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I am not an Artist. And I am not planning to become one. But still, I make money through my art and this is how I do it!
A few years back I was looking for a business I can do from home. I have worked in the IT sector for a very long time. Have worked in various job roles. My favorite one was that of being in the Operation department. But you know what? Something was lacking.
Why I left my 9–5 job?
chances are that some of you might still love your day job. And there is no problem with that. I am a person who loves to control or have something I can call my own.
Making someone else business is not what I have dreamed of.
All these years working in the tech sector giving them my 100% left me with an unsatisfied feeling. a feeling that anything can happen at any moment.
maybe I will be fired one day. This is the deadliest dream any tech person can ever think of!
Once you get fired means, now you have to start from complete ZERO. You are on your own. You have to do something fast. Not much thinking.
I made a decision if something like this happened, I’d take up any job I could get.
I said any. Because finance is every family’s first layer of security.
My transition from Tech to AI
I was in tech but not a fan of AI.
Two reasons for it —
- AI was taking away jobs (I am taking this from news)
- I don’t have much knowledge about it
I had a colleague from my day job who happened to run a small company. That company had only one employee.
You guessed it right. It was only him. that’s all.
I never asked him how much he made but from his car and the vacations he takes every now and then, I was pretty much sure that did came from our day job. Our salary was really low.
I put up some courage one day to ask him how he was able to do all this.
He didn’t share much. But all he said was, “I use AI to run my businesses.”
He didn’t tell me which tool, or which field he is working in. Even I didn’t ask. I was happy to get some pointers.
The world is moving faster than I have imagined. I used to wait for weeks for my parents to agree to take us to watch a movie in the theatre. And now it’s just one click and all new movies can be easily browsed online.
I started searching for AI tools and learned some things about AI — It was incredible.
I started experimenting with AI tool
I never got the straight answers to anything. I mean no one tells their secret. I have been using many AI tools but here I will share only one that has helped me make a good monthly income.
I could give some pointers to you as well. Search one tool and be good at using it. You need only ONE AI tool to make you a good income. believe me.
The first one I got my hands on was Midjourney AI. Since then I have tested more than 9 AI tools (in different categories like writing, productivity, and so on) but this one really was different.
I mean we have tools to write blogs. We have tools to scrape a website. But never heard about creating art before. I mean I can create a whole artwork without even creating it.
I started with a basic subscription and played around a little. Few days after, I sat down and finally decided to try my hands into this business. If I could make a few hundred dollars in a few months (just as a small weekend project) then chances are that I could make thousands of dollars as well.
If you can make $100 then you can make $1000. From there you can go for $10k as well.
But my target was only a few hundred dollars. Have to keep my toes down!
So I watched some YouTube videos and decided to try my hands in small places where I could use these tools.
I was not only going to create art for myself. But wanted to give service to others. And for this Freelancer and Upwork seemed to be the perfect place!
I hope I have not bored you. I will list here a few places I have tried to make money. I am still on a mission to expand it. After all, it requires only a few minutes to do it!
No editing is required. So saved so much of my valuable time!
Note — Some platforms ask you to mention whether you have used AI or not.
- My Zazzle store — This one is not a secret anymore as I have written a lot on this subject. From all POD sites, Zazzle is one of my favorites. I sell for invites mostly and Midjourney does a good job in that area.
- Three Redbubble stores — I used it for a long time. My store was already doing good. SO yet I cannot say whether sales are purely due to AI or not. But saved a lot of my time for sure.
- Adobe Stock — Here mention that you use AI. I mentioned that I am using AI. I have picked one category and made art in that category only. I have never seen anyone making a full-time income from this platform but for part-time? Definitely yes!
- Creative Fabrica — One of my favorites again and you need to get approved first. Again, this works best for part-time income.
- Teachers Pay Teachers — I learned about this platform recently. I make least here because started recently. Will share the income results soon.
- Amazon KDP — This is top on my list. Low contents books are really popular and coloring books are my personal favorite. All I do is with one prompt (I change some parameters) and that’s it!
- Upwork — started recently. But there are many jobs as people don’t know much about prompts. If you need a prompt bundle then you can check my ebook.
So this is all. Comment and tell me which AI tool you use. I am a lover of AI tools and looking for new tools to experiment.
Thank you for reading!