There’s a saying that tells us that there is no such thing as easy money, and for sure
when you see online some ad telling you can get rich quick with little effort there will
be a catch.
The catch is that it’s a lie, and no, you won’t get rich quick from expending little
effort and not using your brain.
But there are plenty of ways you can wake up in the morning and not even get dressed,
fire up the computer, and start earning cash.
Today we’ll look at some of the best jobs you can do online.
10.
Writer When someone asks you what you do for a living
and you say writer, does that mean you’re a successful novelist, an investigative journalist,
or you describe household products?
No one in this world is going to walk into the first two jobs.
Those crafts take years to hone, but simple product description or some copywriting gigs
are not hard to land and you can start making money now.
You’ll of course have to have some degree of talent, be reliable and meet deadlines,
but you don’t need to be Jonathan Franzen to write about washing machines or describe
the downtown area of a city.
When you start this kind of work you might only be earning around $10 an hour, but a
skilled copywriter with a decent portfolio can earn a lot of money, and we are talking
in the region of $100 an hour.
You might begin your life as a copywriter using online freelancing sites, but once you
have some contracts under your belt and have proved your worth you can branch out.
Just Google remote writing work and you will see before you a lot of jobs.
Don’t be put off by firms paying terrible wages, because when you pay peanuts you inevitably
get bad writers.
If you are good at this, trust us, you’ll get hired.
No more interviews for you, because when firms are looking for writers they go on what you
have done, not who you are.
You could be tapping away in your underwear and paying the bills in no time.
It also helps if you’re willing to do humiliating 30 day challenges.
9.
Software architect So, what exactly is this job?
We’ll let a job site explain it for you.
“Some of the duties of a remote software architect include understanding product system
requirements and architecture, maintaining an architecture roadmap and designing core
architecture.”
The problem with this job is you will very likely need some university education in math
and science, although if you ask around you’ll find quite a few software architects that
are self-taught.
Lots of these folks work from home.
In fact, most of them do.
It’s often contract work, although you might find you’ll be working with the same company
for a long time.
Looking at remote work online you can do right now can net you over $100,000 a year.
No office, no ties, no getting told off for being late.
As the IT industry is so huge and will just get bigger, if you become an expert in this
field you can almost guarantee regular work.
8.
Nurse practitioner We bet you didn’t think this would be on
the list, but we are told if you do this job you can also bring in over $100,000 a year.
What do they do?
This is the description given by FlexJobs.
“Licensed nurse practitioners can remotely triage and provide medical care, provide medical
and wellness education, diagnose and treat patients and assist with care coordination.”
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics nurse practitioners are in demand right now,
and even starting out you might get $50,000 a year.
You’ll need to have graduated high school and studied nursing.
You’ll then have to get your registered nurse license and have one to two years’
experience before you go it alone.
Once you are qualified you can do this work remotely.
We looked online and indeed found a few jobs for these remote nurses.
7.
Corporate counsel People need advice about their health and
they also need legal advice, and these days not every person who gives such advice has
an office.
FlexJobs tells us that these people can earn in the region of $115,000 a year.
How do you get the job, though?
You’ll need a law degree in most states, and if you have specialized in corporate law
you’ll really be in demand.
In the U.S. you’ll also have to have passed the bar exam.
You really don’t need an office at all as much of the time you can talk to people using
video chat or the phone.
If you’ve seen the show Better Call Saul, you’ll know that Saul didn’t really need
an office.
This is one description given of this job: “Corporate counsels are lawyers who work
directly for a business or company.
They may also be known as in-house counselors.
Rather than working for a variety of clients, they devote all their talents and energy to
their employer.”
6.
Software engineer If you’re a software engineer it doesn’t
necessarily mean you’ll be working with systems in a company, you could be doing all
manner of things.
You’ll need to understand programming languages and you’ll need to stay on the ball concerning
how they evolve.
People will tell you that you have to go to university to become proficient in these languages,
but that is not always the case.
Many of these people are self-taught and don’t even have a degree.
If you are good and reliable there is work for you, and we are talking a lot of work.
As for how much you’ll earn, well, the sky is the limit with this job.
Just look online for junior or senior developers and you’ll find literally thousands and
thousands of companies that want to hire someone.
Many are looking for what are sometimes called digital nomads, so you could do this work
from home or from a beach in Thailand.
Trust us, go to those beaches and you will find plenty of software engineers raking in
the cash while sipping on Pina Coladas.
5.
Pharmacist A remote pharmacist, is there such a thing
you might ask?
The answer is yes, and they can pull in over $120,000 a month according to FlexJobs.
This is the description given of this work: “Licensed pharmacists can find remote positions
that require the ability to review prescriptions, ensure authorizations, handle phone calls
and process requests.”
You’ll have to get qualified and get a license, and one job we found in Canada asked that
the applicant had at least two years’ experience in the field of pharmacy.
That job paid 50 Canadian bucks an hour, so that’s about 38 American dollars an hour.
In fact, if you check out the job site Indeed you can find plenty of jobs for remote pharmacists.
We’ll be honest, we didn’t know such a job existed, either.
We found more remote work for people with doctoral degrees in pharmacy and the pay was
over $150,000, but of course getting to this stage is no easy thing.
Another job we found was remote processing of prescriptions, so you could be sitting
at home and just giving out medicine.
The job was part-time, but hey, it surely couldn’t be that hard to do.
4.
Selling stuff Yes, you can basically just sell things online.
We found one girl who bought luxury bags second hand and then sold them on Facebook and she
was making a killing.
We found another woman who had done over a million dollars in sales on Facebook and believe
or not her product was cross-stitching.
She was pulling in around $90,000 a month.
Don’t underestimate how much you can make using that free platform.
You must find a niche of course, as she did, and then we suggest you create a page on Facebook
with lots of nice photos.
You’ll need to create a brand and keep updating that page.
And hey, once you are successful you can then start teaching others how to do it.
There are so many people out there in the digital nomad world who have made some money
and then decided to teach others how to make money.
We should say this sometimes looks like a virtual pyramid scheme, but there are talented
people who can show you how to make some cash.
3.
Data Scientist This is another tech job but it’s quite
different from the ones we have already mentioned.
You’ll need to be intuitive to do this job because you’ll be looking at raw data and
then trying to figure out what it means.
You’ll very likely have to be qualified in this line of work, and many data scientists
will have a master’s degree.
This is one job description we found: “Found at the cross section of business
and information technology, a data scientist is a professional with the capabilities to
gather large amounts of data to analyze and synthesize the information into actionable
plans for companies and other organizations.”
We then went to GlassDoor to look for remote jobs and found quite a few.
The pay was somewhere between 100,00 and 150,000 bucks a year and you never have to leave your
house.
2.
Physician Yes, you can be an online doctor.
There is now something called “telemedicine” and so doctors consult with patients online
and sometimes give prescriptions for medicine.
We are not sure if you follow news about the company Amazon, but it recently started offering
online medical care for some of its staff.
This is going to blow up soon, and many consultations will be done online.
The problem of course for you is that you’ll have to become a qualified physician, which
takes many years.
We went to Indeed and found remote telemedicine work, and you can get paid up to $200,000
a year.
1.
Psychiatrist Remote psychiatry is also becoming a big thing,
and with video apps you can sit at home and do your job.
In fact, it’s quite common now.
This is one description of the job: “Responsibilities include meeting with patients
as needed (typically via two-way video), practicing evaluative and diagnostic procedures, writing
treatment plans and guiding staff on medical protocols.”
You could be paid over $200,000 a year, but it all depends on your experience and your
client list.
If you’ve got A-list celebs on that list, you can expect to be bringing in the big money.
To get your license, though, will take many years.
We should say that a big thing these days is life-coaching, which shouldn’t be compared
to psychiatry.
Nonetheless, a growing trend in online work is people coaching other people via video
apps.
You won’t earn the big bucks, but you won’t have to get a psychiatry license.
Many people who have studied psychology though pack their bags and travel the world while
life-coaching folks online.
One thing we’ll say is that many people tend to think remote work is the best thing
ever because there’s no real boss and you have loads of freedom.
We should add, and remote workers will tell you this, that it can get lonely.
For that reason some folks work at cafes where people work online, or they go to special
workplaces for remote workers say once or twice a week.
You’ll find these co-working spaces now in cities all over the world.
You can go to a website called NomadList and find all sorts of information as to where
you can work.
It gives a list of the best cities to work remotely, with the top five being Budapest,
then Bali, then Belgrade, then Bangkok and then Lisbon.
So, do you think you’d be up for some remote work?
Have you done it before?
Can you add to this list of jobs?
Where would you like to work if you had the choice?
Tell us your answers in the comments.
Also, be sure to check out our other video the 11 Highest Paying Teen Jobs.
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