Fun idea - not a big fan of affiliate marketing but it must serve a purpose for companies otherwise they wouldn't use it, plus you know it kind of fits right in here on Steemit.
Anyway, cool to see what you're doing and your progress, hopefully you'll soon get some Steemit love and get some high $ posts. I couldn't believe the first time I made a couple of comments here and they both got over $50 in upvote love! I've spent several hours writing some long, long posts about stuff that interested me. Some fell into the void with barely a click, my all time post had a payout of over $120 (total, about $90 net to me I think). I think I'm up about 300 STEEM now from various posts, comments, and curation rewards. Not bad for three months parttime.
You could spend a bit of time writing about some of the web programming stuff you're learning - put a beginners perspective on it. Might get some click love and help you on your goal.
Have you also thought of trying mechanical turk on Amazon?
And there are other pure transcription services, had a name of one but can't think of it right now, although I'm guessing that your translation stuff is more lucrative.
If you want someone a bit less desk-bound (are you trying to do this only in your non-day job free time?) there's always things like TaskRabbit, TumbTack, do some Lyft driving or something - although some people swear it is impossible to make money on those services (which makes no sense since people clearly do).
I'm guessing your end goal is to get competent enough at web programming you can build websites and do piecemeal programming work for others?
Anyway, gave you a 100% upvote and follow. Happy to chip more your way as you progress - hard work and sharing deserve to be rewarded. Hope it helps!
Thanks a lot for this genuine and rich comment :). Wow you got a $90 net earnings post on Steemit! I dream to get that kind of earnings per post eventually haha. Honestly, anything over $0.10 per post is nice at the moment. I really take everything I can. I guess my earnings will grow with time, as my followers base grows and my earnings skills grow too so I guess this challenge will get more interesting with time.
I took a quick look at mechanical turk on Amazon, but I focused on the sites I was working on (MicroWorkers, ClickWorker, UserTesting, ClixSense, etc.) and never tried it. But I focus on programming now.
About the translation, no I don't get paid very well. It took me close to 5 hours to get a $4 net pay, haha! The thing is when you start on Fiverr, you are a nobody, no review, etc. It's very tough to crack the listing and rank up, so I set my gig at 50%+ cheaper than any others to get a few customers, but I only got 1 buyer yet. Anyway, it's really not my focus right now, but I'll do any job I get there. I like it also because it really improves my translation skills.
About TaskRabbit and others, good suggestions thank you. But, I set this goal to be from using a computer and internet only. So no manual jobs.
Yes, my current goal is to get competent enough at web programming to build websites for customers and also build my own website(s) and earn money through mostly traffic ads (AdSense, etc.).
Also, I am starting to read tokens whitepapers to keep updated with the market and allow me to make good invesments. My current $200 value is peanuts for most people reading this, but the crypto market moves so much in bullish times, this $200 could jump up to $2,000 in a heartbeat if I make a good bet.