Money making Ideas

Unfortunatly for this thread, im from England and i understand a lot of the people on this forum are from America, which works differently. Im pretty sure you cant get an official job here untill your 16+ (excluding paper delivery, which I do), also, im not brilliant at fixing computers, that is to say, I never have, also i dont think many people would want a 14 year old entrusted with their computer (although through this forum Im learning a lot more about how computers work, and when im 15/16 that may become a possibility, thanks anyway). I tried the Coke selling idea, it didnt go down to well, no one here buys it if they know they can get it cheaper somewhere else, and the presance of a garage across the street makes it slightly redundant anyway, the society here is, if you dont know them, dont trust them, which rules out all but 25 of the 1300 students at my school, and they all know i just want to make a profit at their expense.

the same aplys to the candy, and my parents dont really give me alot of freedom :dead: , my dad was uneasy about letting me join the chocolate tasting CLub! (i do recomend joining, the chocs are fantastic), i am going to put up adverts in the holidays, for random bout-the-house jobs, and continue for Sundays, the only day I dont do anything. ALso im toying with the idea of making stuff to sell, and suggestions welcome (this is a general discussion folder after all) :wave: All suggestions are welcome and I am thankfull for all your suggestions.

I cant believe i said suggestion three times in a sentences, apologies for any bafflement caused.

No actually, i thought it would be better to spread the big posts information over two posts, people might not bother reading if a post is half a page long. I only did the third one because i reread the post and noticed that fact, and im a fairly meticulous person, and I couldnt be bothered altering it.

I'm ashamed to say my first job was working at McDonalds. And sorry if I'm making fun of some people that work at McDonalds currently. But I'm happy I got a good job after saving up to get into college. If you want a good job, work at a restaurant washing dishes or something, then work your way up from there. If you work at a 4 star restaurant as a waiter you make mad tips. I'm not kidding that was my second job and now currently I'm building computers for people. Most waiters that work at 4 star restaurants make more money then Teachers.

LMAO flinchy boostin ya posts number, dont worry Everyone does it, like me,
i agree with Phantasm66

keep it up Ph30nIX, it sounds funny when u say u got $15 for a days work when some people charge $200 an hour for their services (e.g. coperate personal trainers) with ur attitude mabey one day you will get some amount like that!!

Hehe, thanks.


Although i earn that money, most of it ends up in my computer.

Ph30nIX.

You should try building a website, there's money to be made there, no matter your age.

sell stuff on ebay.

When I was in college ebay wasn't around. I co-ran a computer parts salvage business. I still do somewhat.

Cut grass, deliver papers, do odd jobs.... heck There's a lot of work a teenager can do and a lot of odd jobs older folks either can't or won't do.

If I had saved all the $ I earned as a teenager, I could have retired by now!

A lot of cities and towns have youth centers where people post jobs for teens.
good luck - I'm glad to see a younger person with a good work ethic, it's refreshing for a change.

In Texas (El Paso) at least, they still hang around on the side of road to bum money. The way i see it, if you have the energy to bum money, you have the energy to work at least a menial job. Hell, I've scrubed toilets on airlines when I was desparate for employment. I don't tolerate able-bodied bums. There's always a job - it may not be glamorous or pay a lot, but they're there.

One ***** was so bold as to knock on my truck window (while I wasn't looking) to sell me some school sh*t I didn't want. I told HER that she's lucky I wasn't an assh*le because she could get hurt by doing a stupid thing like that.

I hate the way so many people in this life rely on handouts. Its like there is a huge section of society who think that work is optional and that society owes them. It doesn't.

If you are sick, you deserve help. If you are disabled, you deserve help. If you are old, you deserve help. If you are mentally ill, you deserve help. If you can't read, you deserve help.

If you are so much of a scumbag that you have never worked in your life, then I think you deserve nothing. You don't deserve to have your criminal gains supplemented with benefits, and you don't deserve to sit around doing nothing all day whilst others go out and work.

Its taken me till 30 years old to realise this. Its not easy to stop spending money on so many computing things, beer, etc. But it has to stop. If you save money, you attain a level of security that far outweighs anything a new mobo every six months, or nights out on the town can give you. I'm not saying be a total miser, I am saying don't spend like there is no tomorrow. Because there IS a tomorrow.

Oh, I agree . - and I'm a real cheap person, but the fact is I don't make a lot of money, and I support my estranged wife. But I try to save and thank God I have had a good job in the military for the last 14 years. I traded high paying employment for job security and a decent retirement.

But I still don't get people who refuse to work. I've done MANY menial and low class jobs that were beneath me (I'm a very educated person with 2 college degrees and I came from an upper middle class family as well as attended a private high school). So I feel there is no excuse. I've scrubbed toilets, done janitorial work, stocked shelves, slinged baggage, picked up trash, anything that paid enough. Lord knows I've done a lot of crappy details when I was low ranking in the military (I remember one time getting dead animals out of a coal pile and also punching [cleaning tubes] in boilers, as well as pulling weeds in over 100F sun.) So there is no excuse for laziness.

I've always encouraged young people to work and get an education and support their country through military service (at least for a short period.) So when I see youth asking how they can find a job, it makes me very happy. Like you said, there are too many bums and the popular music/rap/ hip hop culture does not encourage work. It promotes sexual promiscuity and laziness.

My hat is off to that teenager who wanted to work. He/she has a lot of things against him/her.

I remember a very funny moment in college when I was studying economics. The professsor was drawing an econometric model of money movement in the United States and marking each linear set with a letter. He went through M1, M2, etc.... and then got to unemployment which he designated with a U. Then as a subset of unemployment he put a dashed line which he marked with an "f". I asked the professor, "Sir" what is the "f" for? It is not in our book! He replied, - "oh, that's the f-factor, the FREELOAD, factor, the percentage of society that is able bodied and can work, but REFUSES to, and therefore the rest of the economy has to support their laziness through social welfare." The whole class laughed, although it was funny, it was serious business. Their laziness was an economic drain on society!

There is nothing shameful about working at Mcdonalds. My very first (taxable) job was at a Hardees. Everyone has to start somewhere.

you could also buy a bunch of computers for really cheap (ones that are about 2 to 4 years old) fix them up and make them Internet and school work worthy and sell them and make a profit. Old computers arn't really bad for normal use anyway, I worked on a computer that was about 10 years old and running windows 95 with 166mhz processor and 16mb of ram and it seemed quite fast. I also worked on a couple computers that were about 6 years old and they were in good condition. you can probably put signs up asking to have peoples old computers, some will be happy to get rid of them if they are taking up need space. I know tons of people that has computers sitting around that they are not using that they would be willing to sell for 30 dollars or give for free. Say you bought a old computer for about 30 and fixed it up and put about 40 - 50 dollars in to it for repairs and then sold it for about 150. There is alot of people that need a computer and can't afford to buy a brand new one for $400 and up. you can make up to about a $80 profit.

Work is exactly what I'm trying to do :approve: . Im 14 with a paper-round, and several big exams in the next few years, I want a job that I can earn money, yet doesn't force me into long hours and inflexible times :unch: . My current plans are to advertise for decorating, gardening jobs etc, and maybe learn programming so I can build websites for people. Im also interested in things I could make to sell. All suggestions and advice on these topics is helpful and I would be thankful for it.

Im also going to salvage pcs from the local skip, fix them is possible, if not possible, take out the parts, and when I have enought, build custom PCs to sell

Good idea about the signs, ill do that as well. Thanks