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Geek Culture / Good jobs for a 13 year old?

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Inkybro
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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 21:09
Hey, I finally got my new computer, so now I'm saving up for DBPro. I currently mow but it's not something I like to do. I love computers and would like to do something in that field, but I dunno if I could yet. I've asked my parents about allowance but they say: "You don't need that, you live in our house and eat our food." and it's true, but I need money, and mowing really is starting to suck. Any job's that'd be possible for a 13-year-old will help me out, please reply! Thanks in advance everyone!
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Ian T
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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 21:13
I'm 14 and have the same dellima .

I personally would recommend making something good and selling it. Not professional, not amazing-- just comething cute or interesting that would actually sell a few copies.

Mowing does suck indeed... but snow shoveling is always worse

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andrew11
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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 21:26 Edited at: 17th Jun 2003 21:58
That's what birthdays are for!
Or you could ask your parents to increase your allowance and do work for them.

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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 21:26
Paper delivery ? Car washing ?

Good news everyone! I really am THAT good...
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Inkybro
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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 21:28
Quote: "I'm 14 and have the same dellima ."


It's good to know I'm not the only one

Quote: "That's what birthdays are for!
Or you could ask your parents to increase your allowance."


I've asked my parents about allowance but they say: "You don't need that, you live in our house and eat our food."

Quote: "Paper delivery ? Car washing ?"


Mm... I'm in the US, we don't have paper delivery here, car washing wouldn't make a lot and it's just another hell job like mowing.

It's better to be pissed off than pissed on, eh?

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sonecgaimr
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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 21:38
Well, I'm 13 too and I have a mowing job for people around the neighborhood. I charge $10-$20 (depending on the lawn) and they give it to me without reluctance and are acually kinda happy about it. So, my advice is: go mow and just live through it. You'll only be doing it for a couple weeks.
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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 21:42
In most states you have to be 15 or 16 to work legally. I'm almost 15, but I worked last year (even when I was 13) bussing tables at my parents restaurant. It was legal because they own it

This year when I turn 15 I will be able to work legally, but that means I will have to pay taxes and stuff

Id suggest mowing lawns, getting a paper route, or if you have some skill with computers, put an add in the newspaper to make stuff for people. You would be amazed how many people want websites

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8truths
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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 21:47
I have a 13 yr old nephew who makes a killing off collectibles, cards, games, etc.

He runs Yu-gi-oh the way people speculate oil and diamonds. Absolute capitalist pig, that kid is. We'll burn him at the revolution . . . But, in the mean time he gets by pretty nicely.

sonecgaimr
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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 21:49
LOL 8truths!
Inkybro
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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 21:51
How does he buy the cards and resale them? Like does he just buy cards and resell the rare ones or buy wholesale and sell to his friends for cheap?

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John H
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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 21:55
Probably buys em and sells the rare ones I used to do that at school with my [shutters] pokemon cards, I was like "hey give me 5 bucks and you can have this" and I made some good money Came home with 20 bucks one day

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andrew11
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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 21:56
I'm sorry, I did not make myself clear. If you are not doing anything, they wont give allowance. Ask them if you can help around the house then tell them that they have to pay you for it.

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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 21:58
Lol, that would be cool, "Hey guys can I have 50 bucks"
"Here ya go"

Woo hoo!

Ya - ya gotta work for it

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sonecgaimr
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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 21:59
LOL fellow doughboy!

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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 22:20
Ya I was the first one,,,everyone copied me

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Ian T
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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 22:36
Actually, in Seattle I was able to work as a delivery boy when I was just 11. I did a godawful job, heaven knows why they didn't fire me... I think they couldn't get anyone to do better . Either that or the people I always skipped on my routes never complaied

However the pay was crap. $28 a month. You can get a LOT better cleaning people's basements out or something....

You could see if your local library would pay for a helper. Mine does but you have to be 16 . It wasn't like that in Seattle though.

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8truths
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Posted: 18th Jun 2003 08:08
My nephew acquires cards in every way, shape, and means... He buys decks. He resells rares. He trades for old video games. Then when he's down to just junk cards, he'll sell the junk ones in huge decks of like 500.

And the little rat has every price guide memorized.

If it weren't for all the relatives and the neighborhood keeping a watch on how much these kids are paying him (sorry, we find it morally reprehensible to empty an 8 yr old of $30 whether he deserves it or not), my nephew would make a mint.

It baffles me.

If the kid were 35, the IRS would be busting down his door.

Martyn Pittuck
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Posted: 18th Jun 2003 10:41
you ever thought of web design or somming.

do a couple of 'practice' sites.

You can charge $200 a shot, just needes to be good thats all

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Ian T
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Posted: 18th Jun 2003 20:11
Uh... I hate to say this, but good web designers are a dime a dozen; VERY good web designers are pretty rare, but if you want to sign a contract you have to be older than 13.

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Posted: 18th Jun 2003 22:19
Well, if you are on one of those free to use internet survers there are plenty of ways to make good pocket money, using affiliates, pay to surf, pay to click, pay to recieve email, pay to recieve txts, pay to view adverts, pay to answer surveys, crise there are millions of those things, and if you actually put the time in they could make you enough to buy DBPro in a month or two, I used to use them when I was 15 and at school and made a fair ammount of pocket money, not enough to live off but enough for a 15 year old However you do have to put up with reams of spam and the way to make big bucks is to refer other people and in chatrooms/forums that doesn't exactly gain you friends If you have a group of friends at school you could refer or something you could do really well out of it, just search around til you find a few schemes with good payouts and who accept under 14s.

Personally I only use one such company now, who I have found to be very good. I won't post details as I hate to spam, but if any1 genuinely wants advice they can contact my email.

Why not build a free website about something you are interested in, a favourite band or celebrity for example, then stick a few affiliate links, pop-ups, paid clicks etc on it too, then submit the site to a few search engines, webrings etc. Its the way I started

Please don't consider a paper round or such other slave labour, unless of course its for high tippers like family and friends

Failing all that there's always birthdays and Xmas

Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes, They got them hoppy legs & twitchy little noses,
And what's with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
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Posted: 19th Jun 2003 00:40
I think I may look into making another site, and letting some
pop-ups in.But how does that all work kang?For every person that enters your site you get a certain amount of money?

Hmmmm, I think I'll investigate that.



http://www.geocities.com/yellow1dbp/index.html?1055790955556
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Posted: 19th Jun 2003 01:19
If you want to join a good Get Paid to Read E-mail program, [href]www.inboxdollars.com/?r=thegizz[/href] is a good site, they give up to five cents per e-mail read and clicked on, plus five dollars just for signing up. And they send out a good amount of e-mails

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Posted: 19th Jun 2003 03:06
Ok, see I let that last one in as its on topic, but I deleted your thread Lightning, it counts as spam I'm afraid, you're promoting your referal id et all...

Yellow, there are various sites that will pay you to display pop ups and pop-unders, usually at the rate of about $0.03 a popup, $0.02 for under or obviously $0.05 for both. I'm not going to specifically recommend any but search for "pop up affiliate cash" or something like that and you should find a few companies offering such services.

Obviously popups are annoying to surfers and I would never recommend them to a professional site, but you can make a fair bit of money by having a few popular fan sites that are listed high in search results and webrings - a few years back I had loads of Pokemon, Britney Spears and Buffy sites I hastly pasted together, took about 3 hours in total to make, upload and submit, I got about 1000 hits a week, and at $0.05 a hit you can see what I mean by "decent pocket money"

Most of the popups are ugly casino and dating agencies tho yeuch - thats why I don't use em nowadays

Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes, They got them hoppy legs & twitchy little noses,
And what's with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
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Posted: 19th Jun 2003 03:23
I'm checking out a lot of those places,(though I won't mention names)
and i figure if I could make about 10 decent websites, and got 100 hits a week on each, for $.01 I could make about $10 a week.Although that's not much
(of course some may be more than .01 and get more than 100 hits.)
It'd still be worth a try.

I think I'll set up another cpu(300mhz) to run these sites on.



oh well, I'll stop talking about this, for I dunno if we should keep mentioning it, on these forums.

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Posted: 22nd Jun 2003 00:11
am i the only one with a good job here,sounds like your jobs are awful

i am a computer staging and hardware technician i also do a little programming for our internal offices like an inventory program that reads from barcodes in the cage(warehouse-like area) i also setup pc networks and hardware before we load them with our company sofware and ship them to county government offices

oh i forgot to mention im only 15

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good for u eddie, lucky stars shines upon u, but not the rest..

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Quote: "am i the only one with a good job here,sounds like your jobs are awful

i am a computer staging and hardware technician i also do a little programming for our internal offices like an inventory program that reads from barcodes in the cage(warehouse-like area) i also setup pc networks and hardware before we load them with our company sofware and ship them to county government offices

oh i forgot to mention im only 15"


Not that I'm jealous (seriously, if I REALLY wanted I could do better than that) but don't you think you take it to the extreme? I consider tht bragging, not informing, I asked if anyone knows of a goo job for a 13 year old. What I DIDN'T say is:

"Hey come over here, come brag about someting that probably isn't true, and if it is, it's not that damn amazing."

Don't wanna get off on the wrong foot but please do read a forum post before posting something that barely stays on-topic. Thanks

It's better to be pissed off than pissed on, eh?

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Inkybro
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Posted: 22nd Jun 2003 08:49
Oh, and if you have such a good job I mean good god, learn to puncuate and write.

It's better to be pissed off than pissed on, eh?

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Solidz Snake
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Posted: 22nd Jun 2003 20:45 Edited at: 22nd Jun 2003 20:47
lmao! relax dudes (both of ya, i mean). there's no need to be on the neck with each other. take it from me, lets get back on the topic, aight fellas

Okie, here's one job that a friend of mine did few years ago. its not that u can just get on the job immediately, but its worth a shot, and somehow after a few times of begging (lol!), he got an offer.

its about writing reviews on videogames & PC games on some of the websites. i forgot from which webby that he got it (its a big name, but not sure whether its gamespot or wat), but the requirements are quite high. u gotta have around most home consoles at the current time. Wat they do is they will send in 3-4 release games & demos (consoles & PC) for u to test out, and wat u need to do is, for one month u will try out those games & before the end of the month, u gotta prepare a pretty darn good reviews/previews/anything good news about the games. pretty cool actually, considering that u get to keep those games, and get paid USD$300 every month (if there are games released that they wanted a story about them).

i'm just helping my mate everytime he got those games, and lemme tell ya, wat i got in the end are treats from him (lunches/dinners), and we both landed ourselves as game testers back then. but of course, he got the $$$ and get to keep the games! lmao!

as i said, its not that 'u request the job, u got it straight' of a job, because he himself had been doing free reviews at the websites long before he was accepted to the paying job. just wanna share my thoughts with ya

last i heard, he applied to become an editor of a new game website. good for him

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Posted: 22nd Jun 2003 20:49
$300, that's a lotta bling bling(lol, i don't know what I'm saying)

I think I'm getting as many benefits from this thread(or more)than inky himself.

Some other places to try for reviews, may be like pcgameworld,games domain, and video game reviews, I'll have to check these places to see if they'll except me.



http://www.freewebs.com/goldenrodproductionstudio/index.htm
Yes that's right folks, another total revamp of my site.
Currently trying to register domain name, and get some copyrights.
Solidz Snake
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yup, thats wat i'm saying, u guyz are still young and full of ideas (and "healthy" critiques! lol!), why dun start early & try ur luck! its a pretty fun job to do (from wat i've heard) and who knows, maybe in the future, u'll get offers in the journalism industry, or better still, the game industry itself, aight

Long term is always better to invest than be satisfied with wat u 'think' u would get in short term

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Posted: 22nd Jun 2003 21:17 Edited at: 22nd Jun 2003 21:20
I just submitted 3 e-mails to the reviewers at gamerankings.com

2 are reviewers actually the other is the executive.If I could make just $100 per month that would do.

Although it would take a cut out of my dbp programming, once I can finally afford something like lightwave,3dstudio,softimage,etc. Think what kind of results I could get.
(yes I know I can get those results from other cheaper programs, but that's not the point.)

inky you should try to submit for a game testing job.

(now how should I go about telling my dad that I just submitted an e-mail for a job?As long as I'm making money legally, he shouldn't care, right?)



edit: here's a link http://www.gamerankings.com/

http://www.freewebs.com/goldenrodproductionstudio/index.htm
Yes that's right folks, another total revamp of my site.
Currently trying to register domain name, and get some copyrights.
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Posted: 23rd Jun 2003 17:56
srry inkybro, i was just supprised you guys had it so bad in the job world.

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Inkybro
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Posted: 23rd Jun 2003 20:13
What the hell did you think? I'm 13..

It's better to be pissed off than pissed on, eh?

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relax inky, he said sorry rite, lets forgive & forget and come back to the topic

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K, sorry Eddie-Poo. Solidz, have any idea where I could get a game reviewing job, I've checked around a bit, I dunno what kind place to look.

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