y, don't use the online sites at least not the upwork style ones, it's a race to the bottom and usually the clients have unrealistic expectations. Your best pr

y, don't use the online sites at least not the upwork style ones, it's a race to the bottom and usually the clients have unrealistic expectations. Your best projects are going to come through your network. So start talking to friends and contacts about providing development services, websites, web applications etc. Almost everyone knows someone who needs a website or web application. I wouldn't really recommend going the chamber of commerce route or business after hours. Most businesses you meet there are typically interested in simple inexpensive websites. If you do go this route I would recommend trying to offer building websites for small businesses for a monthly fee. Instead of charging them $750 to $1000 for a basic site. Offer them a site for monthly fee starting at $99/mo for the most basic site. You provide basic design, setup the site, provide hosting and once monthly content updates. Have tiered pricing where new pages/features increase their monthly fee. It's a lot of leg work to build up but can bring in some nice recurring revenue. Since you are trying to make extra money to save and aren't depending on this work you should specialize in something like web applications (rails/laravel) or react projects where you can charge a high hourly rate to make it worth your time. And is more interesting work than websites. Since you are a contractor you probably have more flexibility to build your own projects(review your contract on IP of projects outside of work). Give this a listen, start in the archives, episode 1. StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com you can follow Rob from drop shipping beach towels, to selling Drip for $XXM. This isn't a fast option to make revenue but you can build it up to something in the future that can make life a lot easier. Good luck