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[ronito]

I was an international student so I had to work on campus.

My first job was working on a alumni fund raiser drive at a small college which had never done. The lists were old and out of date, a lot of people we ended up calling were actually dead or barely remembered the college. But most memorable call went like this:

"Hi sir, I'm calling from x college for our alumni fund raiser."
"Yo no hablo ingles."
"sigh....Hola senor, estoy llamando por."
"Ich Kann nicht Spanisch."
"sigh...Guten tag Herr. Ich bin."
"Je ne parle pas allemand."
"Je parle francais!"
"Watakushi wa....uh...french wakarimasen."
"Watakushi wa nihongo wakarimasu!!!"
"Wow, you're good. but I'm not interested."
"FINE!!"

Then I hung up.

 

[DonMigs85]

I modeled nude at my University's art department once. Got $14/hr, 3 hours a day for 4 days. Only shitty part about it, aside from being naked in front of people I'd seen around campus, was they had the air conditioning cranked way up.

I also created 2 "viral" comedy videos for a porn site, back when viral videos weren't a dime a dozen. In one I streaked (in a banana hammock) through a major metropolitan tourist area, and in the other I lit my balls on fire. They paid me $1000 for the first one and $500 for the second.

I was a Wii, XBox360, and PS3 camper at my local Best Buy for a while too. Wal-Mart would sell at midnight so I'd go there first, then as soon as I got the goods there, I'd run over to Best Buy and get a system there too. Then around 9am I'd list them on Craigslist and Ebay and watch the dollars roll in.

That can't be good, you probably killed all your sperm. The balls have to stay cooler than the main body.

 

[besada]

Telephone sales, Santa, sign painting, lawn mowing, phone book delivery, dope mule, telephone appointment setting for realtors, busking, house burglary, writing comics, beer delivery service, house painting, fireworks sales, making dolls.

 

[Dr.Horrible]

Detasseled corn for all of 6 days. It was horrible and/or I was supremely lazy. It paid pretty damn good though.

 

[MickD]

Website & graphic design for a funeral home when I was 20. The owner was a friend's dad, we just sat around drinking and playing jokes on each other all day. Sometimes we would bring in hookers for lunch breaks, I made it last for a few months, most fun I've had at a job other than bartending.

 

[goomba]

Website & graphic design for a funeral home when I was 20. The owner was a friend's dad, we just sat around drinking and playing jokes on each other all day. Sometimes we would bring in hookers for lunch breaks, I made it last for a few months, most fun I've had at a job other than bartending.

 

[YakiSOBA]

i know a guy who used to volunteer for like all these disease-awareness organizations (kidney disease, heart and stroke, etc) and he'd go around to the rich neighborhoods and canvas the shit out of them and keep most of it for himself.. does that count?

 

[TheKaeptain]

I may or may not have helped a woman I know find guys for her escort business. She may have wanted to branch out to central valley; I may have met her at the right time. It may also be a bitch to find straight guys that would actually do it.

 

[Jasup]

Organised few underground rave parties. Most of the income was from selling alcohol.

 

[big black woman]

i used to show my feet to a gay guy on the webcam, he paid me 40 dollars for like a 5 minute session.

 

[MilesWebber]

sucking a guy's cock

Hey! Me too!

 

[The Abominable Snowman]

Best: One old people home got desperate and started paying teens to go sit in and listen to old people talk. The old women spent their time talking about their families or hitting on you and the old guys talked about the old women or asked you how sex is.

Worst: Aside from sucking cock, doing online surveys. Spent 10 hours earning 40 dollars. Then after that the prices of the surveys nosedived. Take a 20 minute survey for $<1? no thanks.. I'll just get a legit job

 

[Petrie]

I'm building a videogame price comparison site. Got about 10 retailers now and going to add 3-4 more tomorrow.

I think you need something better than what CheapAssGamer has already been doing an amazing job of.

 

[Jeff-DSA]

I monetized a hobby. I collect arcade and pinball machines. After buying up a few broken ones, I realized that there was a good opportunity to buy dead games at a low price and sell them all cleaned up and repaired at a much higher price. The best turnaround I did was $300 paid for a pinball machine and it sold for $1800.

 

[Irish]

Intersection Abuse Receiver for a flower shop-

 

[Death Dealer]

Medical testing. In one, I took some type of medication that lowered my blood pressure for about three years. They usually paid about $750, but my friends and I once held out for a big one that earned $3000. We gave up weed for about a month beforehand so we could be assured a spot, but we must have really overdone it on the drinking to compensate. I was rejected for some kind of high liver count, but they asked me not to drink for a few days and come back. When they did the test a second time, they asked me if I had chugged a beer right before I took it! :lol That ended my medical testing career.

Lowered your bp for three years ? Were you still getting monitored or is that anecdotal ?
I honestly find it hard to believe.

I tested an HIV anti-viral drug. They paid me $3500 to take 7 pills. One of the side effects was it turned the whites of my eyes yellow. They went back to normal within a week later.

Another time I tested a new insomnia medicine. After I took it, they wouldn't let me sleep. Blood draws every 30 minutes all night long. It gave me double vision.

I've done about a dozen of them. Most didn't give me any side effects at all. It's just really boring living in a clinical facility 24/7 for days or weeks at a time.

I saw a 90 day study advertised once, it paid over $30,000.

 

[chaostrophy]

I watched porn while an electronic device was attached to my penis to measure erectile response, as part of a Kinsey Institute study.

 

[Wads]

I think you need something better than what CheapAssGamer has already been doing an amazing job of.

That's my goal. Looking at Cheapassgamer Call of Duty Black Ops for example... I already have more prices than them:

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/games.php?do=prices&gameid=19843

 

[Slayer-33]

I watched porn while an electronic device was attached to my penis to measure erectile response, as part of a Kinsey Institute study.

What the fuck :lol talk about random

 

[thetechkid]

I would sell pencils and rocks to kids at my elementary school.

 

[TL4E]

I'm 18 now.

I clean houses, and help a plumber by basically handing him tools (I get paid for this wtf?).

I once panhandled for money for the lulz as well.

 

[Omikron]

Helped out producing a hydrogen powered go-kart while I was at uni. Was a bit of a research project for an energy company. Interesting stuff.

 

[Anasui Kishibe]

I've been selling used textbooks for years at my old school. Them little berks get ripped off easily. There's always the possibility someone might think I'm a paedophile, but I don't give a fuck

also, selling stuff on Ebay. I post on Ebay.it since prices are way higher thanks to the euro, so people would pay about 15£ more than I paid for the sealed game, every bleedin' time

 

[Agnostic]

Ice Cube raps about these interesting things I have done to make money.

 

[Epix]

I once sold lemonade at a lemonade stand.

Is that code for sucking cock?

 

[Tornado Condor]

I used to chat with this gay guy in yahoo messenger and he would pay me to send him pictures of "myself." I would just image google some pictures of ripped guys and send them to him.

Stupid people these days.

 

[beje]

Hey! Me too!

Well, you certainly did something more than sucking cock :lol

 

[Cosmic Dreams]

Helped produce pornorgraphy.

I wasn't involved with making or filming, but the backoffice stuff. Making sure they were over 18, looking at applications. No, not like those porn audition porns.

How was that? Sounds a bit boring to be honest with you...

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

I went to a park to sell some barely used but old shoes and some T-shirts, it worked surprisingly well.

 

[RustyO]

Dark days, my friends, dark days indeed.

 

[Jake.]

nothing really. i was offered $150 to be in one scene of a japanese porno last year, i said no 'cause my face would be in it. kinda regret it.

 

[J. M. Romeo]

Had sex with a very ugly fat chick for a few months. Besides money, I got gifts, a Dreamcast, games, a cellphone and a bunch of games, movies and whatnot.

On retrospect, I feel kinda filthy about that.

 

[JADS]

Mysteryshopper

 

[Rei_Toei]

Worked in a hotel/lodge catering the Swiss army. Was fun/weird to watch synchronized Saving Private Ryan with Americans storming the beach shouting German with a bunch of the Swiss mountain artillery squadron or whatever their regiments was called. Cool fella's those. Enjoyed bitching endlessly with them about how Feldschlösschen is a piss-poor excuses of a beer.

I did all kind of weird teaching Jobs in Japan: European History, English, Dutch.. Weird because most of the time I felt it wasn't really about the teaching but more about watching the trained gaijin do stuff. Was hired by the English debating society at uni there to help them improve their game. Felt sorry for the lot, never seen people as nervous as Japanese students trying to verbally fuck over someone in fast-paced English.

Worked in a bicycle rental shop on a very touristic island. Sweet job with all the hot girls passing by.

Edit: I got offered a job stacking already packed meat in a industrial freezer. It's at night, it's -20 degrees (celcius) in there and it pays crazy. I'm tempted just for the sake of being able to tell vegetarian friends.

 

[RustyO]

Worked in a lobster hatchery taking care of baby lobsters and giving lectures on lobster reproduction and birth.

Weren't the baby lobsters a bit young to be learning about sex education?

 

[Nocebo]

I challenged my friends to cash bets on things they said which I knew were bullshit when I was around 8. Made a couple of bucks off of doing that. :lol

 

[spiderman123]

You know that lady on the side of the street saying, "hey Baby!"

Spoiler

well I work in the restaurant close by

 

[TxdoHawk]

I once panhandled for money for the lulz as well.

I've seriously considered putting my dignity aside and trying this for a day, just to see how much I'd get. More out of curiosity than a serious attempt at a side "job".

As far as other stuff:

- I did low-end tech support for random people for awhile. Never worth the hassle, especially now with every unemployed IT goon trying to whore themselves out.

- Mystery shopper. This actually paid pretty well and the work was easy, but there was never enough of it.

- Helped a couple of people sell things on Ebay. This was more a paid favor than anything...I basically undercut the companies who do this for a living and took a small percentage. Again, not worth the hassle.

 

[Nyx]

I sold weed, XTC and amphetamines ages ago.

 

[MarkMclovin]

Dressed as a cowboy for little kids, who then shot me and I had to fall into a pool.

Didn't get paid for it, but had a few beers given.

 

[lordmrw]

Back in 1999 after I had left the first college I went to I couldn't find work to keep me occupied til the next school semester so a friend of mine who had branched out into selling cocaine offered to pay me to to accompany him when he made his deliveries and to rough people up when they didn't pay money they owed. He didn't really need me to do it, as he could more than handle it himself, but just to have someone to talk to on the long drives and to help me out. Generally if someone had any thoughts about trying to bullshit him or to rush him, they would look at me and change their mind. Looking back on it, the whole thing was a surreal experience, as some of the least likely people you would suspect sniff coke. God bless him for having the patience to do it, as I would probably be the worst drug dealer in the world. I just don't have time for the excuses and bullshit people come up with to try and get shit from you for less or even free. I only had to kick the shit out of three people the few months I did it. First one was a racist hillbilly guy who threatened to try and beat our asses (by himself of all things!) and spit at us. I was on him before the spit hit the ground. Only thing I regret about that one is his kids were in the window watching. Second one was actually a groom getting ready to go his actual wedding. :lol . Third one........you know what I'm not gonna go into that one, partially because I helped do something I kind of regret.

 

[SuperÑ]

I cloned Pokemons in Blue/Red and the sold them to my friends when i was 10.

Had sex with a very ugly fat chick for a few months. Besides money, I got gifts, a Dreamcast, games, a cellphone and a bunch of games, movies and whatnot.

On retrospect, I feel kinda filthy about that.

But you got a Dreamcast. Sounds good to me.

 

[YoungHav]

You asked if you can take books? Why would they even tell you that you can take books from the donations bin? does not make sense.

I have no clue why they let me. I never left them empty though, I only took the bigger more expensive looking textbooks and only enough to fit in my bag. I dunno what they did with the donations.