I used to play Zynga Poker on Facebook and loved it. There was essentially no way to make real money from it but the mechanics of the game fascinated me. After playing that enough, I investigated how to play online for real money. It was a very different experience having actual cash on the line … Read more
Last month I published the first side income report I had done, ever. Public accountability can be a driver and a motivator to keep things moving forward. I’m committed to put these out once a month for a while, reporting on the good / bad / ugly. Which sources I’m reporting and which I’m not … Read more
You can make extra money on the side in any number of ways. Most of them require ongoing effort of some kind: On a different level, some money-making opportunities require regular check-ins or regular activity to keep things active. Granted, it’s not a particularly high bar to log in once every 60 days, but I’ve … Read more
Yeah, another writer posting about their side hustle income. How. Exciting. We all have to start somewhere! The thing is: I haven’t done this ever. But it’s the right time now. I’ll be publishing my online income report monthly for a while as accountability to myself. And at least for now, to give you a … Read more
I started publishing articles on Medium this month. Once I repost it, this will be my seventh article on Medium. (Wanna check it out?) Yesterday I opened my stats and found that I’d earned nearly $4 on a single article that day. (It also marked my first article that earned over $5 total.) I get … Read more
I don’t need to tell you that workdays can be stressful. If you’re not physically exhausted, you’re mentally exhausted. If you’re not overtasked, you’re looking at the clock every five minutes. And the sheer stupidity of office policies and politics can leave you on your last thread. But for many of us — certainly for … Read more
(This was originally published on 13 October 2022.) I started this website two decades ago. The first time the Internet Archive captured the site was back in April 2004. I registered the domain in 2003. Back then I was hand-crafting HTML pages in a text editor, and managing all of the links by hand. I … Read more
Getting a side hustle doing what you love sometimes means persevering through people flat-out telling you that you can’t … Many people have something they’re passionate about that’s outside of their main job. A natural outflowing of that passion is a fire in the belly. With time, this translates to proficiency or even expertise because … Read more