# Best way for Buffy to earn money? (unboxed spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096 "2005-08-29T14:09:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/1 "2005-08-29T14:09:16Z")
Ok, I just finished Season Six. Please continue no further if you wish to avoid spoilers. So anyway, I was wondering if there were better ways for Buffy to earn money than working at DMP. I was thinking she could wear a t-shirt that says “Tipping for saving your life is greatly appreciated. Suggested tip: $50”. Either that, or set up a Ghostbusters type service, with a toll free number, an emergency vehicle, etc. I guess she cannot join the Initiative, even though they would pay Riley Finn. A really cool job might be stuntman, but that would be too much of a ripoff of _The Fall Guy_. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/2 "2005-08-29T14:15:38Z")
> [@The Controvert](#): > > So anyway, I was wondering if there were better ways for Buffy to earn money than working at DMP. I was thinking she could wear a t-shirt that says “Tipping for saving your life is greatly appreciated. Suggested tip: $50”. Can’t do that, that was Angel’s gig. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/3 "2005-08-29T14:22:31Z")
How about becoming a professional wrestler? ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/4 "2005-08-29T14:22:43Z")
There’s a real problem with charging people to save their lives after-the-fact. Buffy: Okay, the vamp’s dead. How about some cash? Victim: I didn’t ask you to step in. Buffy: But you’d be dead otherwise. Victim: Maybe, maybe not. You volunteered. Buffy: Crap. And there’s just no time to negotiate ahead of time in one of these situations. The victim will either promise anything (and probably not have the cash), or claim that the contract isn’t valid because he/she agreed to it under threat of death (IANAL, but I think this would fall into the “duress” catagory.) No, with her prior experience, selling burgers is about the best she can do. I mean, she can’t even use her previous experience as a waitress, because she turned over the name, job, and apartment to what’s-her-name. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/5 "2005-08-29T15:00:54Z")
Best bet: Bouncer at the Bronze ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/6 "2005-08-29T15:02:51Z")
I always thought she’d make a great hooker. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/7 "2005-08-29T15:03:02Z")
The watcher’s council has gotta be loaded - they should be paying her salary. 😃 (blows a small noisemaker for his eleven hundredth doper post.) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/8 "2005-08-29T15:03:19Z")
Ask Xander to get her a job in construction. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/9 "2005-08-29T15:05:04Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > Ask Xander to get her a job in construction. > > Daniel I think they tried that. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/10 "2005-08-29T15:11:04Z")
Yeah, Buffy was carrying girders with her bare hands and it made the other workers resent her for making them look bad. She got fired when demons attacked and the other workers refused to corroborate her explanation about the resulting damage. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/11 "2005-08-29T15:23:19Z")
> [@The Controvert](#): > > Yeah, Buffy was carrying girders with her bare hands and it made the other workers resent her for making them look bad. She got fired when demons attacked and the other workers refused to corroborate her explanation about the resulting damage. D’oh! can’t believe I forgot that. I suspect that being a bouncer would have similar problems. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/12 "2005-08-29T15:29:10Z")
She could be an enforcer for the Mafia which in Sunnydale was that Sharkfaced guy in _Tabula Rasa_ or she could teach self-defense courses. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/13 "2005-08-29T15:43:06Z")
Ok, lots of good suggestions. I guess Buffy has to be on the side of “good”, so she can’t be working for the Mob. The Slayer shouldn’t get pregnant or get an STD, so there the hooker gig. Being a stuntman or a wrestler would require her to move away from Sunnydale, and the Slayer has to be near the Hellmouth to slay. Apparently being salaried to the Initiative or the Watchers would infringe on her ability to act as an independent agent. I like the self-defense class idea! They even got a dojo setup in the back of the Magic Box. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/14 "2005-08-29T15:51:27Z")
The only problem I could see with the self-defense class is that Buffy’s schedule is erratic. She’d have a lot of pissed-off customers to deal with if she kept having to cancel to save the world. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/15 "2005-08-29T15:54:55Z")
[Bail bonds](http://siliconvalley.citysearch.com/profile/1100919/san_jose_ca/buffy_sparacino_bail_bonds_inc.html) ---
**Author:** ![Taran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Taran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taran)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/16 "2005-08-29T16:55:46Z")
At the beginning of season three, she seemed to be doing well as a waitress. Of course, then she had no one but herself to provide for. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/17 "2005-08-29T17:36:09Z")
Grave digger. She’d be able to slay freshly-minted vampires without leaving the workplace. You’d figure that a town like Sunnydale would not only have a high demand for grave diggers, but also a high turn-over rate as well (a non-superpowered grave digger would last about a week); that means good pay for a low-skill job. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/18 "2005-08-29T17:39:33Z")
I’m guessing historically Slayers were supported by thier Watchers. I don’t know if it is typical for watchers to have a side job or not. Undertaker? Cemetary Groundskeeper? Blood Bank worker? Brian ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/19 "2005-08-29T17:42:28Z")
Going back to the hooker idea, I suppose she could have rented out the Buffybot to turn tricks. Not sure how Buffy herself would feel about it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Boggette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@Boggette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boggette)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/20 "2005-08-29T18:48:46Z")
> [@chrisk](#): > > The watcher’s council has gotta be loaded - they should be paying her salary. 😃 I’ve been saying this for years now. The Watchers council should have been paying her mortgage and any other expenses she had. The only reasons I can think that they don’t is that no other slayer lived long enough to need to pay off a mortgage and/or they lived off their watcher who was paid by the council. Heck… Even Giles was reinstated with back pay to the time he was fired! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096.md?page=2)