Copywriters, your side hustle? Extra points for “passive” income side hustles

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Still involves writing, but if you get published as a paid member on Medium you can earn some passive income. You earn based on paid reads so I had a few articles that I'm still getting some money from each month. It depends if you get something into a good publication and/or it goes viral.

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I've submitted articles to Towards Data Science and Heartbeat on Medium. Honestly. I probably only get about $20 a month from my two articles but it's been consistent and it's better than nothing. I know others make a lot more on there if they refer members and have an article go viral.

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I coach hockey. My community rink pays me hardly anything but the private lessons I do for parents are good money. It’s super fun and rewarding too.

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Hahaha y’all think I’m kidding

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Acting. Been a while but i just shot a sag spot on Friday. Not a bad way to make 1k-1500 for a few hours work and i still get residuals from something i was in 7 years ago

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Sure!

I don’t have a side hustle. It’s great.

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Agree.

Writing punny event hashtags on Fiverr. Earns a few extra bucks here and there, and it’s fun

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Ooh never thought about this. Thank you!

Made close to $80 last night.

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You held people up with a tommy gun cleverly hidden in a guitar suitcase!?

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Rap music. Still make $100/month off the streaming services from the albums I made during my previous “career.”

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Ugh i still remember when Bobby Moynihan had a cartoon about a rapper with a very similar name to the one i had been using for like a decade

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For a while I wrote and self published short stories on Amazon kindle. Got exhausting but managed to get it up to four figures monthly. Still get 30-50 bucks a month from reads.

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Songwriting royalties from a previous stint in show business.

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That’s cool! How did you get into that, and why did you leave

I don’t know how I end up in the copywriter's bowl? At first I wondered why no one else beside writers have a side hustle here then I looked at the bowl.

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Following because I don’t have a side hustle yet but I’d like to

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Men give me money. That’s my side hustle.

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That’s how I got through college lol

I ethically breed French Bulldogs.

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WOW this thread has lost the plot. The ethical reference in OP's statement was more to do with ethical breeding practices (e.g. health screenings, having a clause in buyer contracts that the dog comes back to the breeder if anything crazy happens so they don't contribute to shelter numbers, etc.), not the breed itself. Good hell if you want to argue about problematic breeds we can be here all year. There's a way to breed ethically and a way to rescue ethically - and a way to do either problematically if you don't do your research. Also bracheophallic breeds actually do breathe worse if genetically bred from lines that are less healthy. Point is breeding (and OP made sure to call out ethnically bc fuck BYB) is a side hustle that pairs well with writing presumably because writing can be flexible in terms of where/when you do it so you have more opportunities to check on the puppies.

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Freelance essays & articles. A little extra income, but it can be exhaustingly active.

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Yeah it’s a poor moneymaker tbh. High opportunity cost. I do it for ego gratification and the whisper of prestige. And to feel like a “real writer.”

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I make memes. About $75 per meme. I don’t do it a lot, but maybe once/quarter for some money on the side

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Who do you make them for?

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I started a successful blog like 12 years ago. It’s probably made a total of nearly a million dollars. Of course like 40% of that goes to taxes.

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Congrats! That’s pretty awesome. What’s your blog about? I’m thinking of starting one myself.

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Performed spoken word and won a looot of poetry slams for money a few years back. Just recently transitioned into voice over work. Made 2k for the latest gig.

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Screenwriting. Especially if you manage to get a grant or win a competition.

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And as soon as that script is written, rewrite it again. Then rewrite it several more times until a literary agent thinks it’s good enough to be shopped around to studios.

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My plan is to create a course and generate passive income from it. The trick is figuring out what that course should be…

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C2, Zero To Launch from Growth Lab is just such a product.

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