So I have a nice job lined up that I will be starting in a couple weeks. However, life is expensive and I need to get to my first paycheck, so things will go a lot more smoothly for me if I could rustle up a couple hundred bucks between then and now. My situation isn't bad - I have a pretty good support network I could borrow money from, but I'd like to hold myself up as much as possible before I go asking.
I've come up with a few possible plans:
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Sell Plasma. I used to do this back in college and pretend I was straight. Is gay blood still a no-go? I'm also on injectable estrogen, would that disqualify me? It seems to pay a hell of a lot more than it did in the 2000s, so if I qualify I could get what I need in just a couple sessions.
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Temp Work. I know there's a place nearby where I can just show up at the crack of dawn and they'll give me a job for the day, paid at the end of the day. I've referred lots of my homeless clients there. But from what I've seen it's mostly very physical labor, and I am small and weak. I don't know if I could handle warehouse work, and the city is still recovering from a blizzard so outdoors work would be a lot less fun than normal. Does anyone have experience with these types of day labor programs?
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Download grindr andNOPE not doing that again -
Rob a bank. It worked for Stalin.
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Swallow pride and ask family for help. It's not unusual for us to float a couple hundred between each other, but I just don't want to ask if I don't have to.
What's your go-to for when you need more than a couple bucks real real quick?
Honestly plasma or asking friends/family might be the best bet as crumby as that may be. You could also try and explain your landlord the situation and they might give you a break for a few weeks but its never good to rely on something like that. I used to do bike delivery and would pick up shifts under the table because my old store was always understaffed but that is a pretty unique situation.
Plasma is a disgusting saddening thing. I work in a shelter now and its so depressing seeing people literally sign up to visit the vampire in order to meet their basic needs.
Here it's illegal to sell blood/plasma for money but I guess the US is so atomised it's the only way to get enough to donate.
On the other hand there are very few ways to make money for ordinary people who just need a quick job for a day or two.
It's disgusting here. One of the few countries where it's legal. It's not just a product of atomization, blood products are a major export here worth about 2.5% of all exports.