Just wondering, as i am bored an curious because I’m in a position in life where i can get a job/cant travel to work. I remeber before I switched to lemmy and back when I used reddit, most people would promote their affiliate stuff or something, which really bothered me as it was quite common.
What legitimate ways are there to make money on the side from online without having a job? If you have questions, please leave a comment.
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.