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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:13:11 PM EDT
Just worked about 6 hours today with the restaurant chef to set up a catering job (make 150 sandwiches, 8 cookie platters, etc) and take it back down after it was completed. Made $135 as a result.
$20 an hour give or take is a hell of a lot more than the $8.50 an hour I'm used to! 
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:15:09 PM EDT
[#1]
$12 an hour directing traffic.. was easy besides a few old ladys trying to run me over
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:15:20 PM EDT
[#2]
Cutting 3 acres on a riding mower,$ 170 and about 2 hours.
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:15:44 PM EDT
[#3]
Doing a commercial for Wal*Mart
5 minutes work = $50. Sgat1r5 |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:16:19 PM EDT
[#4]
doing a little dance, shimmy, and no clothes.....easiest $$ I got from hard up women.
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:16:26 PM EDT
[#5]
Any day that I fill in at my friends gunshop. $80/day usually store credit.
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:16:47 PM EDT
[#6]
Wow, I'd say ya have everyone else beat 
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:17:22 PM EDT
[#7]
$15/hr to sit on my ass all day and surf the internet. I also take the occasional complaint. In about 2 weeks, it will bump up to $20+/hr
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:18:02 PM EDT
[#8]
Flying for 3 hours in a Blackhawk helicopter.
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:18:24 PM EDT
[#9]
i get paid to be "available" for service calls. <4-5 a week on bad week> 26.00hr not counting OT and benifits.
went to the gun shop, met lostwildcat for lunch, surfed arf all day |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:18:29 PM EDT
[#10]
10 minutes at a $20.00 "Let it Ride" table. Pulled 4 of a kind and left with 3 grand.
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:18:53 PM EDT
[#11]
Oh that reminds me I got $50 bucks to let some studio borrow my science project for a scene
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:20:14 PM EDT
[#12]
I'll do your job for you for $18 an hour. You can pocket the extra $8
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:21:14 PM EDT
[#13]
Working for a bankrupted dot-com. Four weeks until I found a new gig.
$250 a day to show up around 9, go to lunch at 11:30, come back around 3, leave at 5. Seriously easy money. |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:22:32 PM EDT
[#14]
And I'm not even chinease. 
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:23:59 PM EDT
[#15]
are you Jewish? |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:27:28 PM EDT
[#16]
About $ 17k for about a day and a half worth of work
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:28:11 PM EDT
[#17]
In college. Market research. Got to eat two different cheeseburgers and sit around for an hour talking about which one was best and why. $100.
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:28:15 PM EDT
[#18]
208.00 for no work
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:30:08 PM EDT
[#19]
i got 300 bucks, gas, truck, and all ammo paid to go shoot yotes for 3 days on a ranch. getting money to do what id normaly ask to do for free was awsome.
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:34:36 PM EDT
[#20]
yea but your a lawyer....... organised crime doesn't count 
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:34:49 PM EDT
[#21]
I never knew being Site Staff paid so much   But seriously, how'd you make that? |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:35:38 PM EDT
[#22]
I worked at a Radio Shack for a little bit when I was 17. I was negative in my checking account, and I didn't have enough gas to even drive home. I asked my manager for a few bucks and he was just as broke as I was.
I was about to clse the store, and a guy walks in wanting to buy a TV amplifier. I asked him if his antenna, feedline, etc was in good shape and he said "Ya, expect that there's a birds nest up on the antenna, and one of the elements is bent. I told him he needed to fix the antenna, not put a bandaid on the problem. He agreed but was unwilling to climb his 80' tower to do it. I said I'd do it right now if he filled my tank for me. He filled my tank, and we drove out to his place. I climbed the tower at night, while it was raining.  I tied a broom handle to my belt and climbed all 80', with no harness. I knocked the bird's nest out with the broom handle, then used it to whack the element repeatedly until it was straight. I climbed back down, he handed me another $20 bill and said "Son, you're fucking crazy." Easiest money I ever made, if you ask me. |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:39:24 PM EDT
[#23]
I applied for a security job. Said they would put me on "call" and if they needed me they would call me. They paid me for the time I was on "call" and never needed me. So I did nothing and still got paid, besides being accesible by phone at all times.
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:40:45 PM EDT
[#24]
US Coast Guard, when I left active (E-5) I was taking home a little over $3000 a month with all my allowances working 35 hour weeks. I was in a land based support rating so it was typically a Monday-Friday gig the last 4 out of 6 years I was in. 90% of the time I was on the computer doing inventory or ordering supplies, every now and then go out to the boats and fix a broken radar or radio. I felt I was way overpaid for what I actually did, throw in the couple of grand in free tuition I used every year, free medical and dental and the fact that half of my paycheck was tax free and it was a decent deal. Now I get to go back one weekend a month and make $250. The station and cutter guys are way underpaid by comparison for the amount of work they have to do though.
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:42:26 PM EDT
[#25]
YOU REALLLLLLLLLLLLY need a new career! |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:47:09 PM EDT
[#26]
I have been to a casino twice. Actually did some fairly serious gambling once. That is a cool game. Kinda brainless, but fun. |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:48:21 PM EDT
[#27]
USAF, E-4 pay, and on leave for a whole month...
Leave = Paid (not much) Vacation |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:50:49 PM EDT
[#28]
I'm finishing up my terminal leave now, had 57 days on the books, made about $6,000 for my vacation time plus getting another $1500 just for switching from active to the reserves when terminal ends.
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:50:56 PM EDT
[#29]
client got hurt in an accident, not enough insurance on the other side-just had to verify that there were no other assets or insurance and they wrote a check to him. Obviously I did not take the full amount I normally would. |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 2:59:24 PM EDT
[#30]
$53 on Saturday for doing absolutely nothing.
My mom sold a bunch of clothes of mine at a garage sale, and she went back on her word when she said she'd let me sort through them first. She felt bad and gave me part of the earnings. |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 3:06:13 PM EDT
[#31]
Doing pressure test on fire sprinkler systems.
#1 show up look at guage with fire marshall & note time . #2 go back to truck and fall asleep or drive around(mostly sleeping )#3 Few hours later go back in look at guage then go home . |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 3:13:10 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/15/2005 3:30:31 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/15/2005 3:37:12 PM EDT
[#34]
Pretty much every check I get. Last one was $6,200 for making a phone call and mailing a package. I guess it took around an hour total. If you count depositing the check it might have been an hour and a half.
The kicker is, I'm a lazy sonofabitch and probably won't even attempt to work again for a week or two.
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Posted: 8/15/2005 3:38:51 PM EDT
[#35]
Where do I apply? Seriously! Thanks Travis
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Posted: 8/15/2005 4:03:50 PM EDT
[#36]
I thought you weren't supposed to mail drugs...
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Posted: 8/15/2005 4:16:22 PM EDT
[#37]
Most I've made is $75/hr as a contract software developer during the .com boom.
Biggest chunk I've ever received at one time was the wire transfer from the sale of our house in CA. |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 4:19:33 PM EDT
[#38]
That is absolutely fabulous. Looks like a bargain to me too. |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 4:24:13 PM EDT
[#39]
After I got laid off by a bigh company that sells film in yellow boxes, I had so much seniority that I got 50 weeks severance pay. That was almost seven years ago. After 9 months, I got a job with a Canadian based company. A few months ago, the company that sells film in yellow boxes purchased the company I have worked for for the last 6 years. At the time of the sale, my stock options with my new company were exercised and I made a quick $9,700, (before taxes).
For the first 11 weeks with the Canadian company, I received a paycheck for two weeks pay each week until my severance package worked out. |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 4:28:35 PM EDT
[#40]
I have you all beat!
I just found out that I am going to earn a fat fee for helping some King in Zaire. I head down to the bank in the morning to complete the transaction! Thank heavens for the Interweb! Eat it suckers!
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Posted: 8/15/2005 4:29:39 PM EDT
[#41]
You aren't the bouncing smiley, are you? |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 4:31:53 PM EDT
[#42]
Just about everyday......
I get paid time & one half for callouts with a 2hr minimum if I can fix a problem from home. Double time if I have to leave home. I have taken a call, dialed into a telco switch from home, fixed a problem (called "type it to death") & was done in less than 3 minutes WHILE ON VACATION. I was already getting 8hrs pay so that's about $275 for 3 minutes "work" , that sorta works out to $5500/hr for very short periods  Callout time buys my toys
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Posted: 8/15/2005 4:39:03 PM EDT
[#43]
same deal-catering. 2.5 days $1200. Course i was producing 400-600 meals each meal period...but it ain't no thang ;)
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Posted: 8/15/2005 4:40:40 PM EDT
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I got a call from a friend looking for a fill in bass player for his band, they were playing a Bar Mizvah. He sent me a set list and I said deal, 2 and a half hours of playing, sounds like fun. I figure there would be 40 to 50 kids there, plus a bunch of parents.
Wrong. I show up at this hotel/conference center, and I told the doorman what I was doing and he went and got 3 bellhops to take all my equipment inside (and park my truck). They take my stuff through the back of the stage and I take out my cell phone to call my friend and tell him I am in the lobby, he runs out and we walk around to the "dressing room". I had carried my bass in I took it out to tune it. I wasn't planning on getting paid. I figured he'd throw me some gas money. Well. I walked out onto the stage where my gear was all set up and plugged into the PA, and I see, 400+ people looking up at me. I started to adjust my settings and my friend comes over and tells me, "Hey, you get free food and drinks, and $200, plus tips." I said okay, cool. Well at the end of the night the band got over $4000 in tips. I also ate a filet mignon (I think they fed us different from what the guests ate) and drank a few glasses of really good wine. So I took home $1200+, plus a full stomach. $480 an hour for something I would do for free? I told my friend to put me at the top of any lists for fill in gigs he has in the future. |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 4:59:57 PM EDT
[#45]
Night guard for a substance abuse halfway house. I had to take curfew roll and make bedchecks once an hour or so, then hand out medications at the start of my shift and at the end. That was it.
The rest of the time, I watched cable tv, ate free junk food and drank coffee. Also did my homework. It was beyond easy, too bad it only paid $6 an hour. |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 5:08:14 PM EDT
[#46]
I bought a business for 52k cash. Worked on it for 3 weeks straight. Sold it for 208k one month after purchase.
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Posted: 8/15/2005 5:12:40 PM EDT
[#47]
My uncle Sam gives me money every week for doing nothing.
Err.... the DU is which way? |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 5:28:09 PM EDT
[#48]
Easiest one was $15 an hour to stare at a pool of water while I was a student.
I was employed by a company that makes beer and other beverages from spring water. They had a camera watching the spring bubbling away, but it got hit by a falling tree. Since they were worried about a nut case poisoning the water or something they had me keep a watch over it until they got a new camera set up. It was a lovely job while it lasted, being paid to camp in a nice forest and get food and beer delivered to me 3 times a day. |
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Posted: 8/15/2005 5:40:11 PM EDT
[#49]
Back in my cowpoke days...........
Trading cattle was easy, made $2300 in about 5 minutes. Just gotta buy low! Oh....and having them sold before you cut your check is the key part! 
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Posted: 8/15/2005 5:49:55 PM EDT
[#50]
working at Staples as a "computer tech"
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