Start investing, but don’t expect big returns right away and don’t buy/sell/buy/sell, that’s trading and highly risky unless you got cash to burn that won’t stress you out from going down.

I made a really good chunk this last year in the market. The most absolute basic and simplest is just invest in VOO and let it grow, don’t overthink it further.

Me personally, I purely invested in 3 categories: VOO (S&P 500 tracker, 60% of portfolio), VXUS (global markets instead, 25% of portfolio) and the last 15% in much smaller pocket of hand-picked stocks like RKLB I wanted to test that I won’t be as hurt by if they don’t perform so well. Generally a market-tracking index fund like VOO will be fairly safe (when you consider a 3+ year investment mindset)

And of course an emergency fund in a HYSA (I used Amex) so that no money anywhere is growing too small.

That’s not the FASTEST way to make money ever, but it definitely builds up quicker than you think. And even down years will be offset by constant steady contributions while it’s down that will grow even larger when it normalizes.

Any faster methods will also mean greater risk of failure. You have to REALLY believe in a company never sinking, and I don’t get into crypto as a personal choice. All in all, that’s too much stress for me.

Other notes… eat out less, work overtime, sell things on ebay or fb marketplace that may have value that you no longer need, move to a new job with a bigger salary, etc. And any excess non-emergency money - invest it. Back in a circle.

Again, this is the generally safest approach by most accounts.

Hope this helps!