What are your favorite ways of earning money?
 

What do you find to be the most effective, efficient, helpful, legal, and honest ways to earn money?

It is called 'a job'.

I think the best way to earn money is to be the most effective, efficient, helpful, legal, and honest way you know to be and to combine this with an effort to continue learning and improving.

I have a complex set of tasks for earning money , but i enjoy the process.
i wake up.
i get dressed.
i eat if i'm hungry.
i brush my teeth.
i shave and acknowledge that i'm lookin' good.
i attach my mp3er and headfones.
I take my mobile fone and wallet.
i take my shoulder bag in which i placed my current reading book, my journal and pen and reading glasses.
i drive to the shops.
i park.
i get out of the car.
i walk to the ATM.
i take out my bankcard.
i stick it in the machine.
i punch some numbers and recieve some cash.
i go to the cafe and order a coffee.
i sit down and write, read, drink, listen to music, observe the pretty girls and handsome guys.
When the job is done, i go home.
I repeat these tasks regularly, but not every day, and there's always room for variation.
Variety is the spice of life they say.
But i prefer my coffee to be made the same way everytime, so nuts to spices !!!

That's not earning money, thats using money........

Magic. Lots of magic, and evil eyes, and hexes. Sometimes you gotta show the universe who's boss.

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What are the best ways to earn money if one wants to have the option of retiring early? What is the best way to obtain a job, career, or calling which pays a high income?

Earn -Acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions.
Nope. That's how i earn money.
If i didn't get out of bed and do those things I would not get paid by that pleasant ATM machine.
I call it Paul.

I call it Paul because of a classic scene from Family Guy.
Mayor West played to perfection by Adam West ( TV's Batman from the 60's for those that don't know)

Any ways...Mayor West is chasing a guy down the street shooting at him with his cat crossbow\cataput thingy.
The guy gets away and Mayor West stops chasing as he's run out of cats.
He squatts down to pick up his cats to put them back into his cat quiver on his back,
calling them by name as he puts them back in the quiver.

He's putting them back in ,affectionately calling them by name and says,
"Come on mittens, come on kitty, come on Paul in you go"
And then he starts laughing at himself and still chuckling says, "
haha..Paul haha..wha-haha-t a rediculous\silly na-haha-me for a cat!"
Oh he was laughing so much as the absurdity of the situation.
Paul just looked up at him like, "I have no idea what this human is saying or why he is laughing."

Get the best job that you can and enjoy the most and work overtime if they allow you to. If there are stock incentives, use them, and maximize your 401K Spend wisely and cook your own food which is not just more cost efficient, but far healthier.

Grow your own produce if you can for the same reasons, plus it is good exercise and fun. Use gas efficient vehicles. Be energy efficient. :smile:

PS: All of this is also quite nature attuned and friendly to the environment.