/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

[Anonymous No.7472491]

How do you make money /cgl/?
>tfw bought clothes from thrift shop and tailor them
>you will never afford that dress youve always wanted

[Anonymous No.7472494]

sell panties

[Anonymous No.7472498]

work ye olde day job at a clothing company
nothing spells fun like helping put together raw material orders to send to our contractor factories! (spoiler: it's not fun)

[Anonymous No.7472499]

>>7472491
-invest in buttcoins
-work min wage
-provide tailoring services
-work at an oil plant
-ask parents money

[Anonymous No.7472507]

Be 18+ and have a job.

[Anonymous No.7472515]

I don't.

[Anonymous No.7472532]

>>7472491
I go on autistic rampages so my mom lends me her card, also get autismbux.

[Anonymous No.7472561]

I'm an adult, I have a 40 hr a week job which pays much better than my old 36 hr a week job that I had 2 months ago (much higher pay).

Also
>tfw you get a massive payout of your entitlements from your old job and can't find anything to spend it on because the dresses you liked when you were just scraping by are now sold out

[Anonymous No.7472562]

Escorting for older gentlemen.

[Anonymous No.7472609]

>>7472515
Elaborate please

[Anonymous No.7472611]

>>7472609
Won the lottery apparently.

[Anonymous No.7472638]

>>7472507
This.

[Anonymous No.7472641]

>>7472515
Am I missing something? This looks like a losing ticket.

[Anonymous No.7472658]

shit tier job + a Lil adsense ($300 in 3 years accumulated so far not bad but better than not trying)

[Anonymous No.7472671]

>>7472562
how did you become an escort? like i mean who was your first customer and how did u get him?

[Anonymous No.7472685]

>Two jobs
>Muh online auctions

Not being in school also helps :(

[Anonymous No.7472688]

Be adult and work everyday just to spend half my money on my baby and the other half saving up for a car and paying rent. Have $100 leftover. Put it in savings and buy burando in 4 months. Its possible even for poorfags

[Anonymous No.7472694]

>>7472671
I was tired of working hard for little money so I put an ad on craigslist.

A man around 65 contacted me and I went for it.

[Anonymous No.7472701]

>>7472694
how much money did you ask?

[Anonymous No.7472703]

>>7472701
150 for one hour.

Now I ask for 200.

[Anonymous No.7472704]

I work while going to school (which I recommend to everyone who can do this, nowadays companies search for people who have some experience, you'll learn much more by working and it's easy to find a job cause you're dirt cheap).

Living with your partner also cut the costs and being a students means I get not taxes yet/still have students advantages while getting a (somewhat shitty) pay.

[Anonymous No.7472722]

In the Air Force. Paycheck every two weeks.

[Anonymous No.7472726]

I work part time sending spam, which apparently if done the way my company does it isn't illegal. I also work in a project on the side that is related to my major and may or may not give me money in the future.

[Anonymous No.7472730]

During Highschool
>Art Commissions
>Selling Chocolate/Flowers/Cards/Candy/Balloons in school during Valentines, Halloween and before Christmas Break.

University
>Online "services"
>>Booting pplz
>>Doxxing
>Programman
>Bitcoins
>Tutoring
>Making glycerin weed
>Making/selling bongs
>Selling Active Charcoal (for the ones that do drugs before drugtests)
>Putting Makeup on people
>Translator

Now
>Lawyering
>Translating

[Anonymous No.7472736]

>>7472703
You are cheap

[Lock !lsUMWqdC0k No.7472740]

>>7472688
>baby

When I first read this I thought you meant like... BTSSB.

And I thought it would be awesome to spend half of my money on Baby.

And then I realized.

[Anonymous No.7472741]

>>7472726
>I work part time sending spam

Any self-loathing issues?

[Lock !lsUMWqdC0k No.7472742]

>>7472726
How did you start sending spam?

I'm looking for online work, health problems and general stress at my current job are really beating me up.

[Anonymous No.7472757]

>>7472741
Not really, it's the only stable job I've found so far and I have to make a living somehow. My coworkers are nice, I only really hate my boss for a really disgusting comment he made.

I also cancel subscriptions to the service for anyone who asks, so it doesn't weigh on my conscience as much as it would otherwise.

>>7472742
I saw an ad from a marketing company on a job website. They were looking for an "advertising campaign loading technician". The only requirements were being meticulous and responsible, but I think having a uni degree helped. They didn't really specify what the job was until I went to the interview. I work in an office, although I could probably do it from home.

Look for similar ads, sorry I can't be of much more help. It is a stressful job though. All the income of the company depends on me doing my job right.

[Anonymous No.7472775]

I work at a grocery store part time, and both my partner and I receive student loan money.

Plus his dad got him into the stock market. Without it, we'd probably be scraping by, but now our expenses are very comfortably covered and there's always a little left over. He likes it when I wear lolita and likes to support me in the hobby, so he'll buy me something if I need it.

In the future I plan to open a little etsy shop, but that's probably at least a year or two away. I really don't make anything I'd be proud of selling quite yet but I think that'd be really fun. And then hopefully the proceeds from that can go solely towards my lolita and cosplay stuff.

[Anonymous No.7472776]

I'm a part time QA Tech at a payment processing company. I code all automated test cases across various apps and databases and do testing on new or updated software.
...It pays really really well for a small company even working 21 hours a week.

[Anonymous No.7472777]

i let guys fuck me for money. hope they have a condum. i am poor

[Anonymous No.7472793]

OP if you are good at thrifting you could try selling finds on ebay.
Whenever I go thrifting I pick up a few pieces for ebay. Not all of them sell but usually 1-2 will and it more than covers the cost of the trip.

[Anonymous No.7472799]

>>7472793
Random person here
I used to do this
The goodwill I went to charged by the pound so I got shit really cheap. One day it looked like a hottopic exploded and I got a bunch of Twight Tshirts that looked like new. Sold like hot cakes.
One buyer complained that the shirt was smaller then what was marked. Even though I listed the shirt's tag size (m) and measured it by hand. LOL twight ham fan.

[Anonymous No.7472802]

I do a few things. I work 40 hours per week. I'm a real estate agent separately (new though) and I sell on ebay. like I said on >>7472793 I sell some opportunistic stuff like (anything I come across anywhere that looks like it's worth money, clothes, video games, new products on clearance) that but that's not where most of my ebay money comes from. I also sell anything & everything I don't want to reduce clutter and get some money back. Just sold a wig & an old costume for around $400. I used to do ebay commissions.
But even after all that, I'm not rolling in money, I spent a ton just to get a car to be a real estate agent. I could buy brand every month but not really have a lot of savings left over. I'm looking for a new job because I don't really make much at mine.
I have sold stuff on etsy and also wrote articles for textbroker before and that made a tiny bit of money, like $50 a week. So it wasn't really worth it. I've tried ads and stuff on my blogs, makes no money but I don't own a popular blog or youtube or anything.

[Anonymous No.7472804]

I was working casually for more than 30 hours a week but I'm a poor student again but hopefully I can get a part time job to help.

[Anonymous No.7472805]

>>7472799
yeah I'm not even good at thrifting and I've still found some nice stuff. my favorite was a Harajuku Lovers bag that sold for about $75. I wish my goodwill was per pound they are actually really expensive.
I look out for vintage pyrex, new in box stuff, branded clothes like Anthropologie in good condition, also anything that just looks quirky, if I like it maybe someone else will too? I know some girls do this like.. full time, there are a ton of things you can get. I have heard of people selling a lot of plus sized clothing and shoes but I don't want to get into that.

[Anonymous No.7472827]

How much does it cost to actually be able to afford things? I really want to get into gothic lolita but I don't know if it's doable. I'm basically a college freshman working for $9/hr 10-15 hours a week for the university's IT department during the year, and then for this summer I got a full time internship that pays like $21/hr and $31.5/hr overtime. But I mean on the priority list for expenses it's basically

>Education
I want to pay off the loans as soon as possible, and that should be completely doable if I can get an equal or better internship next summer. I have some scholarships, am paying the in-state tuition price, and I'll be graduating after my junior year.
~$10k

>Car
I don't need this yet but I will soon. I'd rather buy a new car because buying used scares me and also I feel like buying new and then not dealing with repairs will be cheaper in the long run, but I don't think I'm going to have the means.
~$5k-$20k

>Eight months worth of dollars
To give me a buffer to live off of while I find a real job post-graduation. If I move in with my parents temporarily it'll be a whole lot less so that's probably what's going to happen.
~$0k-$15k

>Desktop
I can code just fine with my laptop and I really don't need this but I miss video games.
~$1k-$1.5k

So total expenses are anywhere from ~$16k-$46.5k depending.

I have about ~$4k in the bank right now and four semesters and two summers to go. So by the time I graduate, I should have ~$34k total as a rough estimate. This is enough to cover education, a computer, and a nice car, but if my parents don't let me live with them then I'd get a sub-$5k used car and pray that I find gainful employment in 8 months.

This does not leave much money for pretty dresses.

[Anonymous No.7472847]

>>7472827
It depends on what styles but I'd say for a good starting wardrobe of at least 2 main pieces and enough versatile staples to be a jumping off point to expand your wardrobe later.. about $800?
It's good you've listed out your expenses but there's probably some corners you could cut if you are serious. Building a computer would save a few hundred dollars easily, and you probably don't need $1800 living expenses. You could also find a part time job while looking for a "real job". Because realistically you aren't going to be looking for a job 14 hours a day, so it's up to you how to you want to use the remaining few hours of the day.

[Lock !lsUMWqdC0k No.7472861]

>>7472827
$1.5k seems a LOT for a computer.

You can build a pretty decent gaming desktop for like $600.

[Anonymous No.7472877]

>>7472861
sounds like she is a computer science or computer engineering major, so no, its really not that much considering the quality she needs.

[Anonymous No.7472894]

>>7472827
>buying used scares me
I bought a pre-owned car and it's great. The thing is that I bought it directly from the original owner, who was only selling it because he had to improve his credit in order to buy a house. So he bought the same exact car and wanted to get rid of the old one, which was only five years old. He also saved all of its paperwork from past tune-ups and modifications so we knew what had to be done with it in case there were any problems.

One of my friends bought a used car from a dealership but I think it might be best to avoid them because it can be difficult to find low-mileage vehicles at secondhand dealerships. Plus you can't haggle the price down at one of those and they probably wouldn't tell you much about the vehicle's history.

[Anonymous No.7472900]

I have a job.
What is the point of these threads again? Lolita/cosplay is not that expensive if you work full-time and budget a little extra each month for your hobby. It's not some great mystery.

[Anonymous No.7472901]

>>7472877
She already said her laptop is good enough, though, she just wants it for video games.

[Anonymous No.7472904]

>>7472877
considering i've been building computers for over 7 years now, it's a lot of money. You can build for cheaper. People just dont want to read how and get their own hands dirty

[Anonymous No.7472905]

I'm a taxidermist, though most of my money comes from selling fox hats and whatnot from the pelts I get that are too damaged to mount and selling them to hipsters.

[Anonymous No.7472910]

>>7472900
I know, right? These threads all seem like one giant circlejerk "My job is better than your job~" bullshit

[MMillen No.7473081]

I ball

[Anonymous No.7473091]

>>7473081
Are you that fuck who stole bitcoins and was was trying to pick up chicks by buying them burando?

[Anonymous No.7473161]

>>7472641
Yeah that's why I said "I don't" make money.

I try and fail. Just like every time I try to apply for a job. Or get to know a person.

[Anonymous No.7473162]

I work with my autistic older brother one day a week. It's a night shift so there's little interaction, but I've begun shadowing for day shifts I'll hopefully pick up in summer.

I would really like to get to know him better, although I do worry sometimes about him potentially having a behavior in the future (he was very violent when I was little but is much better now). It helps my parents out loads as well. The money is great and I know I'm able to tend to his different needs more so than some of the other staff members, who will google "trucks" on the very device my brother needs to communicate with....

[Anonymous No.7473198]

I'm a uni student with a busy schedule, so I pick up psychology studies to get a little extra burando money. I get paid 10-15/hr for them plus the occasional completion/high scoring bonus. I really like taking them - I help out the researcher and have a source of income that doesn't require commitment.

[Anonymous No.7473204]

>>7473198
how do you find out about those? i was looking into doing medical studies before but it was impossible to find ones in my area that i qualified for.

[Anonymous No.7473220]

>>7472491
I am desperate for a job, but nobody will hire me because I lack experience. So I now try and gain experience by hoping that I will get through the zoo volunteer program. So I at least get experience doing tours and giving out information which might give me a paid job in the future

[Anonymous No.7473228]

I work at a nearby vegan bakery while studying astro physics.
You just have to live simple and you get by but it kind of sucks to not have dosh to travel anywhere.

[Anonymous No.7473257]

I work part-time in retail at the local mall while being a full-time student. I'm really unhappy with it but I don't have anything else to fall back on. It's really affecting my grades and mental wellbeing. I'm stressed about money all the time because the pay is not enough and the work is demanding. Lately they've been making me a backup person for a sales specialist position (when they're not there, but of course they haven't mentioned more pay). We really should be getting commissioned pay, but the company fears competition among associates. We have to track individual sales though. We also have to push credit which I get a lot of, but there are rarely any incentives. They also throw all new people at me, and since I feel bad for them I try to help them (there is no training, just throwing people out on the floor). I sometimes end up doing two jobs at once because of this. I feel like a lead but I'm just a lowly associate. They rely on a lot of call-in shifts and use this to manipulate part-timers into working over their available hours. The only way for me to manage school is to work around 20 hours or less a week. They will schedule me about 16-18 and then slip a call-in in there that they always use and put me up to 24-26. They'll also put me on closings which you never know what time you'll get to leave. This puts me up a couple additional hours to around 28 usually. The manager can turn into a bitch easily, so I'm too scared to say anything. I just want to quit. The job is cool as a summer/winter break job, but that's it. I considered selling plasma to get by until then, but I'm scared of needles and feel pathetic if I have to resort to selling parts of my body off.

[Anonymous No.7473261]

>>7473204
Most studies I participate are limited to students at my uni, so try searching "[school here] psychology studies" or something like that: most psych departments will have a page somewhere on what studies their grad students are currently running along with their contact info.
If you do pick some up, remember: be 5 minutes early, be cheerful, be diligent! These researchers are really passionate about their studies, so they appreciate when volunteers are respectful of their responsibility to be honest and effective with their results. I've gotten referrals to other paid studies because the researchers have liked my attitude enough to pass me along as a 'good subject' to their teams.

[Anonymous No.7473266]

>>7473257
>how do I into formatting?

I work part-time in retail at the local mall while being a full-time student. I'm really unhappy with it but I don't have anything else to fall back on. It's really affecting my grades and mental wellbeing. I'm stressed about money all the time because the pay is not enough and the work is demanding.

Lately they've been making me a backup person for a sales specialist position (when they're not there, but of course they haven't mentioned more pay). We really should be getting commissioned pay, but the company fears competition among associates. We have to track individual sales though. We also have to push credit which I get a lot of, but there are rarely any incentives.

They also throw all new people at me, and since I feel bad for them I try to help them (there is no training, just throwing people out on the floor). I sometimes end up doing two jobs at once because of this. I feel like a lead but I'm just a lowly associate.

They rely on a lot of call-in shifts and use this to manipulate part-timers into working over their available hours. The only way for me to manage school is to work around 20 hours or less a week. They will schedule me about 16-18 and then slip a call-in in there that they always use and put me up to 24-26. They'll also put me on closings which you never know what time you'll get to leave. This puts me up a couple additional hours to around 28 usually.

The manager can turn into a bitch easily, so I'm too scared to say anything. I just want to quit. The job is cool as a summer/winter break job, but that's it.

I considered selling plasma to get by until then, but I'm scared of needles and feel pathetic if I have to resort to selling parts of my body off.

[Anonymous No.7473293]

Get any sort of job? I work at gamestop, so it's possible.

[Anonymous No.7473301]

>>7473091

explain this please, I love bitcoin drama

[Anonymous No.7473304]

sell art to people on dA from time to time to get some money

would want a normal part time job but places here don't seem to want to hire anyone that's older then 18 because they can get 16 years old to work for less

[Militsiya Officer Boris !!pP78TjSIAmJ No.7473313]

Registrar at a LVN school, I recently got a raise, too! Feels so good, man.

[Anonymous No.7473333]

I work 9-5 full time and live with my fiance, sharing expenses. Every week, a calculated portion of my pay check is deposited into savings for bills. Everything else is spending money. Usually it goes to coffee.

[Anonymous No.7473349]

>>7473304
Man I thought it was just me. I started work when I was 13. By the time I started college I had worked at four different places and had a decent looking resume. But after college. now with a degree, experience, and age.. nothing. After months I found another retail gig that was minimum and my co workers were all talking about prom.

I gave up.

[Anonymous No.7473354]

I used to work with children- it's good money, but working for private homes means they can fire you whenever they want for whatever reason they want.
>Get sick from children
>Be in hospital
>Two weeks of steroids, two different kinds of antibiotics, and a gigantic IV bag of benadril later...
>"We're sorry, you're just not reliable enough for us, we're going to have to let you go.
>mfw

I moved in with my boyfriend, but the job market is very slim here so I asked on /cgl/ if I should try to sell these hats I make. Seagulls thought they were cute, so I started an Etsy.

I still haven't sold any on Etsy, but two different stores in my town now sell them and I'm in negotiations with an out of state distributor. It's been making crazy bank so far, and it's only been a week!

feelsgoodman.jpg

[Anonymous No.7473364]

>>7473354
Well done, anon! Etsy's a lousy platform anyway but what's your shop? I wanna see!

[Anonymous No.7473391]

>>7473364
I've taken down most of my hats so I can give them to the local shops, but I've still got a few up. I swear they're cuter in person.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/MonsterHatEmporium

[Anonymous No.7473384]

>professional degree
>job
> spend it all travelling/food/clothes because currently working overseas for the year

[Anonymous No.7473394]

>>7473349
I'm spam anon and that's exactly how I ended up with my current job. It was the only place that would hire me.

[Anonymous No.7473474]

>>7473349
what's your degree in if I may ask?

and I'm the anon you replied to, personally still a student so entry level jobs are all I can take, and those above all are the ones that the underaged ones get.

[Anonymous No.7473493]

I sell tshirts on redbubble

[Anonymous No.7473584]

2 nanny jobs.
The first pays less per hour ($11) but get $100 every 3 days on a usually 4 day week. Poor right now because they went on vacation.
The other is $13 an hour but usually only once or twice a week but I get paid in cash. Usually 40-75 a night

[Anonymous No.7475060]

I live with my mom currently to save on rent but i pay my phone bill and contribute to the rent. Ive had a couple of shitty retail/food service jobs but those barely paid anything,so i currently im just working on doing artist alley at every convention i possibly can.
Usually i make about 1-3k per con which mostly goes to going out with friends or burando.also I do a lot of post con commissions for money.usually there are no conventions in my area from september-december or i just dont manage to get in to them,thats the dry spell where i don't buy any burando and barely go out.
I dont ask my mother for money and i really want to live on my own but i dont have a college degree (art school is expensive and i suck at everything else) so its difficult to find a job. im thinking of opening up an etsy instead and devoting my time to online sales but I suck at online interactions.

I really hate living in an expensive city,I want to move somewhere really cheap eventually and just work on conventions/online sales becouse finding a good job that pays a fair wage is like hitting the jackpot.

[Anonymous No.7475075]

I work part time in quick food services over at Disney. It's only 12 hours a week but it helps. My husband's paycheck covers our expenses, so whatever money I earn goes towards paying off my credit card and towards our baby who's due in September.

[Anonymous No.7475116]

Work a commisioned sales job full-time for $13.61 an hour plus an extra 1.5-2K a month in commission. I also sell on etsy and take sewing commissions from friends or modeling/styling jobs when I can. Ex-husband pays for my car (it's under his name and he purchased it for me while we were married), I pay rent, utilities, school loans, food, gas, and my one credit card bill which is not very much. All in all my income is around 3-4k (depending on my commissions) per month and my expenses are 2k or less. I don't wear lolita anymore but I do spend money on normal gothy FASHUN clothes and cosplay, as well as fun shit like movies, going out to eat, getting my nails/hair done, etc. I put money in savings/retirement every month and never end up negative. I have learned to be quite good at managing my money.

[Anonymous No.7475146]

>>7475116
If you don't mind my asking, how old are you? That's such great income/savings, I hope to get there someday.

[Anonymous No.7475288]

I'm a product designer/graphic designer that produces girl's stationery. Lots of pinks, rainbow, and glitter--I'm more than happy with this. :D

[Anonymous No.7475348]

>>7475060
This is weird, but I might recommend Texas! I live here and do Artist Alley- we have a lot of cons, the state is cheap in general, most cities have a low cost of living (especially compared to comparable big cities around the country).
The gas is cheap so getting from city to city is not as expensive as you'd think, considering the distance.

[Anonymous No.7475490]

I cut hair at a chain salon making a pretty shitty hourly wage but make about double my wages in tips so i make enough to live on. Plus I'm living with my grandparents for a while to pay off my student loans quicker

[Anonymous No.7475493]

>>7475288
oooo, where at? do you sell to other stores?

[Anonymous No.7475508]

I have a full-time day job in IT, plus cosplay commissions on the side. I'm also married to a software programmer, and don't have any kids.

[Anonymous No.7475688]

>>7475348
that sounds like heaven,im seriously considering it.

[Anonymous No.7475742]

I'm a UX/UI designer for a company that develops enterprise smart phone apps and websites. It pays well, I get to do a lot of interesting and big projects, and I love my job.

[Anonymous No.7475755]

Job, savings, mutual funds.

[Anonymous No.7475753]

ITT: grown women blatantly mooching off their husbands and parents. Stay classy ladies

[Anonymous No.7475766]

>>7475753
>mooching

you mean sharing responsibilities and enjoy your individual excess funds?
my fiance spends just as much on games as I do on dresses

[Anonymous No.7475773]

>>7475766
>my fiance spends just as much on games as I do on dresses
He has a problem, it's time to take action.

[Anonymous No.7475778]

>>7475766
If you're just "sharing" expenses then it doesn't actually matter what job your s/o has. Expenses should be the same. You're delusional if you think these women who mentioned working part-time, hardworking boyfriend and living comfortably in the same sentence are sharing expenses equally and putting in equal effort.

[Anonymous No.7475940]

>>7475773
this includes table top games/miniatures/terrain/books in addition to those indie $5 games on steam. i don't buy dresses as frequently or new as some
>>7475778
so splitting rent/phone/renter's insurance/ groceries/electric 50/50 isn't sharing?

sure, I make more money, so I could logically put in more money. but he also has a company gas car and I pay $440 a month commuting.

[Anonymous No.7475945]

>>7475940
If you're paying 1/2 half your household expenses you're obviously not who anon is talking about, dum-dum

[Anonymous No.7475964]

>>7473266
I always be curious... that gif, where is come from?

[Anonymous No.7476095]

I work part time as a dishwasher at a restaurant and currently attending college to be an auto mechanic. I hate my job but I get paid above $9.00 an hour so I just deal with it.

[Anonymous No.7476147]

I work at home depot part time and make fursuits on commission.

Furries be rollin in dough. Or they spend their lunch money/life savings on it. Same thing as far as I'm concerned. At 1k for a head and 2.5-4k for a whole costume, I only need to make about a full costume a month to get a middle-class salary. Best part is that I only claim part of my commissions on my taxes, so a bunch of it is untaxed money, on top of my legit home depot money.

[Anonymous No.7476191]

>>7476147
I wish I had the skill level to commission fursuits. I've talked to a few of their kind, most seem to pay 2k+ for their suits. Seems like an awesome way to make some extra. Especially since a lot of it is carving, and I love that shit.

[Anonymous No.7476201]

>>7476191
It's definitely awesome. If you have good aesthetic sense you don't even have to make on commission. I've made random things and just sold them for higher than commissioned costumes because you sell the "character" too. Haha, just don't have poor taste I guess.

[Anonymous No.7476204]

I do medical studies when I can. I also do odd jobs.

[Anonymous No.7476232]

40 hours a week as a nurse

[Anonymous No.7476243]

Web developer

[Anonymous No.7476285]

>>7475753
Says someone who's definitely not married with kids.

[Anonymous No.7476293]

I work as a hairdresser and do hair in and out of the salon. The former is a bit illegal but I keep 100% of the profit that way. Besides that I just don't live above my needs too often and I'm patient enough to wait when it comes to big purchases.

I think about cam-whoring for dudes sometimes but the fear of someone recognizing me makes me not.

[Anonymous No.7476297]

I work part-time 16 hours a week at Ikea, which is about $27/hour. That is a decent wage, and it's also very flexible which is nice since I'm a university student.

I also got a summer job at my university as a teaching assistant for the summer school. It's for 13-16 year old kids, and all we will be doing is going around and helping them build and program Lego Mindstorms robots, which is pretty fun. It's only 30 hours a week and $47/hour, so it's a pretty sweet deal.

[Anonymous No.7476305]

>>7475940
I was just joking about the video games, I enjoy table top games with my bf, we have our own little group that gets together regularly. We try to dress up for it, depending on the game sometimes, but it's super fun.
You sound cool as fug btw, I'd hang out with you.

[Anonymous No.7476309]

>>7476095
I hope you take some welding classes if they offer them. Most shops will hire someone with less experience but can weld over someone that can wrench and has some experience. You could always get in with the drift crowd and start welding them diffs for maximum skids for extra money too, it's pretty fun ;3

[Anonymous No.7476318]

>>7476293
I camwhored briefly. Hated it, quit very quickly. But I have a friend that makes a livable income off of it, and really enjoys it. If you wouldn't be able to handle people you know finding out, don't do it.

[Anonymous No.7476327]

>>7472730
I like your self-starting spirit

[Anonymous No.7476329]

>>7476297
What the hell do you do at IKEA? Corp stuff? Their cashiers and retail workers don't make much over 10/hour (USD though I assume that's your currency)

[Anonymous No.7476343]

>>7476329
was wondering the same. got excited by that pay and started looking around but nothing listed online for retail goes over 20USD/hr

http://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/IKEA-Hourly-Pay-E3957.htm

[Anonymous No.7476346]

I have a full time job where I make about double the US minimum wage. I'm also a full time college student. My scholarships actually pay for all of my classes and books, with quite a bit left over at the end of every semester, so I kind of get paid to attend college.

I also live with my parents, and they don't make me pay for rent or anything. I'm under twenty so really I don't see any problem with still living with my parents.

Basically I have more money than I really know what to do with. In addition to lolita, I also have a bunch of other fairly expensive hobbies.

[Anonymous No.7476349]

>>7476329
I serve meatballs haha. I'm from Norway, and my wage is 150-170kr/hour, which is about $24-27/hour. That is pretty decent for most retail/supermarket/restaurant type of jobs. I still live at home since I'm a student, but pay $250 for rent to my mom. So I get a decent amount to use each month, though I like to save most of it.

[Anonymous No.7476369]

>>7476343
Ops, sorry for getting you excited. I wrote it in USD so that it would be easier to understand and forgot to say that I'm not from the US.

Ikea is pretty nice for a part-time job, like we go out a lot like bowling, lasertag, cinema and it's paid by the company. Not sure if it's like this in other countries though. It's not a job I would work for the rest of my life, but it's decent if you work part-time I guess.

[Anonymous No.7477129]

I sell crack to my neighbors and donate blood and semen. I also trade urine with prisoners for cigarettes, which I sell to children at my local middleschool.

[Anonymous No.7477130]

>>7476349
>>7476369
The US' minimum wage compared to the minimum wage of other western countries and/or t cost of living is kind of bad lol. It hasn't been adjusted for inflation in a long time. Everyone got excited because retail/min wage jobs pay so much less here haha

[Anonymous No.7477137]

>>7476346
>full time job
>full time college student
h-how

[Lock !lsUMWqdC0k No.7477148]

>>7476369
>TFW US min wage is more than 3x lower than that.
>TFW min wage McJob

[Sailor Mars Guy No.7477149]

>>7472722

Seriously?

For America I'm guessing. What do you fly?

[Anonymous No.7477152]

>>7472507
>>7472638
You people say it like real, good, well paying jobs are readily available once "you're no longer a dumb teenager".

I'm lucky because my parents support me and I get around 200 USD for helping out on a research at uni, so I get a decent amount of spending money.

[Anonymous No.7477162]

>>7477148
>TFW no where in the US is the minimum wage a living wage for even 1 adult
>TFW college is the only sure path into the middle class and is almost impossible to afford

[Anonymous No.7477164]

>>7475778
>assuming things
>thinking your assumptions are all true AND criticizing others because of things that you can be wrong about

[Anonymous No.7477185]

>>7473313
Sam?

[Anonymous No.7477197]

>>7477162
>tfw even then it's not a sure path because nobody's hiring even if you have a degree

[Anonymous No.7477209]

>>7477197
>tfw I left the workforce for a few years to raise my kids and come back to this shit

[anarchymarie !7DRsEH3ThM No.7477211]

I'm a software developer. I make pretty good money, especially given the cost of living in Vegas, but lol student loans. I seriously fantasize about winning just enough money from a casino to pay those off. I'll deal with the daily grind and pay the rest of my bills and taxes happily if my student loans were gone.

[Anonymous No.7478668]

>>7477137
I take three of my four classes online. I look on rate my prof to see which classes are the easiest A's. I try to make my workload as light and easy as possible.

Also, my job doesn't suck (quite the opposite, it's super awesome and I LOVE it), and I'm done with most of my super lame general education courses. So when you like/love what you're doing, that always helps!

[Anonymous No.7478678]

>>7477162
Get scholarships. My family is lower middle class, and they were not able to fund my college career AT ALL. Not even a cent.

But I got scholarships, and I applied for financial aid. It's really not that difficult to afford. Usually you'll end up with some money in your pocket.

I know a lot of people who get Pell Grants, and those pay for your classes, books, and a little extra.

[Anonymous No.7478806]

>>7477149
Not the person you're replying to, but not everyone in the Air Force flies. In the Royal Australian Air Force, there are multitudes of support professionals, such as administration/logistic officers, technicians, intelligence officers, and even less conventional roles such as aircraft spraypainters, progamers, and so on.

[Anonymous No.7478818]

>>7478678
Seconding. I make more money from scholarships than I spend on tuition+room and board. I intern too, and that's more than enough for my hobbies.

[Anonymous No.7478880]

>>7472793
Can you really make money on ebay with thrifting? I always used to find shit from like Banana Republic and normally $100 dresses and stuff for like $10 there but I figured no one would buy them if I put them up on ebay or something

[Sailor Mars Guy No.7479951]

>>7478806

....You're right.
I know this, I don't know why I didn't even have that thought.

[Anonymous No.7479978]

>>7478818
Where'd you find a paid internship, out of curiosity? It's fucking disgusting how many places in NYC cut corners by offering "experience" and "Travel fee" (Metrocard fee) as pay for their interns.

[Anonymous No.7479990]

>>7472802
Is Textbroker any good? I'd like to earn a little extra money and I'm minoring in English, so it might be good for me. What kinds of content did you have to write? How hard is it to get a 5-star rating?

[Anonymous No.7480007]

>>7478880
Only for 'vintage' or 'rockabilly' or 'goth/punk/cyber' shit that people are willing to pay jacked up prices for. No one actually wants mid-tier brands for anything less than rock bottom prices, so you see heaps of dresses etc. going for thrift store prices on ebay but you can get good prices for *rockabilly* especially if you take good photos.

[Anonymous No.7480051]

>>7479978
Not that anon, but see if your college has a career center. If it's a prestigious uni, all the better - they can hook you up with internships that match your criteria if you're willing to do the footwork with contacting them/interviews/etc.
That is, assuming you're looking for internships while in school still. If you've already got a degree but you're looking for internships then you're jolly well fucked.