I have a significant amount of coding experience, especially with automated processes.
Yesterday, my friends and I were talking about people who get a remote job, spend a month writing a script to automate it, and sit back and do nothing while collecting the salary while the script does all the work. Some people even have multiple jobs doing this, since there's really no limit on how many jobs you can have. As a result, they spend maaaaybe 4 hours of work per week managing scripts for several jobs and collecting a really nice amount of money for it. What a time to be alive!
We laughed and joked about it, saying that managers who find out and fire these people are idiots that should really re-evaluate what kind of work the company does. We then speculated how many workers are presently doing this. I mean, as long as the job is done, then who cares about how it's done?
Today, I'm kicking myself because honestly, I should be doing this too. And I don't know why more people aren't doing it. I have the skills to do this, and I'm honestly considering it. To me, this sounds like passive income that I'm not taking any advantage of.
I have two questions:
1) Why isn't this a more common strategy? Am I missing something here?
2) What jobs can I “collect” to make this a reality?
I don't care about getting caught and getting fired. I have a really awesome full-time job that I love. But I also have student loans and they ain't gonna pay themselves.