This is probably not the answer you're looking for, but you might consider buying an existing business and doing that. You could check Loopnet for some ideas.
For example, in the Denver area (just to pick a random place), there's a laundromat for sale for ~260K, with gross revenue of 214K and an EBITDA of 120K, which would certainly satisfy your 3K/mo revenue requirements. Link here: https://www.loopnet.com/biz/Business-Opportunity/under-contr...
I'm not a laundromat owner, though I know a few of them, and they aren't 40 hour/week jobs. It's not totally risk free, but it's not a terrible job.
I think a lot of us think that tech is the only or best way to make a bunch of money, but Hacker News is also a place of bustling entrepreneurship and starting your own business doesn't have to mean starting a SaaS company. You could write your own pet kennel reservation software, for example, and then dogfood it (ha!) until you feel comfortable spinning it out into software that can be sold to other pet kennels around the country/world.
I have no idea if this is useful to you, but I think it's a fun idea. I'm considering doing something similar to this myself, when my current job ends.
> For example, in the Denver area (just to pick a random place), there's a laundromat for sale for ~260K,
I'd just live off of the $260K (plus the interest I'd make having it in tbills) until I could draw SS (which is only about 5 years out). In reality, that's probably what I'll do (though I don't have $260K outside of retirement accounts - more like $150K).
Well, certainly, but just to be clear, I wasn't assuming you had 260K cash. I didn't add this in my original post, but a small business loan wouldn't be too hard to get to do something like this, and so there's little-to-no out-of-pocket risk on this kind of thing, and instead you'd just make a few grand a month. It's not passive income by any means, but at least you control your own destiny here.
Anyway, good luck. Hope you figure something out. :)
For example, in the Denver area (just to pick a random place), there's a laundromat for sale for ~260K, with gross revenue of 214K and an EBITDA of 120K, which would certainly satisfy your 3K/mo revenue requirements. Link here: https://www.loopnet.com/biz/Business-Opportunity/under-contr...
I'm not a laundromat owner, though I know a few of them, and they aren't 40 hour/week jobs. It's not totally risk free, but it's not a terrible job.
Consider opening a Crossfit Gym: https://www.loopnet.com/biz/Business-Opportunity/established...
Or a Dog Kennel/Spa: https://www.loopnet.com/biz/Business-Opportunity/successful-...
I think a lot of us think that tech is the only or best way to make a bunch of money, but Hacker News is also a place of bustling entrepreneurship and starting your own business doesn't have to mean starting a SaaS company. You could write your own pet kennel reservation software, for example, and then dogfood it (ha!) until you feel comfortable spinning it out into software that can be sold to other pet kennels around the country/world.
I have no idea if this is useful to you, but I think it's a fun idea. I'm considering doing something similar to this myself, when my current job ends.
Good luck!