I’m considering the possibility of selling plasma for fast cash. (Curse guys who can get money from 5 minutes with a Playboy). What could one young adult female sell from her body not requiring being cut open? I probably would not actually do any of the more extreme types but it would be nice to know in case I ever needed to.
Prostitution, a fine carreer for an upstanding citizen such as yourself. You get to set your own hours (usually dark hours, you can work and go to school at the same time). Set your own wages. Meet new people. You get to work with other people and make them happy. Earn money doing something you love. Every client is an adventure: “Is it a John, or a Cop?”
You know what’s creepy? Remove the prostitution part and it looks like all of the crappy “work-from-home” offers I’ve seen.
That’s what I was trying for, but I’m afraid I didn’t do a very good job.
If you donate plasma you’ll get a tiny scar on the crux of your elbow (y’know right where you shoot the smack) otherwise the money’s, well…money.
I was at a local festival and half jokingly told my friends girlfriend to show her tits for money. We all laughed it off, untill we realized the kind of revenue that one might generate doing that. (going topless in Ohio is legal)
If you have boobies, use 'em. Charge double for both. Send 5.75% of your profits to me. Thanks.
I sold plasma for quite a while. About the worst thing that can happen to you is if the needle gets pushed in or pulled back a little too far after the procedure starts, and the red blood cells don’t go back into the vein, but rather just go under your skin. PAINful, and it looks like somebody took a baseball bat to your forearm.
But otherwise, it was good money for something that you could do while studying.
-lv
If you’re young, you can make a good amount of money selling your eggs. It’s not an easy thing though. You get hormone shots for a certain time to stimulate egg production, and I think it’s a laparoscopic procedure to collect the eggs.
Unfortunately, I’m going to have to stick to plasma. I don’t ovulate due to a genetic condition. In all honesty, even if I could, it seems like far too much inconvenience and hormones for a few thousand, plus the thought of having a child out there is kind of squicky.
Well, I used to work with a guy who wrote a book about how to profit from selling body parts and such… *Sell Yourself to Science: The Complete Guide to Selling Your Organs, Body Fluids, Bodily Functions and Being a Human Guinea Pig * by Jim Hogshire. I never figured out how much of it was intended tongue-in-cheek (so to speak), but he seemed to know his stuff.
I donated plasma for a while because I was totally desperate, and I’ll tell you, it was awful. For many, many reasons.
It hurts. Well, not hurts, exactly, but it is extremely uncomfortable. The needle is stuck in your arm for about an hour, so you can’t move much. Also you have to do a hand-squeezy thing throughout the blood extraction part of the cycle, and that can get really tiring. Plus, the first few time you do it it will be really exhausting and will take a much longer time than you think it will. And know that if you demand to be unhooked from the machine because you feel sick and woozy (like I did the first time), they will not unhook you. Even if you beg. If you are for some reason unable to finish and donate the full 600-900 mL, you won’t get paid (even though Aventis’s slogan is “Your time is valuable, your plasma is priceless.”)
The money is really not so good. $20 the first visit in a calander week; $25 the second. There are a lot of incentive bonuses, but it’s usually just a couple dollars every once in a while. At the time that I was donating I was living off that $45 a week, so I had to do it. It was so demoralizing and made me feel desperate and pathetic.
The place stinks. Literally. There’s some sort of horrid chemical odor that will permeate your clothing and hair for the rest of the day.
It takes FOREVER. Plan to be there at least 2 hours. One hour will be spent in the waiting room where someone will hit on you while you’re waiting your turn, guaranteed. The second hour will be spent strapped to the machine.
You will see the worst movies Hollywood has to offer. There are TVs hanging from the ceiling and they play DVDs. I saw, among others, Orange County, Star Wars Ep.2, and a shitload that I’ve apparantly blocked out, because I can’t remember any more. And it’s almost impossible to focus on a book, and magazines cost money. It’s boring.
You’ll have to take the bus or get a ride. I rode my bike once and almost passed out on the way home. I had to lay on the grass in November for half an hour before I was able to drag myself into a building on campus and buy some orange juice. YMMV, but it really affects your blood sugar level. Maybe you could bring a snack for afterwards; I never did (as that costs money). I never rode my bike again, and I think I’d think twice before driving.
Bruises, bruises, bruises! And the staff does not care if they hurt you.
Okay, this was really long and not very organized, but I had such a terrible experience (actually, 3 months worth of terrible experiences). Don’t do it unless you absolutely have to to live. Really. It’s awful.
ZJ
Participate in medical research, or on a less painful note, marketing research.
Wow Zjestika I’m so sorry your experiences sucked, my own were about dead opposite.
The facility I went to was clean and well-organized, the staff was very good at what they did and I never bruised once in about six months of sporadic donating. Other than an initial fist squeeze to pop the vein out nicely, I was never told to constantly pump my hand on anything, perhaps it depends on blood pressure or how well you…flow? I was living too tight to afford cable access then, I loved seeing free movies, they ran them at staggered start/stop times to try and accomodate your donation start/stop time. The chairs were comfortable, I was lucky enough to have a single needle system at mine, often I used it as quality nap time.
Just like the Red Cross does for blood donation, cookies and juice were automatic after donation, the one time they were super busy and I thought I didn’t ‘need’ to wait for the juice to be handed to me is the single time in my life I actually passed out, more like a momentary swoon, but my point is, drink the juice!
The money isn’t great, but if you’ve got the spare time, it’s not a bad way to pick up a little extra.
The quality of the places themselves vary widely. I was always able to ride my bike home, never felt woozy or anything. I did, however, always have a full water bottle with me, and always drank it down afterwards. The place I went to would also always pour a bunch of saline into the donor’s veins before taking the needle out.
You will, however, get drunk a hell of a lot quicker after donating.
-lv