Make Money On The Side With Coding

One reason that I feel coding can be really valuable is if you just do it as a hobby and make money on the side.  You would be surprised at how much money you can get for making a website and for not that much time either.  If you understand how to code and you understand how wordpress works, you can make so much money.  The trouble with this will be figuring out how to get clients pouring in.  However, if you can just get a first couple of clients, and you do a good job, you will have a working portfolio that you can show to people and then you will most likely be able to get referrals as well.  If you understand search engine optimization, you can have your personal website show up when people search for website designers and coders in your local area.

What would you do if you had an extra $1,000 a month?  How about $2,000, $3,000, $4,000 or even $5,000?  It would be amazing of course and it would allow you to have amazing flexibility to pretty much do whatever you want, within reason of course.  Most people think you should learn to code so that you can get a job in the technology and startup world.  BUT, if you have a standard job with reasonable hours, you can easily make a lot of money on the side learning to code.  Most people aren't too happy with their current salary and benefits.  They would be especially happy if they had the opportunity to make some extra money on the side.

There's a few different things you can do with coding on the side for money.  The easiest thing to do would be to learn basic front-end languages, mainly html, css, and javascript.  Then you should learn how the basic CMS's work, like Wordpress.  From there, you should just practice making websites.  After a few new websites, you will really get the hang of it and then you can make any basic website that anyone could ever want.  This is where you can contract with local companies and professional service providers to make websites for them.  You can make a few thousand dollars a pop in some instances.  It's really great.

Outside of that, you can really learn how to program.  That is something I wouldn't recommend unless you are super serious about it and understand the time commitment.  You don't know to learn programming in order to make that much money.  Just stick with the front-end languages and you'll be fine.