I use marijuana to treat this medical condition I have in which I feel sad when I don't have weed.
How can a NEET like me earn a little money online when I'm not vigorously searching for jobs by posting on chapo dot chat?
I created an Amazon Mechanical Turk account, but the approval process will take a few days. I've tried stuff like UserTesting dot com, but I don't like being recorded.
Edit: Where's my money, Biden!?
besides the obvious terrible gig economy stuff (doordash or uber if you have a car) theres a lot of more subtle gig economy stuff that you can do entirely from home. i worked freelance on Rev.com as a subtitler and it was a terrible job dot png but i made a good amount every week. call center stuff is basically an entire job you can do from home although thats also hell. if youve got some kind of talent youre willing to let capitalism exploit, fiverr can be a less soul sucking (if inconsistent) source of income - i did a few video editing jobs through it, not entirely terrible.
I did join fiverr because I'm good at photo editing like background removal, but there were soooo many people offering those services already (and with crazy stuff like one hour turnaround) that it was discouraging.
The rev thing might be more up my alley! I like to type.
Edit: "There is currently a waitlist because we're experiencing a much higher level of interest from new freelancers. You can still apply below." :(
Try to find a little niche in your photo editing talents... something that's useful but different. Or even just find a way of phrasing it that people search often but people aren't titling their gigs as such. Also protip: You're pretty much impossible to find on search results on Fiverr unless you have sales. Make a second account and purchase your stuff and leave a review (use a VPN so you show as from a diff country). You get like 70% of the money back anyway, I did this when I was doing fiverr on the side and I started getting consistent sales not long after. Also post a timelapse (or simplified video) of your editing process on the gig, apparently Fiverrs search is horny for gigs with vids.
Another little tip that can make you some money without that much time investment is Amazon reviews. Basically search up "Amazon review group" or something similar on FB and find Indian middlemen who will send you links to Amazon products whose Chinese sellers want fake reviews for their products. Not very ethical but often the products are pretty good value for money anyway. You can make money because they refund you after a week or so of your review being published and you can then sell it on FB marketplace or whatever. You can't make tons from this or really do it full time but it's a pretty good return on investment for time... each product probably takes 30 mins of work (buying, taking pics of, posting online, selling) and you can sell them for like £10-£25. You might get banned from reviewing on Amazon though.
Alternatively do what Someone Who Isn't Me did at university and buy loads of weed cheap off the dark web and sell most of it so you can smoke for free
yeah it took a solid 2 months for them to accept my application lol
Not quite the answer you're looking for, but if you've got the space for it, have you tried growing your own weed? It's very easy and doesn't require much setup
I just moved across state borders and although marijuana is legal where I now live, my apartment is probably too small for me to want to do that. It also takes a long time to grow, harvest, and dry. The prospect of "free" weed is tempting though.
You should check out r/spacebuckets if you're interested - I grow 1 plant at a time in a 1br and it keeps me pretty well stocked, my last grow yielded close to an ounce of bud and enough trim to make around 2.5 cups of infused oil for edibles.
Growing and curing does take time, but only 3-4 months depending on your plant and strain, so even if you're still looking for weed money in the meantime you'll get some in the future. It's a really rewarding hobby in a couple of ways :)
They do need light to grow, yeah, but it doesn't need to be like some purple-hued grow lamp. Many (or most?) people just use regular white light bulbs — I think a pair of $10 flood bulbs should do the trick. If you're less concerned with maximizing yield you don't need to go too far down the road of optimizing your lighting set up at all.
here's a thorough guide to good light bulb options for growing — the author/curator of that sub is an electrician who's done a lot of research and testing on plant lights and lighting setups, especially for bucket grows. It can be pretty dense and you don't need to read or understand most of it — the post I linked has a pretty succinct summary of different bulbs at the bottom
Edit: I should note that especially if you're growing in a bucket, the light should be pretty much entirely sealed off from you
You could sell your body to the vampires at the plasma center, I suppose.
Buy extra weed and sell it for money for weed seeds, bootstrap yourself into weed paradise
This is the classic way to afford weed, but also an excellent way land your ass in jail in a lot of places
Oh I actually remembered another tip — I'm not sure how well this applies during the pandemic or current economic circumstances, but if you have any colleges or research hospitals nearby, check for psychology studies that you can participate in. The compensation can be kind of shit and availability is inconsistent, but it's good for weed money.
Neuropsychology studies pay pretty well - in the city I went to college in, there was a university that had an fMRI machine and those studies paid really well (I think like $20-$30/hr for the time you were in the scanner). All you had to do was lay in the tube and like, press buttons to answer questions or imagine whatever shit they told you to, which was a good way to make $60 if you didn't have anything else going on that day.
Sometimes you can also find medical studies, that is, experimental drug studies. Some people aren't comfortable doing them but I have a couple friends who make a plurality of their yearly income on one or two stints as a lab rat.
