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Nice try, IRS.
Others people responses seem way better then mine. I used to burn pirated cds and dvds back in middle and high school. I also used to sell answers to a couple seniors during algebra 2 when they were desperate to graduate. But as an adult other then selling drugs i also sucked a dick for 600 dollars. I also helped a gf sell photos before onlyfans. So none of that seems very unusual now adays.
$600 for just a BJ sounds like a lot of money.
It indeed was. Definitely a kink thing. It was some old rich dude who called my trans friend from awhole other state, gave him 1k just to drive there(he got more later). Then he had him invite someone else, me a striaght guy whos never been with a man over. All i did was talk look at his yacht then blow him. Walked away with 600 in around an hour and a half. Then met up with my friend to party when he got through. And this was a decade ago so google says the inflation amount would be 820.
If hookers even make half that in the same time span makes it seem a lot more appealing.
The moral ride I just went on while reading this is staggering. A slight nod while reading about burning pirated cds and dvds, as there seemed to have been at least someone in each middle or high school that did that. A slight disapproval from selling answers to algebra 2 assignments/tests. And then the rest just seemed wild to me. There was always a rumor/joke that ‘such and such person’ in high school into sex work. But I never went looking nor heard anything in passing. Anyway… glad the person didn’t stiff you for your sex work.
Sorting trash and recycling.
Got my first “real” job with a kind of mediator. Their customer wanted me for their project. I got my contract signed with the mediator as my employer. Then their customer was bought by someone and they cancelled their contract with the mediator about a day before I would’ve begun to work. I was already under contract though. The mediator tried to find another customer who could make use of my skills.
They failed to find one and had to let me go. But I was effectively employed by them for three weeks and got my first pay check literally doing nothing for it.
This, but my first job for 6 months. Straight out of school got hired by semi-consultancy/semi-try-n-hire firm… But the market for my skill set went from being in high demand to no demand in the span of like a year. So in that half year I did nothing except learn and do some small internal projects.
Wow. I knew there were people for these business situations, but I didn’t know there were so little of you, particularly in the US.
What work did you transition into after this experience? And also, did the potential employers ask about the short stay you had at your previous job?
It took me a couple of months to find a new position, which I did eventually. The extra money was a nice jumpstart as I had to move across the country. Since I lacked any work experience at that time, the potential employers who interviewed me didn’t ask for that weird previous position and focused on my qualifications and college projects.
Sounds like it was a, Win-Win-Win for you. =)
When I was still in school, I was the computer nerd. A doctor in town, who’s son was in my class, asked me to fix an annoyance he had with a software he used. He offered a generous compensation. It took me less than an hour to analyze and patch the program on the binary level. On a per hour base, I earned more money than he normally did…
What exactly does patching a program on the binary level entail?
Well, a software (I.e. a. exe file) is a long list of numbers. Some are commands like “do something when the user clicks there”, some are data, like text on a button.
If you are very familiar with those intricacies, you can change a few bytes here or there to change what the program does.
I’m more curious as to the process than the concept I guess. Open your exe in notepad, hold alt, and mash the numpad?
No, there are tools like “hex editors” that allow to edit a file in a more controlled way. I don’t think opening a binary file in notepad would do anything good to that file…
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Cleaning the underside of rich people’s boats. I didn’t have access to actual scuba gear so I would snorkel around disgusting harbors, holding my breath and scraping/scrubbing barnacles off by hand.
Wasn’t bad money, but it was gross. People weren’t supposed to release their sewage in the harbor. But they did. Thankfully only did that a couple times before finding much better work.
This makes me wonder what people who live in permanently docked house boats do/are supposed to do with their sewage
Supposed to pay for someone to come around and pump it out. But this was the Caribbean, you don’t get in any trouble as long as you can afford the bribe.
I can fit quarters and €2 coins in my nostrils. I used to have a drunkenness level that would prompt me to assert this at parties or bars, and then I’d obviously show people.
Nobody wants their coins back after that, but it’s not very lucrative and I shudder to think now about the diseases I tempted.
Likely got some beta-hemolytic staphylococcus aureus all up in there. It’s a community derived strain of a common microorganism of the skins biome that can kill blood cells. Do you get sore-throats often, itchy nostrils?
It’s been a decade or more since I did it, but I wasn’t very frequently sick at the time, nor am I now. I do get more severely sick than my husband now, but he’s an overweight omnivore and I’m an underweight vegan, so I assume it’s more related to that. Itchy nostrils sound awful, but I’ve never had them.
Trading/selling music gear
I was commuting back to home from the city where I was doing apprenticeship.
I sat next to an elderly lady who initiated a talk with me and soon has asked what i believed her subjects were she used to teach at school. I believe i got it wrong the first time but right on my second try and explained why i thought so.
After we noticed that we both lived/exited in the same village she offered me a price money and asked for my address so she could send it to me.
I know this sounds super suspicious and writing it makes me wonder why i have given her my address, but i was young and there are probably a lot of details i’m missing which would make it totally reasonable. Some days later i got an letter with 5 € attached :)
Back when I lived with my parents, I had an extended family member who worked in hospitality in Atlantic City. Normally her hotel doesn’t allow pets, but I guess this one guy was rich enough to be an exception to the rule, as he wanted to stay and gamble but had a new puppy that couldn’t be left alone. She made a social media post asking if anyone would be available to dog-sit for him last-minute. I was the first to reply.
I made several hundred dollars by sitting in a random hotel room and playing games on my computer while a sweet puppy slept on my lap. The man expected to be out late, but he came back early and still paid me for the full time.
It was awesome. I would do it again in a heartbeat.
Used to do the Amazon empty box scam, and sell the shipped replacements on eBay.
More recently I’d go through the bins in the barrio, find the clothes that had been left, wash them and sell them on Vinted.
Any electronics were tested and then cleaned and put on Wallapop.
Played pre-TV Tim Allen for a bit. Never got caught, but I did get robbed of a whole delivery once. Quit after that, too stressful.
“What the hell is that supposed to mea… ooooooohhhhh. Yeah, that sounds stressful.”
In university I was into visual art, mostly drawing and photography. So I went to drawing class. At the end of semester the teacher proposed to us to be models for next semester and I took it. It was funny, just sitting or standing still for 2 hours 😁 Easy money.
Little less fun was when they was drawing nude body, so I was standing there in only my underwear 😅
And when they was drawing a caricature I asked them to draw me as a werewolf. One guy did and later donated his drawing to me. I still have it after all those years 😊
