What type of things do you do to earn money(small jobs, chores, etc)

[TheSpiritedWarrior]

My luck when it comes to making money is terrible xD. When it comes to chores, I only get 2 dollars a week and when it comes to trying to earn money outside, err.... I heard at the age of 14, you practically are legally able to do jobs, I bet that is untrue. As for small jobs, I have tried tutoring(earned 50 bucks from that) and then shoveling peoples driveways(earned me 40 dollars). I did earn a fair amount, but it ain't satisfying enough. Also, remember these were in certain periods of time, not all at once. How were you guys when it came to earning money? Try to not make me jealous, lol. I know many people who actually earn a lot of money from doing certain things.

 

[18]

I worked in a pharmacy for the second half of last month, did everything: bookkeeping and sorting the banknotes at the end of the day, deciphering the illegible prescriptions and giving them to people. If I was lucky I had one person to help me, but he wasn't good at reading English so it wasn't much help. 95% of the money I got from it wasn't for me either. It sucked.
On the bright side, the tiny bit of money I did get to keep went towards my guitar \: D/

Right now I'm looking into getting a local writing job where you write about whatever they throw at you for their site. My sister already writes for such a site and I've ghostwritten a few articles for her and most of the time it's really simplistic articles which are easy to write (water cycle, of all things; stuff about how well Australia supports its sports teams; a rap supergroup's getting back together - it was boring but easy to write - and about volunteer work). Considering how easy it is - most of the articles can get done in a couple of hours at most - it pays pretty good, she had the equivalent of 300 dollars to spend on herself and something left over after writing for them for a few months. Plus it pays on an article-by-article basis.

You might want to look into a job that requires a bit of skill - writing in English-language publications here is probably the best any young person can do for themselves because not a whole lot of them can write well - as opposed to the menial ones.
Any details on the tutoring job? How long did you have it and what level of youngins did you tutor?

 

[Tho]

The very first thing I ever did to make money was start to make a simple RPG game when I was 8, finished it by the age of 10, and had pretty much what I needed until I reached 16. Did a part-time as a waiter in a cafeteria during the last few summers and got roughly 200€ month + 500€ (tips). That was in a acquaintance's place, so the pay was better than the normal 100€ base. Now I'm at University and don't have time for anything, but once I have some more free time, I;m considering starting tutoring English. It pays good (~10€/ hour). Then again, I may try to find something that has to do with electronics, since that's what I'm studying now. For the time being, my source of income is actually two apartments I'm rending off, but they are really taxing (I'm in Greece, you know the story).

 

[Sephiran]

Growing up I was never allowed to charge people for doing standard child labor stuff like shoveling pavements after snowstorms. I was always made to do it "to be nice to the neighbors," or things like that. Household chores were similarly unpaid because my parents filed them under the obligations of a child, but that one is more understandable and I'm not bitter about that like I am about being a slave to the neighbors.

Very soon my source of income will actually be teaching, since that's what I've studied to do. It's very late in the game to be considering this, but given the incredibly sorry state of education in this country I'm considering fleeing to teach English abroad for a year or so before even thinking about taking a position at a school here.

 

[Jack]

I wait for Christmas and my birthday to roll around.

 

[Moon Rain]

I walk the dog of an acquaintance It's more difficult than you might think ! Even though he isn't that big, he is pretty much the most stubborn creature alive, probably going through puberty because every time I want to turn left he wants to turn right and every time I want to turn right he wants to turn left .-. The dog's owner said I should be harsher but every time I pull the dog walky belt thing he makes this noise as if he's suffocating and it makes me feel really guilty ;-;

I have to walk him around 1 PM, so I have to sneak out of school every time I have to walk him because we're not allowed to leave the school grounds even when we don't have lessons >_<' Buuuut he doesn't bite and he does this cool thingie, whenever you say KAAAAAASSSS (cheese in Dutch) in a really agressive voice he goes completely bananas

Main reasons why I don't have a real job job is because I'm lazy and I like to avoid social situations

 

[Mistral]

I just wait for my birthday to roll around, haha. I don't really do odd jobs for money, but if someone offered and I had the time, I'd do it. Otherwise, I just wait for the holidays or my birthday to come around, sometimes the end of a semester of classes, I'll ask for something if I've done well, but it depends, haha.

I'll get an actual job eventually, I'm just waiting for the right time to do it.

 

[Jeff The Killer]

I usually like to wait for my birthday or Christmas because my Oma likes to give money.

But I currently rate music to earn money (though it's more like Amazon money), it doesn't pay much only five dollars but I'm not complaining. As long as I can buy things for my parents I'm happy.

 

[BonnetteForever]

nothing. If i had chores i wouldn't do em' because my parents? Pay me? Sounds as impossible as world peace i'm sure. Even if they decided to be nice for once I'd only get like a dollar a month probably. My best luck for money is on my birthday and thats not even from my parents thats from my grandmother.

 

[RogueZephyr]

I do overtime at work.