The Grass Doctor

I really need a job but there are a lot of things in my way, HELP!?

1)I am 17 and I live in a verry small town with a verry high unemployment rate. 2)my parents have this rule that I cannot drive untill next year. 3)I worked in fastfood for 9 months but had so manny horor storys that I will NEVER go back to fast food. 4) I tried mowing lawns and washing cars but that does not brong in enough money 5)temp angencys an the unemployment office have both told me they cannot help because of my age. I don't know what to do. I need $1250 by the first of the summer. and yes it is a real need. the first 6 answers were all cr_ap. I am home schooled so there is no school release program. drugs? YAH RIGHT! and did I not say that I have HOROR storys from the fast food in town? I need some REAL help here guys.

Public Comments

1. sell the drugs. Small town you say, meth is probably real big there
2. 17 i worked at a fast food restaurant then went to the mall.
3. so many millionand millions of rich americans are eager to take care of you but we are all degenerate homosexuals and maybe you souldn't be around us.
4. have a huge yard sale. SELL stuff on ebay. CAN you cook?-----------MAKE cookies and sell then door to door. I did
5. a great job for summer is to rake seaweed in peoples lake it hard work but the pay is AMAZING my dad is stingy as hell and he gave them 500$ for 3 hours of work although that is a higher than the norm you can usually get between 3-4 hundred dollars for a couple of hours
6. sign up for a work release program at school. i am sure that there is someone who will hire you around school. you get credit for it and you get off school and get paid and its walking distance. or have your parents set up an account for you to sell stuff on ebay. it's great. you buy stuff cheep at garage sales or sell your stuff your parents would give away at a garage sale and make big bucks. that's what I do. we ahve made about 400 dollars on 6 items we didnt even want. we also sell stuff for other people on ebay. and charge 20% on whatever the purchase amount is.
7. I would have to say that because you're living in such a small community, that it would be difficult to find a good paying job, at your age, and because you'll only be getting minimum wage, to say the least, it does take time for that money to build up. If your parents are good about you living at home, and don't charge you 'rent' (if you were employed), then I would suggest you find other alternative means of employment. Do you have a hobby that you like to do that you feel you could make money from? If you're an artist, maybe you can use that as a tool to create things (small sculpture pieces, paintings, etc), and sell them at a local market. If your town has a gallery, maybe bring some of your art there, and see if they will allow you to display your works there, and be paid by commission, or you can give them a percentage of what you sell. If you're not the artsy type, but are good on the computer, like creating desktop publishing material, you can create things for the smaller businesses, like logos, or offer some kind of service to do their template brochures, and business card layouts. Save them on a diskette, or a CD-R, and the businesses can pay you to do these things for them. Find something that you enjoy doing, and use your spare time to utilize those skills and talent that you have, and bring them to the tables of all small businesses, and see if they can hire you on a contract basis. You can make pretty good money that way. If you need to raise $1250 by the summer, then maybe try raffle ticket selling..or 50/50 tickets. Go around with a pamphlet, and tell people why you're raising money, and get people to buy raffle tickets (providing you have something to promote, like a bike, or a game system, or something that you know people would want to buy tickets to win), or you can just do the old 50/50 ticket selling, and make sure you get everyone's name and phone number, so you can contact them if they win. Find a location where you will draw the winning ticket, and make it somewhere that there are a lot of people who facilitate (coffee shop, or market store). Sometimes working in a fast food joint isn't the best job to take on, at yoru age, but if that's the only thing available, then you will have to bite the bullet and stick to your guns and go with that, until you raise enough money, too. There really is a lot that you can do, but you have to be willing to get creative and find ways to make money without having to put too much of your own money into it. But, in any case, good luck and I'm sure you will use your creativity, talent and skills to make money, on the side! Good Luck!
8. I grew up in a small town with a high unemployment rate. If you're serious, you can make some money following these suggestions. It won't be easy, but it can be done. Learn the trash days of your local neighborhoods and go trash picking the night before. (This isn't like dumpster diving... you just go walking down the sidewalk and pick up whatever you might be able to sell that's been brought out to the curb for trash day.) You can fix up some of the stuff and sell it on ebay or craigslist. Whatever's too heavy for ebay (and if craigslist doesn't have any local postings), you can save it all up and have a yard sale come summer. Don't scoff -- I once made $700 in a week doing this. (You'd be amazed what people throw away!) If you're too shy to go trash picking (or you can do this in addition to it), run an ad in the local paper/deal sheet offering help with spring cleaning (like clearing out basements, garages, storage sheds, etc.) People do a lot of that sort of thing in the spring. You can get paid by the hour. Plus, if you're resourceful, this will also be a good place to pick up stuff folks are discarding (and follow the other suggestions above.) Mowing lawns and washing cars isn't glamorous work, of course, but if you do it in addition to the two things above... and you do them all on a consistent basis, I suspect you can make a great deal more than your goal.
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