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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Mongoloid on January 20, 2009, 09:37:21 am
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Usually I wouldn't post something like this, but I am having hell trying to find a part time job, and even should I get one, I'm looking at 200-300$/mo.
I do have a full time job, where I make about 1200/mo, but I am supporting myself and my family, so there really isn't anything to spare. I am working in a printing shop, and I pretty much hate it. It's good work, but I really want to work with animals, and am lacking the education.
I have one year of university under my belt, but unfortunately I came into MASSIVE problems during the end of my second semester and had to quit to support my family. I have about 800$ left in student loans to pay, and then everything I earn from my soon to be part time job can go towards school. I realize I could probably get the money from the part time job, but I am trying as hard as I can to be ready for the fall semester, which means I need another grand or so to go to community college.
And so I turn to GW, for help. How can I make large sums of money in short periods? I am not afraid to ruin my life for a few weeks if the payout is good, in the past I have done a few 20 hour work days. I can't sell weed or anything because I am putting up my little sister in high school right now, and if she found out it'd be devastating. Is there anything I haven't thought of? I will try anything.
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sell weed or steal shit from stores/warehouses and flip it on ebay or craigslist.
the only way i know to make that kind of cash in a very short period of time is doing some illegal shit.... or you could find the part of town where all the undocumented immigrant workers stand around waiting for work and do some roofing for a quarter short of minimum wage.
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its not that easy to get the kind of connects you need to start slangin and even if you can you need to have a market so unless you're a good networker it prob. wont work
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all u need is some dopesmokin bros to convince that your shit is better than the shit they been gettin'
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play violin on a well trafficked street corner in an urban area
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panhandle with a witty cardboard sign and a smile
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Sell yourself to a few fat chicks until you have the cash. 800 dollars at 20 dollars a screw... thats 40 fat chicks!
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you can sell stuff you already have to recover money you've already spent
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Ya you can either sell stuff, or you can do small jobs if you are talented within a specific field such as webdesign or something.
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is there any way you can just not pay your student loans for a while? would this prohibit you from attending school fall semester?
there are some bills that can be avoided for a while by simply not paying them. some get you into hot water but look and see what the penalties are for just holding out on payment, and if they're even willing to issue these penalties or actually enforce collection or what have you.
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Video Name: 800$ BEYOND
It felt relevant :welp:
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I remember watching some kind of American documentary on people who make money from entering themselves in those drug trials.. I’m not sure what they are actually called, its where you take newly developed drugs and medicines like a guinea pig. I remember them saying you can make lots of cash in a short time doing them. You may want to ask someone who actually knows about them cause I personally don’t know much.
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oh yeah I had a buddy that said he was going to do that but he had to stay bedridden for a month straight or some crap. I don't know how I can help you out dude, can you give hints into your actual financial situation?
Maybe there are some state provided benefits that you could use I mean if your entire family is depending on you to support them then I'm pretty sure there is some sort of financial aid you could apply for that might help you stash some money aside.
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Some of these are (http://money.aol.com/creditdebt/25-ways-to-make-quick-money) good ideas (others are terrible) but plasma and sperm donation can rake in some serious cash over the course of a month or two.
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just a heads up, you need to be a certain height in order to donate sperm...
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poor chef
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you could whore yourself out to 80 fat chicks for 10$.
or whore yourself out to 8 really fat chicks for 100$.
how come no one made this joke yet?
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you could whore yourself out to 80 fat chicks for 10$.
or whore yourself out to 8 really fat chicks for 100$.
how come no one made this joke yet?
Nackster already did several posts ago.
If you can't find a job, the next best thing is to sell things that you own and don't use anymore. If that's not possible, then look at your current budget and see where you can make some cuts.
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Nackster already did several posts ago.
If you can't find a job, the next best thing is to sell things that you own and don't use anymore. If that's not possible, then look at your current budget and see where you can make some cuts.
Dammit they both beat me to it!
But yeah sell stuff...Old gameboys, game systems, and clothes on ebay...You might find something expensive in your basement?
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If you've got a decent body/face you can always work as a webcam model for some porn website. Some people actually live of that, and earn quite a bit of money.
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I made bout £1000 just randomly selling junk on ebay the past two years. Any old toys or shit can go, and if you have PS2 games or something just pop em on for £5 buy-it-now (buck check first as some games can go for £30+). Also go to carboot/yard sales and pick up cheap shit you know you'll be able to sell. If yuo're desperate just farm gold on wow or pull some ebay scams or some shit.
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I would say design a couple of websites, but I dunno if you have any experience with this and we really don't need any more BIG DADDY'S TATTOO EMPORARIUM layouts with gigantic flashy red text on our internet.
Seriously though, you can probably get away with charging $500 for a decent site.
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the only feasible thing seems to either do shit loads of hours at some job, sell stuff that you can do without on ebay, or both!
If there were any easier ways that are realistic, we'd all be doing them
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Obviously you should have invested in Beanie Babies years ago.
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Sell of your rare pokemon cards.. ebay the pogs
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Obviously you should have invested in Beanie Babies years ago.
by doing this, i was able to retire at 20. i have one very rare nudibranch beaniebaby that i am willing to sell you for 400. if played right, you could sell it for 800.
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donate plasma
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Sorry man there's no way to make money easy without being illegal. If there was we'd all do it
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My friends and I pick up a lot of money doing extra work. Easy 200 a day, but work is unpredictable.
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Hey thanks everybody for the ideas. Unfortunately as I said I cannot sell weed, and actually I did try the whoring yourself to fat chicks, but turns out 99% of people won't pay for sex, I'm guessing because it's embarrassing.
I have been selling stuff on craigslist, mostly musical equipment, I've made aruond 600$. The loan I'm trying to pay off is from 2005-2006 and you can imagine it's come a long way to just 800$. The deal is my parents were paying for my school, and then had a financial bombshell hit them. They filed bankruptcy and my cosigning on the loan defaulted them to me. Problem was, we were all unaware of this until about 6 months ago when they finally tracked me down. I've been paying like mad ever since.
I think the most helpful suggestion is the clinical trials and sperm donation. I've just send out emails asking for information on both from UNMC and supposedly the only fertilization clinic in my city.
Also, I had gotten a tattoo about a year ago, so I was under the impression I couldn't give blood or plasma. If I can I will be pissed because there were blood drives all over this last weekend.
Finally, I just realized that tax returns are coming! So I might actually get this done! Thanks for all the help!
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that's great news!
if you are still needing money by then, or if you need it during school, you could always consider a cab driving job. i always talk to cabbies lol. a lot of them do it on the side because you can make your own hours. one guy was going to school, working at post office and driving a taxi. you could always pick this up for a month or two to earn a quick buck!
gl with the tax return.
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If you have weekends free, pick up a Friday or Saturday night shift at a restaurant. You can make mad tips. Pizza delivery is particularly good if you have a car because you spend most of the time in your car listening to music etc. My girlfriend works at a restaurant like . . . three days per week and is able to pay for her share of bills because she makes $200+ in tips every weekend.
Working full time at a restaurant is not usually very good income at all, because you get paid $3.15 per hour and do not get many tips during the week. But, working just Friday nights or something will score you at least $200 a month in extra income. That's $2400 or more annually. That would probably cover your entire tuition for the year if you went to a cheap school.
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You could also try getting tutoring jobs (make posts on craigslist). You'd be surprised how much people are willing to pay for tutoring. I just quit a $25 per hour job tutoring a 6th grader. I don't know if its like that everywhere, but I would never have expected people to pay that much for tutoring if my friend hadn't told me about it. You could also tutor for standardized tests and stuff.
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Learn some web scripting. Learn some design (for effective communication). Then have people pay you to make (or remake) their websites.
Some people will pay a stupid amount of money for something anyone can learn how to do for free.
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Some people will pay a stupid amount of money for something anyone can learn how to do for free.
Isn't this called commerce :(
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Learn some web scripting. Learn some design (for effective communication). Then have people pay you to make (or remake) their websites.
Some people will pay a stupid amount of money for something anyone can learn how to do for free.
I had thought about this, but in the time it would take to relearn just html I will probably have half the money!
The cab driving thing is kind of intriguing, I'm curious how to go about doing that. But since my printing job is 3-11 at night, I'm not sure that would benefit me much cause I would be working in the mornings.
I had an interview at Staples today but it got pushed back to Monday. Still haven't heard back from the Fertilization clinic :(
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that's great news!
if you are still needing money by then, or if you need it during school, you could always consider a cab driving job. i always talk to cabbies lol. a lot of them do it on the side because you can make your own hours. one guy was going to school, working at post office and driving a taxi. you could always pick this up for a month or two to earn a quick buck!
gl with the tax return.
hmm, i thought you needed a cab liscence which cost a ridiculous amount of money to drive a taxi, no?
edit: OTHERWISE MY ECONOMICS TEXTBOOK LIED.
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Some people will pay a stupid amount of money for something anyone can learn how to do for free.
Man you could say this about anything at all, that's not really fair to say at all. You can't even say that it's not hard, because people (usually older ones) who have little or no experience with computers can't just sit down and learn HTML, because they don't even know how to copy files. Just because pretty much everyone on this site grew up with computers and know these things about them doesn't mean someone who has little exposure to them can just sit down and learn it. It's easy to teach programming to children because they learn so easily, but a 50-year-old man isn't so easy to teach.
Do you know how to neuter a dog because I'm sure there are books about it you could do it for free!!!!
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Velfarre what IS it with you and neutering dogs? You gotta stop using this as an example for everything girl! It's beginning to get a little creepy
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Well I wasn't being entirely serious, I was just trying to get the guy motivated.
If you had thought harder, I'm sure you could have come up with a more reasonable and relevant example than dog neutering, but I know exactly what you mean.
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Velfarre what IS it with you and neutering dogs? You gotta stop using this as an example for everything girl! It's beginning to get a little creepy
What when have I ever used this example before? Because if I have I have completely forgotten about it.
If you had thought harder, I'm sure you could have come up with a more reasonable and relevant example than dog neutering, but I know exactly what you mean.
It's just fine as an example, I guarantee teaching my dad how to code a website is just as hard as you learning to neuter a dog. As in, basically both of you will give up very early in.
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Well forgive me for seeing someone on an online message board looking for quick cash and making the assumption that he might be more willing to try learning website development than your dad.
Also my dad made me teach him how to build websites. No scripting/coding involved, and it was still hell thinly spread over a couple of years of offhand "how-to" requests. (The dad teaching reference would have made a better argument initially than the neutering analogy)
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the argument wasn't against you suggesting he do web design it was against you saying "anyone could do it"
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the argument wasn't against you suggesting he do web design it was against you saying "anyone could do it"
Oh. Well since that's the case, that was uncalled for.
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I'm sorry to hear your finances are so tight, that must be rough.
But hey, look on the bright side:
Barack Obama is our new president! :waycool:
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the argument wasn't against you suggesting he do web design it was against you saying "anyone could do it"
Yeah, this. It was good advice for this topic, it was just the rest of the post I had a problem with. The advice itself is really good.
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You could always try to get four really shitty jobs that have you working part time at all hours for a couple weeks. Like, one or two through the night, et cetera. Night jobs tend to pay much better, so if you take some REALLY SHITTY job for two weeks you can probably make $800 working nights. You won't get any sleep (especially if you're working days, too) but it probably won't have to be for long. Seriously, just think of a list of the worst jobs you can imagine and then write them down and see if they need a graveyard shift worker.
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Sell your computer.
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Get out your stilletos and work that corner bitch.
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I have a part time job at staples now, and I have found out tha Nebraska's fertilization clinics don't accept public sperm donations or some weird law.
Also, even should I have the skills, I don't think I am capable of neutering a dog!
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I wanted to donate sperm where I live but people don't get payed over here for that, so it sucks,
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See if you can get a few spare computer parts from friends or previously used items, Me and some friends are working on making a mame box and well all you need is a working computer, some games and some time. We already got our total to be about $80 or so, and we already have someone we know interested in buying for $500 minimum. If you did this, and used cheap or readily available materials, you can make a nice profit.
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I bet most people here don't even make money at all and are like in their 30s+ and depend on their parents still for cash on their video game spendings and internet service fee for porn.
Anyway, get a site, a niche, and some clicking ad thing. Take it slowly.
AND NO, NO PORN!!
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I bet most people here don't even make money at all and are like in their 30s+ and depend on their parents still for cash on their video game spendings and internet service fee for porn.
Anyway, get a site, a niche, and some clicking ad thing. Take it slowly.
AND NO, NO PORN!!
The ironic thing being that the advice you just gave is most likely the exact thing most of those people you mentioned are persuing in trying to get their 30+yr old dependent lifestyle on the train to Sucesstown, USA. (And they could get it to work though, if only they didn't spend so much time watching that Goddamned porn!)
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I bet most people here don't even make money at all and are like in their 30s+ and depend on their parents still for cash on their video game spendings and internet service fee for porn.
Anyway, get a site, a niche, and some clicking ad thing. Take it slowly.
AND NO, NO PORN!!
adult website webmastering is ridiculously profitable.
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if you're still looking to make some extra money by doing pretty much nothing i can hook you up with an affiliate marketing site. i make like, 400+ by doing nothing, basically.
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What marketable skills u got
Also I think there's limits set on how often you can donate sperm or plasma. It's a considerable bit of one-time pocket money for essentially no actual work but not a great way to make money even in the short run.