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post #46 of 59
1/31/10 at 4:54pm
intern at a bus transit service
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post #47 of 59
1/31/10 at 5:19pm
As an undergrad I started working out in IT at my school, and I would suggest looking at campus jobs. I then later worked (and continue to do so as a recent graduate) in communications and development for a large non-profit of sorts. I also interned during the summer at a large data storage company and worked full time which was incredibly well paid and they treated the interns well to boot. During my last semester I took a full load of courses, worked the communications job, and interned at an advertising agency which was a fantastic time. Now, with a diploma things are less exciting, for the time being.
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post #48 of 59
1/31/10 at 10:16pm
HS: youth tennis instructor

College: sold mens suits.
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post #49 of 59
1/31/10 at 11:02pm
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Originally Posted by AThingForCashmere View Post
One more vote for pot dealer, if you're in California or another state that has decriminalized it.

The money will be orders of magnitude greater than a minimum wage job, and you can work your own hours.

I was netting over $4000 a month in the mid-70s selling weed. (This was when a pound of Mexican was wholesaling at about $75 in 10-pound lots.) I had so much cash piling up that I had to rent safe deposit boxes in 5 different banks around town. It was crazy money.
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post #50 of 59
2/2/10 at 9:59am
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Selling very expensive marijuana is the only way to go. Firstly, no one buys really expensive marijuana except for really rich white kids. Good clientele = not likely to get caught. Also, the profit is bananacakes. Of course, you would probably already have to have a taste for the product to really understand the intricacies of the business, but for me, it was a no-brainer.
rich white kids are the worst customers. You don't want them. They always get nabbed by daddy, they always tell daddy where it came from, which means there are basically two ways it plays out...daddy is an ex-hippy, in which case Rich Little Timmy gets a lecture on "the mistakes of my youth." Or more likely, daddy is puritan who calls the police to report the evils that you have perpetrated to fuck up Our Little Timmy after all his efforts to keep him away from the likes of you. I always liked acid as a business better than weed anyhow. Attracts a better clientele, margins used to be good on it, its easily concealed (hell, its just a sheet of paper). That was my side thing when I was studying. I was selling suits, selling acid, tending bar (and occasionally selling acid from behind the bar), studying and interning all at once back then. My brother on the other hand bought his house out of home grown hydro weed, since I grew up in one of the cities with some of the most liberal weed laws in the world. The joys of growing up in a bad neighborhood...wouldn't have it any other way.
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post #51 of 59
2/2/10 at 4:13pm
Intern at IRS District Counsel.
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post #52 of 59
2/2/10 at 4:15pm
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i would deal drugs except i'm not really in with the drug crowd nor do i know where to get supplies.

(6.5)
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post #53 of 59
2/2/10 at 4:19pm
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rich white kids are the worst customers. You don't want them. They always get nabbed by daddy, they always tell daddy where it came from, which means there are basically two ways it plays out...daddy is an ex-hippy, in which case Rich Little Timmy gets a lecture on "the mistakes of my youth."

Or more likely, daddy is puritan who calls the police to report the evils that you have perpetrated to fuck up Our Little Timmy after all his efforts to keep him away from the likes of you.


Really rich, white, Episcopalian kids. But seriously, this never really happened to anyone I knew. At least not by the hands of 'rents. In undergrad the administration got a little riled, but that was really only when coke hit a campus of 1,500 like a blinding blizzard.

Selling doses is a pretty foolproof game though.
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post #54 of 59
2/2/10 at 6:48pm
I put in ~13 hours a week. I work for a politician.
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post #55 of 59
2/2/10 at 6:52pm
- Chinese restaurant cashier - Math, Engrish, Science tutor - Machinist (blue collar street cred YEAAHHHH)
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post #56 of 59
2/2/10 at 6:54pm
I worked in the registrar's office for three of the four years that I was in college. When I would meet new people at campus parties or whatever, they would always say, "Hey, you're that guy from the registrar's office!"
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post #57 of 59
2/2/10 at 7:21pm
I worked at the gas station. I drove an ice cream truck. And I did plumbing with my dad.
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post #58 of 59
2/2/10 at 8:33pm
In undergrad I worked at a Thai restaurant. I was the b!tch that chopped veggies, bussed tables and cleaned dishes. The work sucked and the pay was worse. The very worst part was the day I came in and found the owners (husband and wife) yelling at each other and crying. The guy finally left and the woman just cried on my shoulder for an hour before I was able to extract myself from the situation. It turns out he was cheating on her (at least according to her). I quit a week later.
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post #59 of 59
2/2/10 at 10:08pm
I did a bunch of stuff during college. I started out working as a studio technician at a radio station, which was really cool but paid very poorly and had basically no room for advancement. From there, I went on to doing credit card collections, which had flexible hours and paid a lot more, but the work itself SUCKED. Anything call center related, though, is usually pretty easy to get into as a student.

After that I moved into retail, working at a national mall-based chain while also working at a little airbrush booth doing some art and trying to keep the business side running when the more tempermental owners decided not to deal with customers for the day. For a while I apprenticed at a tattoo shop.

In high school, I did unskilled labor for my family (Dad and Grandfather owned property) and worked as a professional magician.

Honestly, even with the economy it shouldn't be THAT hard to find some retail or call center work. Neither is glamorous, but either can pay some bills.
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