What to do to earn money in 2025?

[Lyubov]

I have my life purpose, my passions and things I enjoy. That’s all good and fine and I focus on those when I can, which is often.

I also have to earn money, pay bills and give consideration towards my future which would greatly benefit from financial wellbeing (home ownership, family expenses, health, etc.)

The thing is I’m entirely unsure what to do for money… I want to switch careers and do something more interesting and important to me. I have my current career (ESL) which has allowed me to travel and has payed well at times, but it’s becoming more competitive and the pay isn’t rising. So I’m sort of in a situation in life where I could tell you how to go into ESL teaching, I have information new people starting out would find helpful, but apart from that I’m not sure what else I have that would earn me decent money. 

With what I have my best bet is to get further certified to earn better money. Realistically it’s the most obvious and best way to improve my career, but deep down I wish I hand another way to earn money and have the same benefits. 

How to move forward when you have reached what you see as a dead end in a career, I’m in my mid 30s so I only have so much time and resources, I can’t keep trying new things every year and never settling on anything. I want to build some mastery.

My life purpose and passions is making videos and doing photography of tracking and inspiring people to grow through travel and just travel na story new things in general. But I am not placing expectations on this to earn me money. I will grow it of course and give it ny all but I believe it will become clear when I’m ready to monetize. And even if I do it’s not certain it will pay my bills like a traditional career will.

anyone else reach a dead in your finances and work and are unsure what to do next? 

 

[musicalwatch]

You could try to become a freelance English-Russian interpreter with Lionbridge. It is telephonic work-from-home pick your own hours kinda deal. 0.60 a minute when I was working it. Problemi, konechno, zaebeshsya slushat' ))

[Alex4]

Electricians, plumbers, HVAC etc. they are always in demand. Plus, no AI is going to replace them in the medium term.

Edited Thursday at 10:26 AM by Alex4

[Joshe]

I second HVAC. You can easily make 2-4k in a single day swapping out an HVAC system. Shits insane. 2 jobs/month would be enough to survive. Only downside, you probably have to spend 2-4 years training really hard.