Heres the deal I cannot sell crack. I cannot sell my kidney. I cannot become a man whore. LOL So right now my options are: Affiliate Marketing Freelancing Buying and Flipping Websites Affiliate Marketing: I have never succeeded with affiliate marketing because I don't have the time to right a zillion articles and buy referral links just for ezinearticles.com . Freelancing: I can only do basic html editing. I cannot create a whole site in html. Dont know php or javascript. Most of my sites I make in dreamweaver and flash. They're pretty good. I could pm someone my portfolio and maybe they could tell me what I could charge. That'd be great. Flipping Websites: I tried this with a proxy. Proxies I have tried once. Maybe I should give it another shot.
Then freelancing only, $40-$45 a day will give it a go. Other methods not fast, actually you will see some serious income right after these 6 monthes.
You can easily make the $8000 if you can do stuff with flash. People will pay you in the $xx to $xxxx for games. PM me if you're interested. I run some game sites, and I can hook you up as well.
I can do flash intros and headers. I haven't really learned how to make games yet. I will add it to my list of things to learn. LOL. I have a portfolio of flash and website design if you wanna see it.
Serious answer. Work weekends selling cars! http://www.edmunds.com/advice/buying/articles/42962/page002.html
If you are a programmer, common sense would tell you that you are not looking for $300 -> $8k scams in 6 months. Do your work, and you can make much more.