What could you always do for money?
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November 4th, 2009
When I was poor and still in college, I used to do many things to make ends meet. I used to donate sperm, Sell my blood… things of that nature. What did you do, or do you still do… just to make extra cash?
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Get it from my brother’s piggy bank. sometimes.
Landscaping, it’s good exercise and the owner of my house hates to do it – an extra $100 each month ain’t bad for a few hours work.
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I always worked to support myself it steadier than donating bodily fluids, ripping off family members or expecting others to pay for my personal ramblings.
Sell nickle bags to tranny hookers.
Sell the stuff I accumulated when times were good. Oh, and you can always get a job.
Sell plasma, take babysitting jobs, sell crap on ebay.
At uni, I did phone surveys for my school’s sociology department. I was a refusal converter, which meant that if one of my colleagues had called a home to ask someone to do a survey and was refused, I had to call that home back and try to get that someone to take the survey. Why? You didn’t want to have just the people who’d agreed straightaway, that would skew results. My success rate was ~40%, which is considered pretty good. I hate sales though, and I hated this job, which was basically what it was to me, sales, selling these people into doing the study.
After uni, I called the local temp agencies when I needed a job. That’s not working so well at the moment.
I’ve been selling a bunch of stuff on ebay. Who’d a thunk the DVD series Torchwood would get over $20.00 in the first day?
Donating plasma twice a week gave me beer money all throughout college. Plus, with less plasma, you don’t need as much beer to get the job done. Win-win!
@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities I used to do that (probably at the exact same place :) ) every week for bar money. One of the techs told me I was selling myself for alcohol, which I guess was pretty much right on.
The extra $160 a month was awesome. I should look into that again.
Ask your grandma. That’s what my grandkids do.
Sell air. I’m good at that. Really.
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