4 sources of income to consider without being an employee.

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For instance a SaaS.

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YouTube, eBooks, online courses.

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Freelancing, consulting.

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Dividends, real-estate, index funds.

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Use your programming skills to build SaaS products.

This type of income is very uncertain and typically has a very slow start off.

On the other hand, there are almost unlimited gains to collect from launching your own SaaS product.

The potential is huge.

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Create videos on YouTube, put your Medium articles behind the paywall, or sell ebooks on Gumroad.

This type of income is more easily accessible, and also has a huge potential.

It& #39;s also very unreliable and can vary greatly from month to month.

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Selling your skills as a software engineer is probably the most accessible and most reliable form of income you can establish.

On the other hand, selling yourself is a form of "earned income", and is very hard to scale.

You only have 24 hours/day after all.

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Invest in dividend-paying stocks, real-estate, index funds, etc.

This type of income is both reliable (if done correctly), and has unlimited growth potential.

The con here is, that it takes a lot of time and a lot of money to build up. It takes patience.

Ideally, you want to make a mix of these 4.

At least, that& #39;s exactly what I& #39;m working hard on, at the moment https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😎" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit Sonnenbrille" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit Sonnenbrille">

In time, this combination will deliver a steady, reliable, and potentially unlimited flow of income.

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