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Posted: 8/15/2005 5:50:39 PM EDT

[#1]

Quoted:
About $ 17k for about a day and a half worth of work

I gave a deposition a few months back. $1100 for 1 1/2 hrs. I felt dirty afterwards

and spent it all on guns and ammo. Yes, I felt better.

Posted: 8/15/2005 6:00:29 PM EDT

[#2]

I once made $1150 for four hour's worth of work, start to finish. Found the right items in some
guy's warehouse, and brokered them off to the right people for half the proceeds.

I know a girl who's a "professional". A "Recreational Sex Therapist".

She does about a thousand bucks a day every day she works. She works three days a week.

That's an average of five customers a day, BTW. 200 bucks a session. Sessions are half
an hour long, usually.

So she makes a grand for 2 and a half hours of work and gets to spend the rest of the day
watching TV or reading a book. On busy days, she can double or triple that, IF she wants to.

And she gets to pick and choose her customers, turning the repulsive ones down flat,
and setting any limits and any pricing she wants based purely on her own criteria.

She's hot enough that she gets men to come back for more when she didn't even DO anything
directly with them. Just watches them do something to themselves, while giving them a little
bit of a show as she does the same to herself.

What a gig! Sounds like a really tough life. GREAT pay,, three square meals a day, plenty of down
time, and all the sex you want, any way you want it. And no need to invest a moment in having a relationship. Nothing but money and fun.

It's a damned shame that there's really no equivalent job for men like me. (Serving women only.)

I'd be in the perfect job, if so.

CJ

Posted: 8/15/2005 6:02:11 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
Doing a commercial for Wal*Mart

5 minutes work = $50.

Sgat1r5

Can you provide a vid clip?

Posted: 8/15/2005 6:11:18 PM EDT

[#4]

When I was working it was in our contract that if a holliday fell on Sunday it was to celebrated on Monday. Ok you work a holliday and it was triple time, Every 6 or 7 years Christmas will fall on Monday, and being as Christmas Eve was a Holliday also that meant if we wanted to work Monday Christmas day that it was a double holliday and Double Triple time, or 6 times your regular pay per hour. After the kids left home I worked that a few times and would work 16 to 20 hrs that day. Also most time New Years day also fell in that pay peroid, another 16- 20 hrs triple time. Made for a tidy little pay check and a windfall for the IRS.

Posted: 8/15/2005 6:11:32 PM EDT

[#5]

I make $3,000 an hour, if you only count the freefall part but it's actually not that simple. There's a lot more to it than a minute of freefall.

My highest paid jump never happened. I was to be paid $1,500 to do one tandem jump into the IRL opener at Homestead but TSA pulled our waiver and it never happened.

I made $418.75 for the Daytona demo. Demo jumps can pay a lot of cash but they take weeks to set up and the jump takes a whole day of time. I could have made that money at my job but it would have been 8 jumps.

ETA: Dont think for a second my job aint worth what it pays. It's worth more as far as I and my colleagues believe.

Posted: 8/15/2005 6:12:39 PM EDT

[#6]

I have a friend who was working for a contractor at a west coast NAS reworking LAU-7 launchers for the Navy.
On the weekends he would come into work for overtime.
His boss asked me if I wanted to make some extra money under the table helping out.
I did it mostly during duty weekends when I had to be on call and could not leave the base.
I was making $15 an hour disassembling LAU-7's and cleaning them, and I did that for almost a year.

Posted: 8/15/2005 6:14:46 PM EDT

[#7]

I am a nurse and I work agency, which is per diem, like a temp.

Sometimes I show up at the hospital but there is a scheduling error or a staff nurse came in or whatever and they have to pay me for 4 hours....without having to actually do anything.

So, 4 hours * $29/h = $116 gross. For doing nothing. And I get to go home.

The best is when I then turn around and call another agency and take a late call at another hospital. They will add 2 hours to your shift when you take a late call, so I show up at maybe 845 am and work till 7pm and get paid for 12 hours...plus the 4 hours from earlier.

Posted: 8/15/2005 6:15:23 PM EDT

[#8]

fixed a computer (mainframe) for UUNET once. from home over the internet. was paid 10,000 on 1099...

Posted: 8/15/2005 6:16:31 PM EDT

[#9]

4 years in the Air Force at an Air Training Command base.

Posted: 8/15/2005 6:20:04 PM EDT

[#10]

I teach at the local University of California extension campus.

It's more fun that work. Pays rather nice too.

Posted: 8/15/2005 6:22:07 PM EDT

[#11]

I was hired by a company to inspect the boiler and raditors at my former work place. One hour later I'm $1000.00 richer.

I was expecting like $20.00.

My jerk of an ex-boss came in, saw me on the ladder, did a double take and nearly kissed the carpet. I love days like that.

Posted: 8/15/2005 6:30:03 PM EDT

[#12]

Flying an old friend of mine around in a rented Piper Arrow so he can inspect his rental properites. I got free flight time, $100 cash, and ate dinner at a 5 star restaurant. I think I had a baby green salad, Veal chop, and some killer chocolate dessert. Life.

Posted: 8/15/2005 6:33:12 PM EDT

[#13]

I was cool for 20 hours and they paid me 20 grand.

Balming

Posted: 8/15/2005 6:46:02 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
I was cool for 20 hours and they paid me 20 grand.

Balming

The ultimate enticement, eh?

Posted: 8/15/2005 7:01:07 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
I make $3,000 an hour, if you only count the freefall part but it's actually not that simple. There's a lot more to it than a minute of freefall.

My highest paid jump never happened. I was to be paid $1,500 to do one tandem jump into the IRL opener at Homestead but TSA pulled our waiver and it never happened.

I made $418.75 for the Daytona demo. Demo jumps can pay a lot of cash but they take weeks to set up and the jump takes a whole day of time. I could have made that money at my job but it would have been 8 jumps.

ETA: Dont think for a second my job aint worth what it pays. It's worth more as far as I and my colleagues believe.

Sounds like a badass job either way!

Posted: 8/15/2005 7:09:11 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
I was cool for 20 hours and they paid me 20 grand.

Balming

Posted: 8/15/2005 7:09:59 PM EDT

[#17]

I had a client that was an online stock trader write me a check for $1,000 once because I cleaned the spyware/adware shit off his machine so he could get back on the internet.

Posted: 8/15/2005 7:43:56 PM EDT

[#18]

I made 40,000.00 once for doing nothing - except driving to Denny's to pick up the check. That was a damn good breakfast!

Posted: 8/15/2005 8:18:42 PM EDT

[#19]

I won a trip to Oahu from a company for selling more widgets than anyone else, while I was on the sand I got a call that one of my customers bought 1 1/2 tons of geegaws
20k and change......I did NOTHING

company screwed me out of alot latter but they never got even

Posted: 8/15/2005 8:25:21 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
I had a client that was an online stock trader write me a check for $1,000 once because I cleaned the spyware/adware shit off his machine so he could get back on the internet.

God damn

Posted: 8/15/2005 8:27:00 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Doing a commercial for Wal*Mart

5 minutes work = $50.

Sgat1r5

with dolls?

Posted: 8/15/2005 8:27:48 PM EDT

[#22]

On Call pay.

1/4 time to carry my cellphone and remain withen an hour of the court house on my day off.

Posted: 8/15/2005 8:29:26 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Quoted:
About $ 17k for about a day and a half worth of work

yea but your a lawyer.......

organised crime doesn't count

looking into it recently, most lawyers do not make shit for money - the ones who do are either partners/have their own firm

Posted: 8/15/2005 8:36:26 PM EDT

[#24]

I've been at the house nearly a month drawing full salary...

It is a well deserved rest after one hell of a year.

I have been in the field 28 days a month since December, so it has been nice.

I expect I'll be hard at it again soon...

I'm jonesin for the pace and travel of work again...

PITSNIPE OUT

Posted: 8/15/2005 8:39:45 PM EDT

[#25]

When I was a deputy the forest service hired a bunch of inmates to fight fires up in the Blue Mountains. No problem. Just haul a bunch of inmates up to the mountains for a 12 hour shift. I was hired to haul their butts up the hill and watch gaurd on the equipment to see that it wasn't stolen by the inmates. Never once did one inmate try to hide a chain saw or shovel under his shirt and cart it back to the jail. The forest service paid me $20 bucks an hour and the county paid me $8 -- this was back in the late 80's. Pretty good pay to work on my suntan!

Patty

Posted: 8/15/2005 8:48:00 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I make $3,000 an hour, if you only count the freefall part but it's actually not that simple. There's a lot more to it than a minute of freefall.

My highest paid jump never happened. I was to be paid $1,500 to do one tandem jump into the IRL opener at Homestead but TSA pulled our waiver and it never happened.

I made $418.75 for the Daytona demo. Demo jumps can pay a lot of cash but they take weeks to set up and the jump takes a whole day of time. I could have made that money at my job but it would have been 8 jumps.

ETA: Dont think for a second my job aint worth what it pays. It's worth more as far as I and my colleagues believe.

Sounds like a badass job either way!

It pays the bills.

Posted: 8/15/2005 8:59:20 PM EDT

[#27]

$1k for 4-6hrs of work and that is 2-5 times a week during the busy seasons.

Off seasons only fetch $1k a week for 15-25 hrs.

HVAC service tech and installer.

Posted: 8/15/2005 9:00:20 PM EDT

[#28]

$20 an hour to teach kids how to swim. Ah, lifeguarding, how I miss it. Got paid to hang out at the pool with young bikini-clad ladies. Occasionally had to fish a kid out of the pool, but what a scam!

Posted: 8/15/2005 9:05:07 PM EDT

[#29]

Id say it's a toss up between being a snow ski instructor or a paid race official for the Skip Barber series.

Posted: 8/15/2005 9:12:09 PM EDT

[#30]

All my paychecks for the last 4 years have been easy. I work for a company circling the toilet, I'm burned out and don't do anything more than what it takes to keep me under the radar and none of the local supervisors care anyway. 2 more years of them paying my school tuition and I'm outta there.

For the first nine years at this company I was the model employee, busted my butt, got all my work done and other people's work without incurring overtime and was generally a very happy worker.

After about five years of being passed over or flat out ignored for promotions so some asshole supervisor's incompetent buddy could move up, I can't wait to get the hell out of this place and watch it go under from outside. I plan on ghost shitting the presidents' office on my last day.

Posted: 8/15/2005 9:25:54 PM EDT

[#31]

The ones I'm collecting right now, for contract aircraft maint on charter jets.

The pilots of several large charter jet operations are trying to squeeze their companies for more $$$, and to exert some pressure, they are deliberately grounding their jets with all kinds of bogus maintenance writeups.

Some of these writeups include...

closet door sticks
paint chipped
tape peeling
tire scuffed
ceiling panel loose
cabin lightbulb out

None of the above were groundable items and others were completely false writeups, like nitrogen bottle below pressure, when a 10 year old could look at the gauge and tell you the pressure was correct.

Each callout runs minimum $500, on up to $800+, if I have to drive 100 miles to tell the crew their jet is fine.

The maintenance centers know what's going on but don't care. These outfits have so much money, it's gonna take years of this BS to make a small financial dent. Good for me!! They have so many $5-25 million dollar jets, they have difficulty keeping track of them. It's like picking up wads of cash off the sidewalk.

Posted: 8/15/2005 9:42:06 PM EDT

[#32]

online traded. I bought a block and sold it 20 min later. Made alot of cash...cant remember exactly the amount. But I do remember that I bought a new PC with some of the procedes. Not bad for 20 minutes of stress.

It's true; it takes money to make money...and alot of balls.

Posted: 8/16/2005 7:54:40 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Quoted:
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.

YOU REALLLLLLLLLLLLY need a new career!

I don't still work there, you know.

Posted: 8/16/2005 8:11:34 AM EDT

[#34]

Working security at a local racetrack. In the old days there was a lot more rioting and unruliness. Things have calmed down a lot.

Posted: 8/16/2005 8:58:06 AM EDT

[#35]

Two words........

Environmental Consulting

Posted: 8/16/2005 9:14:42 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
Doing a commercial for Wal*Mart

5 minutes work = $50.

Sgat1r5

Isn't $50 for 5 minutes your going rate down at the corner?

A few years ago while researching cars, I filled out an entry form for a car they were giving away through AOL... couple months later, ding dong, it's FedEx at my door w/ overnight letter: I won. I thought it was some advertising scheme but turned out to be legit. Within another month and a half I took delivery of a 2002 Volvo V70 Cross Country. I had to pay sales tax & delivery about $3400. Sticker price showed $39,975. Sold it 3 months later for $33K since Volvo had some major dealer rebates going on at the time. I had to report it at the end of the year w/ my income tax, so I figure I made off with around $23K profit for about 10-15 minutes of filling out a couple forms. That was a fun summer.

Posted: 8/16/2005 9:27:28 AM EDT

[#37]

2005 Great Texas Balloon Race. We had a tent with 5 spas running and I camped out in our $500,000 company motor home. The United States Marine recruiters had a booth next to us and the Army National Guard was across the runway. They hung out in the spas with us, drank our beer, while we watched an A-10 fly maneuvers over our head. I've got pics posted on our website here www.hotspringspasofshreveport.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=topn&cat=-1 if anyone's interested. A great way to spend the weekend and I got paid to do it.Spa King

Posted: 8/16/2005 11:37:06 AM EDT

[#38]

$72 for watching paint dry.

Posted: 8/16/2005 12:33:40 PM EDT

[#39]

Wrote a magazine article. The interview and writing time was about 3-4 hours.

I earned $200 for it.

Posted: 8/16/2005 12:33:46 PM EDT

[#40]

Picked my mom up from a slot machine place
put 1$ in a machine
won 1000$

Posted: 8/16/2005 12:36:48 PM EDT

[#41]

Unemployment. $400 per week to sleep all day and party all night.

Posted: 8/16/2005 12:38:52 PM EDT

[#42]

It was cash, not a paycheck, but I sold a print that I had commercially done off of a snapshot for $25.

Posted: 8/16/2005 12:40:18 PM EDT

[#43]

$200.00 for getting a race car owner a room at a booked-up hotel.

(OKAY, maybe we weren't really booked-up, but I acted like it)

Posted: 8/16/2005 12:41:41 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
Picked my mom up from a slot machine place

Otherwise known as a casino????

Posted: 8/16/2005 5:41:09 PM EDT

[#45]

$37 an hour OT reading a book

Posted: 8/16/2005 5:45:08 PM EDT

[#46]

$500 for sitting outside a motorcycle delarship on 12/31/99 waiting for the world to end. And my boss thought I would try to stop someone if apocalypse happened and they tried breaking into the shop.

Watched movies in the truck, smoked some really awesome cigars, chatted with about 10 officers who stopped by at different points, and just BSed with my best friend as we sat there. Honestly one of the greatest nights of my life.

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