A full-time government employee with multiple side hustles shares his top passive income hits and flops

Tech Insider : Business, Sports
william butterton
William Butterton has experimented with a handful of side hustles, from selling playing cards to placing ATMs.

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We asked 12 gig workers how much they made in 2025. The answers varied wildly.

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Travel
Daniel Mondragon

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Gig workers and the companies that pay them often talk about earnings in hourly terms.

That doesn't tell the full story, though.

Voracious demand for robotics training data is transforming gig work

Tech Insider : Business, Economy, Environment
An Instawork Pro recording his activities
An Instawork Pro recording his activities

Instawork

These Gen Z artists cracked the code to getting a stable paycheck: snail mail clubs

Tech Insider : Business, Economy, Travel
Hands folding letters.
Gen Z artists have figured out how to lock in a stable stream of income: snail mail clubs.

Kiki Klassen

LinkedIn is quietly moving into the AI training business

Tech Insider : Business
LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky.
LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky.

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A millennial made $280K working 3 remote jobs — until the job market turned against him: 'It was great until it wasn't'

Tech Insider : Business, Economy, Travel
A man working on his desk
A millennial secretly worked three full-time remote jobs, but the arrangement didn't last.

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I'm a 62-year-old paralegal who turned my needlepoint hobby into a side hustle. Gen Z are some of my best customers.

Tech Insider : Business, Climate Crisis
Kevin Lustik doing needlepoint
Kevin Lustik is a New York City-based needlepoint artist.

Kevin Lustik

Jamie Dimon shared a key career lesson he's 'learned and relearned' — don't make big decisions on Fridays

Tech Insider : Business, Economy, Politics
JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon at Fox News Channel Studios on March 31, 2026, in New York City.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says one of his biggest career lessons is to avoid making big decisions when you're tired on a Friday.

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I gave up my corporate job to travel full-time and live in other people's homes for free

Tech Insider : Travel, Travel, Business
Woman in sunglasses holding coffee, smiling on trail
After years of 9-to-5 corporate life, I decided to travel full-time and use house-sitting and pet-sitting to help do it for as long as possible.

Alanna Parrish

I made $37,000 assembling Ikea furniture last year. It gave me the flexibility to run my own business and farm.

Tech Insider : Economy, Business
Sandra Navarro, who assembles furniture for Taskrabbit, wears a purple t-shirt and dark baseball cap while posing against a beige background.
Sandra Navarro said she has carved out a niche on Taskrabbit, assembling dressers from Ikea.

Sandra Navarro

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