It is no surprise nor secret that our economy is not repairing itself; and the unemployment numbers only serve to reaffirm this revelation. There are simply no new job opportunities arising for those people who find themselves in need of employment immediately- businesses merely are not creating new jobs for people these days and there is no sign that this will improve in the near future. Therefore people have begun to turn to unconventional ways so that they can manage to accrue enough money to ensure the livelihood of themselves and their families. Many people have discovered that they can get paid to take surveys; which is quite unconventional, but does serve to assist them in accumulating money. In additional to funds, some online surveys offer to allow participants to keep whatever promotional product that they are completing a survey about. Others will pay cash and then turn around and send valuable coupons to their participants. The only limit to the income potential is the willingness of the participant to continue taking online surveys. In these economically trying and troubling times, such opportunities are arising to counter the economic annihilation that has been plaguing our country for the past few years.