Get Paid for Your Traumas
Many love hearing about other people’s misfortunes. We’re not judging since we understand the appeal of a story packed with backstabbing and tragedy. Isn’t that why Shakespeare’s plays are such classics? If you have a particularly tragic life story, you could sell it for a profit.

Some newspapers and other media outlets have been paying people to narrate their biggest traumas. Affairs, near-death experiences, family feuds, everything goes for these media outlets. Some people get between $200 to $2,000 for a single story! It has to be juicy, though.