Growing up in the ’90s, I was just a bit too young to really appreciate the .com boom. My family got our first home computer in 1998, and I put it to very important use: Barbie paint-by-number coloring pages and endless AOL Instant Messenger chats with my high school friends… at least when the landline wasn’t tied up.

The internet started as a novelty, just something fun to tinker with.

For the past few weeks, I’ve been following a woman on social media who’s working to pay off $100K in debt as a stay-at-home-mom. Her strategy? Side hustles. She takes online surveys, writes Amazon reviews, joins research studies - you name it.

But her most lucrative gig? She’s a mystery shopper for apartment complexes.