Earn money
Life is just easier when you earn more.
Free quiz · 2 minutes
Eight questions about your time, your budget and your patience. You get the side business that fits — and no email is needed to see it.
It points you to one of six:
Your result shows straight away.
Pick your route
Quickest to start first. Pick the one that fits the hours you actually have, and give it a real try before you add another.
Money this month, not next year. Sell what you don't use, pick up quick gigs, try the apps that pay. Small amounts, but fast.
A few evenings a week alongside the day job. Freelancing, gigs, and selling on Amazon.
Slow to start — it builds over months, not weeks. The one I actually did.
Every method worth considering in one list, so you can pick one and commit to it.
Step 4 of 6
There's no ceiling on what you can earn — only on what you can save. Cut what you don't need, then add one income — one, done properly, not five at once.
See all six steps →Do this first
Take the two-minute quiz and pick one side business that fits the hours you actually have — not the hours you wish you had.
You're done when one extra income is running. One, done properly, not five at once.
Every article
Newest first, with the date each one was last updated.
Free tools
Built by an engineer rather than a marketing team. The calculators and the quiz ask for nothing; the sheet comes by email.
Who's writing this
Ryan is a full-time engineer and working dad on his own path to financial freedom. He tests every strategy he can afford and researches the rest. He writes about personal finance, passive income, and making money online — sharing what works, what doesn't, and everything in between.
I work close to ten hours a day at my day job. I come home, I'm a dad, I do the dad things. Then somewhere between 9 and 11pm, I sit down and build this.
A few years ago I was in the financial hole most people don't admit they're in — debt up to my neck, just making it work month to month. Everything here is what I've actually tried since, written for the person with one hour after the house goes quiet.
Free download
Straight to your inbox. Unsubscribe anytime. I don't sell lists.
Screens from the sheet itself, showing its sample year — not anyone's real accounts.
Everything here is education, not financial advice. Some of the articles above contain affiliate links — if you buy through one I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you, and each article says where it does.