My wife, who has graduate degrees in Mathematics and Creative Writing, wrote for Demand Media while we were in a transition period between traditional employmen

My wife, who has graduate degrees in Mathematics and Creative Writing, wrote for Demand Media while we were in a transition period between traditional employment and passive income. She knocked out advanced math articles 2, sometimes 3 per hour, making around $300 a day, which roughly works out to $72,000 a year. That's twice the money she could've made as a full time academic starting out, for example. It's not all roses, but for someone who can write and needs to make ends meet for a while, it's a hell of an opportunity to make a bunch of money pretty much on your own terms. It beats the hell out of flipping burgers.