In the best of economic times, the concept of generating residual income is elusive. In today’s climate it appears to be nearly impossible. The idea that a stream of passive income continues after the initial effort to earn it has been little more than an unattainable dream for most of us.

Traditionally residual income has been reserved for the very rich using streams of passive income from large monetary investments or massive land holdings. To find that there are legitimate, effective ways for the average person to benefit long term from reasonably short term efforts may be the best surprise you have ever had!

As employers are cutting costs by instituting hiring freezes, laying off even faithful, tenured employees, cutting wages, hours, etc., it leaves the employees frantically trying to subsidize decreased wages or replace completely lost wages.

We see more and more “older” workers trying to reenter the workforce as their retirement funds take hit after hit in the financial whirlpool on Wall Street.

Overall, the number of available jobs is far surpassed by the number of qualified and over-qualified job seekers, driving wages and benefits down further. And the scariest part may be the length of time projected for a turnaround in the unemployment conditions.

So, let’s take a few minutes to look at some of the less conventional ways to not only make ends meet, but to make them exceed!