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How to make extra $$ - financial guru's please help
Here's the deal.
I live in a not so safe area. There are shootings at least once a month and I'm harassed by people on our street every time I walk the dog alone. My anxiety has been through the roof (as to where it was hardly a blip on my radar before) and when my boyfriend is out on the road it's all I can do to leave the house. Especially after dark.
Solution is to move. And we are. We found the perfect place. It will prevent us from having to rent studio space, which saves LOTS of money each month. We don't have to rent it now but we have a sweet deal where we're living and that's hard to find. The only problem is, it's about 1k more per month than we can afford. At least for the next six months. Our financial situation is about to change drastically, but in the mean time.....
I need a way to generate extra income. I work as a personal assistant but RARELY have anything to do. I could dedicate several hours a day to a side gig, while I'm at work. I'm just having a hard time thinking of things to do.... so this is where all my SW people come in to play!
Ideas? What do you do to generate extra income? I think everyone here can benefit from this type of thread because there are many of us who need extra cash for lots of different reasons.
Financial guru's.....
I'm putting every extra cent I have in to my savings account and this week alone have managed $900. i"m very proud of that. Are there some short term investments to look in to? I thought about doing some peer to peer lending.... they have some loans that I could participate in. A hundred bucks here and there. I don't know what the payment terms are on them but I plan on looking more in to that while I'm at work today. I'm open to any suggestions though.
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Re: How to make extra $$ - financial guru's please help
not to be a buzzkil but dont count on money you are going to be getting until you actually get it. trust me, its not a good idea.
are you a dancer? cant you just work extra shifts dancing? sell some panties do some phone sex, sell things on ebay...
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Re: How to make extra $$ - financial guru's please help
I never count on anything in life but I do believe in the power of creation. However, that's not what I would like to discuss.
As I said in my original post, I work as a personal assistant....I am a retired dancer. If we were somewhere other than Los Angeles, dancing MIGHT be an option. Here, it is not.
I would like to make money while I'm at my current job. I sit here for 8.5 hours a day and could easily put that time to good use. I'm not really interested in selling panties (too hit or miss) or doing phone sex.
I have nothing to sell on ebay as I left everything I did not need in my house in Austin, for my renters to use.
Thank you for your input though.
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Re: How to make extra $$ - financial guru's please help
Why not the $900 in an savings account like a money market?
I wish I had more to add... I get nekkids for all my monies. *brain fart* What about dog sitting? Are you good at computer stuff?
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Re: How to make extra $$ - financial guru's please help
I'm good with computers but again, I'd like to do something while I'm actually at work and I can't dog sit while I'm here :(
I have a money market account but the rates aren't that great on those. I think I have 700 in the MM account and 200 in savings.
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It's not big money, but what about those survey sites? FusionCash is supposed to be a good one, MoneyCrate is another I think. You could probably find a ton of those and if you're on a computer while you're at work then that would definitely kill some time. It's usually just a few cents per survey but it adds up and if you're not doing anything else it's better than nothing. Just make sure to fill in your real info at the main site (ex. FusionCash) and then fake info for the surveys.
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Re: How to make extra $$ - financial guru's please help
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Originally Posted by
MissTaylor
I'm good with computers but again, I'd like to do something while I'm actually at work and I can't dog sit while I'm here :(
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Please don't take this the wrong way, cause I don't mean this to sound rude, but if you want extra money you're going to have to give up the idea that you can sit at your day job and do it there....If you're only open to doing things while you're at work, your options aren't really very great.
Sorry about youre living situation btw too, I lived in a really really bad neighborhood for a short period of time and it was extremely scary too...I think it would be worth it for you to take another job, or hell why not drive to Vegas and dance for the weekend sometime?
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Re: How to make extra $$ - financial guru's please help
Ok... then how about ideas on how to make the most out of the money I'm saving.
I'm not really keen on the idea of working more than 9 hours a day. Call me lazy but I did 4 years of working 60 hours a week and I'm enjoying actually having a life these days.
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Yha there isn't really anyway besides having your own business or working for another business from home, or everyone would do it.
I know NOTHING about investing, so I won't try to give any opinions on that but If you're living in a really bad place I would think about driving out of LA and dancing. On a board full of strippers, most people are probably going to have this solution as an suggestion, lol.
Re-reading your thread the only thing I can really think of is crafts. Could you make things and sell them on esty (or what ever that website is called). You mentioned something about studio space, are yall artists? Or make canned food and sell it?
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I just started a thread in lounge about this....I'm not sure if the company is good or not...check it out..
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Well, the best thing to get immediate money is to sort through your current possessions, and clear out things you never use or don't need, and sell them at consignment shops or ebay. I made several grand getting rid of items I didn't even know I had.
Are you a good writer? Helium.com is an online writing site, where you submit articles and earn cash. There's a "Marketplace" where magazine spost articles they need written; if you're article is chosen, you can earn anywhere from $20-$150 an article.
You might want to call around your local non-profits. I know a few in my area always need people to call their call-lists to schedule pickups (it's isn't like telemarketing, where no one wants to hear from you, these people sign up with the non-profits,a nd expect calls). Most of them will let you call at your own home/office, so if you can use the phone at work, that might work to get a few extra dollars.
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What are you good at? What do you like? What do you know how to do?
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Must. Resist. Urge. To make reflexive 'sell blow-jobs-in-the VIP' joke.
Hmmm, other than the previously suggested -get a second job, or -sell your stuff on ebay, you could stop paying your mortgage and collect rent until the bank takes your house. It belongs to you until the bank takes it back and it might help you get ahead...
You might lose whatever you put into it, but is it worth it to live in a decent neighborhood and have a job you like? :shrug:
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Stop paying my mortgage? I hope your kidding. Why would I want to risk foreclosure and potentially fucking up my credit for the rest of my life?
Helium.com is a great idea. My boyfriend is a writer for remix magazine so he could probably write for other places too.
I've asked the record label I do stuff for to give me more responsibilities and I've checked to see if another friend still needs me for beta testing.
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I forget what it's called, but there's a website where experts answer people's questions and earn money. If you want to be the "expert" you have to prove yourself first with good review of your answers, but after that you make like up to $15 per answer
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Re: How to make extra $$ - financial guru's please help
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Originally Posted by
LuckyOne
Hmmm, other than the previously suggested -get a second job, or -sell your stuff on ebay, you could stop paying your mortgage and collect rent until the bank takes your house. It belongs to you until the bank takes it back and it might help you get ahead...
:O Orly?
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Well you sounded desperate so I was just letting you know it was an option. It won't screw up your credit for the rest of your life, you can build your credit back up. Hundreds of thousands of people across the country are doing it right now because they're upside down.
Me personally, I'd be a lot more worried about drive-by shootings than not being able to get a car loan.
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I need the equity so that we can buy a house here in the next couple of years. Thank you for the suggestion though.
Thank you Meea, I'll look in to that.
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Why not become a virtual assistant? If you are a good personal assistant anyway, this would be similar skills but for someone further away. I know that VAs are mainly thought of as Indian, but there must be American versions as well.
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i second stuart. telecommuting is your best option if you want to find work while you're working another job. with the right skillsets, you can make pretty sweet money per hour working a few hours per week. an extra 1-2k a month from 20-40 hours per month is nothing to complain about.
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Wow.. I'll definitely look in to the Virtual Assistant stuff. I'm a great personal assistant..... it's just hard to stay busy when the people you assist are only in the area 2 months out of the year.
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yeh and thats why the american econmy is fucked.
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Re: How to make extra $$ - financial guru's please help
dumpster dive or have your boyfriend dumpster dive, and then craft and post the ads on craigslist/ebay.