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2.) Drop in on some writing seminars and learn how to write. Offer to do freelance blogging work online...you can work from starbucks or use a friends internet.
Blogging is a way to toot your horn, there's no money in it.
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3.) It costs $10 to register a domain name, and less than $100 to host a site for a year. Start making sites and learn about adsense and affiliate marketing. Look at what keywords offer the highest CPC and make a site built around it.
Unless your site is a high-visibility internet hub, ads are paid-to-click. The dot-bomb crisis was caused in large part by people claiming that banner ads were a viable monetization model.
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4.) Stash away some savings and use it to attend a few trade school courses and learn about being an auto mechanic.
12.) Like cars? Become a used car salesman...it's easier than you'd think.
Savings from...
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5.) Apply for work at grocery stores (I just heard that people who work at Trader Joes can earn 40k a year plus just starting out, with nice benefits too).
...which is why those jobs are filled.
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6.) Do what my other friend is doing...moved to Colorado to work/live at a ski resort for 7 months while he plans his next move. They cover room/board and give him a stipend
How did he find that job?
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8.) Music major? Freelance music lessons. Post ads on craigslist to find clients...costs about $25
15.) Learn web design - offer to freelance
19) Take a typing course or apply for a secretary job
20) Become a security guard
23) Like animals? Work at PetCo, work on your zookeeper license, walk dogs
26) Fluent in multiple languages? Move abroad and teach English (I currently have two friends teaching english to kids in South Korea)
29) Apply to UPS or FedEx...people in their warehouses can make decent money and get benefits
32) They have several Casino dealer schools in all the new cities that are getting Casinos (Chicago, Philly, etc.) - become a dealer.
Supply >>> demand
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11.) Are you an attractive woman? Become a gogo dancer or club girl (seriously, it's a thing, and they get paid for it)
14.) Join the army
21) Have a cute girlfriend with few morals? Set up an amateur porn web site (I'm totally serious, you can get PAID)
You think a good system is one that incentivizes immoral behavior and selling one's body?
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18) Move out west, become a ranch hand
22) Become a tattoo artist
28) Learn construction - join a construction business
Those fields are associated with lifestyles and require long-term training.
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24) Babysit, become a nanny, basic childcare
Would you trust an unemployed person you don't know with your kids and property?
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25) Mexican? Landscaping.
I've seen you do this many times. You're going to say you're trying to be funny but the truth is you're just a typical racist who veils his deep-seated bigotry behind PC and false humor.
Growing up in Sacramento, we had Mexican gardeners. They sucked, so we fired them and I tended the landscaping myself. Just thought I'd volunteer that.
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30) Become a Teachers Aide (not the highest paying, but there are basic benefits...my sister was able to help my cousin who had a shitty liberal arts degree get this type of job)
31) Tutor
TAs and tutors are typically hired from graduate students (i.e., a selection of those who have the time and money to pursue that option in the first place). Since school has to be paid for, it's a net loss.
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13.) Learn about being a pharmaceutical rep - they generally like people who have some sales experience, but you don't need to since they will train you
My father's a physician. 20 years after he left practice, we still have piles of shrink-wrapped pharmaceutical promo items in boxes that are fulfilling our day-to-day needs.
Being a pharmaceutical rep is quite literally a prostitution gig. You say and do whatever you have to do to get jaded physicians to prescribe your shit. This almost always involves sleeping with the Dr. I'm fairly sure this is why I'm talking to you now.
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16.) Peace corps
I actually tried this. There are a host of restrictions (many of which you yourself could not meet) and I was turned away because "you are qualified, but we have people who are more qualified".
That is a typical response with employment in this day and age. That is why people are protesting. You don't realize this because you've never had to look for a job or deal with great doubt, you've been handed what you have.
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Should I go on? There are always options. If I was in their situation...I'd be doing one of the above, not sitting in a tent complaining about everything.
Sometimes I guess it's just easier to make excuses though.
But that's not really true is it?
When we had a discussion about conscription, you gave BS excuses about why you're awesome and should sit behind a wall doing paperwork rather than doing the dirty and dangerous work. Somehow I think if you were in that position of needing/being asked to you'd invent a chickenhawk excuse.
You do weed regularly despite the fact it stays in your system a very long time and an arrest (even short of a conviction) for possession is a career killer (it will completely disqualify you for PeaceCorps and most employers will not take a chance on anyone with any history whatsoever however marginal, because they don't have to. Of course you'll give us excuses about how you're special and how it's not a big deal and how you shouldn't have to make good decisions in the here and now because you've got it made, even though you're making the choice to put your future at risk...and somehow I think if you got fired and all your next employers demanded hair tests, you'd cry us a river about how it's not fair.
You talk yourself up as an epitome of American success but you never had to do any of the things on this list.
). He happened to live across the street from a woman who owns a landscaping business. He bumped into her one day walking the dog and had a conversation - asked if she had any openings and voila!