Making money as a teenager.

October 30, 2008 2:57pm CST
As a teenager i tried loads of different things to earn money I tried to sell scrap metal, Aluminium and Copper I tried the Classic of doing a paper round I tried Sites that pay you to search using there search engine I tried wheeling and dealing at school I tried doing online sites that paid you to do surveys I tried to do pyramid schemes I Want to know the things you tried when you are desperate for that little bit of cash
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@mykmari_08 (2464)
• Philippines
31 Oct 08
Well I won't insist that you search for a regular job for yourself because I'm quite certain that it won't be easy, considering that you're still a teenager at present. As such, I'm also sure that you're still an undergraduate. Personally, when I was about seventeen or eighteen years of age, I consider myself fortunate enough to work as a student assistant with my former school which I attended from kindergarten until high school. This is also where I graduated from secondary. It was primarily a summer job and normally lasted for two months; or three months maximum. This made me busy for two consecutive summers with a pay rate given corresponding to the prevailing local rate then. Somehow aside from learning the value of work firsthand, I was able to have some money for allowance for the upcoming school's first semester which I didn't have to ask from my parents. Not that they're stingy or something, but I know that I have to be as thrifty as I can in order to help them somehow not only with my own schooling but also for my three younger siblings' education, too. But this was more than a decade ago. At present, I do have my full time job with a local bank as a financial analyst. I'm fully aware that times are tougher than ever before and even if I do have a job now, I still engage in other lawful extra earning opportunities to augment my income.
31 Oct 08
Ive got a job lined up for three weeks time, but its only a weekend shift at a gardening centre, and its only gonna pay me a about £4.50 an hour. but i've always been looking for ways to earn myself some money.
@Jamian (2602)
• Philippines
2 Nov 08
wow, that is a very good sign of having a good foundation in sales, if you fail on those things, its not a reason to quit, rather, make it as an instrument to achieve more things and explore even better for success, mind you, i have joined a business here in the Philippines, now i am earning good, because of failures before, feel free to visit my blog at my profile and check it out. you will enjoy its videos for sure. ;p
@rkrish (3003)
• India
31 Oct 08
hi joze i am so proud of you of earning in many ways not in single ways as well thats way i too grwon up i still remeber i made money out of many ways say i made money out of buying files in bulk for my felow students i made money out of arrnaging a tour trip for my college days i made money out of selling occasional clothes i made money out of speaking /seminars i took