not stay at home but donate plasma. upwork probably is another avenue.
You should not be getting downvoted for this. Where I live, our plasma center is offering $450 per month because supply is so low right now. I've heard it can be as high as $600 per month for new donors. I feel that it's maybe morally questionable to donate during the lockdown, but, my city has allowed bars and gyms to reopen. So that sentiment is probably no longer true at this point. I do live in a relatively spars…
Why would it be "morally questionable" to donate plasma during lockdown?
File for unemployment. The federal government is increasing the weekly payment. Additionally, I believe this is not limited to California, unemployment compensation starts from day 1 rather than the second week. Edit: Also unemployment compensation is being extended to job types which previously weren’t covered, like hairdressers and massage therapists. Having been told to stay home from work for Covid should be suff…
This should definitely be done, but a caveat against assuming this is a blanket solution: I have plenty of friends in the theater industry who mostly make money as non-employee contract/gig workers. But 2 of these friends also had some minimal part-time work last year where they made under $1000. Because they had a W-2 last year, they are disqualified from getting unemployment based on their contract work, even though their contract work represents 95% of their income. The amount of unemployment you get is based on the amount of money you made at your last job or over the last few quarters. Which means they’re getting almost nothing in unemployment benefits. To make matters worse, the website clearly just shoehorned in the corona-related changes and the application process is extremely confusing for someone in their situation. Even walking them through the process over screen share, as someone who has applied for unemployment benefits twice in the past, I couldn’t really figure out exactly how to answer some of the questions. So there are definitely people getting screwed on unemployment, even if it is working out well for the majority.
DoorDash, GrubHub, Uber Eats, and the like make pretty decent money. About $7 per order before tip and in a busy area you might be able to snag two or three orders going the same direction making the $/hr a little better. It's basically the definition of not great money but it's not very difficult, not physically straining, and you don't have to interview or whatever for it. Grocery stores in my area are also hiring…
> it's not very difficult, not physically straining eh ... I've never been a driver, but I kinda doubt this right now. A Chicago driver just ran over this women: https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/5/16/21261241/ms-ts-... We don't know the full story as the video starts with her blocking his car. He shouldn't have run her over obviously. There's no excuse for that. But if he's operating on very small margins, he…
This seems like the very definition of play stupid games, win stupid prizes... Obviously I have zero capability to make a morality judgement here. But I do know that the 2-ton hunk of metal with hundreds of horsepower and foot-pounds of torque is going to win that physical fight every day. Just take the damn license plate number, get out physically unscathed, and let the police do their job.
Have they considered teaching their skills online for money? If they worked in a call center, they probably know how to deal with some really hard things. I'd love to learn how they have patience when dealing with angry customers. At http://joinstream.io , we're building a super easy way to host a monetized livestream using Zoom. We generate a marketing page for you, handle billing, attendee management, and notificat…
Can you it clear if you are U.S. only? The site doesn't say what countries you can pay out to, it would be helpful to be specific. I know w lot of Europeans who would be interested.
1. Teach English by video to children overseas. 2. Get a remote call centre job. 3. The DoorDashes and Uber Eats of the world are doing tremendous business right now, as is Amazon (and they have the Flex delivery service). Instacart was also hiring some 300,000 people. 4. If your friend is the creative or innovative type, there are a ton of competitions being hosted by various companies. You enter enough and the inco…
My wife, who is out of work, is providing emergency childcare to some friends of ours for $20/hr. People are really desperate for this and I'm sure she could make more if she wasn't just doing it as a favor for our friends.
If you do something for a friend ... and take money, is it really fair to call it a favour?
She was going to do it for free but they insisted on paying her.
In this market over the last two months, that's how I've made more money than I have in the entire last 3-4 years combined. Crazy. ...but that opportunity is probably overish. Also, "day" trading is usually bad - buying the dip and selling the excitement on a week/month basis takes much less time and is much safer.
I don’t think so. I don’t see how the Fed can do anything about demand or a second virus wave or delay in vaccine. The market is pricing in a perfect recovery. Will likely be a decent short opportunity soon.
I disagree. The Fed is printing so much money that you have to remember that all those stocks are priced in now diluted dollars.
The worst thing you can do is keep your money in cash. When inflation kicks in, the companies will raise their product prices, and their stocks will inflate accordingly. Meanwhile the purchasing power of your savings will dwindle.
This is also why real estate is going up despite the pandemic.
File for unemployment. The federal government is increasing the weekly payment. Additionally, I believe this is not limited to California, unemployment compensation starts from day 1 rather than the second week. Edit: Also unemployment compensation is being extended to job types which previously weren’t covered, like hairdressers and massage therapists. Having been told to stay home from work for Covid should be suff…
This should definitely be done, but a caveat against assuming this is a blanket solution: I have plenty of friends in the theater industry who mostly make money as non-employee contract/gig workers. But 2 of these friends also had some minimal part-time work last year where they made under $1000. Because they had a W-2 last year, they are disqualified from getting unemployment based on their contract work, even thoug…
In California, independent contractors and gig workers are allowed to claim unemployment due to COVID, whether or not they were previously a W2 employee. (The same is not true in all states, including presumably the state of the commenter to which I replied.)