# 10 ways to make yourself **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 29, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-ways-to-make-yourself/594472 "2011-08-29T05:44:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-ways-to-make-yourself/594472/1 "2011-08-29T05:44:03Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-ways-to-make-yourself/594472/2 "2011-08-29T05:50:44Z")
Stub your toe at a high end restaurant/establishment of some sort, threaten to sue and make a big deal out of the situation. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-ways-to-make-yourself/594472/3 "2011-08-29T07:00:30Z")
Marry someone rich and be the stay-at-home partner. Or is that covered under mooch or prostitution? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-ways-to-make-yourself/594472/4 "2011-08-29T07:10:57Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-ways-to-make-yourself/594472/5 "2011-08-29T07:58:34Z")
1. Be an entertainer or performer (that’s different enough from 'get a jobs or 'learn a skills, right?) ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-ways-to-make-yourself/594472/6 "2011-08-29T08:35:08Z")
Move to China or Korea and teach English. Harder than it sounds, I know. ---
**Author:** ![Jaguars](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaguars/32/5879_2.png) [@Jaguars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaguars)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-ways-to-make-yourself/594472/7 "2011-08-29T11:33:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-ways-to-make-yourself/594472/8 "2011-08-29T18:52:29Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > Stub your toe at a high end restaurant/establishment of some sort, threaten to sue and make a big deal out of the situation. Ok, blackmail I probably would have put that under # 5 but there’s certainly some lee-way there. ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-ways-to-make-yourself/594472/9 "2011-08-29T18:53:42Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Marry someone rich and be the stay-at-home partner. Or is that covered under mooch or prostitution? Probably closer to mooch, but a good addition none-the-less. ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-ways-to-make-yourself/594472/10 "2011-08-29T18:55:09Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > 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 Certainly original there. ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-ways-to-make-yourself/594472/11 "2011-08-29T18:56:58Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > Move to China or Korea and teach English. Harder than it sounds, I know. Sounds like a job, or perhaps skill? ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-ways-to-make-yourself/594472/12 "2011-08-29T18:59:20Z")
> [@Jaguars](#): > > 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. #15 - pretty close to inheritance #16 - I have no idea. a little clarity? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![accidental2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@accidental2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/accidental2)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-ways-to-make-yourself/594472/13 "2011-08-29T20:10:13Z")
**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.** ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-ways-to-make-yourself/594472/14 "2011-08-29T20:38:15Z")
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." ---
**Author:** ![Jaguars](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaguars/32/5879_2.png) [@Jaguars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaguars)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-ways-to-make-yourself/594472/15 "2011-08-29T20:54:25Z")
[Danegeld](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danegeld)