10 ways to make yourself

In My Humble Opinion
1

Perhaps, ways to live would have been a better title. But I digress.

  1. Create something and sell it - product, service, business,'etc…
  2. Gain a skill - education, training
  3. Get a job
  4. An investment
  5. Win the lottery or have an inheritance or settlement etc…
  6. Hustle - legal, illegal
  7. Welfare, disability, Social Security etc…
  8. Mooch
  9. Prostitute
  10. Steal and robbery

Thoughts?

2

Stub your toe at a high end restaurant/establishment of some sort, threaten to sue and make a big deal out of the situation.

3

Marry someone rich and be the stay-at-home partner. Or is that covered under mooch or prostitution?

4
  1. Find objects and sell them - gold nuggets, diamonds, wild mushrooms, rare butterflies, seashells, aluminum cans
  2. Live off the land - either hunting and gathering out in the wilderness or urban dumpster diving
5
  1. Be an entertainer or performer (that’s different enough from 'get a jobs or 'learn a skills, right?)
6

Move to China or Korea and teach English. Harder than it sounds, I know.

7
  1. Get a trade, become prominent in it, hang out your own shingle or buy out your boss when he retires, or marry the boss’s daughter.
  2. Raid Northumbria and recieve Danegeld.
8

Ok, blackmail I probably would have put that under # 5 but there’s certainly some lee-way there.

9

Probably closer to mooch, but a good addition none-the-less.

10

Certainly original there.

11

Sounds like a job, or perhaps skill?

12

#15 - pretty close to inheritance
#16 - I have no idea. a little clarity? :slight_smile:

13

How about an 17th?

I would have $0-today, but for Old Age Pension, if guy I dated hadn’t been speeding, rolled the car, which accident broke my back and disabled me for life. I was 30

Naturally I won the civil suit.

Then 40 years later I was in my wheelchair on the sidewalk and a car ran me down. That was 2½ years ago and my lawyer is now preparing the papers for my claim against the driver’s Insurance Co.

If that goes on every 40 years, I’ll be 110 for the next round!

OMG! I just noticed my pen-name. I never thought until I saw this on-line.

14

My favorite is the joke about the rich old man:

A young man met a wealthy older man one day and decided to ask him how he came to reach his impressive economic station in life. The man said to him,

"Well, it was the height of the Great Depression and I had only a nickle to my name. I took that nickle and bought an apple, then I spent all day polishing it. At the end of the day I sold it for 10 cents. The next day, I bought two apples and did the same thing. I kept at this for a month until I had earned $1.50.

Then, my wife’s father died and we inherited two million dollars."

15

Danegeld