Most people hear the words easy money...they think big money. I'll be honest this might not
be big money...not that it's impossible. However if a person were to look at the dictionary
definition of the term �easy money� then passive income made as an artist even if it is never
that much does in fact fit the definition...just not the stereo type.
Yes I admit it, I'm a big fan of passive income, and I'd prefer it if mine were
higher...doesn't matter how much it goes up that will always be true, if only because
I'd have to be insane not to. Even more so because of some personal circumstances that
I'd rather not go into here, however that being said I do consider putting disabled people
in a situation where they are forced to not invest for passive income to be a crime against
them, and really all of society as that is one of the few things they (and people on their
behalf) can reasonably do to unburden society without decreasing those peoples quality of
life, or worse...
Well when you can't do it with the stock market...guess you better start doing it with
the stock photos...okay bad joke but I'm going somewhere with this...worse sense
photography isn't for everyone.
There are numerous ways artists can make passive income...obviously anyone reading can
see I have a shop where I draw the picture once, spend a fairly short period of time
setting some things up, and then really as long as nothing gets tampered with I have
an overture for passive income for years (perhaps a life time)...granted an overture
is not the same thing as making something through it but that's beside the point.
Obviously the math speaks for itself, I'm not going to use the real numbers here because
the principal applies in more of a general mathematical sense...and it's easier math with
purely hypothetical numbers...even more so when you consider it's not really the same
exact amount of time, in fact there are a large number of variables there:
If I say spent an hour drawing the picture, 10 hours
setting up the stuff in my shop
than say sold continuously $10.00 - $100.00 worth of stuff with that
picture on it every month (at the time I wrote this
I had yet to be so lucky)) then by the end of one year I will have made $120.00-$1200.00
for the stuff with that image alone. For those 11 hour at the end of one year that's
anywhere from $10.90 an hour - $109.00, however that is just the first year. If that
were the trend the first year and it continued for five years for those 11 hour you
would have made over $50.00 an hour.
Again this is not how things turned out for me, in fact at the time I wrote this that
would have been a massive upward turn compared to the situation I had when I wrote this...
However imagine this situation, you are unable to work at a job because of your
health, you then have a violent situation you are forced to flee for your life,
and all at the same time you have at least one more situation that makes it that
much harder for you to cope anything. Prior to there being violence or that third
or more situation(s) you had...written a book, started a print on demand store, set
yourself up with stock photos, published some articles on a blog somewhere, done
something with online videos, and even if you couldn't so much as check your email
for months there is literally no good earthly reason for you not to be seeing some
residual income the same as before there were extenuating circumstances from the
artwork that you'd rather be continuing to do.
The glamorous version is of course that a person will be able to make money in
their sleep (ironically that I have done) no matter what they are up to...but
weather it's easy money, or an aspect of finical security turning something you
enjoy doing into a form of passive income is one of those things...actually
I have to wonder why more people don't do at least a little bit of.
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