[staunch]

Step 1) Do 50 hours per month of rails contracting at $50/hour.

Step 2) Use your extra 110 hours per month to build a business that makes money.

Step 3) When said business reaches $2500/mo in profit stop doing #1.

[derrida]

Some of those 110 hours would have to be spent originally getting the 50 hours of rails work.

[mathgladiator]

More like 75 hours due to the government and their infernal taxes.

[sorbus]

Adjusting the contracting rate as needed to get $50/hour after taxes is also an option.

[anon_hn]

You are so awesome.