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18 Jun 2012, 1:50 pm

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I don't know where you live; so this may not apply but could you start locally where you could walk/bike/bus? If you live in a more remote area this might not be an option.

I wouldn't worry to much about cleaning supplies. If you charge lower prices; you can just use the customers supplies.


Well I could try posting ads on bullieten boards and such...I would not advertise myself as a professional though, because I certainly am not one so false advertising could be bad for me.


I once posted a paper ad at the wall in the local post-office saying that a high-school student is looking for odd jobs.


Well I'd be a high-school graduate who's failed college looking for odd jobs....but I wouldn't have to include that on the ad. Only issue is, is it legal to just post adds on those or do you have to check with the business first? I've never been able to figure it out.


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18 Jun 2012, 2:24 pm

They don't have to know you failed college.

Generally if there is a bulletin board or something with a lot of stuff on it; it's ok to post it without asking. If your the only one who would be posting; it might be good to ask.



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18 Jun 2012, 2:28 pm

You are a college student, who is looking for odd jobs while you take a break from school.



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18 Jun 2012, 3:22 pm

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You are a college student, who is looking for odd jobs while you take a break from school.


I'm done with school, So I would not want to pretend I'm just taking a break.


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18 Jun 2012, 3:22 pm

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You are a college student, who is looking for odd jobs while you take a break from school.


Yeah except I don't want to have to put on the 'I plan to go back' act because I really have no intention of doing so.


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18 Jun 2012, 3:52 pm

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You are a college student, who is looking for odd jobs while you take a break from school.


Yeah except I don't want to have to put on the 'I plan to go back' act because I really have no intention of doing so.


Saying that you're a college student is good in a way that it makes you stand out in a good way. It is like a recomendation.
You need to find a job first, and then you may decide to not go back :)

By the way you may change your mind in a year and actually go back to college.

After posting that ad I found clients with whom I worked for almost a year. I was very satisfied with the job. I worked only 6 hours a week and they paid for each hour as we agreed. And they gave me nice presents also and treated me well.



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18 Jun 2012, 3:53 pm

You're a very honest person, and I can respect that...... You're a college student on permanent vacation looking for odd jobs. :wink:



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18 Jun 2012, 3:53 pm

You may want to have someone else's number on that ad. I had my mom's and she explained to people who called who I am and she told them how nice I am and etc.



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18 Jun 2012, 5:19 pm

Google Voice offers a free phone number with voicemail. You can use it like an answering service. You can also check Voice Mails online.



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23 Jun 2012, 3:10 am

What are your skills and talents?



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23 Jun 2012, 1:09 pm

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I looked into those online surveys a while back. They are a ripoff. They want your contact info, so they can try to get you to buy products from them. They set up the surveys to rope you in, and pay little or nothing, all while trying to sell stuff to you. Before you can qualify for their cash surveys, you have to try (buy) stuff, and it is stuff that can be purchased cheaper elsewhere. They have fake endorsements from fake winners, so don't waste your time with them.

Well I have found quite a few where you don't have to buy anything......though its not as though I've made any significant amount of money from any of them. I think I got a total of 8 dollars once, mailed to me as a check. But yeah it does not really bring in much income of any kind. So yeah it can be kind of a waste of time.

I am on SSI for my other health problems. It took about 18 months to get to my appeal hearing after I was turned down. They turn down most people the first time you apply, so always appeal if you are turned down at first. You will need an attorney for the appeal. You can go it alone without one, but you will probably loose the appeal without an attorney. I didn't have money for an attorney, so I went to Legal Aid, and one of their attorneys took my case, and I won the appeal.

Yeah I already applied and got denied.......and didn't appeal because I did not feel like I could handle trying to do all that on top of college which I was doing at the time. But now that I am out of college I don't have that to focus on so it might be worth trying again.

I do recommend you try doing some kind of odd jobs if you can't handle a regular job. Cleaning house, pet sitting, mowing lawns, are all good choices. Pursuing money making aspects of any hobbies you have would also be good.

Goodwitchy is right about Clark Howard. I've listened to his radio show, and visited his web site. Do check out the site. It might help.

Your best bet is to figure out what sort of things you like to do, and figure out ways to make money at them.

Good luck!


Yes I plan to if I can get hired........though I wont be mowing lawns since lawn mowers are quite heavy and too loud for me to tolerate, but those other things I can do. As for hobbies I don't really have many and none of them are anything that would help with income at least not that I know of.


Lawnmowers are not that heavy, but you may need to gain some strength, which you get by using them. Wear ear protection to keep out the noise (like ear protection shooters wear). Then suck it up and work a low skill job (like mowing lawns) no matter how bad it sucks. Don't quit either.



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23 Jun 2012, 1:20 pm

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I looked into those online surveys a while back. They are a ripoff. They want your contact info, so they can try to get you to buy products from them. They set up the surveys to rope you in, and pay little or nothing, all while trying to sell stuff to you. Before you can qualify for their cash surveys, you have to try (buy) stuff, and it is stuff that can be purchased cheaper elsewhere. They have fake endorsements from fake winners, so don't waste your time with them.

Well I have found quite a few where you don't have to buy anything......though its not as though I've made any significant amount of money from any of them. I think I got a total of 8 dollars once, mailed to me as a check. But yeah it does not really bring in much income of any kind. So yeah it can be kind of a waste of time.

I am on SSI for my other health problems. It took about 18 months to get to my appeal hearing after I was turned down. They turn down most people the first time you apply, so always appeal if you are turned down at first. You will need an attorney for the appeal. You can go it alone without one, but you will probably loose the appeal without an attorney. I didn't have money for an attorney, so I went to Legal Aid, and one of their attorneys took my case, and I won the appeal.

Yeah I already applied and got denied.......and didn't appeal because I did not feel like I could handle trying to do all that on top of college which I was doing at the time. But now that I am out of college I don't have that to focus on so it might be worth trying again.

I do recommend you try doing some kind of odd jobs if you can't handle a regular job. Cleaning house, pet sitting, mowing lawns, are all good choices. Pursuing money making aspects of any hobbies you have would also be good.

Goodwitchy is right about Clark Howard. I've listened to his radio show, and visited his web site. Do check out the site. It might help.

Your best bet is to figure out what sort of things you like to do, and figure out ways to make money at them.

Good luck!


Yes I plan to if I can get hired........though I wont be mowing lawns since lawn mowers are quite heavy and too loud for me to tolerate, but those other things I can do. As for hobbies I don't really have many and none of them are anything that would help with income at least not that I know of.


Lawnmowers are not that heavy, but you may need to gain some strength, which you get by using them. Wear ear protection to keep out the noise (like ear protection shooters wear). Then suck it up and work a low skill job (like mowing lawns) no matter how bad it sucks. Don't quit either.


If it was one I can ride on I might consider it....other than the weight I am worried about pushing something loud with fast spinning blades around. If I got startled or just randomly jumped at nothing I can see how that could cause some problems. And I if I ended up hitting something hard like a big rock even if i had ear plugs in the noise or even vibration from it might freak me out. Just wouldn't be good...I think I'd rather suck it up to paint houses with my dad which is a lot of hard labor than to mow lawns. And then I would not quit, with the mowing lawns I could see giving up on it pretty quick but with painting I'd try and keep going and they would be the ones firing me rather than me quitting.

Not to mention ear plugs only reduce the noise that directly hits your ears...it does nothing for the general sound vibration or whatever.


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23 Jun 2012, 1:39 pm

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I looked into those online surveys a while back. They are a ripoff. They want your contact info, so they can try to get you to buy products from them. They set up the surveys to rope you in, and pay little or nothing, all while trying to sell stuff to you. Before you can qualify for their cash surveys, you have to try (buy) stuff, and it is stuff that can be purchased cheaper elsewhere. They have fake endorsements from fake winners, so don't waste your time with them.

Well I have found quite a few where you don't have to buy anything......though its not as though I've made any significant amount of money from any of them. I think I got a total of 8 dollars once, mailed to me as a check. But yeah it does not really bring in much income of any kind. So yeah it can be kind of a waste of time.

I am on SSI for my other health problems. It took about 18 months to get to my appeal hearing after I was turned down. They turn down most people the first time you apply, so always appeal if you are turned down at first. You will need an attorney for the appeal. You can go it alone without one, but you will probably loose the appeal without an attorney. I didn't have money for an attorney, so I went to Legal Aid, and one of their attorneys took my case, and I won the appeal.

Yeah I already applied and got denied.......and didn't appeal because I did not feel like I could handle trying to do all that on top of college which I was doing at the time. But now that I am out of college I don't have that to focus on so it might be worth trying again.

I do recommend you try doing some kind of odd jobs if you can't handle a regular job. Cleaning house, pet sitting, mowing lawns, are all good choices. Pursuing money making aspects of any hobbies you have would also be good.

Goodwitchy is right about Clark Howard. I've listened to his radio show, and visited his web site. Do check out the site. It might help.

Your best bet is to figure out what sort of things you like to do, and figure out ways to make money at them.

Good luck!


Yes I plan to if I can get hired........though I wont be mowing lawns since lawn mowers are quite heavy and too loud for me to tolerate, but those other things I can do. As for hobbies I don't really have many and none of them are anything that would help with income at least not that I know of.


Lawnmowers are not that heavy, but you may need to gain some strength, which you get by using them. Wear ear protection to keep out the noise (like ear protection shooters wear). Then suck it up and work a low skill job (like mowing lawns) no matter how bad it sucks. Don't quit either.


If it was one I can ride on I might consider it....other than the weight I am worried about pushing something loud with fast spinning blades around. If I got startled or just randomly jumped at nothing I can see how that could cause some problems. And I if I ended up hitting something hard like a big rock even if i had ear plugs in the noise or even vibration from it might freak me out. Just wouldn't be good...I think I'd rather suck it up to paint houses with my dad which is a lot of hard labor than to mow lawns. And then I would not quit, with the mowing lawns I could see giving up on it pretty quick but with painting I'd try and keep going and they would be the ones firing me rather than me quitting.

Not to mention ear plugs only reduce the noise that directly hits your ears...it does nothing for the general sound vibration or whatever.


There are active noise cancelling ear protectors (I use them when shooting my AR-15), although those can be annoying as well. As far as the sensory issues, those fall into the job sucks category. As long as you don't meltdown or go into the fetal position, it's still OK. No one said you have to like your job.



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23 Jun 2012, 1:47 pm

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There are active noise cancelling ear protectors (I use them when shooting my AR-15), although those can be annoying as well. As far as the sensory issues, those fall into the job sucks category. As long as you don't meltdown or go into the fetal position, it's still OK. No one said you have to like your job.


Well what I was indicating is I very well could meltdown......or my PTSD might get set off which would not be OK around something dangerous like a lawn mower. Also what would be the point of spending a large chunck of my time at a job I hate? especially when there are other jobs I can do that i like more? At least with painting houses sometimes you get one with an awesome view of the mountains or whatever...or its just a nice house so its cool being in it.


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There are active noise cancelling ear protectors (I use them when shooting my AR-15), although those can be annoying as well. As far as the sensory issues, those fall into the job sucks category. As long as you don't meltdown or go into the fetal position, it's still OK. No one said you have to like your job.


Well what I was indicating is I very well could meltdown......or my PTSD might get set off which would not be OK around something dangerous like a lawn mower. Also what would be the point of spending a large chunck of my time at a job I hate? especially when there are other jobs I can do that i like more? At least with painting houses sometimes you get one with an awesome view of the mountains or whatever...or its just a nice house so its cool being in it.


You don't need to work a job you hate if you have a job you like. But a job you hate is better than no job or potentially SSI.



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There are active noise cancelling ear protectors (I use them when shooting my AR-15), although those can be annoying as well. As far as the sensory issues, those fall into the job sucks category. As long as you don't meltdown or go into the fetal position, it's still OK. No one said you have to like your job.


Well what I was indicating is I very well could meltdown......or my PTSD might get set off which would not be OK around something dangerous like a lawn mower. Also what would be the point of spending a large chunck of my time at a job I hate? especially when there are other jobs I can do that i like more? At least with painting houses sometimes you get one with an awesome view of the mountains or whatever...or its just a nice house so its cool being in it.


You don't need to work a job you hate if you have a job you like. But a job you hate is better than no job or potentially SSI.


I think SSI would be better than a job I hate....I mean I already spent plenty of my life at school as a child, I didn't like it there because people were jerks so I've had enough of being stuck somewhere I hate.


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