What motivates you to earn more money?

Those are great motivations. It's crazy how much things cost for schools now makes public schools feel like you're paying for private.

That is so true about school costs. Just last night I wrote out 4 checks for $10 each. Three were for sports pictures and one for the book fair. Next will come the school pictures! It's tough to get ahead with all these extras that come up.

I know it's insane, I remember my old roommate's daughter when they were here and she was in school, it was so expensive. Even the lunches were a bit much!

My real big goal is to establish MY OWN on-line photo business..I do have two photo websites but I would like to get a more pro looking one that will also accept monetary transactions, and there is this one photo host website but it cost about $250 a year..not really bad but I would have to make sure I had it! The money that is. I avoid the micro stock photo agency websites like the plague...people think they are going to mak oodles of money as the premise is that every time someone "hits" and downloads your photo you're paid...uh, right...The "client" can download the photo for a mere buck or two, and use it unlimited times without any further compensation to you...what does the photographer get...25-cents--I don't think so, not considering in my "heyday" of selling work I could earn $100 per photo. I do upload some photos for requests at Photographer's Direct which is a more pro photography site and pay better..but so far my photos haven't sold... :(

Yeah my computer is sick of seeing my face already! Right now working online is the only way I make any money at all. The last job I had denied me unemployment even thought it was 100% their fault and technically they let me go but they said I quit... which is true in part. I had put in my notice two months early as I was leaving town and then a month later changed my mind and when I told them they said but isn't your last day this Friday. I said, no the end of next month. Well they got the date wrong and hired someone else who had in turn quit her job so they said they had to keep her, later I found it she was the best friend of a girl there and even though she spoke no Spanish (it was a bilingual position) she got $3 more an hour than I did... which was why I was moving, the pay and they had said it was against the corporate rules to pay more for that position. So they screwed me twice. Which really is a big motivator, I don't want to work my a$$ off for someone else who will just exploit me and then discard me later. Have you tried selling your photography on various sites? My cousin is a photographer and she does that and makes good money as well as in her studio.

Yes, we can do better being our own boss!

I started pretty much the same way, with a curiosity about it. Not wanting to waste time working for someone else is a big motivator and what motivates me most of the time!

Working online is a great option for college students to earn some money on their free time. Check out these two guides that might help you: http://www.squidoo.com/friendsncash http://www.squidoo.com/earningonlineguide

earn money online truly is a good way of earning more money,but not all and also is not the main reason and main way,i think the main use is having the pleasure of sharing ideas and creating ideas

working online is a great way to help pay off debt

Like you, I'm on the net trying to make a few pennies because I want to build up my pay-pal account without actually having to put in any money from my real day-time jobs. However, since I've started on mylott and the few other PTP sites I've joined, I seem to find myself spending lots and lots of time on the net. But then again, since I already spend so much time infront of a comuter, I guess bashing things out here won't do me any harm and collecting a few pennies extra won't kill me too.

Kids are great motivations. I was 4 when my mom took me to see PR and I still remember it, I loved it. It's always nice to be able to share that with your kids.