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Money is usually hard to come by, in my experience at least, but every now and then a little job or side hustle comes along that is just a sweet gig.
For me, it was doing some voice-over work for show pilots.
Since I used to work in broadcast journalism (which in itself was probably the best and easiest job I ever had), someone recommended me, and all I had to do was go to a studio and do like 20-30 mins of work, for which I got 500 bucks (the equiv of) in an envelope.
Glorious.
What about you stackers?
What I have been doing since 2011: volunteering for clinical trials. I just got admitted into a study this morning that will pay me $18,000 for 33 days of my time.
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Doing what (as specific as you'd like to be)? What do they say in the release they make you sign, in terms of risks, etc?
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The trial I'm in now is for a medication to treat schizophrenia. I don't have this condition. I'm just a healthy body from which to observe any possible side effects. I'm going to be at this facility 24/7 till October.
The screening process for every clinical trial includes an informed consent document. This document goes over the purpose of the trial, the procedures involved for volunteers during in-house stay, the possible side effects observed from previous trials, and the compensation breakdown.
This website lists, state by state, where you can do trials at: https://jalr.org/
The room I'm staying in:
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Wow, 24/7!
I'm really curious about what they have you do (outside of taking blood samples, etc). Do they plan activities or anything like that? I imagine being confined like that could come with it's own issues...
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Some of these places that conduct clinical trials have an activities coordinator, but I'm not sure if this place does. Every place has a recreation room with tvs. Some places have pool tables, tabletop games, puzzles, books. There's wifi, of course.
I guess fortunately and unfortunately, I'm well suited to doing this for a living. I'm an introvert who keeps to themself for the most part.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 6 Sep
Some places have pool tables, tabletop games, puzzles, books. There's wifi, of course.
This reminded me that I started reading The Kite Runner during one of my stays and it was really good but I think I couldn't finish it and never followed up on it, I should do so
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i knew i guy who did medical trials when he was almost broke, 18k is pretty crazy though. do they tell you what the max level effects could be, or just observe you? are you nervious?
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Yes. When you screen (the process of being evaluated for suitability for a study) for a study at these places, you're given a document called an "informed consent" that lists possible side effects a subject can experience from a study drug or procedures they'll need to undergo, such as blood draws, EKGs, etc.
Am I nervous about the study I'm doing? Not anymore. I didn't experience any side effects from the dose I took yesterday, which was the first dose of this study (four more to go; dosings are every Friday for this study). Procedure wise, this is a very easy study.
This is what most of my week is going to look like till I get out of here:
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thanks for sharing, quite fascinating actually
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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @dot 17h
When I was about 7 or 8 years old, I discovered that the tip of a ballpoint pen could make a whistling sound, just like a dog whistle. I wrote about this discovery and sent it to a magazine. The very first royalty I earned from it was just enough to buy school supplies for my first month at school.
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that's awesome !
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I used to lower my grandparents' phone brightness, slow down their iPhones, Computer by installing unnecessary apps, and then take money from them to repair it at the store. Easy money every 2–3 months. (Don't judge me though i stopped doing this years ago.)
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Oh God, thank goodness you reformed, otherwise you would have gone straight to hell hahahahaha
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😁
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that's pretty funny
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Really?
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glad you see you have reformed your grandparent abusing ways lol
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Yeah, I used to purchase new games
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 6 Sep
Undoubtedly the easiest money I have earned in this last couple of years was when a friend told me that her boss had some bitcoin on a phone, due to a payment she received in a few years previous, she listened to that she had climbed, I looked at the balance of her wallet and wanted that liquid money how much before. 1.5% of the amount more fees for my time. In less than an hour I already had the Fiat in her account and she was happy and I also to earn that money with something that was just in the process of learning. 😁
Note: I must add that they paid me in Fiat in those days I was in my beginnings with Bitcoin and it was more shitcoiner than Bitcoiner, I had not yet awakened from the illusion of the money paper.
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I worked for a commercial dive company for a while, and we ended up landing a government contract to install a plug in a pool on a military base so that another contracted company could change the pump. Because it was a gov. contract, the gov. dictated our wages. The state wage for commercial diver was $84 an hour and that is what the contract mandated our company to pay us. So after set up, drive, set up, dive, break down, drive, break down we got 6 hours at $84 twice. One for a 5 minute wooden plug install and One for the removal the next day.
edit: There were definitely post work beers those days.
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that is pretty sweet. are many commercial drivers also making 84 an hour?
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I think he said commercial divers. I also misread it the first time
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Flipping a house with my brother. Its something he's done a lot but he had an opportunity and needed investors. I made 0 decisions, he did all the work. In and out in 73 days, everything lined up perfectly and came out with a decent amount of sats.
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Walking on the street and finding $20 not once but twice!
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i hope you purchased sats with the windfall!
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Odds are I most likely did
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53 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 6 Sep
I participated in clinical trials
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makes me wonder how much they pay for that stuff in Bulgaria, bet it's peanuts compared to those juicy US trials
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 6 Sep
I’m in the EU
I got paid around €2000 for a week
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @kruw 6 Sep
Interesting, was it for drug testing?
It would be extra easy money if you were in the placebo control group πŸ˜„
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 6 Sep
Yes, iirc I had to take a pill (don’t even remember what it was for) and then just stay in the hospital for a week with many others to get ~€2000
I think they only tell you at the end if it was a placebo or not
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I think there's often a tension between what pays well hourly, versus what is repeatable and consistent.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @joyfam 6 Sep
Reporting a typo on a company's vision statement
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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @Vilael 6 Sep
I run a book cafΓ©, which basically means no salary for me πŸ˜‚
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combining two of the hardest ways to make money, respect the vision tho!
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Was scouted to test out a content creator platform before. After some experience using it, I went for an hour online interview in which the creators asked me for my opinions and hung on my every word. Easiest and most fun $150 I have ever made
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nice, played like a true milk master!
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Definitely betting against the 49ers
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I will try to be brief: It was July 2017 and the world of airdrops was in a good moment and there I was on bitcointalk looking among the hundreds of airdrops for some that gave me good vibrations... then I saw one that I liked, it was called deeponion and was just starting. The requirements were acceptable, you had to send 10 messages per week and keep the signature on the forum. We started to receive our thousands of coins that had no value, still with the determination of a retard I continued week after week and also did some cheating by creating more accounts to extract more... Weeks passed and some exchange added to DO to trade wow! The value was low and there was a rule that had to be respected if you wanted to continue participating in the airdrop, you could not dump more than 15% of the coins received that week. I was selling every week the maximum allowed and kept the rest, the bitcoin kept going up and dragging all kinds of shitcoins included DO. The market was euphoric, DO was trading at 5$, 6$, 9, 12... I had accumulated thousands of them, until how much would it go up? Now everyone wanted to participate in the airdrop! We were approaching the end of the year and btc was at highs, DO was paid at more than 100k sats a unit or about 19$... crazy The airdrop was still going on but I sold 90% of my stake at the maximum, my goal was always to accumulate as many sats as possible. Today I look back and I still don't understand how I made that magnificent move since most of my sats come from DO, it changed my life.
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When digital cameras were introduce to the market, I bought a basic one, for almost $500 it was like 4 megapixels and really small memory.
I attended to an event organized by the British embassy in Venezuela, O took some photos because I enjoy taking it and then the organization bought some of them.
I don't remember how much I got paid, but for a teenager it was a great experience.
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Stacker news is my favourite and the only easiest way to make some sats. Engagement in stacker news is amazing when someone just make sats rain....
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Bitcoin.
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