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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Christophomicus on September 05, 2010, 08:01:25 pm
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Hey guys, I am planning a big trip for the end of next year and I'm looking for ways to earn some extra dosh in the meantime. I've got a pretty steady job at the moment, looking to maybe pile on another so I can get even more in, but I recall a while ago there were these places where you could decipher text/audio and get paid a certain amount, or click links, that sort of stuff. I'm interested in this sort of thing if anyone knows about it. I waste enough time on the internet as is, might as well be productive about it.
Soooo yeah. I know that it isn't going to be a lot of money but hey so said the man pissing into the ocean, every little bit counts. Also willing to take any tips that people might have apart from the obvious 'get a job, sell some of your old stuff you don't use', etc, etc.
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sell drugs. the profit margin isn't as high with weed but it's a relatively safe low pressure and steady routine, cocaine will get you the most money fastest especially if you cook it into crack but your suppliers competition and clients tend to be a lot more shady/dangerous.
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save change, take it to a coinstar, extra cash instantly
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you can try your luck robbing a small community bank or credit union. Usually in out of the way towns, the armored car driver is by himself and typically brings in around $300,000. Stake out your target for like a month or two so you get the timings perfectly and have a good idea where cameras are and how quick you can get away. Buy your getaway car with cash and swap the plates with someone else's. Getting ahold of an unregistered pistol might be hard, but it's not impossible, and you might have to kill someone.... It'll be worth it though, trust me.
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excellent. i've been planning on buying an unmarked vehicle for a few months now, that will fit perfectly into this.
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on amazon mturk you can transcribe audio and stuff for up to 3 or 4 dollars an hour once you get good at it, take some qualification tests and work your way up. I was planning to use some of that money for books, but at around $16 it stopped being fun and it is really not something you wanna do just to make money. you get some funny conversations tho
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get the phonebook, look up in the yellowpages. Let me tell you how we're gonna get paid:
you're gonna order take out, when you see the driver you're gonna stick the 25 up in his face.
That's right, step outside like warriors in the notorious south side.
one weapon to the four of us, hidin' in the corridors till we see the beams from the car's headlights
white boy in the wrong place at the right time, as soon as the car door opens up he's mine
we'll roll up quick, put the pistol to his nose and by the look on his face he probably shitted in his clothes
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I know a way we can get paid, you can get down but you can't be afraid
let's go to the DMV and get a ID. the name says you but the face is me
now it's your, turn take my paperwork: like 1,2,3 let's make it work!
Fill out out the credit card application, then it's gonna be about three weeks of waitin'
for American Express, Discover card, Platinum Visa, Mastercard
cuz when we was boostin' shit then we was targets. now we'll just walk right up and say "charge it"
to the game we'll be rockin' brand names, well known at department store chains, and even get the boys in the crew a few things.
Po Po will never know who to true blame
Store after store you know we'll keep rollin', wait two weeks report the card stolen.
repeat the cycle like a laundrymat because it's like a glitch in the system thats hard to catch
come out the mall, with the shopping bags
we can take 'em right back and get the cash, yeah, get a friend and do it again damn right that's how we pay the rent
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prostitution. I nearly got into it back in june, but they wanted someone right away to fill in a gap(:fogetlo, and I was away for two weeks, so MISSED OPPORTUNITY. Try to get it with a reputable 'escort' service and you'll be making bags of it every night, or even on your own like set it up and it's all yours. like average is £100 per hour, so even undercutting at £90, you're rolling in the dough.
just throwing it out there.
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you can try your luck robbing a small community bank or credit union. Usually in out of the way towns, the armored car driver is by himself and typically brings in around $300,000. Stake out your target for like a month or two so you get the timings perfectly and have a good idea where cameras are and how quick you can get away. Buy your getaway car with cash and swap the plates with someone else's. Getting ahold of an unregistered pistol might be hard, but it's not impossible, and you might have to kill someone.... It'll be worth it though, trust me.
trust me, there's nothing quite as dissatisfying as opening up the back of an armored car and being blasted in the face with pink paint. and finding that all the money has just been made worthless too.
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Make a poster with a list of all the things you are good at and offer to teach people for the kangaroo shagger equivalent of £10 per hour.
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ps: you're best off living off of dry bread and water instead of getting an extra job. list all of your daily expenses and start crossing off things you don't need or could replace with something cheaper.
if you don't have enough money by the time you need it, sell some of your stuff.
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In this topic we give him useless advice
Buy a lot of lottery tickets, you're bound to win if you keep buying them
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lol so uh I've been thinking about it for a while does Gamestop have unscrupulous employees who instead of trading in games for $.50 no matter what game what system will they buy your stuff as private party for their own use under the table/at home as just a dude so they can ebay it for themselves fuk gamestop
I know I could ebay it myself but I kind of can't afford the shipping/the other costs
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kidnap justin bieber and set up a fundraiser demanding his fans pay ten million dollars. i guarantee you'll get that money in less than an hour.
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flaw: justin bieber fans can not have jobs.
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flaw: justin bieber fans can not have jobs.
probably, but i'd imagine their parents do
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save change, take it to a coinstar, extra cash instantly
Or go to a bank because they don't charge you. I think the coinstar has a little fee.
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The contents of this post were accidentally deleted. :welp:
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I did some semi-sleazy by uh, I found this Yamaha synthesizer that turned out to be worth like $100 and I got it for $7 from some antique place. I didn't know at the time but still I'm knowledgeable enough to figure this one was SOMETHING compared to the others I've seen around. And I just traded it for store credit towards other stuff anyway
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Money making sites rarely land you any good money. They either give you as little as a few dollars per hour, or you need to compete against other candidates in order to QUALIFY for the possibility of receiving payment for your work. I consider it a waste of time as you could easily use those hours working extra at a real job.
So here are my suggestions:
- Work extra in the weekends.
- Minimize your expenses like Dada said, and cross off things that you either don't need or that could be replaced with cheaper alternatives.
- Sell stuff you don't need at flea-markets or on eBay.
- Don't subscribe to any paid services unless absolutely necessary. It's better to pay up-front so you can keep track of your income/savings.
- If you have any web development-skills you can freelance on sites like freelance.com (http://www.freelancer.com/).
But really though, the only way to get wealthy is to either work as much as possible and make sure you keep as much of your paycheck as possible, or make risky investments, but I am guessing you don't want to risk your hard-earned money so I am ruling that out.
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when my parents took me with them to the hardware store, i went over to the plumbing section and got a couple expensive pipe joints, bring them directly up to the returns and get a refund telling them that my dad ended up not needing them and i didn't have the receipt. I got like 40 bucks and I just bought weed with with my homies.
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the best way was to get one that was similar and so you'd 'trade' all the other ones for just one and some cash so you could "try this one and come back later if it works"
When I worked as a retail cashier, people did this sometimes except with receipts they'd find in the parking lot and I'd just give them money because that takes some balls and if they could make it all the way through the store and back to the register without getting busted then I think they earned it. Plus they were usually grown ass men so the kid gloves would come off if they were caught and they'd probably have to spend like 30-90 days in jail and I don't think I could do that to someone over some shit that I didn't give a fuck about.
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Employee of the month for you DietCoke.
Christophomicus, you could sell wow gold.. people are stupid enough to buy that shit. Actually you could just end up being our next spambot here at GW, cant get any closer to home than that.
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FUCK BITCHES
SMOKE TREES
MAKE MONEY
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kidnap justin bieber and set up a fundraiser demanding his fans pay ten million dollars. i guarantee you'll get that money in less than an hour.
yes, except instead of simply asking for money in exchange for his release, kill him and put assorted bits of him on ebay. I guarantee you you'll get ten million dollars for every molar alone. imagine what the scalp would go for.
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sell off some of that kinky ass ginger hair you got I heard that shits like gold to old black women
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Ryan thats the kind of girl I want to marry :)
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yes, except instead of simply asking for money in exchange for his release, kill him and put assorted bits of him on ebay. I guarantee you you'll get ten million dollars for every molar alone. imagine what the scalp would go for.
Not to mention the satisfaction of knowing that Justin Bieber died by your hands.
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dietcoke is my new favorite GWer, just saying
also yeah, i used amazon mturk for a while for this sort of thing, but it gets boring and you don't make much money at all. it's better to cut down on expenses, especially for food. and if you have any special talents, try to freelance or do commissions or whatever. i'm currently doing the graphics/logos for a website, and i'm working on making some fanart to get prints of so i can sell them at anime conventions. dunno what you could do though
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i recall making a topic similar to this, and dietcoke took the reigns then too
i am starting to think this guy is serious
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i recall making a topic similar to this, and dietcoke took the reigns then too
i am starting to think this guy is serious
i think that his point is that you're not going to make serious money sitting around on the internet or w/e "free money" things are out there. if it was that easy, everyone would be doing it. christophomicus even started this topic with "i'm looking to get another job but HOW CAN I MAKE MONEY ON THE INTERNET INSTEAD". if you want more money, then you have to work for it, there's no magical way to do it by sitting around on the internet, at least not enough to where a) the time spent is worth more than it would have been using it on a job or b) it's going to be enough to do you any good going on a big trip.
also christophomicus if you haven't already, find any old shit you have laying around that you don't want anymore and sell it. it'd at least give you a little bit more cash.
i know you said you didn't want this obvious advice but the reason it's obvious is because this is the advice that ACTUALLY WORKS sorry!
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murder everyone wealthier than you so suddenly you are the richest person in the world
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murder everyone wealthier than you so suddenly you are the richest person in the world
oh god this is the best idea brb
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I think these topics are more aimed at "anything I can do that sucks but doesn't require a load of time to make money?". There are lots of things that are a) shitty work that pay well because nobody wants to do it or b) pay slightly better than other means of getting cash but are so horrid you only could ever do it on the side for a few hours a week before you went insane
These are probably the types of things that people are looking for, not "smoke weed all day 4/20" and/or "just steal something"
p.s. dietcoke I have a feeling you are an unemployable bum
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p.s. dietcoke I have a feeling you are an unemployable bum
lol
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Join Cloud Crowd on facebook, it's like mturk but better because it pays via pay pal
http://www.cloudcrowd.com/i/41f402
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i recall making a topic similar to this, and dietcoke took the reigns then too
i am starting to think this guy is serious
velfare is right, basically what I'm saying is that there's no easy way to make significant amounts of money except for criminal activity
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do spriting for some random crappy cellphone/iphone game
supposedly Doppleganger was making some bucks this way
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go out by busy intersections with a sign saying that you're a victim of the recession and ask people in their cars for money.
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read this interview with financial security expert rolf hedgeclif (http://dick.tomatoland.org/look14.htm) for great money tips.
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Become a gigolo. :P
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:P
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Poker.
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Ask Von Woofen (http://gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=11566.0) for a donation.
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this:
http://gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=11566.new#new