# I'm gunna ask again, how do i make reasonable money quickly? With minimal experience? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 10, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490 "2015-08-10T21:39:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/101 "2015-08-12T13:20:23Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > No, we’re getting mad because we’re telling you there is no such thing as easy money and you’re not listening. Actually, there is easy money. It’s just really hard to get. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/102 "2015-08-12T14:44:42Z")
> [@justjake](#): > > I mean i can always work in sewage or on an oil rig like some of these troll suggestions. > > Lmfao, i’d 100% rather rob a bank (seriously) then do some of those. Desperate times come for desperate measures. I made a perfectly apt recommendation in post #71. Relatively easy job? Check. Good money? Check. In your neck of the woods? Check. It’s clear to me that you’re insincere and would really either just like someone to give you a wad of cash simply because you’re you, or else this whole thing has just been a put-on. Good luck with any future threads. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/103 "2015-08-12T14:49:37Z")
Oh, I just thought of another one. Columnist for the WaPo. Double if you can somehow figure out how to get Rubin’s job. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/104 "2015-08-12T15:09:55Z")
> [@justjake](#): > > i need a way to be able to make a lot of money for sure quickly and fast. I had the perfect suggest of how you could make a lot of money fast, but it won’t work if you need to make the money quickly and fast, so I won’t bother posting it. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/105 "2015-08-12T15:38:33Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > Honestly your best bet based on what you are looking for is probably a collections agent position. I got duped into that once and it was soul sucking. I used to cry in my car before work every day. But that was 10 years ago and it paid $12 an hour and they highly encouraged being a dickbag to people, so you might find it refreshingly pleasant to go into work and know that you get to berate people and yell at them and end up with a paycheck for it. Kind of like working for a BDSM dungeon, only on the phone. He said he didn’t want to do anything that would cause cancer. Millions of people a day wishing you get cancer has got increase that chance. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/106 "2015-08-12T17:01:50Z")
**I’m gunna ask again, how do i make reasonable money quickly? With minimal experience?** You don’t. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/107 "2015-08-12T18:12:25Z")
> [@justjake](#): > > Not sure how relevant some of these questions are, but let’s go. > Got a great smile. White teeth. All visible. No tattoos. Average. About 5’9. Thin. I look like a skinny kid, but not a twig. I’m not sure if people find me attractive. Some people do and some people really don’t. > > Highschool education only. I’m decent at picking up skills. Semi-charming. Semi-strong. I MAY be able to talk people into doing things they wouldn’t normally or wouldn’t normally want to buy. > > I have to offer, open availability, including night shift. Just need tons of hours. > > I have fairly low moral standards. Seems to me that enlisting in the military, and then using the educational benefits to go to college once you get out may be one of the best long-term plans available to you. It was basically my fall-back plan if I couldn’t get a scholarship or my parents couldn’t afford to keep sending me to school. But I know quite a few people who did it, and they’re all doing pretty well now. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/108 "2015-08-12T18:27:30Z")
> [@Arrendajo](#): > > Based on the attitude you’ve shown in this thread, I wouldn’t hire you for anything. That might be part of your problem. I dunno, I’d hire him to work on my bridge. Seems qualified to me. ---
**Author:** ![justjake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@justjake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justjake)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/109 "2015-08-12T18:47:10Z")
> [@Gary\_T](#): > > **I’m gunna ask again, how do i make reasonable money quickly? With minimal experience?** > > You don’t. Not true, and there are millions of jobs in the world,. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/110 "2015-08-12T18:50:39Z")
> [@justjake](#): > > Not true, and there are millions of jobs in the world,. And they are all for somebody else. ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/111 "2015-08-12T19:02:55Z")
I just got here. I’m familiar with the work force. Can you tell me how much you want to make; and specifically what you want to do? what do you enjoy doing? What are your hobbies? If there is something out there that requires just a little effort on your part to apply for, will you be willing to do it? Can you tell me why I should hire you other than someone else? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/112 "2015-08-12T19:07:26Z")
Has anyone mentioned self-publishing dinosaur porn yet? Apparently readers eat that stuff up. And I doubt they have high standards regarding things like grammar and spelling, as long as you keep the hot dino-on-sexy-chick (or sexy guy) action coming. ---
**Author:** ![txjim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f07891/32.png) [@txjim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txjim)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/113 "2015-08-12T19:27:47Z")
_Tried to find me an executive position But no matter how smooth I talked They wouldn’t listen to the fact that I was a genius The man say, “We got all that we can use.” Now I got them steadily depressin’, low down mind messin’ Working at the car wash blues_ OP should try something like RGIS working with a in-store inventory team or some other high-turnover position. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/114 "2015-08-12T20:03:46Z")
> [@justjake](#): > > Not true, and there are millions of jobs in the world,. They don’t make you decent money quickly, with no experience, and they aren’t easy. Revise your expectations, because they are unrealistic. I believe I suggested the Army in another thread. Given that any further thought? I was a high school dropout. Now I’m an electrical engineer. The Army helped me make that transition. It’s not easy or quick. It pays pretty well though, and you don’t need any experience. ---
**Author:** ![protoboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@protoboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/protoboard)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/115 "2015-08-12T21:34:36Z")
Your friends got really lucky, and most likely got hooked up from people they know. Portland is run on nepotism, and due to the scarcity of jobs the working conditions there are generally not good. When you consider the expense of living in Portland the minimum wage is actually lower than it is in Florida. Unlike Florida Oregon isn’t a right to work state and tipped workers are paid a full minimum wage, so it’s not all bad, but it’s very rare to get paid a decent wage in Portland. $20 an hour is like winning the lotto there if you don’t have an advanced degree. ---
**Author:** ![protoboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@protoboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/protoboard)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/116 "2015-08-12T21:42:30Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > $12-$20/hr in Portland isn’t a living. Rents in the city are very high: the unimproved small house across the street is going for $1100/month. A decent apartment in the city will start around $700/month. You’d likely end up trying to find people to share a place somewhere out in the far eastern part of Portland. The job market is tight and you’d have a tough time competing unless you just want to work fast food or other service jobs. If you have restaurant experience as a server, you can make pretty good money at it in the better places. Yeah, if you look at my old posts OP, you can see what I think of Portland. Leaving Florida for Oregon to find better jobs and easier living would be going from the frying pan into the fire. Neither state has much economic opportunity, I would suggest going to the Midwest or Northeast myself. Portland is sort of a sacred cow of a city and most people seem to be drinking the Kool-Aid, but I lived there for 4 years and I know the place’s true colors. ---
**Author:** ![TheFox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@TheFox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFox)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/117 "2015-08-12T22:44:40Z")
> [@justjake](#): > > I mean i can always work in sewage or on an oil rig like some of these troll suggestions. > > Lmfao, i’d 100% rather rob a bank (seriously) then do some of those. Desperate times come for desperate measures. You do realize that oil rigs make up about 1 percent of oil related jobs right? And they all pay well. My first year in North Dakota I made ~80k after taxes, second year was around 225 after taxes, and then 130ish the third year and this year will be about the same. Living expenses are high here, but you don’t seem to care about that as long as you have a couch to sleep on, or your back seat… So more the neighbors lawns, save up a hundred bucks for a greyhound ticket to Williston and get a job at Wal-Mart, I hear they start at around $22/hr, or even McDonald’s is like 18. And after you realize you need more money than that, go get a job for an oilfield construction or maintenance company, you’ll talk to your friends making a thousand a month and wonder how they feed themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/118 "2015-08-12T22:54:44Z")
Of course, you have to show up on time and do what you’re told. I get the feeling the OP’s not really into that kind of shitty work environment. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/119 "2015-08-12T23:04:44Z")
> [@justjake](#): > > Not sure how relevant some of these questions are, but let’s go. > Got a great smile. White teeth. All visible. No tattoos. Average. About 5’9. Thin. I look like a skinny kid, but not a twig. I’m not sure if people find me attractive. Some people do and some people really don’t. > > Highschool education only. I’m decent at picking up skills. Semi-charming. Semi-strong. I MAY be able to talk people into doing things they wouldn’t normally or wouldn’t normally want to buy. > > I have to offer, open availability, including night shift. Just need tons of hours. > > I have fairly low moral standards. They are relevant because the simple fact is that it’s a lot hard to get hired outside of very niche professions if you look like a weirdo. Looking conventionally “attractive” can also be a benefit in client-facing positions. Less important in other positions. Not sure about the “moral standards” question. Most employers want people who are honest. Sure, some businesses tend to screw over their customers and might want employees willing to do that as well. Then again, a business that screws over it’s customers is just as likely to screw over its employees. You seem to be focused on all the jobs you think are out there going to other people. What are you bringing to the table that someone should hire you? No one is saying you have to run out and become an electrical engineer or some shit like that. For a lot of the types of jobs you are looking at, all an employer wants is someone trustworthy who will show up on time and do what they are supposed to do with a minimum amount of bullshit. You aren’t selling us that you meet that basic qualification. ---
**Author:** ![TheFox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@TheFox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFox)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490/120 "2015-08-13T01:18:41Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > Of course, you have to show up on time and do what you’re told. I get the feeling the OP’s not really into that kind of shitty work environment. :rolleyes: Agreed, it is absolutely amazing how few people are actually reliable, and something as simple as consistently showing up ten minutes before and looking/being busy when ‘there’s nothing to do’ leads to promotions and raises. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gunna-ask-again-how-do-i-make-reasonable-money-quickly-with-minimal-experience/727490.md?page=7)