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?
Contact the local Russian and/or Chinese consulate and ask about their "paid to post" program. It's not an election year, so the pay isn't as good.
But I think there are uber-like apps for odd jobs. I moved furniture for a summer once and one of the other guys got his work thru that app. It seemed a better situation than actual uber or doordash, those suck and the margins aren't good. It was more like Craigslist without sex or weird stuff.
Oh like taskrabbit? I have a friend - a mechanical engineer with a good job at Ford mind you - who assembles Ikea furniture and gazebos and shit on one of these apps. Says he enjoys it lol
Yeah I think that's the one.
I bought a couch at Ikea and taskrabbit was straight up their first option for delivery. My phone had no reception and no built-in QR reader and the poor girl running the delivery kiosk looked at me like an alien. We tried doing the non-qr route and they didn't deliver to my area. I ended up getting the "secondary" delivery option, which was a day sooner and showed up in a box truck with a guy and what seemed like his son. The pillows all came in huge boxes for some reason so it was a lot to carry up so I helped them and gave them a good tip.
Come to think of it, I do enjoy assembling ikea furniture and am also an engineer, maybe I should sign up....