I need specifics, please!..I just got married and am going to have a rough marriage; my job doesn’t pay enough as a adjunct teacher and a psychologist.
Job hunting hints?
Psychologist, eh? Learn how to insult people after listening to their problems for thirty seconds, then run Dr. Phil out of town.
Well, if you truely want to make the most money then you’re going to have to state if you’re willing to endure risk.
I’d guess gambling/lottery gives you a big payout (if you win) and day-trading can be profitable (but is risky as hell and you’ll need money up front).
Start your own cult ? Become famous ? Get 10 million people to send you 10 cents.
As a psychologist you could probably get into Management Consulting or similar, come up with a new theory or something and sell it to big business as an ‘edge’ in negotiations etc.
If you want some serious answers then there’s no easy, sure-fire and fast way to make lots of money (or if there is I don’t know it). If you’re really worried about making ends meet then you need to sit down and examine your income and outgoings, work out where you can maximise the former and reduce the later. It’s also worth thinking about what you can sell and making sure some dusty old something hasn’t become worth a forture since you got it.
I wait in anticipation of the teaming millions providing a sure fire stratagy for riches and make us all millionaires …
SD
Jobs that pay the most generally require extremely specialized skills (underwater welding, pediatric cardiology) and/or risk (tower climbers).
Exotic dancing probably has the highest pay for the least skill / training.
There is also the “unpleasent” jobs that probably pay well (slaughterhouse, septic tank cleaner)
Brian
Go on a reality show like “Fear Factor”.
Find Robert Redford for an “Indecent Proposal”. You already said the marriage was going to be rough, what’s one more problem?
You can hope to be a contestant on the mid-season replacement show, “Who wants to be a trillionaire?”, or perhaps you can obtain one of those no-bid defense department Iraq contracts.
Hit up one of them crab-boats in Alaska. Generally considered one of 'The Most Dangerous Professions in the World" - if you do well you can make a few tens of thousands for about 4 weeks work, all told. Of course, if you hold on to one of them crab-cages too long, your under 600 feet of ice-cold water.
At least, that’s what I saw on the Discovery Channel 
Inherit it. Quick as a heart attack.
Win Powerball. Takes up to four days.
Failing that, you can get born into it, but that takes nine months.
Sell your body parts. Your blood plasma, sperm (or wife’s eggs), spare organs, or body as a clinical test subject is worth money. Clinical trials might not be worthwhile from a time perspective, but the harvesting options are probably pretty quick.
Write a book tat becomes as popular as Harry Potter
Become a very popular movie star.
Have a brilliant idea for selling lots of things to lots of people, and start a company based on that idea.
Divorce your spouse and marry a billionaire.
If you’re asking for the greatest rate it’s probably something unexpected like begging because the money comes in spurts. Most of the time you might not get anything, but then you might earn £1 in a second, which works out at £3,600/hr which is not to be sneezed at. In any normal job the pay is more constant. Though something like the lottery it’d be even better.
You’re already a third of the way there!
- Post question on SDMB.
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- Profit!
No way – my paycheck is electronic. If you look at the instantaneous rate of income, I’m making a few thousand dollars in less than a second. Likewise, when Microsoft’s stock goes up a tick (from one second to the next) Bill Gates makes an elephant’s assload of money. Instantaneous rate is clearly meaningless.
Day-trading?
Ways to increase your monthly income:
1)If you have a loan on your car, get rid of the car and pay the loan off. Buy an operational “grocery getter” with cash–presto, you’re making $200-$500/month more.
2)Kill your TV. Or at least dump cable for $40/month. One time investment of $40 buys you a good TV antenna–you can get the news.
3)Stop eating fast food, lay off meat & foods with hydrogenated oils. You’ll live longer, smell better and have a lower grocery bill. For additional food savings, grow a vegetable garden: seeds-$30, Rental rototiller-$50, hoe-$15, Ho-$50 (make sure the wife is at work!) Grow broccoli, cucumbers, carrots, lettuce, onions & peas…but not asparagus, that’s just nasty!
4)Lose the cell phone–they weren’t indespensable 10 years ago.
5)Stop smoking (if you do)–do the math and then see #3
6)Buy homes in PRE-foreclosure (get a quit claim deed from the current owner in exchange for the balance of the distressed loan, sell the home for 10% below appraised value.)
7)Sell sex videos of you and your new bride (while they’re still interesting)
currency trading…
except there is no real way to have a solid idea about how to make profit. Honestly. With stocks, you know that there will be some growth generally, but currency trading is all about taking advantage of different economies. Its really hard but people who do it well (got lucky?) make more money. George Soros made ungodly amounts of mony in a day doing this, I think.
Marry Britney Spears and “forget” to sign the pre-nup.