What else (besides teaching English) do you guys do for passive income?

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1. Teaching English is hardly passive income in my opinion :P. Eventually I might sell 3D print services (as a hobby not for huge profits), or some of my arts and crafts.

2. Pub crawls, there not a great income but it pays for the weekend and then some

3. Are we allowed passive income on our instructor visas?

4. I sell nihonto. This year hasn’t been great.

5. I think perhaps you’re misunderstanding the meaning of passive income – somewhat concerning if you’re an English teacher!

6. I do a lot of things on the side that probably wouldn’t count as passive since I am actively doing it, but I get your point.

   -I will usually go through Indeed and look for small remote contracts. I have currently been contracted to create some courses for some universities and high schools. Basically they give you the course text and designer access to Canvas and just build the course using html.

   -I make educational video content for high schools that still do hybrid classes. It’s basically PowerPoint and voice over work.

   -I sell ESL/EFL curriculum to schools in Japan.

   There is a lot of easy stuff out there that takes barely any effort that pays surprisingly well.

7. >What else do you guys _do_ for extra coin?

   “Doing” extra work ≠ passive income.

   What you’re asking is more of “what additional side gigs do you do to supplement your income?”

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9. When I was in Japan 10 years ago or so, you could make decent money on weekends doing the wedding officiant circuit. Especially if you were a tall white guy. At the time, you could make even more money if you were in Japan on a missionary visa, but anybody could do it.

10. I think truly passive income is investing and living off the interest. Could be wrong tho.

    I’ve known teachers who earn extra money doing translation and game design. I’ve known some music composers too. They have degrees in music. Oh and wedding singers.

11. When I lived in Tokyo I worked as an extra. Didn’t get a ton of work but when I did they were pretty lucrative gigs.

12. mercari

13. Passive income => investments in the stock market

14. Rent out property in the Uk, and write textbooks. One pays more than the other.

15. We started a YouTube channel 4 years ago and just surpassed 150k subscribers.

    We were active the previous years and now only upload once a month, but it’s earning us a sizable passive income monthly.

    We supplemented it with a Patreon account and now they’re earning the same amount of monthly income. It pays for our investments and savings. While our ALT salary pays for bills and luxuries.

16. I day trade options

17. Work at a host bar in Shinjuku.

18. I operate a staffing agency where I pay people overseas very well for their currency, but skim a % of the salary.

19. I feel like the term ‘passive income’ is generally a myth. If you want money then you need to do some sorta work for it. Even in the case of my investment properties, I don’t just sit back and watch the money flow in.