How to make money online

I make money selling online on eBay and Amazon.

you go to trade shows and hit the pavement to get products

Try posting in the Coffee Room as a profession.

I do.

Write a blog about a topic you are knowledgable on and include advertising on the blog site.

Some of both. I used to freelance, now I work for a company. Occasionally I do a freelance project on the side.

I also have some personal apps that bring in a residual (albeit small) income.

There is a lot of free learning information online regarding app development. I was in Touro for computer science and I watched a YouTude course in Android Development (called Marakana Android Bootcamp) on the side.

If you are interested, and the mods allow it, I will share some links to resources that I used.

If you are motivated and willing to work hard for it, you can be developing apps in 6-12 months.

You could also pretend you know how to make, develop, maintain business software systems, from your home. You could pretend you know data manipulation, conversions etc.

I do. (and they pretend to pay me)

I don’t know much about it, but I have heard that there are many kollel people in Lakewood and Flatbush that make extra money by selling stuff on Amazon. You can’t do it properly without learning how, so don’t just jump in and try it out before someone teaches you. But I think it works something like this:

Every item for sale on Amazon has a seller rating, which indicates how popular it is and how quickly/guaranteed it is to get sold if you tried to sell one.

These entrepreneurs look for very hot selling items. Then they look to see if they can buy it elsewhere any cheaper, such as on sale in Best Buy or Staples, or with a coupon, etc… Sometimes they even pay the same price, but use Credit Cards or ebates or other reward programs that earn them money or mileage for each purchase.

They sometimes might have the item delivered straight to Amazon’s warehouse from the place they bought it from.

I think one of my neighbors is doing this, because he frequently gets UPS deliveries AND pickups of a lot of large boxes.

Items might be toys, computers, or almost anything.

Hatzlocha!

BTW – App Development is a good legitimate business, but it probably requires certain skills. It might not be for just anyone.

Starting salaries w/o a college degree are in the 50k-60k range.

With a college degree 70k-90k range.

As a mid level software engineer +100k

Senior level can get 130k – 150k

If you specialize in an area you can pull in close or over 200k.

The amount of hours depends on the work environment. Start-ups and smaller companies generally have longer hours, but more dynamic work environments and potential for a huge windfall down the road.

Larger companies can be more stable, offering a standard 40 hr week but can feel more sterile and ‘corporaty’.

But you should know that software engineering is hard work. Be prepared to put in lots of time and effort to grow your knowledge and skill set. Also, you will never stop learning. As a software engineer you always need to stay abreast with new technologies or risk becoming a dinosaur.