Ways to make income besides a job

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Recommended / suggested ways to make extra income without a job:
**eBay
**Turning your art into capitol (paintings, music, literature).
**Doing this on places like the Kindle Marketplace where you earn almost all of the royalties and pay very little if anything to begin with.
**Yard sales
**Getting books from Goodwill and thrift stores and selling on Amazon.
**If you have money already, investments in bonds, stock and learning to trade.
**Selling scrap at the scrap / junk yard that you find or collect.
**Odd jobs and unofficial work with cash payment (mowing someone's lawn, washing a car, babysititng etc.).

Ways you shouldn't consider:
**Gambling (maybe the Lotto but don't spend heaps on tickets just treat it as a rare bit of fun).
**Selling organs.
**Loan shark or borrowing of any kind (it's not really income it's a debt).
**Tax evasion and fraud.
**Theft / stealing.
**Selling what you don't own or have rights to sell.

I do think in some jobs personality screening is somewhat essential. In some fast food places you deal with the worst of the worst because diabetes as they say is a poor man's condition..they need to determine if you are the kind of person that is one of the following 2:
1) Would get on well with the manager.
2) Will put up with any sh*t people throw at them while doing their job fast enough to reduce the amount of sh*t throwing.

Well, entitled is a strong word.

And I'm sure I would see personality screening differently if I were an employer. But as a worker, it just irritates me. I think it's bad enough to be rejected from a job, but being rejected from a job for one's personality just seems like flinging mud on someone's eye.

I suppose some people don't realize what working in a fast food restaurant would be like, so they need to be screened out. Though I would assume that the majority of people applying to the job would be familiar with what it entails, and would be applying because they thought they would like to try working there. A simple explanation of what the job entails, and the question, "do you still want to apply?" seems like it would serve the same function as screening, and it would be more respectful of the worker's dignity.

Edit: And I work in a kind of door to door sales type job. This job is nothing like anything I've ever done. I have social anxiety, am not a smooth talker, have thin skin, and a history of low self esteem. If I were to have been screened by personality, I doubt I would have been considered an ideal candidate. I had serious doubts before applying, but I figured that this job might help my to strengthen the weaker skills. I actually broke the record for sales in the first day (since then, things have evened out more). But, the screening is irritating to me because it seems to demean the applicant's will power--and it seems to suggest that the employer is better capable of evaluating what the applicant's personality is capable of, with their silly little questionnaire, then the applicant is. I totally agree with people who want to avoid certain types of work because of their personality, but I just think employers should give a little more credit to personal will power and the individuality of the applicant, instead of trying to type them and decide what their value is based on a personality test.

I find it really hard competing with China, Unless you make the best quality and they are starting to improve the quality from customer demand >_>

Thank you everyone who gave helpful suggestions....and I will put some to use. Probably odd jobs and things like house sitting, house cleaning or pet sitting.

This isn't not a job, but I will probably give painting houses a try......and if that does not work out I suppose I could inquire at the various thrift stores or maybe libraries hire every once in a while.

Oh, another idea I've seen a lot lately. Tag sales. 7 days a week. I've seen lots of people do this. Just have a tagsale sign up all the time throughout the day, selling their stuff. You can find stuff in the trash to sell, or resell other stuff you buy at tag sales or thrift stores. Some places require permits for tag sales, so it depends really, if you'll not be bothered about tag sale permits, or you can get like a permanent permit or something. But it's an idea. I THINK, though, that garage sales might not need permits and tag sales might, some places have weird loopholes like that.

I'm not sure what the difference is between tag sales and garage sales if there is any but I know that where I live you have to buy a permit and there are rules on how often you can have them and how long you can have them. After my last one I said never again after I had one and only got 3 paying customers all day, two of which were my relatives. I've almost always done bad at yard sales.