to school for whatever it is you want to learn/get certified for, work on making connections that'll help you get a job, and put in the work.

The only way to make money without work is to be part of the owner class that lets others do all the work.

The old fashion way. Inherit it. Our the really really old fashion way. Fraud.

Farm rev caves on OSRS

How unethical are you ok with being? Dropshipping is an easy way to make money with low effort but it's a pretty shitty thing to do

Yes there are legitimate ways to make money. Everything from producing videos on YouTube and the other platforms that pay you to things like only fans and porn to learning how to make things with your hands and selling it online. Sometimes they're successful sometimes they're not sometimes you hit a niche product sometimes you show a niche video that makes you go viral. Those types of things can get you known. But for you can do is if you're in any sort of position to be able to do anything like 3D printing printing stickers doing woodworking even going in cutting out foam and building decorations for people. You can make a decent amount of money doing all those types of things but you have to be willing to actually do something. Very few people get paid money to do absolutely nothing.

web/UI dev/design?
game dev/design?

Little bits of money, sure. Surveys, selling stuff on eBay or Etsy or whatever. I never found it worthwhile, can make so much more money working at a job. Most I ever made was $200, twice. Once for designing logic for a quiz to determine hair porosity, once for an interview when some medical product I got failed.

That is over the entire history of the Internet. Otherwise it's just been a dollar or two once in a while.

Mostly gig job type things. If you're in a very low income country something like mturk might not be awful. Lots of demand for AI training data labeling these days - this is work like drawing a box around a dog in a picture so a model can be trained on what dogs are. The pay is very low though because anyone can do it so it attracts lots of people from poor countries.

If you're not in a low income country then you need to be highly skilled so you can get things like programming or art gigs - I've heard of people doing those but I don't know the websites offhand.

The other option is stuff like stock market trading or crypto (ie gambling).

But yes, I'd assume the things people promote are all scams.

You have methods that amount to making yourself an online job, or an offline job with a lot of online communication (independent software contractor, commission artist, author, sex worker, online course teacher, Etsy knit hat manufacturer, etc.).

You also have various flavors of capitalism, which may not count, as you did say "legitimate". But if you already have ten million dollars, you can spend lots of time researching stocks and evaluating pitches for businesses and maybe get a better return than you would otherwise, all online.

And then you have merchanting, wholesaling, or furniture-flipping type approaches: buy stuff online, refurbish it or repackage it in smaller quantities, translate all its documentation correctly, vouch for its quality and fitness for purpose, take nice photos of it, market it, sell it, deliver it, and support it.

I mean I think anything you do that makes enough money to be worth it is just a job at that point right? Like you could start streaming on twitch or something, but once you start making money from it, it becomes a job.

In order to make money you need to sell something for more than its production costs you. You can either sell something at a small margin to a lot of people or something at a big margin to a few. Selling at a small margin to few people doesn't make you a living and selling at a big margin to a lot of people just isn't possible. Selling at a big margin to a few people means you need to find a specific community, become a part of this community and sell something to them they want enough to justify the price. Furry porn would e.g. fall in this category. Alternatively you can sell at a small margin to a lot of people. In this case you need to find a bland and generic product so it appeals to a lot of people, and find a method to produce it so cheaply that other people can't easily undercut your price, and finally find a spin to advertise it to a majority. In this category are all "livestyle products" that sell to underclass white people the idea they'd belong to the middle class. Also selling mainstream books and music would fall under this category.

just learn how the stock market works, and none of this gig shit will ever feel like it's worth the time.

read reminiscences of a stock operator, the stock market is where all these other greed ratfucks put the $ they're yoinking from uncle sam...you can make a shitton of $ off their moves if you have modicum of common sense and self-control