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wegotdatwood 
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| What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 4:45 pm)
What side gigs do you do for an extra buck or two?
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GeauxMariners 
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Member since Jan 2010
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| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 4:46 pm to wegotdatwood)
Poker
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bunky
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FREE EL GUACHO
Member since Jul 2011
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| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 4:48 pm to wegotdatwood)
Amazon Mechanical Turk, writing ads in my spare time, $1 per 150 word paragraph.
Tutoring organic chemistry for cash, yields an extra $2500 per year.
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wegotdatwood
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Member since Aug 2009
14166 posts
| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 4:55 pm to bunky)
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Amazon Mechanical Turk
Explain. I'm confused at what I'm seeing.
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lighter345
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| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 4:56 pm to bunky)
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Tutoring organic chemistry for cash, yields an extra $2500 per year.
Haha everyone I know hated that fricking class.
Things I do for extra cash: Look at craigslist "GIGS" section and "etc" tab under jobs. There is always someone that needs a couch or some shite moved and I have a tahoe that can move just about anything. Also other random shite is always on there "I need a ride across the bridge" or" someone to take me to BR" and I can pick up $50 for a couple hours of work doing anything from moving someone in to serving food at an event.
I also bet sports and happen to win more than I lose so that helps, not for everyone though.
I'm still in grad school so I have more opportunities to make side cash than someone with a career already.
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bunky
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| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 5:30 pm to wegotdatwood)
AMT is a site offered via Amazon Web Services where people pay small amounts of money for each task completed, anywhere from a penny for a 1 second task, to 0.50-2.00 for a survey. Most of it isn't really worth your time but there are some diamonds in the rough on this site. I usually make $75 bucks a month extra, or more if I have more dead time at work.
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CajunRevolution
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| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 5:33 pm to wegotdatwood)
I have a small consulting LLC
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wegotdatwood
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14166 posts
| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 5:38 pm to bunky)
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where people pay small amounts of money for each task completed
Are they hard tasks? I wasn't sure what some of them were but I don't have an account.
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LSURussian
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Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2005
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| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 5:46 pm to wegotdatwood)
Day trading the stock market.
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wegotdatwood
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Member since Aug 2009
14166 posts
| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 5:51 pm to LSURussian)
What are you buying tomorrow? Do you have a plan each day or just watch it like a football game and react?
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TheHiddenFlask 
Clemson Fan
The Welsh red light district
Member since Jul 2008
16420 posts
| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 5:56 pm to wegotdatwood)
I'm too busy these days, but in college, I:
- Tutored (Algebra, Calculus, Econ, Finance, Accounting)
- Hung plasma tv's (everyone was going crazy over this and it wasn't hard to do)
- Bought crawfish from farmers and delivered them to people in BR. (could make about $1000 per day)
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lilbadness
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Texas
Member since Oct 2007
1546 posts
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| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 6:06 pm to wegotdatwood)
Tutor high school kids in all subjects.
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Tmacelroy12
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Houston
Member since Aug 2012
5489 posts
| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 6:30 pm to LSURussian)
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Day trading the stock market.
Curious, do you trade individual stocks or indices? Do you play multiple positions? Seems pretty hard to make "extra" cash just casually playing the stock market
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foshizzle
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| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 7:40 pm to wegotdatwood)
Male stripper for bachelorette parties.
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LSURussian
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Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2005
63840 posts
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| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 8:00 pm to Tmacelroy12)
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Curious, do you trade individual stocks or indices?
Both but mainly stocks and ETFs.quote:
Do you play multiple positions
yes.quote:
Seems pretty hard to make "extra" cash just casually playing the stock market
Meh....I've made about $46k Y-T-D.
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saderade 
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America's City
Member since Jul 2005
19784 posts
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| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 8:07 pm to LSURussian)
Run a small LLC marine/industrial sales business my Dad started on the side. My dad can barely write an email so I do 95% of the work on the computer. All money I have made has been reinvested in the company.
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lighter345
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Member since Jan 2009
8455 posts
| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 8:44 pm to LSURussian)
Where did you acquire such a talent?
How much $ do you think you need to be successful?
And what platform do you use?
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LSURussian
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Member since Feb 2005
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| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 8:52 pm to lighter345)
I just started doing it casually. It developed from there.
Probably need a hundred thousand or so to begin with to buy enough shares per trade to make the broker commissions irrelevant. I use Schwab's StreetSmart Pro.
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econ85
Mercer Fan
Member since Nov 2012
57 posts
| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 9:22 pm to LSURussian)
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Probably need a hundred thousand or so
Any reason you're actually buying the shares rather than buying the options?
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LSURussian
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Baton Rouge
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63840 posts
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| re: What do you do for 'extra' money? (Posted on 12/11/12 at 9:25 pm to econ85)
No, not really.
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