For a number of years, I have been thinking about finding a way to add to my wife and I's income, other than raises at our 9-5 style desk jobs.  We both have fairly stable and secure jobs in the technology field, with a high re-hire likelihood in the event of an employment SHTF moment, as well as months of liquid safety cash.

We're both mid-to-late 40s (I'll be 48 this year) and are eyeing retirement at 62, with or without SS.  I don't know if either of us would be satisfied with stopping work entirely, although I think we might be satisfied with sizeable volunteer work (paid or unpaid).



Recently, the two have started to merge and I'm interested in looking for investment opportunities that could provide a revenue stream at some point that might also serve as a transition from full-time corporate to full or part time ownership (sole proprietor or partnership).  It has been almost 20 years since my BBA, but I still get most of the basics.  What I don't know is how to find what I'm looking for and where to start - I've worked for someone else for 32 years.

I'm open to any feedback and suggestions, so I hope this gets the ball rolling (and I admit, the $50k car dealership investment thread piqued my interest to post this).

Probably not good enough to own property that I constantly have to repair.  I do minor things around the house - swapping old thermostats for ecobee wifi ones and re-wiring at the furnace was probably the most technical - but everything else is general maintenance.  Someone cuts the grass because of my allergies/asthma, we have a maintenance contract for the A/C units, and I paid someone to paint the house.

I'm more of a tech person.

Possibly, but as mentioned above my maintenance ability is somewhat limited so it would need to be something that only requires upkeep and not a lot of true repairs.

The properties that we could afford are probably not close to where we live, so distance and time would be a factor.