Yeah, if you're going to talk about what's easiest in the "whats the least work" I'd say #9 would be the easiest. Chances of it working are probably pretty low

Yeah, if you're going to talk about what's easiest in the "whats the least work" I'd say #9 would be the easiest. Chances of it working are probably pretty low for most people though. Contracting at $100/hr will gross you $10k in 100 hrs (or about 2.5 weeks worth of work). You probably meant net so double it and you're somewhere in your ballpark. Almost anyone that is a competent professional programmer should be able to find and execute on this much side work at a similar rate. If you're particularly good, have a particularly specialized skillset, a clearence, etc you can easily command a substantial multiple of this rate and accomplish your goal in even less time. And you're chance of it working are very high.