This is a general question I want to ask, and not a poll. I want to know about your incomes. I'll share a couple of my own.

I've sold candies on the street about 3-4 years ago, not much money made there.
I sold computer games for a while, good income, little work though.
I sold cheat codes, lots of work, too little income.
I've done numerous jobs for the computer, normal income, but very little income.
I've fixed a couple computers, normal income.

And thats about all my true work I've ever done that made me money. How about you?

EDIT: Real reason to this thread, I'm not making money, and need to clear a two hundred dollar debt in the next two-three months and need ideas.

Lets see... job history.

Ive done contractor work, hard work, good pay.
Small distribution center work, hard work, crap pay.
Grocery Store, crap work, avg pay.
Chicken cook, crap job, crap pay
Staples Copy Center, good job, not so great pay
and currently i work for UPS. Crap job, great pay.

Pizza delievery. Variable income, but overall good money, even after gas.

math tutoring, some odd jobs here and there :/

You could try getting a job just like everyone else. That's a very strange employment history that you have there.

• Dishwasher
• Sandwich Artist
• Gas Station Clerk
• Package Handler
• Hotel Clerk
• Video Store Clerk
• Pre-Press Camera Operator
• Grocery Stocker
• Web Design Intern
• Shipping/Receiving
• Phone Tech Support
• Computer Technician

I have a full-time job which earns me a decent annual salary.

Also I moonlight as a magician performing at private and corporate events. That's really good money ($100+ per hour), when the work is available.

Here's a crazy, crazy idea or you could just wait until you get some emails offering you fantastic money for working 2-3 hours a week at home.

I've worked with money pretty much my entire work history (not that its very long).

3 years at Kings Island, selling season passes and tickets, and more commonly fixing their stupid season pass printers. They have 16 year old printers there. No kidding. They have to special order the ribbons and parts when they go bad. And on top of that, I was one of maybe 3 people who knew how to properly fix the printers when they died, and only one of 5 people who knew how to replace the ribbons. God I am glad to be out of there.

Another 9 months at Best Buy, before my surgery. Not the greatest job, as the crazy weird and strick rules get a little tiresome after a while. I think if they paid more I probably wouldn't be so cranky about it.

2 years taking surveys for opinions of movie previews at a local movie theatre

2 months valet parking (damaged car / fired/letgo/whathaveyou)

13 months Delivery for Italian Restaurant (to the rich gated areas in Orange County,CA) decent pay

2 months cashier @ target (While working at italian restaurant. Crap job, minimum wage

5 months salesman at CompUSA. Decent Job, decent pay (9.50/hr + spiffs) A bit stressful (some people want me to troubleshoot how to fix their PDA, that's not my job)
And...hoping to make it a year at CompUSA. I got a ways to go.

IT Dept. at school

Boring work, but very good pay for the amount of work we actually do.

- Worked as a cashier for what you yanks call Circle K (Mac's in Canada, Couche-Tard in Quebec)
- Worked as assistant manager for Couche-Tard
- Worked as manager for Couche-Tard
- Database tech for a volunteer center; two summers
- Electrolysis operator for an aluminium plant; two summers
- Various live sound tech gigs (amateur gigs, Cegep en Spectacle 2003 and 2004)
- Various stage hand gigs (Eric Lapointe, Montreal International Jazz Festival, Tragically Hip, System of a Down)
- Computer salesperson for Staples

GET A ****ING JOB YOU HIPPY MEXICAN

Despite my best efforts there are no jobs for people below the age of 20 in the newspaper for the last 3 weeks. Honestly I am trying to get a job but there are no real job opportunities for me. Mowing lawns and such... 3 bucks for mowing a lawn? come on I've made more money by telling some one how to replace and charge a cell phone battery. Honestly I need a real job, but I just can't find one. Maybe I'll just ask for money door by door.

I've worked for:

My family's hardware store for 11 years now

Wal*Mart, 3 months - Horrid job, soul crushing to have to deal with those type of customers and on top of all of it, they were gonna move me to another department and go through a pay cut essentially becuase I was too helpful to the customers

Best Buy, 3 months (seasonal) - Maid less than I did at Wal*Mart but I didn't mind the work at all. Selling people music, movies and video games was great and I wish they would have kept me on past the holiday season.

Inbound* telemarketing, 1 year - Decent pay but the phone equipment gave me horrid headaches. I took over the phone applications for credit cards, and took incoming balance transfer calls
*I took incoming calls for credit cards. INCOMING! I did not place calls out to people.


And tomorrow afternoon, I have an interview for a full time job at a appliance/electronics/furniture store so hopefully I will have to soon add that up to the top of my list.


[Edit]Fixed a couple of typos and an incomplete thought in one of my job descriptions

camp counsellor for 2 years - insane amount of work for not nearly enough money.

Babysitting - good money for not much work, but not quite steady.

Selling lift chairs at a kiosk in the mall - WORST JOB EVER! KILL ME!

Student assistant, work study - well I mean, it's work study, It's good stuff, not much work for $500 a semester, but I don't think it's what you;re looking for

Bath & Body Works - great summer and school break job, my hours are irregular, but that's because of extenuating circumstances, normally it wouldn't be quite as erratic. Probably not what you're looking for, but it's what I do now. And whiat I will be doing when I come home for christmas and thanksgiving.

One time, when I was 11, I tried to 'make' money by melting down my uncle's pipe solder into a mold of a quarter I made by pounding a few quaters into a very strong piece of wood he had left over from a project. It didn't work.

I've worked a few jobs, but the best and most fun is trading currencies. With a very, very low starting cost, one can earn 200-300 a week for, literally, a few minutes worth of work. The stock market was fun, but too slow. Foreign Exchange is the way to go.

I worked at a recording studio as a technician, I worked at a church installing audio and video systems. I worked at Costco as a forklift driver, battery extractor operator, then as a janitor. At the moment, I got a cake job working for my city (which is a great opportunity that can lead to an easy bureaucracy job). I work at the small city cemetery as the lone caretaker. Figures I would work in a boneyard, huh?

hmmm...

when I was 15 I worked fast food.

when I was 16-18 I was a lifeguard.

when I was 18 I sold cellphones at BestBuy

when I was 19 to present I worked at Starbucks

when I was 20 to present I sometimes get enough money from music to help pay the bills.

commence with the boner jokes.

That's just......sad.

I do a lot of small one-shot jobs and get money out of them.

Yet I can't get that to sound non-perverse

I make money by not being a liar.


Oh. And I have a job.

Let's see...


Warehouse Shipping & Receiving (minimum wage)

Research Assistant/Programmer (internship, good pay)

Parting Technician (better pay, division was downsized and they transferred me too….)

End User Tech Support (better pay still, horrible job)

*System Administrator (Great pay)

*Developer/Programmer for new tech startup (We will have to see how this turns out)


*current jobs.

I'm the guy that has to update the list of lights, fog, and radio buoys in the Notices to Mariners guide that the United Kingdom hydrographic Office puts out every week. It's a very steady job, because those lights and signals are constantly being added/destroyed. Since at this time, I'm the only one who can do it, I'll be there until I decide to move on-- most part-timers don't have that kind of job security.

The job does have it's benefits-- it's mostly desk work with hardly any heavy lifting which is well within my abilities.

I make a decent ammount of cash, but like most people I feel underpaid for what I do.

Data Entry Monkey for Sayers (bakery chain up in the North West of England). 7 hours every Saturday, sitting at a computer and tapping in figures. It sounds boring (and the work really is), but it's actually made quite fun because of the other people who work there; it's a very social atmosphere of a Saturday because it's outside normal working hours. During the week, which I'm asked to work every now and then, it's a lot different, but because I'm a part-time worker I don't need to worry about that too much. I think I'd go insane working there full time, and I really don't know how those people manage it =/

On the plus side, the money was always adequate to see me through college for going out and the like. Like Page, I can stay in my current job until I decide to leave (which I have, after two years of working there), and I'm rarely required to leave my desk over the course of a normal day.

Currently still looking for a job, but once in a while I work for a large supermarket chain, and hand out samples and stuff. Easy job, great pay.

There's a reason I have no money.

Guess what it is.

Here we go
13 - Started selling potted plants that were left by the city council after they replaced the current plants that were in the roundabouts in the city, made easily £300 per season.
15 - Bean picking, yes stuck in a field picking beans sounds crap, but it was great fun, there a 8am finished at about 12pm got paid about £40 per day, that was for about 6-8 weeks depending on the season.
16 - Tescos, pushing Trollys for about £3 an hour, it was crap, lasted a month
16-20 - Worked for Argos - a catalogue store as a service person during the weekends, then moved into security there as a store detective, it was great.
19 Went to uni, left there after 2 months as the placement I was working for offered me a £36k p/a job for doing motion capture worked, lasted 8 months
20- Worked at Local County council as a database and admin guy £9 p/h
20 - Started at PC World as a 'Service Team Member' then worked upto sales team and spent my time as Mac specialist. £10K + Bonus' and commision
23 - Left PCW and joined a Apple Reseller, doing everything, last week got promoted to Assistant manager with a nice pay rise, £21K

17- Now - Doing freelance graphics and 3D animation, illustration, inking, cartoons, web design, brings in another 5-10K p/a

I work full-time in receiving at a warehouse for $8.50 an hour. Once summer's over I'll be back at the school newspaper, which pays almost nothing but is a lot more fun.

sold weed and flogged stolen stuff but its only on occasion, dont really bother anymore.

I've never had a job in my life and I feel really bad about it.

I don't spend much though, so I don't need money and I still live with my parents.

Hrm...

Worked in a Bakery for a few months. That sucked, crap hours and pay. No real job title, their ***** basically summed it up. Jack of all trades.
Tried my hand at telemarketing (don't we all) - lasted one day.
Currently working at Betta Electrical, an electronics retailer in Australia. Decent pay, nice enough job - but all corporate stores are closing down in Melbourne. Brilliant.

So I'm back to the drawing board in a few months...

I design buildings.

MWUAHAHAAAAHAA

From the middle of May to the middle of July, I work at Walmart as cart crew/stockman. It consisted of gathering carts (obviously) as well as helping customers out with items (groceries with the elderly/disabled and heavy items for other people). Working outside on hot days on pavement for 8 hours a day for the worst pay at Walmart sucked.

The week following leaving Walmart, I worked as low brass instructor at a local high school. It was pretty good money and not overtly difficult for only 4 days.

I don't.

I did when I was in the army though. Sign up.

Mexico has an army?

Just get a job. Try the postal office, warehouses, cash-register jobs. Even with my low wage and mere five-hour workdays, it wouldn't even take a week to square debts of that size.



Har har! FGR sells his bum on Helsinginkatu. Too bad the goods of your chosen vocation will soon be illegal to purchase or sell :p /compulsory_lame_joke_response

In 10 months my job will be this .

But for now, during the summer, I'm a cleaner. I clean ships that arrive from Stockholm at the Olympic harbour in Helsinki from Stockholm. I've been doing that for five days a week since May 15th. The pay is alright, especially if I get Sunday shifts (double pay, comes to about €70), with €10 bonuses if I have to clean up vomit from the detention cells.

The work is alright. Depends on the assignment. Cabin-side work is monotonous and drab. Sauna/spa cleaning is fun. Generally it is somewhat physically strenous hauling heavy equipment up and down decks. It does give you plenty of time to let your thoughts wander though, and the people are great too. A cruise-ferry is a pretty cool workplace too (compared to an office complex, or factory for instance).

Studies resume in September, and the government pays me some grant and part of my rent as long as I study enough and don't make more than €550/month in addition. I might do some cleaning on weekends to make some extra spending dosh or substitute some classes for 15 year-olds during weekdays.

I've also worked at the Finnish Mail, and a restaurant, excluding practice work done at my Dad's or Mom's office.

[QUOTE=Daeron the Nerfherder]Har har! FGR sells his bum on Helsinginkatu. [/QUOTE]

Hmm, and how would you know?

I'm making $20 an hour doing construction this summer.

I'm a member of a 3 person team who develops all of the software for the Geek Squad to use while repairing PCs.

Before that I was a Special Agent with the Geek Squad

Before that I worked full time as a CIA for the Geek Squad

Before that I worked part time as a CIA for the Geek Squad

Before that I was a Supervisor in Best Buy's Computer Department

Before that I was a Senior in Best Buy's Computer Department

Before that I worked full time in Best Buy's Computer Department

Before that I worked part time in Best Buy's Computer Department

Before that I mowed lawns. >.>

I've been with BBY / GS for MOST of my career lifespan. During school I did some work as a Technical Engineer for S&C Pipeline.. But it sucked, so I quit.

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I'm an intern / webmaster.

I sell massive amounts of cocaine