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Done what, exactly? Paint people's rooms? Can't paint a whole house in that time can you?
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A good thread ruined by two guys (three if you count Joad's/Fakins' presence) slurring WNs at will.
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I wasn't alluding to you. It's just a good rule for everyone to follow. I don't feel as strongly against hijacking as others do, but when we get this personal bickering in otherwise interests threads - that I object to. And I'm just going to delete where I see it. And incremental cases against offenders will accrue in my mindlet.
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There has been a great number of such enterprising people coming and going over the last decade or so. I will certainly give them their due credit for knowing how to get their hands on money. No argument there. How long such enterprising is going to continue is a whole 'nother matter, I think. The Kwans have had a lot of cash to spend during the last twenty years. How most are going to sustain that status in the high tech world we live in is an interesting question. But maybe the right winger, libertarian types are right and America will stay right on top and in stiff competition with Asia and Apple by running lawn care services and car "detailing," simple carpentry* and the like at a corporate lawyer prices. Two guys stopped by the house last week wanting to trim trees. 800 bucks a tree. I laughed but a neighbor took them up. They trimmed four trees, in as many hours and left the brush in the yard, thereby insuring another enterprising moneymaker a few days work at a similar wage rate. Grass mowers get from 80 bucks a pop up to over 300 per yard. This neighbor, BTW, is a retired janitor from Monsanto. He had no skills but he made 30 bucks and hour and they let him work around the clock if he wanted to. A lot of people around here made those kind of wages with unskilled work. Out of curiosity I frequently look at job bulletin boards and the like. Most unskilled and semi-skilled labor, I see, seems to pay about 11 bucks an hour these days. As I alluded to above, I wonder how that is going to impact these enterprising money makers. (*) A few years ago, yet another enterprising man took an older woman for 2500 bucks when a bad gutter caused the floor joists to rot and let her living room floor drop about two inches. Total material costs were about 450 dollars. The job took a little less than five hours. I talked to the man. He said he got more than that for the same job over in the neighboring county. And he started out wanting 11 grand! When the woman, of course, said she didn't have that kind of money, the carpenter reevaluated the damage and decided the less drastic repair would do. Uh-huh. Like I said, I can't fault these people for their money making ability--or their nerve. I wish them luck keeping up the, um, err, business in the future. |
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Yeah, he PMed me. A lucrative occupation, for sure.
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Last weekend a neighbor of mine needed some maintenance done on is riding mower. He needed the oil changed, fuel filter, and also the blade sharpened/straightened. Then took a grease gun and lubed everything up. Fuel filter + oil filter + 2 quarts of oil was about $50 for his mower. Took me 2 hours. Basically did a full tuneup on it. Made $150 profit or so. The mower ran like new when I was done with it. Local shop would have charged quite a bit more, and he would have had to wait a couple weeks. I do odd jobs like that all the time.
Everyone I've ever done work for usually calls me back for something in the future. If you get to know 8-10 people, and do good work for them, suddenly people start calling you up. Someone wanted me to paint a whole house (exterior) and there was lots of molding and corners that needed to be scraped/sanded, and I had to turn that one down. Not that I couldn't do it, but I wasn't certain enough how long it would take to do it right, and I've been known to greatly underbid things. So I don't take on large projects, unless they agree to pay me hourly + ill hand them the receipt for materials. Last edited by Crowe; May 15th, 2013 at 10:13 PM. |
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Wow.
Trolling the Working forum with your idiotic paranoia now? Hey, Warren... Did you follow the advise in the OP this election cycle to make extra cash? Did any of you? Nah, it would have entailed a little effort, even when the proven winner project was literally spelled out for you. Don't bitch about having nothing when you do nothing. |
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Relax. While I didn't do the T Shirt Wars thing you suggested, I did imitate the self-starter spirit and began selling used men's shirts.
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There are a thousand different legal ways for a motivated individual to make cash. Don't be a wage-slave your whole lives, guys. |
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Right. Just a little hustle can really pay dividends. Hit the thrift stores, the yard sales; the money's out there waiting to be picked up by anyone who does their homework.
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It's utterly amazing what you can find. |
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Of course, such windfalls don't come every day; it all depends on what they have at the moment, and the buyer's level of "market research".
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Yeah, you post a picture of some ADL Jew in a thread about a proven way for whites to earn some extra cash exactly why again, Warren?
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Nah, I don't wonder about that at all, man. |
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I guess looking at that picture must be like you are looking in a mirror. |
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Now, since you're from Florida, I'll explain my insult to you in terms you'll find it perhaps a bit easier to gain benefit from: You'd have to rape a blow-up doll in order to approximate having sexual intercourse with a female, human or pig. Interesting that you would use the insult "fat fuck" to someone you've never seen. One wonders, since you seem to be given to wondering about such things, Warren....one wonders if perhaps you're projecting? Do you cranks even internalize why you obsess over & follow me around the forum like attention-starved teenage girls? Because I know why, and it isn't because you think I'm some morbidly-obese ADL Jew. Quote:
Hey, it's the Internet. If a semi-literate worm-IQ paranoiac parrot like yourself can be a detective, I sure as hell can be a psychologist, motherfucker. Don't worry. I'm pre-med. Or maybe it was pre-law....same thing. |
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