You are starting with the wrong question - How do I get? Ask yourself what can you give instead. Find people who have a problem - and help them solve it. I'll

You are starting with the wrong question - How do I get? Ask yourself what can you give instead. Find people who have a problem - and help them solve it. I'll give you an example. A few months back I was chatting with a friend and she was saying how she had this problem at work where she wanted to get customer lists out of a (huge) spreadsheet. I whipped up a Python script to do it - for free. She was delighted. A few weeks later her boss came back to me directly - he wanted a simple web app put together for one of their internal processes and he was prepared to pay $$$. You'll need to network, build up a body of work. Look for problems to solve and the side income will come. Your other option. Teach what you know on the side - you can run workshops on the weekends.