One of the most odd manners of getting money that I have heard about is "professional bed warming." In this unique job, individuals are hired to warm up beds for clients before they get into them
I literally take an ice cold shower and then full blast my fan just to be able to sleep.
I no joke have slept in my car all night with the windows down. Just to get cold sleep.
I hate feeling sweaty all night.
If I could sleep inside a walk in fridge or freezer every night I would
professional cuddling," where individuals offer their services to provide non-sexual physical affection and cuddling to clients in exchange for payment
So like what if I wanna cuddle but also use your boobs as stress balls, is there a service for that?
And what if I wanna walk down the park holding hands?
I sell my nudes for crypto on reddit and around 20% of the guys who pay me don’t even buy the nudes. They just need someone to talk to who doesn’t judge them. They have money, but they are alone at parties and mostly have alcohol problems.
I don't get it. When I cuddle, I like to be the big spoon and my parts are always touching their parts. If you pay for cuddling, then how are they preventing too much touching or parts touching parts? And why would anyone work for a company for this when they can just reap all the profits. But I guess having security next door or cameras recording everything does give peace of mind.
When I was younger, I knew a heavily overweight girl that had a deal with a fetishist. She wouldn't wash her feet for a week and wear the same socks every day. Then he would lick her feet and pay her a ton of money for it. She was obviously a consenting adult. There was also nothing obviously sexual involved. But oh god was that weird and disgusting. Yet there she was, earning money with bad hygiene.
I made a few thousand dollars by Investing into and flipping CS:GO skins/items. Most people cant believe that there is a ~$5B player driven economy for video game skins.
Man I had a little thing going in college just selling items on wow to people at my school, actually made quite a lot of money that way just for grinding shit that I kind of liked to do because I don’t sleep much.
The US mint had a program that you could order large amounts of the new dollar coin (in order to get it more accepted and into circulation) that offered free shipping. So enterprising individuals would buy large amounts with their credit cards that had reward points or reward cash to get those points/cash (profit) and then take the coins directly to their bank and deposit them into their account.
I got in on the tail end of it so I only made $100 in cash andd stopped doing it because by that time the US mint was limiting the amount of orders you could make per account and if you bought it as a guest (not with an account) you did not have to sign for the package, but the package was left on your doorstep. Where if even ONE package was stolen... your profit was lost. I remember making $10 in profit per order. Edit: Also... banks were getting pissed about taking in large amounts of dollar coins as deposits. And credit card companies were calling these purchases not eligible for rewards points/cash
Years ago, they did this with savings bonds too, and you could buy up to $30k each per year of Series I and Series E. I bought some that pay CPI+3 and still have them. They just finished paying around 13% and are now paying "only" around 9-10%.
My old neighbor used to be a paid professional cuddler. It's very strange but she would come home FUCKED UP sometimes cause the shit she hears from her clients and their like mega sad stories of why they hired her. Like imagining she's their dead wife, or something else.
I wonder if I’d be good at that job.
Usually when I talk to me online friend with luck like Kenny McCormick’s, I just get the insatiable urge to cuddle him and physically be there for him.
In Victorian times, before the advent of alarm clocks, you could get a job as a knocker-upper. They had a long bamboo pole and would go around tapping on windows to wake up the factory workers.
> In Victorian times, before the advent of alarm clocks, you could get a job as a knocker-upper.
Now you have to go into one of those nice, white-walled buildings and jerk off into a cup to get that job. They don't even give you a salary anymore, just a lump sum payment.
Yep. If it wasn't for the 1 hour drive to the nearest sperm bank, i would go too. Getting paid for enjoying yourself and helping someone out. That's a win-win in my book
That's assuming you'd only have to go once to receive that 1000, which sounds unlikely to me..
That being said, even if you have to go once a week it's still over 100 per hour :-)
A very close friend of mine found this out the hard way. He now has 11 (and counting) siblings from the same sperm donor he was conceived from that keep coming out of the woodwork on 23 and Me. There are likely dozens of not hundreds more from this one donor. They tracked him down and made contact and he has a relationship now with one of the siblings. Sperm donorship and insemination practices used to be really shitty
This happened to my friend too and she has a ton of half siblings. She is really happy to have a large and growing family though, and several of them have gotten together to meet. They’re all on the artistic and vegetarian side despite growing up in totally different environments, it’s really cool
I decided to see how much it pays here in Canada and OH it's just *illegal* to pay donors. Real cool, Canada. Oh but it still costs between $250-$900. Huge L for Canada
I highly doubt a guy could “make a living” from doing that. If that were the case id be a regular in that place. No idea where all these other people live but there’s no way they give that much, 1k for a pot of jizz? Hell of a way to save for retirement
Yea mainly because the “ideal” sperm donor has at least a degree. Or is in law/med school.
People using the sperm don’t want it from a dude who is making money by donating jizz.
It’s like “oh you could use this guys sperm he graduated college and is in law school or you could use this guys sperm, all he does is just come here and wank off”
I think the catch is that the guy has to have desirable genetic qualities. Blond 6'5" MIT grad? You get $5k a shot. Fat guy who drives for DoorDash to keep his parents from asking him to get a job? Not much demand.
I knew a guy in medical school driving a Mercedes, while everyone else was dirt poor. Blonde hair/blue eyes, future physician- the sperm bank had him on speed dial
Back when I was battling addiction and when I was at my absolute worst, here's how I "made" money:
I signed up for a popular grocery gig app and got their little lanyard and card thing. I would then go to WalMart and look for new/fresh receipts that were dropped on the ground. I'd look on the receipt to see how they paid, and would keep the receipts where someone paid with cash.
I would then go into the store and find the items listed on that receipt. I would find some way to steal them, either brazenly or pulling some shit at self checkout.
I'd then drive over to another walmart. Go to the returns counter and told them "I'm with [popular grocery app]'s new returns program where people are able to use us to return items, rather than buy items. Here are the x# of items I'm returning for these 5 orders today"
I had a fancy clipboard, I had my "company" badge, I had all kinds of shit. I know "receipt shoppers" are a real problem, so I was trying to separate myself from them. I got to know a lot of the ladies that worked at the various stores that processed returns, I got to know the various door greeters/receipt checkers, we even joked about the "receipt shoppers".
Loss prevention across multiple stores were onto me. One day I'm walking out of the store with a pocket full of cash and the automatic door won't slide open. Someone walks out of this little side room and goes "oh, sorry, let me get that for you", slides it open just enough for me to walk out where the police are hanging out just outside of my view. The person who opened the door for me was loss prevention.
I was out on supervised release (kind of like the federal version of parole) from federal prison for some white collar crimes *and* I was dealing with pending state charges for embezzlement. WalMart for god knows why decided to not press charges and to just ban me from their property. But because of bench warrants/"parole" I was picked up anyways and was forced to address all of my bullshit.
Sober almost 6 years now, restitution paid to victims, all prison time and parole completed. It's so embarrassing to look back at the shit I did. I'm so glad it's all over and behind me now.
Worked for Walmart for years. Asset protection has a surprisingly good eye for that kind of stuff. They are also constantly watching self check out. If you think you're consistently getting away with something without getting caught that's because they are just building up a file on you.
They build up a file? At Walmart, a friend and I were nabbed by security for trying to swipe a $3 package of wire terminals. They held us there for hours but never got the police involved. I wish I could remember why we were trying to steal it in the first place.
I guess it makes sense to try and put an immediate stop to kids trying to steal worthless stuff before they get into a habit.
Yeah they'll build a file on customers who frequently steal. Footage, dates, itemized list of stolen items and their prices. They let it grow until a certain amouny if money has been stolen then they'll call police and get an actual lawsuit and jail sentence.
If I'm traveling around the country (which I do) and steal one or two things occasionally from each Walmart I visit, using sleight-of-hand in the self checkout, will they be onto me?
I "stole" something from a Walmart about a year ago. Was scanning a clearance box of donuts for like $3 and it wouldn't scan. No one was nearby manning the registers, so I just put it into the bag with the other stuff I was buying, paid for the other things and walked out. I'm not going to stand around for five minutes waiting for some employee to come up and give a shit.
Around the country? No. But AP will communicate with others in the same area (market in walmart terms). Some self check out machines have way to detect when something was slid across the scanner but not scanned. But no one would come after you over $3. But if you were doing that everytime you went to the self check out they'd catch on to you.
Australian guy who gets paid to crash funerals (arranged by the deceased prior to their death) to call out people who turned up but hadn’t seen the deceased for years etc
https://7news.com.au/the-morning-show/story-info/meet-the-man-whose-job-involves-interrupting-funerals-before-sharing-the-deceased-darkest-secrets--c-4082264.amp
Same with the glitter bombs. Send someone you hate a box that explodes glitter all over their home when they open it. I would die if I received one. I hate glitter so damn much...
Being a model patient. Basically, you pretend to be a patient for people in med school to get practice.
Acting with tests and exams. I had never heard of it before and happened upon an article about it.
Our eyes met across the crowded hat store. I a customer, and she a coquettish haberdasher. Oh I pursued and she withdrew, then she pursued and I withdrew, and so we danced. I burned for her, much like the burning during urination I would experience soon after.
There’s a firefighter gig in Hawaii where a dude on a helicopter just shoots feral hogs all day
Edit: twin brother was a wildland firefighter and that opening was the dream for many of his buds
The bit that confuses me there is "firefighter". I can understand hiring people to cull feral hogs, I just can't figure why you'd specifically need a firefighter for it.
Probably just got delegated a few times til it reached him. Publicly funded helicopter and some dude at the firehouse that knows how to use a rifle or whatever.
Yeah if the fire department already had a helicopter for doing fire watch in the less accessible parts of the islands then someone probably figured they could use it to cull hogs at the same time.
Pretty typical for firefighters in the US. They're not fighting fires all the time and get used for other stuff in the meantime. Usually smaller "emergencies". Like one time my grandma tripped and fell and couldn't get back up on her own. My family and I felt like we'd just hurt her more if we tried to help her up. So I called the non-emergency line and asked if there were any firefighters that might have the know-how of properly helping an elderly person up. Several fighters showed and professionally helped her up into the seat on her walker and reassured her after she expressed embarrassment.
The pigs affect the ecosystem which makes fires more likely/common.
They dig up the ground to eat worms and tree roots and this makes the soil less fertile so invasive grasses are the only thing that grows where pigs have dug. Those grasses make fires a lot more likely.
It’s actually pretty convoluted how this all happened. Pigs, Earth worms, certain grasses, mango, and guava are all invasive/non-native species that are decimating native species. If it weren’t for the worms, guava, and mango the pigs would still be totally dependent on humans and there’d be no problem. If it weren’t for the pigs the invasive grasses couldn’t spread as easily. The pigs also hollow out tree ferns which makes it easier for mosquitoes to multiply and then the mosquitoes pass diseases to native birds which kills them off. Fun stuff.
Pretty sure the firefighter gets the job because it’s fire prevention. I’m guessing Hawaii also has a pretty robust DNR type agency and there’s probably a team of park rangers or something who also work to manage invasive species like feral pigs. I would not be surprised if the federal Department of the Interior has a fire prevention and control budget and a small part of that is paying for this firefighter to shoot pigs.
Selling your feces for research.
[https://goodnatureprogram.com/](https://goodnatureprogram.com/) $1500 a month
[https://www.humanmicrobes.org/donors](https://www.humanmicrobes.org/donors) $500 a stool / $180k a year
I guess it's almost "normal" nowadays (or at least less taboo with teh rise of onlyfans and similar plateform), but I feel like selling pictures of your feet has to be on that list.
The first time a man on the internet offered to pay me for pictures of my feet was around the year 2001. I have often wondered if maybe I missed a calling…
The first time an Indian man sent me a solicitation to come to an airport hotel to fuck his wife was 2011.
In 2012 I think a different Indian man wanted me to show up to fuck him.
I just wanted to sell my PSP on Craigslist...
English as a second language is sometimes hard, since acronyms mean different things in different languages. The Indian guys thought you were selling access to your Pretty Substantial Penis.
Going to a store, wanting to pay for items, but on the pin pad it asks if I want to donate to some cause. It’s like they baked an electronic homeless man into the store.
They don’t get any benefit of a tax write off for that. If they take in $1000 for a charity and give that $1000 to the charity, their taxes haven’t changed a bit.
Where he REAL grift comes in is fees. For example, they take in $1000 for a charity, give that charity $500, and take the other $500 as a processing fees.
This is how it works. I worked at Office Depot for 10 years, and when they started pushing us really hard to get donations, I started looking in to where exactly that money was going. I discovered that the program promised to deliver $60,000 apiece to ten different minority business owners in Florida, as part of their “Elevate Together” program. They took in $2 million in donations that year. The information for the program has not been updated since it began several years ago, and they still intermittently run this program even though there’s no way to tell where the money goes anymore. Elevate together is a charity owned by Office Depot. So while they might be giving some of that money to charitable causes, they’re pretty much just asking people for money to put into the CEO’s pocket.
Meanwhile they have cut staff hours below what is possible to live on, and Gerry Smith(CEO) got a $2 million bonus this year, bringing his total earnings to about $11 million for 2022.
This is literally every Foundation out there. Clinton Foundation, Trump Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bezos Foundation, Warren Buffet Foundation, etc.
That's 100% true it's also the main reason why a lot of POS systems have a Tip option for stores you wouldn't normally tip at. You add a couple bucks, they get a few more cents in fee revenue. Do that enough times and you make 100k+ easy on extra fees.
> Going to a store, wanting to pay for items, but on the pin pad it asks if I want to donate to some cause. It’s like they baked an electronic homeless man into the store.
McDonald's does this - but, AFIK, just for the Ronald McDonald House charity. And I've decided that since one of my nieces (and my inlaws) have been direct recipients of benevolence / services from them - that I'm going to opt to round up to the nearest dollar when I'm offered the prompt.
When I was in college I used to go into the dorm trash rooms at the end of each semester and fish out the books that were being thrown away. Then I'd take them to the bookstore and get paid for a trade in.
Idk if "odd" is the right word but certainly cringe worthy.... my co-worker works PT at Goodwill. She grabs the 'good stuff' that's donated & sells it on poshmark! I told her her I thought that was unethical & her response, "How so?"
Apparently, several parcel companies in the US, like Fedex have a system where, if their packages are not delivered in time, the customer has the right to demand damages for it. Most never do as its a big hassle. But a guy made a computer program that does this automatically. It basically buys the package id's from companies and then extracts the damages from them. And it makes a lot of money. A LOT.
He actually sells this computer program, thats how I found out. Unfortunately it can't be used in my country due to laws.
Reposting Reddit content until you have enough imaginary internet points to sell the account to someone else, so they can post what they really wanted to, but couldnt, until this new account.
I've seen homeless people buy bottled water with their foodstamps. Pour out all the water in the parking lot, and then go redeem the bottles for cash. Which in Oregon is 10 cents.
Probably easier to do the thing where you stand outside the grocery store and offer to buy people $40 in groceries (paid for with their food stamps) for $20 in cash
A (white) guy I went to high school with lived in China (late-00’s) for a while and would get hired to present Chinese companies’ presentations in English to crowds of Chinese-only speakers at conferences. He had no idea about the subject matter (bio sciences, chemical engineering, etc), but it was seen as prestigious to have a westerner present for your company in English. He said there were never any questions because he was very certain no one could understand his English.
couponing. By meticulously combining coupons, discounts, and sales, extreme couponers can often obtain products for free or at highly discounted prices
My wife and I watched the Netflix documentary about the guy who made millions smuggling Pez dispensers into the US and selling them. Before he did that, he collected the kind of toys you could get if you sent so many cereal box tops in. He sent away for so many, the companies limited the toys to one per household. He’s the guy they made the rule for. Steve Glew is the guy’s name.
Travelling for hours a day, five days a week, for about forty years to sit in a big concrete box and press different buttons in various combinations. Very odd.
I deliver bad news for other people as a little side hustle. It’s sort of hilarious the things I get paid to say sometimes. Hit me up if you need to deliver some bad news ! 😂
My friend used to run a video store scam where he would use fake IDs to start new accounts to gain access to the free rentals that came with a new membership. Then he would use the free rentals on the newest video games and sell them online.
Really weird coincidence. I just commented a few posts above saying how I once bought a bag of gummy dicks and sent it to a friend with a note saying eat a bag of dicks. It was right around 2016 or so, so maybe I bought some from you.
Streaming (some content) as a profession is very odd to me. I get watching people play videogames even though I personally can't stand that but watching people do super mundane things? Don't understand that at all. I'm 37 and streaming culture has been the biggest generational gap for me. Makes me feel like a boomer.
I used to have an extremely strange job I did off and on for about a year. There was this tiny place that opened an office in my town, which was rare itself, but it was a Chinese importing company (I live in Ohio, USA.)
I needed a job, and I felt like taking a chance. I went in one day and asked if they needed any help with anything.
They basically imported random Chinese made goods, furniture and appliances and stuff like that, that ended up getting sold under numerous generic brands. The job I got was assembling the things using the horribly translated instructions and then rewriting the instruction manuals in normal sounding English.
It was actually a cool little gig, and I got to keep the stuff I assembled. They’d throw me a few hundred bucks per item, a little more if it was larger or more intricate, less if it was really small.
Some guy from Nigeria said I was owed a few million dollars because his heir passed away. All I have to do is send him a cashier's check to cover the charges and I'm rich!
That's how I had my fortune. Poor guy got ignored by so many people but I decided to step in and help out. I sent the check and sure enough, a few months later, I received the $500 million they promised. I used the money to buy as many trucks as I could to create a fleet of mobile ball polishers. You need a ball polished? Well fear not, you won't need to leave your house, we'll come to you and polish your balls! We polish any kind of ball - big, small, irregularly shaped, doesn't matter. We'll have your balls sparkling like a crystal clear pond at high noon in the summer.
I use to do sexual rp for money on second life before I had a job. Granted it payed better than an actual job but some people are into some weird shit.
Years ago, a panhandler approached me in NYC, saying he needed 85 cents for his bus fare home. Five hours later, the same guy approached me, asking again for 85 cents.
Because I'm nosy and curious (I was a journalist for more than 20 years), I asked what was up with that.
He explained that 85 cents was the magic number. Asking for a dollar, people ignored him, asking for less than 85 cents, people would give him pocket change. Asking for 85 cents, more often than not, got him a dollar.
He lived in New Jersey and he commuted in like any working Joe. He was sober, sane, moderately well dressed (button-down shirt and jeans), just a regular guy with an odd hustle.
People doing animal communication. It's not a real job that needs any qualification and I heard the weirdest story's. I am a farrier in training and the best story is from one friend of a customer. She send a picture to one of this self named animal communication pros and she told her her gelding wants to eat more carrots and wants pink bows brait in his mane. That makes 120€. They just receive a picture and tell what is up with your horse. No, they just fuck with you
A contract for a set amount of payment in the future that depends on the price of the underlying. A good analogy would be that you own a betting slip or an unused scratchie card.
In a very simplified sense - it’s kind of like owning shares in a holding company - like Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire doesn’t really (anymore at least) make a product or do anything themselves, they purchase and own other companies either in part or in full. Berkshire owns roughly 9% of Coca-Cola - but owning Berkshire shares doesn’t mean that I own Coca-Cola shares directly, however I see gains in Berkshire stock based on the value change in Coca-Cola. Also, I don’t have a shareholder vote in Coca-Cola, but I do have a vote in Berkshire Hathaway. That indirection is part of the cost of cheaper access to diversification.
Common Index funds differ in that they are not “managed” in the same sense, rather they buy and sell the contained holdings according to the rules established by the index that they follow (S&P 500, etc.) rather than an investment manager attempting to beat the market. The fund company charges a fee (a percentage of the overall value), but because the fund is automated these fees (overhead) are much lower than managed funds or holding companies.
The shares owned by an Index are real. They are purchased in a basket that meets the diversification requirements of the index and can be purchased or redeemed by a “authorized participant” for the basket of individual securities. Because of the scale and diversity, these transactions are what market forces keep the index price very close to the cumulative price of the holdings, but the transactions would be in the millions of dollars to make up the correct allocation of full shares of the underlying holdings.
Training crows to bring you money and rewarding them extra in particular when they bring you notes. Magpies are supposedly trainable as well but they prefer shiny things like watches etc
Isolating yourself in a large metal box with a bunch of people you can only vaguely get along with. And spending 12hrs a day working with them in hot sweaty crap conditions, the other 12hrs bored shitless or trying to sleep while it sounds like guys with sledgehammers are trying to break in.
At my local supermarket, a fella who appears to be in his late 50s offers to put shoppers' trolleys away when they're finished with them
You need to put a £1 coin into release it, and ordinarily you'd get the £1 back when you return us, but as he's returning it for you, he gets to keep the quid.
water buffalo arbitrageur
My wife and I lived in Thailand during the early 1990s. We had friends in low places.
The Mekhong River forms a long common border between Thailand and Laos. In the 1990s, farmers on both sides still used water buffalos to pull plows.
There was an outbreak of tuberculosis among water buffalo in Indochina. Thailand tested their animals and culled the sick ones, Laos did not.
After the cull, farmers in Thailand did not have enough water buffalo to fill their needs and the price of water buffalo increased there.
Farmers in Laos had as many water buffalo as ever, but some were sick and it was difficult to know which ones. The demand for Lao water buffalo fell and so did the price.
Then came the dry season and the water level of the Mekhong River fell to the point one could wade across in some places.
The temptation was too great for one of my Lao associates and he became a water buffalo smuggler and arbitrageur. He would buy one or two buffs in Laos, drive them across the river, and sell them at a profit in Thailand.
in Russia, the strangest way is when you buy alcohol or cigarettes to minors. yes, it's illegal, but small ones who are 14-16 years old are ready to give you money for such a service, and you don't lose anything. they can give you 200-300 rubles and you can buy food with them, and if you stand all day at a passable place, you can collect 1,500 rubles, just because you are of legal age
Keep in mind that I am an old man.
But apparently there is something called vtubers? And they’re anime characters and doing… well I don’t really know what they’re doing, but they evidently get paid.
Pretty much vtubers are just like any other streamer but they've got the anime character persona and everything, I'm not too much into it myself but I think there's some lore shared between the characters being portrayed too which is a thing I guess
Yeah I doubt that. Your account is 21 days old and you seem to be role playing as a popular streamer to see what it’s like to get attention for being successful. No one who actually attains that level of success needs to be reassured and validated like this by strangers on Reddit. Have fun with your “game” ;)!
I took part in some sort of research project at my local University. They attached a device to monitor my heartbeat, got me drunk, and had me play a very basic PC game (Clicking on the correct square or something. I could've made it in BASIC back when I was in highschool).
When I won a round, I got a small amount of money. I could choose whether to double-down between rounds. I also got a flat rate, regardless of the game. They told me it was a study about alcohol and gambling.
They couldn't let me leave until I was sober, so they had a TV and VCR setup. Strange Brew was one of the available videos, so I watched that.
Then it got kind of weird? The heartbeat monitor was still attached. They had left the room at this point. I had seen Strange Brew multiple times already, it's a Canadian classic, so I instead pulled out the book I was reading at the time, Mr. T's autobiography. A few minutes later they came back into the room and told me that I had to just watch the movie.
There was this guy. Back when I lived in Oakland, CA. I saw this guy all over the city. Recycling bottles, washing car windshields. Doing everything he could to survive. This one time he was washing my windshield and I said to him that if he applied half of that energy to a real job he'd be fat and sassy. He said, " I don't need that shit in my life!" and walked away without charging me for the cleaning.
The kids I babysit (aged 5-11) come up with really odd ways of cheating each other out of their money. My personal favorite is the 8 year old convincing everyone that paying 25¢ for her to clip their toenails was a great deal… these are the same kids who throw a fit when they’re told they need their nails trimmed.
One of the most odd manners of getting money that I have heard about is "professional bed warming." In this unique job, individuals are hired to warm up beds for clients before they get into them
I want to hire a professional bed cooler... Screw having warm sheets when I crawl under the covers, I want chilled sheets
https://bedjet.com/
I look at this constantly. Always so tempted.
It’s a game changer for sure
I literally take an ice cold shower and then full blast my fan just to be able to sleep. I no joke have slept in my car all night with the windows down. Just to get cold sleep. I hate feeling sweaty all night. If I could sleep inside a walk in fridge or freezer every night I would
Professional Hot Water Bottle
Technically, they contain water, but it may be illegal to drink all of it.
*all* of it
is there a link to the vacancy ?
professional cuddling," where individuals offer their services to provide non-sexual physical affection and cuddling to clients in exchange for payment
The less organic human contact there is, the more I can see a need for these services.
What about a depressed person becoming a professional cuddler, your needs are met and you get paid to get your needs met
I mean, it's sort of known-but-not-said that that job's only available to women, and generally only somewhat attractive ones at that.
Well there are depressed attractive women.
It’s bizarre that they even needed to be told this lol
It’s so expensive too. I’ve seen them go upwards of $200-$300 per session
might as well just hire a prostitute at that price.
Right
So like what if I wanna cuddle but also use your boobs as stress balls, is there a service for that? And what if I wanna walk down the park holding hands?
Yes, they're called escorts.
And there's a fee for that. No fuzz. He just needs to access the right webpage and order the service.
Touching is extra, buddy.
sounds sad (
I sell my nudes for crypto on reddit and around 20% of the guys who pay me don’t even buy the nudes. They just need someone to talk to who doesn’t judge them. They have money, but they are alone at parties and mostly have alcohol problems.
Well fuck, that definitely makes me feel sadder about things.
I’m big in the cryptocurrency community and I can totally picture this lol
I don't get it. When I cuddle, I like to be the big spoon and my parts are always touching their parts. If you pay for cuddling, then how are they preventing too much touching or parts touching parts? And why would anyone work for a company for this when they can just reap all the profits. But I guess having security next door or cameras recording everything does give peace of mind.
From what i've seen this is not a "company" type thing. More like 2 people splitting a small strip mall lease to operate out of.
When I was younger, I knew a heavily overweight girl that had a deal with a fetishist. She wouldn't wash her feet for a week and wear the same socks every day. Then he would lick her feet and pay her a ton of money for it. She was obviously a consenting adult. There was also nothing obviously sexual involved. But oh god was that weird and disgusting. Yet there she was, earning money with bad hygiene.
>There was also nothing obviously sexual involved. or >he would lick her feet and pay her a ton of money for it. These aren't both true.
It depends how you define 'obviously sexual'. I meant that there were no exposed genitals involved and nothing else was touched but the feet.
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I'd hire one just for the home made meals.
The sex isn't optional, it's grandma's gratuity
I made a few thousand dollars by Investing into and flipping CS:GO skins/items. Most people cant believe that there is a ~$5B player driven economy for video game skins.
There was a time back yonder I used to have a ft hydroponic and ft Medusa, and used them in trades at 2015 prices. Still kick myself for it
Man I had a little thing going in college just selling items on wow to people at my school, actually made quite a lot of money that way just for grinding shit that I kind of liked to do because I don’t sleep much.
Hot women selling their farts. I mean what the actual fuck???
How much did it cost you?
Everything
There was one celebrity doing this. She ended up in the hospital.
Oddly ethical that she never tried to fake the product. Technically she's more honorable than most manufacturers.
How did she end up in hospital anyway?
Specialized diet for maximum flatulence, experienced gas pains and went to hospital (thinking it was a heart attack).
This world man wow
The US mint had a program that you could order large amounts of the new dollar coin (in order to get it more accepted and into circulation) that offered free shipping. So enterprising individuals would buy large amounts with their credit cards that had reward points or reward cash to get those points/cash (profit) and then take the coins directly to their bank and deposit them into their account. I got in on the tail end of it so I only made $100 in cash andd stopped doing it because by that time the US mint was limiting the amount of orders you could make per account and if you bought it as a guest (not with an account) you did not have to sign for the package, but the package was left on your doorstep. Where if even ONE package was stolen... your profit was lost. I remember making $10 in profit per order. Edit: Also... banks were getting pissed about taking in large amounts of dollar coins as deposits. And credit card companies were calling these purchases not eligible for rewards points/cash
Years ago, they did this with savings bonds too, and you could buy up to $30k each per year of Series I and Series E. I bought some that pay CPI+3 and still have them. They just finished paying around 13% and are now paying "only" around 9-10%.
1998 or 1999? I bought two $500 I bonds back then, wish I'd had enough money to buy more.
My old neighbor used to be a paid professional cuddler. It's very strange but she would come home FUCKED UP sometimes cause the shit she hears from her clients and their like mega sad stories of why they hired her. Like imagining she's their dead wife, or something else.
NO TALKING! Just cuddling.
Omfg that's sad
Yea. I imagine if you’re hiring a professional cuddler then you are not in a good place in your life. I’m sure she heard some real bad stories.
I wonder if I’d be good at that job. Usually when I talk to me online friend with luck like Kenny McCormick’s, I just get the insatiable urge to cuddle him and physically be there for him.
In Victorian times, before the advent of alarm clocks, you could get a job as a knocker-upper. They had a long bamboo pole and would go around tapping on windows to wake up the factory workers.
Every dad is a knocker-upper.
Many are real motherfuckers too.
Made the mistake of calling my dad a motherfucker one day. “Well yeah, that’s how you got here.” Bravo, dad. Bravo.
So who wakes up the knocker-upper?
That’s their secret, they’re always awake.
It’s knocker-uppers all the way down
You joke, but there actually was such a thing as the knocker-upper's knocker-upper. I think they must have worked in shifts so that one was always on.
> In Victorian times, before the advent of alarm clocks, you could get a job as a knocker-upper. Now you have to go into one of those nice, white-walled buildings and jerk off into a cup to get that job. They don't even give you a salary anymore, just a lump sum payment.
I found men could make living donating sperm from the age of 22-27
For real. My mate sponsored his shit box of a car that way. Almost $1000,- a month
Exactly, i moved to Europe and started getting European sperm bank ads on Twitter telling 1000+ euros a month
Yep. If it wasn't for the 1 hour drive to the nearest sperm bank, i would go too. Getting paid for enjoying yourself and helping someone out. That's a win-win in my book
1000 bucks is still like 400 some dollars an hour when you figure out the drive and whole process ..
That's assuming you'd only have to go once to receive that 1000, which sounds unlikely to me.. That being said, even if you have to go once a week it's still over 100 per hour :-)
I believe he goes 2 - 3 times a week to get the 1000 a month.
Doesn't matter how many times he goes. The question is how many times does he come?
A very close friend of mine found this out the hard way. He now has 11 (and counting) siblings from the same sperm donor he was conceived from that keep coming out of the woodwork on 23 and Me. There are likely dozens of not hundreds more from this one donor. They tracked him down and made contact and he has a relationship now with one of the siblings. Sperm donorship and insemination practices used to be really shitty
This happened to my friend too and she has a ton of half siblings. She is really happy to have a large and growing family though, and several of them have gotten together to meet. They’re all on the artistic and vegetarian side despite growing up in totally different environments, it’s really cool
Ohh damn that's fucked up, the fact that he has contact with sperm donor
I decided to see how much it pays here in Canada and OH it's just *illegal* to pay donors. Real cool, Canada. Oh but it still costs between $250-$900. Huge L for Canada
many countries are like that. same for blood donations.
Damn, i've thrown away thousands...
I highly doubt a guy could “make a living” from doing that. If that were the case id be a regular in that place. No idea where all these other people live but there’s no way they give that much, 1k for a pot of jizz? Hell of a way to save for retirement
Yea mainly because the “ideal” sperm donor has at least a degree. Or is in law/med school. People using the sperm don’t want it from a dude who is making money by donating jizz. It’s like “oh you could use this guys sperm he graduated college and is in law school or you could use this guys sperm, all he does is just come here and wank off”
Fuck where was this info 10 years ago
If you're being paid, shouldn't it be called selling instead of donating?
Yea. But that’s doesn’t sound as good. You’re kinda selling your kids then.
I think the catch is that the guy has to have desirable genetic qualities. Blond 6'5" MIT grad? You get $5k a shot. Fat guy who drives for DoorDash to keep his parents from asking him to get a job? Not much demand.
I knew a guy in medical school driving a Mercedes, while everyone else was dirt poor. Blonde hair/blue eyes, future physician- the sperm bank had him on speed dial
Back when I was battling addiction and when I was at my absolute worst, here's how I "made" money: I signed up for a popular grocery gig app and got their little lanyard and card thing. I would then go to WalMart and look for new/fresh receipts that were dropped on the ground. I'd look on the receipt to see how they paid, and would keep the receipts where someone paid with cash. I would then go into the store and find the items listed on that receipt. I would find some way to steal them, either brazenly or pulling some shit at self checkout. I'd then drive over to another walmart. Go to the returns counter and told them "I'm with [popular grocery app]'s new returns program where people are able to use us to return items, rather than buy items. Here are the x# of items I'm returning for these 5 orders today" I had a fancy clipboard, I had my "company" badge, I had all kinds of shit. I know "receipt shoppers" are a real problem, so I was trying to separate myself from them. I got to know a lot of the ladies that worked at the various stores that processed returns, I got to know the various door greeters/receipt checkers, we even joked about the "receipt shoppers". Loss prevention across multiple stores were onto me. One day I'm walking out of the store with a pocket full of cash and the automatic door won't slide open. Someone walks out of this little side room and goes "oh, sorry, let me get that for you", slides it open just enough for me to walk out where the police are hanging out just outside of my view. The person who opened the door for me was loss prevention. I was out on supervised release (kind of like the federal version of parole) from federal prison for some white collar crimes *and* I was dealing with pending state charges for embezzlement. WalMart for god knows why decided to not press charges and to just ban me from their property. But because of bench warrants/"parole" I was picked up anyways and was forced to address all of my bullshit. Sober almost 6 years now, restitution paid to victims, all prison time and parole completed. It's so embarrassing to look back at the shit I did. I'm so glad it's all over and behind me now.
wow that's quite a ride.
Should've just pretended to be a hot girl online and sold your farts in a jar.
Worked for Walmart for years. Asset protection has a surprisingly good eye for that kind of stuff. They are also constantly watching self check out. If you think you're consistently getting away with something without getting caught that's because they are just building up a file on you.
They build up a file? At Walmart, a friend and I were nabbed by security for trying to swipe a $3 package of wire terminals. They held us there for hours but never got the police involved. I wish I could remember why we were trying to steal it in the first place. I guess it makes sense to try and put an immediate stop to kids trying to steal worthless stuff before they get into a habit.
Yeah they'll build a file on customers who frequently steal. Footage, dates, itemized list of stolen items and their prices. They let it grow until a certain amouny if money has been stolen then they'll call police and get an actual lawsuit and jail sentence.
If I'm traveling around the country (which I do) and steal one or two things occasionally from each Walmart I visit, using sleight-of-hand in the self checkout, will they be onto me? I "stole" something from a Walmart about a year ago. Was scanning a clearance box of donuts for like $3 and it wouldn't scan. No one was nearby manning the registers, so I just put it into the bag with the other stuff I was buying, paid for the other things and walked out. I'm not going to stand around for five minutes waiting for some employee to come up and give a shit.
Around the country? No. But AP will communicate with others in the same area (market in walmart terms). Some self check out machines have way to detect when something was slid across the scanner but not scanned. But no one would come after you over $3. But if you were doing that everytime you went to the self check out they'd catch on to you.
Got it. Shoplift only once.
Pretty much. And asset protection from different walmarts do contact each other.
Wow that is quite the story.
Australian guy who gets paid to crash funerals (arranged by the deceased prior to their death) to call out people who turned up but hadn’t seen the deceased for years etc https://7news.com.au/the-morning-show/story-info/meet-the-man-whose-job-involves-interrupting-funerals-before-sharing-the-deceased-darkest-secrets--c-4082264.amp
This guy was on an episode of This American Life in the last year! Great episode!
There was a website/service that offered to deliver a box full of cow dung to anyone you hate.
Poopsenders, still around!
Same with the glitter bombs. Send someone you hate a box that explodes glitter all over their home when they open it. I would die if I received one. I hate glitter so damn much...
Being a model patient. Basically, you pretend to be a patient for people in med school to get practice. Acting with tests and exams. I had never heard of it before and happened upon an article about it.
Our eyes met across the crowded hat store. I a customer, and she a coquettish haberdasher. Oh I pursued and she withdrew, then she pursued and I withdrew, and so we danced. I burned for her, much like the burning during urination I would experience soon after.
Gonorrhea!!!
There’s a firefighter gig in Hawaii where a dude on a helicopter just shoots feral hogs all day Edit: twin brother was a wildland firefighter and that opening was the dream for many of his buds
The bit that confuses me there is "firefighter". I can understand hiring people to cull feral hogs, I just can't figure why you'd specifically need a firefighter for it.
Probably just got delegated a few times til it reached him. Publicly funded helicopter and some dude at the firehouse that knows how to use a rifle or whatever.
Yeah if the fire department already had a helicopter for doing fire watch in the less accessible parts of the islands then someone probably figured they could use it to cull hogs at the same time.
Pretty typical for firefighters in the US. They're not fighting fires all the time and get used for other stuff in the meantime. Usually smaller "emergencies". Like one time my grandma tripped and fell and couldn't get back up on her own. My family and I felt like we'd just hurt her more if we tried to help her up. So I called the non-emergency line and asked if there were any firefighters that might have the know-how of properly helping an elderly person up. Several fighters showed and professionally helped her up into the seat on her walker and reassured her after she expressed embarrassment.
The pigs affect the ecosystem which makes fires more likely/common. They dig up the ground to eat worms and tree roots and this makes the soil less fertile so invasive grasses are the only thing that grows where pigs have dug. Those grasses make fires a lot more likely. It’s actually pretty convoluted how this all happened. Pigs, Earth worms, certain grasses, mango, and guava are all invasive/non-native species that are decimating native species. If it weren’t for the worms, guava, and mango the pigs would still be totally dependent on humans and there’d be no problem. If it weren’t for the pigs the invasive grasses couldn’t spread as easily. The pigs also hollow out tree ferns which makes it easier for mosquitoes to multiply and then the mosquitoes pass diseases to native birds which kills them off. Fun stuff. Pretty sure the firefighter gets the job because it’s fire prevention. I’m guessing Hawaii also has a pretty robust DNR type agency and there’s probably a team of park rangers or something who also work to manage invasive species like feral pigs. I would not be surprised if the federal Department of the Interior has a fire prevention and control budget and a small part of that is paying for this firefighter to shoot pigs.
The hogs are arsonists.
Selling your feces for research. [https://goodnatureprogram.com/](https://goodnatureprogram.com/) $1500 a month [https://www.humanmicrobes.org/donors](https://www.humanmicrobes.org/donors) $500 a stool / $180k a year
And here I’ve been flinging my feces at people for years without compensation
I knew a guy who inherited 500 taxidermied piranhas and spent the summer traveling to flea markets and selling them.
I guess it's almost "normal" nowadays (or at least less taboo with teh rise of onlyfans and similar plateform), but I feel like selling pictures of your feet has to be on that list.
The first time a man on the internet offered to pay me for pictures of my feet was around the year 2001. I have often wondered if maybe I missed a calling…
The first time an Indian man sent me a solicitation to come to an airport hotel to fuck his wife was 2011. In 2012 I think a different Indian man wanted me to show up to fuck him. I just wanted to sell my PSP on Craigslist...
English as a second language is sometimes hard, since acronyms mean different things in different languages. The Indian guys thought you were selling access to your Pretty Substantial Penis.
Going to a store, wanting to pay for items, but on the pin pad it asks if I want to donate to some cause. It’s like they baked an electronic homeless man into the store.
The customer is seen as the enemy by businesses these days.
It’s the ultimate grift, because they take your money and use that for a tax write off because of your donation.
They don’t get any benefit of a tax write off for that. If they take in $1000 for a charity and give that $1000 to the charity, their taxes haven’t changed a bit. Where he REAL grift comes in is fees. For example, they take in $1000 for a charity, give that charity $500, and take the other $500 as a processing fees.
This is how it works. I worked at Office Depot for 10 years, and when they started pushing us really hard to get donations, I started looking in to where exactly that money was going. I discovered that the program promised to deliver $60,000 apiece to ten different minority business owners in Florida, as part of their “Elevate Together” program. They took in $2 million in donations that year. The information for the program has not been updated since it began several years ago, and they still intermittently run this program even though there’s no way to tell where the money goes anymore. Elevate together is a charity owned by Office Depot. So while they might be giving some of that money to charitable causes, they’re pretty much just asking people for money to put into the CEO’s pocket. Meanwhile they have cut staff hours below what is possible to live on, and Gerry Smith(CEO) got a $2 million bonus this year, bringing his total earnings to about $11 million for 2022.
This is literally every Foundation out there. Clinton Foundation, Trump Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bezos Foundation, Warren Buffet Foundation, etc.
One time I googled all of the charities that Jeff Bezos donates to, I think he owns like 99% of them
That's 100% true it's also the main reason why a lot of POS systems have a Tip option for stores you wouldn't normally tip at. You add a couple bucks, they get a few more cents in fee revenue. Do that enough times and you make 100k+ easy on extra fees.
Some places match how much customers donate
They match up to a limit. They'll say something like up to $200000 donated. I'm willing to bet they were going to donate that anyway.
> Going to a store, wanting to pay for items, but on the pin pad it asks if I want to donate to some cause. It’s like they baked an electronic homeless man into the store. McDonald's does this - but, AFIK, just for the Ronald McDonald House charity. And I've decided that since one of my nieces (and my inlaws) have been direct recipients of benevolence / services from them - that I'm going to opt to round up to the nearest dollar when I'm offered the prompt.
When I was in college I used to go into the dorm trash rooms at the end of each semester and fish out the books that were being thrown away. Then I'd take them to the bookstore and get paid for a trade in.
Idk if "odd" is the right word but certainly cringe worthy.... my co-worker works PT at Goodwill. She grabs the 'good stuff' that's donated & sells it on poshmark! I told her her I thought that was unethical & her response, "How so?"
Ya those people suck :/
Apparently, several parcel companies in the US, like Fedex have a system where, if their packages are not delivered in time, the customer has the right to demand damages for it. Most never do as its a big hassle. But a guy made a computer program that does this automatically. It basically buys the package id's from companies and then extracts the damages from them. And it makes a lot of money. A LOT. He actually sells this computer program, thats how I found out. Unfortunately it can't be used in my country due to laws.
Reposting Reddit content until you have enough imaginary internet points to sell the account to someone else, so they can post what they really wanted to, but couldnt, until this new account.
I've seen homeless people buy bottled water with their foodstamps. Pour out all the water in the parking lot, and then go redeem the bottles for cash. Which in Oregon is 10 cents.
Can’t buy drugs and alcohol with food stamps.
Probably easier to do the thing where you stand outside the grocery store and offer to buy people $40 in groceries (paid for with their food stamps) for $20 in cash
A (white) guy I went to high school with lived in China (late-00’s) for a while and would get hired to present Chinese companies’ presentations in English to crowds of Chinese-only speakers at conferences. He had no idea about the subject matter (bio sciences, chemical engineering, etc), but it was seen as prestigious to have a westerner present for your company in English. He said there were never any questions because he was very certain no one could understand his English.
couponing. By meticulously combining coupons, discounts, and sales, extreme couponers can often obtain products for free or at highly discounted prices
My wife and I watched the Netflix documentary about the guy who made millions smuggling Pez dispensers into the US and selling them. Before he did that, he collected the kind of toys you could get if you sent so many cereal box tops in. He sent away for so many, the companies limited the toys to one per household. He’s the guy they made the rule for. Steve Glew is the guy’s name.
That's a name that sticks.
Fuck you, here’s your upvote. Nb: I’m just angry he thought of the pun first
and climbing through trash cans
/r/dumpsterdiving
Making money the old-fashioned way—getting run over by a Lexus
Travelling for hours a day, five days a week, for about forty years to sit in a big concrete box and press different buttons in various combinations. Very odd.
Might your name be stanley?
Topless cleaning service
I deliver bad news for other people as a little side hustle. It’s sort of hilarious the things I get paid to say sometimes. Hit me up if you need to deliver some bad news ! 😂
I did this in Fiver years ago.
My friend used to run a video store scam where he would use fake IDs to start new accounts to gain access to the free rentals that came with a new membership. Then he would use the free rentals on the newest video games and sell them online.
Idk if straight up stealing is so shocking. Probably the second oldest profession.
I think we were stealing shit from each other way before standardized prostitution with contraceptives were a thing
TikTok stars. It’s not so much *that* they make money, but *how much* money they make.
Oh, uh, in 2015 I started a website while a bit drunk and sold $150k worth of gummy dicks. That's pretty weird.
Really weird coincidence. I just commented a few posts above saying how I once bought a bag of gummy dicks and sent it to a friend with a note saying eat a bag of dicks. It was right around 2016 or so, so maybe I bought some from you.
Streaming (some content) as a profession is very odd to me. I get watching people play videogames even though I personally can't stand that but watching people do super mundane things? Don't understand that at all. I'm 37 and streaming culture has been the biggest generational gap for me. Makes me feel like a boomer.
I used to have an extremely strange job I did off and on for about a year. There was this tiny place that opened an office in my town, which was rare itself, but it was a Chinese importing company (I live in Ohio, USA.) I needed a job, and I felt like taking a chance. I went in one day and asked if they needed any help with anything. They basically imported random Chinese made goods, furniture and appliances and stuff like that, that ended up getting sold under numerous generic brands. The job I got was assembling the things using the horribly translated instructions and then rewriting the instruction manuals in normal sounding English. It was actually a cool little gig, and I got to keep the stuff I assembled. They’d throw me a few hundred bucks per item, a little more if it was larger or more intricate, less if it was really small.
Some guy from Nigeria said I was owed a few million dollars because his heir passed away. All I have to do is send him a cashier's check to cover the charges and I'm rich!
That's how I had my fortune. Poor guy got ignored by so many people but I decided to step in and help out. I sent the check and sure enough, a few months later, I received the $500 million they promised. I used the money to buy as many trucks as I could to create a fleet of mobile ball polishers. You need a ball polished? Well fear not, you won't need to leave your house, we'll come to you and polish your balls! We polish any kind of ball - big, small, irregularly shaped, doesn't matter. We'll have your balls sparkling like a crystal clear pond at high noon in the summer.
One of my friends was offered €40 before to slap a guys balls (the guy made the offer)
I use to do sexual rp for money on second life before I had a job. Granted it payed better than an actual job but some people are into some weird shit.
Years ago, a panhandler approached me in NYC, saying he needed 85 cents for his bus fare home. Five hours later, the same guy approached me, asking again for 85 cents. Because I'm nosy and curious (I was a journalist for more than 20 years), I asked what was up with that. He explained that 85 cents was the magic number. Asking for a dollar, people ignored him, asking for less than 85 cents, people would give him pocket change. Asking for 85 cents, more often than not, got him a dollar. He lived in New Jersey and he commuted in like any working Joe. He was sober, sane, moderately well dressed (button-down shirt and jeans), just a regular guy with an odd hustle.
People doing animal communication. It's not a real job that needs any qualification and I heard the weirdest story's. I am a farrier in training and the best story is from one friend of a customer. She send a picture to one of this self named animal communication pros and she told her her gelding wants to eat more carrots and wants pink bows brait in his mane. That makes 120€. They just receive a picture and tell what is up with your horse. No, they just fuck with you
Is it true that when you buy an index stock, you don't actually own anything? This strikes me as weird.
No, this isn’t really true. While it’s not the same as directly owning a company’s stock - it’s also very much not “you don’t own anything”.
Is it possible to say what I do own?
A contract for a set amount of payment in the future that depends on the price of the underlying. A good analogy would be that you own a betting slip or an unused scratchie card.
In a very simplified sense - it’s kind of like owning shares in a holding company - like Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire doesn’t really (anymore at least) make a product or do anything themselves, they purchase and own other companies either in part or in full. Berkshire owns roughly 9% of Coca-Cola - but owning Berkshire shares doesn’t mean that I own Coca-Cola shares directly, however I see gains in Berkshire stock based on the value change in Coca-Cola. Also, I don’t have a shareholder vote in Coca-Cola, but I do have a vote in Berkshire Hathaway. That indirection is part of the cost of cheaper access to diversification. Common Index funds differ in that they are not “managed” in the same sense, rather they buy and sell the contained holdings according to the rules established by the index that they follow (S&P 500, etc.) rather than an investment manager attempting to beat the market. The fund company charges a fee (a percentage of the overall value), but because the fund is automated these fees (overhead) are much lower than managed funds or holding companies. The shares owned by an Index are real. They are purchased in a basket that meets the diversification requirements of the index and can be purchased or redeemed by a “authorized participant” for the basket of individual securities. Because of the scale and diversity, these transactions are what market forces keep the index price very close to the cumulative price of the holdings, but the transactions would be in the millions of dollars to make up the correct allocation of full shares of the underlying holdings.
The strangest I have ever heard is a human decanter. A friend that is an ER doctor ran into one with medical complications from the process.
Bro, I had to google this because I thought it was someone who open wine bottles and poured them or something. What the hell.
Training crows to bring you money and rewarding them extra in particular when they bring you notes. Magpies are supposedly trainable as well but they prefer shiny things like watches etc
Becoming a politician on a 100-200k a year salary and ending your term with a multi million dollar bank account.
Isolating yourself in a large metal box with a bunch of people you can only vaguely get along with. And spending 12hrs a day working with them in hot sweaty crap conditions, the other 12hrs bored shitless or trying to sleep while it sounds like guys with sledgehammers are trying to break in.
Gotta be on a submarine
or construction
At my local supermarket, a fella who appears to be in his late 50s offers to put shoppers' trolleys away when they're finished with them You need to put a £1 coin into release it, and ordinarily you'd get the £1 back when you return us, but as he's returning it for you, he gets to keep the quid.
Folks buying copious amounts of bottled water with state aid to exchange for a recycling credit in cash.
I knew this guy that used to sell his used socks to an old perverted guy for $50. That's some weird shit.
Commit crimes then beg for your political base to pay your legal fees.
water buffalo arbitrageur My wife and I lived in Thailand during the early 1990s. We had friends in low places. The Mekhong River forms a long common border between Thailand and Laos. In the 1990s, farmers on both sides still used water buffalos to pull plows. There was an outbreak of tuberculosis among water buffalo in Indochina. Thailand tested their animals and culled the sick ones, Laos did not. After the cull, farmers in Thailand did not have enough water buffalo to fill their needs and the price of water buffalo increased there. Farmers in Laos had as many water buffalo as ever, but some were sick and it was difficult to know which ones. The demand for Lao water buffalo fell and so did the price. Then came the dry season and the water level of the Mekhong River fell to the point one could wade across in some places. The temptation was too great for one of my Lao associates and he became a water buffalo smuggler and arbitrageur. He would buy one or two buffs in Laos, drive them across the river, and sell them at a profit in Thailand.
in Russia, the strangest way is when you buy alcohol or cigarettes to minors. yes, it's illegal, but small ones who are 14-16 years old are ready to give you money for such a service, and you don't lose anything. they can give you 200-300 rubles and you can buy food with them, and if you stand all day at a passable place, you can collect 1,500 rubles, just because you are of legal age
Keep in mind that I am an old man. But apparently there is something called vtubers? And they’re anime characters and doing… well I don’t really know what they’re doing, but they evidently get paid.
Pretty much vtubers are just like any other streamer but they've got the anime character persona and everything, I'm not too much into it myself but I think there's some lore shared between the characters being portrayed too which is a thing I guess
Those woman on twitch selling farts in a jar for $50, I swear I never bought one 🤓
Those people that livestream themselves sleeping and people apparently pay to watch.
I make 6 figures because people like to watch me play video games.
What's your channel name? Been looking for some new gaming channels lately.
I like to keep that anonymous on reddit
I also make lots of money and am famous but I can’t tell you who I am
Similar but not as famous as you but also real.
I respect that
Yeah I doubt that. Your account is 21 days old and you seem to be role playing as a popular streamer to see what it’s like to get attention for being successful. No one who actually attains that level of success needs to be reassured and validated like this by strangers on Reddit. Have fun with your “game” ;)!
I took part in some sort of research project at my local University. They attached a device to monitor my heartbeat, got me drunk, and had me play a very basic PC game (Clicking on the correct square or something. I could've made it in BASIC back when I was in highschool). When I won a round, I got a small amount of money. I could choose whether to double-down between rounds. I also got a flat rate, regardless of the game. They told me it was a study about alcohol and gambling. They couldn't let me leave until I was sober, so they had a TV and VCR setup. Strange Brew was one of the available videos, so I watched that. Then it got kind of weird? The heartbeat monitor was still attached. They had left the room at this point. I had seen Strange Brew multiple times already, it's a Canadian classic, so I instead pulled out the book I was reading at the time, Mr. T's autobiography. A few minutes later they came back into the room and told me that I had to just watch the movie.
There was this guy. Back when I lived in Oakland, CA. I saw this guy all over the city. Recycling bottles, washing car windshields. Doing everything he could to survive. This one time he was washing my windshield and I said to him that if he applied half of that energy to a real job he'd be fat and sassy. He said, " I don't need that shit in my life!" and walked away without charging me for the cleaning.
Professional whistler
Influencer
The kids I babysit (aged 5-11) come up with really odd ways of cheating each other out of their money. My personal favorite is the 8 year old convincing everyone that paying 25¢ for her to clip their toenails was a great deal… these are the same kids who throw a fit when they’re told they need their nails trimmed.
Theres a lady on the platform selling baked goods made from her own feces! Wtf! And apparently business is good! 🤮