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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

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.

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.

Run a laptop farm for North Korea.

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

Be hot, sell nudes?

Farm rev caves on OSRS

Feet pics on only fans.

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

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!

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.

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

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