Posted: 9/17/2009 2:20 AM
Post subject: Jobs and Extra Income
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Guernsey
Joined: 8/3/2008
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I need some advice on carrers and extra income. I know a job just a series of tasks that I do on a daily basis but I need help trying to land a job and find some money to lean back on. I need to get back into school but I don't have money on my person, I never had to work but since I was a dropped from a class for negligence and failure to keep attendance. Now I cannot go back nito school until the debt is payed in full. Does anyone of any extra income or methods that I can use to get some cash fast? I know that there iis no easy way to make money but still I cannot find any money and I am still waiting for positions to open in the job I am trying to enter in as it is.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 2:25 AM
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Posted: 9/17/2009 3:07 AM
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Derakon
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"Fast cash" generally comes in the form of loans or extremely unfavorable trades (e.g. selling items of value like cars, TVs, furniture, etc.). If there was a good legal way to accumulate cash quickly that wasn't "get a job", then you can bet people would be doing it already.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 6:08 AM
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Zurreco
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"Fast cash" actually comes in the form of being really good at a commission based occupation. There are a million all over the world, but it seems like Cutco and ACN are the go to jobs for most inexperienced but well motivated people. If you want an actual job, get in line. There are a few million people ahead of you, and a lot of them are going to be way overqualified compared to you.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 6:19 AM
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Posted: 9/17/2009 8:12 AM
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Warp
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Derakon wrote:
If there was a good legal way to accumulate cash quickly that wasn't "get a job", then you can bet people would be doing it already.
A working "fast cash" scheme wouldn't even work on the grand scale. If people would get tons of cash, the value of that cash would decrease. The value of money is always bound to the actual total wealth of the country. Thus if you, for example, double the amount of cash without the actual wealth of the country also doubling, the value of that cash would halve. There are criminal ways of getting tons of cash, but fortunately such criminals are a very small minority. If they were the majority, the economy would collapse (not to talk about society).
Posted: 9/17/2009 8:20 AM
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Jukeboksi
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Posted: 9/17/2009 8:48 AM
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DaTeL237
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Double jobs.... get a full-time reasonable job (something related to your unfinished education? you didn't specify your edu and/or skills) then get an additional job you can do (I'd suggest one you can do from your home and with a flexible schedule.... such as some web design/dev companies will use) real fast-cash is a just a dream... I believe it'll always require either skill (such as being a good market-trader), insight (a quickly growing company) or luck (that same company) (well ok or an investment of time&effort... but you already said you can't afford that :/)
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Posted: 9/17/2009 3:55 PM
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Posted: 9/17/2009 4:36 PM
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Posted: 9/17/2009 8:55 PM
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ZeXr0
Joined: 8/27/2006
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DaTeL237 wrote:
Double jobs.... get a full-time reasonable job (something related to your unfinished education? you didn't specify your edu and/or skills) then get an additional job you can do (I'd suggest one you can do from your home and with a flexible schedule.... such as some web design/dev companies will use)
That's exactly what I'm doing. I have two jobs for a couple of month to pile some cash. It's better than trying to find a way to make more money, there is no way. Unless you do illegal things, you have to work to get money. There's no other way. Some jobs are better paid than others.
Posted: 9/17/2009 10:46 PM
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moozooh
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If you're neither smart nor hard-working, there are only two ways for you to get quick cash: good connections that can offer you an opportunity many others never get, and criminal deeds. Incidentally, these two ways have been prevalent in Russia and many other places since who knows when.
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Posted: 9/20/2009 10:08 PM
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