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Certain creative things can be good if you have a niche. Etsy kinds of stuff.
I personally used to produce customised gamecube controllers in the smash community. This was essentially spraying the shells, then decal transfers with some extra work on finishing to give them some longevity. A single controller would be £70-100ish depending on how difficult it was to do it properly. The number of people doing this kind of work is astronomically low so you can find a niche for it. People like having custom personalised stuff for their hobbies if they do them a lot. I'd wager similar stuff exists in other competitive games, in tabletop games like warhammer, in tabletop card games like Magic, in DnD games, PC cases, keyboards, mice, etc etc etc. Any hobbies probably have an audience of people interested in personalised stuff, it's a matter of finding what they want personalised and what methods to use to personalise them. High quality printing isn't too expensive to get equipment for, and the rest is fairly easy to figure out with some experimentation.