Get Rich Slowly

If you’re new here, you may want to learn what this site is about. I encourage you to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Photography is an expensive hobby. With all the lenses, filters, lighting, software, and tripods, a fellow can find himself in the hole rather quickly. I should know. Photography was [...]

Several readers have written with stories of how they make money from hobbies. Today, Scarfish talks about two ways she’s found to earn extra income while having fun.
I’m a big proponent of having self-supporting hobbies, and I have two myself.
 
My first money-making hobby started simply as a way to make money. I had moved to [...]

Every Sunday I share a little about making money by doing something you love. This week Matt writes that he and his wife both earn money from their hobbies. He likes to build websites, but his wife does something more original:

We realized that nearly anything we do for fun — because we’re the kind of [...]

One recurring theme of personal finance books is that it’s easier to accumulate wealth by working for yourself than by working for others. Many have heard this maxim, but few have heeded it. Some want to, but don’t know how to begin.
A century ago, Russell Conwell was famous for his traveling lecture in which [...]

The response to my informal Sunday-only “make money from your hobbies” series has been positive. A number of you have submitted stories and questions. I’ll do my best to post these in the coming weeks, but I want to keep the topic confined to Sundays for now, so that restricts how much I can post.
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This is a guest post from reader Mike Panic, a freelance photographer and network administrator. In his spare time, Panic runs three sites: Randomn3ss, iPhotoForum, and iLikeCheapStuff.
Who doesn’t want to make a little extra cash these days? The price of digital cameras is dropping on what seems to be a daily basis. Why not [...]

You’re not going to get rich quickly from your hobby.
While it’s possible to earn a little income from a hobby or a side-business in a short time, to truly make it profitable takes hard work over the course of many months, if not years. I’ve been blogging for six years, but it’s only just recently [...]

This is the last installment of an interview with Scott Durbin. Durbin has made an entrepreneurial leap of faith, leaving behind a safe job to pursue a dream, starting a rock band for kids. In the first part, we learned how the band moved from idea to start-up. In the second part, Durbin discussed his [...]

I had dinner with two friends from high school last night. We shared good wine, good food, and, especially, good conversation. Much of our discussion focused on our shared history: the things we did twenty years ago (or 25!) that now seem as if they might have been done by a stranger. (Yet those strangers [...]

You can make money from your hobby.
Whether you knit, or write, or make photographs, or grow a vegetable garden, or tinker with cars, or build web sites, or collect ancient coins — you can make money from your hobby.
I’m not saying it’s possible to get rich by playing your violin at weddings, or by weaving [...]