How do you get paid?

[Shy]

[QUOTE=Bláse][size=1][color=slategray]I go up to the 7th and Main corner in some sexy black stilettos.

I come out of the night with about $250.[/color][/size][/QUOTE]
[size=1]Hm. And what evenings did you say you worked?

I'm a server at the Macaroni Grill, and for the most part I despise it. The management is a joke, and every day I'm there I find more and more reasons why serving is a job and not a career. At times the customers can be incredibly demanding, but it's dealing with most of my co-workers that bothers me the most.

For the time being it's an easy way to earn cash, and since it pays quite well I'd rather not complain anymore about it.

-Shy[/size]

[SaiyanPrincessX]

[SIZE=1]I go to the community college, for two classes, and work in a warehouse. I work monday thru friday, from noon to 5:30pm, $8.50/hr. Great hours and pay for now. I was offered full time recently, but I had to turn it down since I started school. They were about a month late.[/SIZE]

[Your Mother]

[SIZE=1]I'm in college. I work at a library scanning old books and converting them to digital images. Pay's about 8 long ones per hour.

It's a boring job. But I have to put myself through college somehow.[/SIZE]

[PaganAngel]

Heehee. That's funny. Right now I have 3 nickels and a Trident wrapper in my wallet.

My income is pretty much holidays. It's the only time my folks give me any money... I get about 300 bucks from each (having divorced parents rocks). Or I'll steal money from my brother, he's got too much of it. I'm thinking of taking a job at the Family Support Council as a babysitter this year for $7.50 an hour. Not bad when you're fourteen.

[Dhampir]

Well, I just turned sixteen in late august, and already I have the most beasty (in a good way) job ever....


I work at Busch Gardens Europe as a Scare Squad member. I am in a clown themed maze and I scare an average of 200 people a night, working fridays saturdays and sundays.-^^- I love my job... Oh yeah, and I get $8.75 an hour. >=P

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[color=#9933ff][font=lucida calligraphy] Hey I can actually reply to this thread saying that I have a job! I am happy... and sleep deprived.

I work at Coopervision, they make contact lenses. I work in distribution and basicaly my job is to pick the product off the shelf and then send it down to shipping.

It's relatively easy work and I make $8.85 an hour. Plus right now they have us working five ten hour days then a six or eight hour day on Saturday so I make time and a half for overtime. Plus they have a $50 attendance bonus each week added to each paycheck as long as you pull the nearly 60 hour work week.

So far the only bad thing (Aside from the fact that I can't wear my Happy Bunny t-shirts) is that the breaks and lunch are sporadic since they want to keep people on the floor at all times and since the building I work at is new they're still trying to sort some things out. And my job involves standing and walking for 10 hours.[/color][/font]

[Gavin]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting.

Like a few others here I'm in full time education, so whatever job I pick up is usually only a week or two long depending on the holiday time and I'm glad with whatever I get. Most recently I was working as a painter's assistant on this eighteenth century manor only a few miles away from where I live, there were only three of us to paint this massive house and the funny part is that it took more time for the people who owned the manor to pick a paint than it did for us to actually finish the job.

I didn't get an hourly wage, and in reality I was working well under minimum wage for what I was doing, putting in about nine hours a day, eight to six every day including a lunch hour, more than once though I went over that to the point of a twelve hour day. However, the work was enjoyable in it's own way and I got a great tan. In the end I walked away with ?300 in cash for six days work, so I was on about ?5 an hour, roughly 20% less than minimum wage. Still though, it paid the bills and I'd do it over again.[/SIZE]

[Sloth Girl]

[SIZE=1]When people first told me that having a job would be a lot of hard work and you'll know tired when you have your own, I didn't believe them. I still don't because I work about 3 or 4 nights a week and I rarely come home tired. And when I do it's only because I stayed up late, woke up early, went to school, stayed after school for activities, and then went straight to work. And yes, I've done it a few times already.

Let's see, I work at a restaurant. Not a fast food one or a big fancy one. Just a little restaurant. I love working there. I'm actually excited sometimes when I'm called to go in. My hours are irregular, going from 7-15 hours a week. Yes! 7-15 hours a week. Not much considering I'm not available until 4 and we close at 9 pm. 10 pm on Fridays.

I don't have specific tasks there either. I've only waitressed two tables before, both for people that I know only because my boss was too tired and didn't feel like it. I cook and clean at the same time when I'm in the kitchen which I don't think would be very sanitary considering all the bleach put into the dishes and then I have to cook the food. Then there's the sandwich unit which I don't get often but it's like one of the easiest. Make sandwiches. Make almost everything else in the kitchen. I fetch extra things when we run out or get close to running out. And I've never made a pizza. I want to really bad,and I will soon! As soon as we're not busy and my boss says it's okay.

Sleep now..................[/SIZE]

[I Am Manga]

Um. . . lets see. I do odd jobs, farm work, hay, fencing (barb wire and electric), It's hard work but feels good

[Guest Villainous_Hero]

Um well I'm actually at college as a student but I do work on the weekend on my Grandpa's farm doing random stuff like fertilizing, spraying pesticides, pulling weeds, and repairing broken srceens with tie-wire and c-clamps. It pays only $40 a day, but it gets me through the week for lunch and stuff.

[only1specialed]

how do i get paid you ask? well thats easy first you guys wake up and work your butts off and every two weeks to a month you get your pay check then you get tax and that money comes into my bank account every two weeks. thats how it works when your in the military. so please put in that extra hour or two for me cause although im in iraq right now i could use a bigger pay check

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[quote name='only1specialed']how do i get paid you ask? well thats easy first you guys wake up and work your butts off and every two weeks to a month you get your pay check then you get tax and that money comes into my bank account every two weeks. thats how it works when your in the military. so please put in that extra hour or two for me cause although im in iraq right now i could use a bigger pay check[/quote]

[color=#9933ff][font=lucida calligraphy]Hey I know you hate it and this war isn't very popular, but thanks just the same.

Anyways I'm putting in five ten hour days from 4PM to 2:30AM Monday through Friday. Then Saturday it's either 2:30PM-11:PM or 2:30PM-8PM depending on how much needs to be found and shipped. Being familiar with the military I know that's not a lot of hours and even my brother who works for Frito Lay works more than me during the busy times of the year, but let me tell you what I do that I don't get paid for.

I am the mother of a two year old, so Monday through Friday after getting home at three in the morning I have to wake up around 8AM get myself dressed, get my daughter dressed then drive her to the babysitter which is about fifteen minutes away. After that I go home, go back to bed then wake up do some laundry or some grocery shopping drive to one of the local libraries since my mom works from home and unless she's out of town I can't use the home computer. Then around 3PM I get ready for my twenty minute drive to work. When I leave work at 2:30 I call my friend in OR and make him talk to me until I pull in the drive way of my house. then go straight to bed.[/color][/font]

[Aaryanna_Mom]

Well before I got married, I was paid to play the organ for church services. It wasn?t a lot but it did give me pocket money which was nice. Then when I got married, especially since we had our first kid shortly after the event, my husband was the one who worked while attending college. So I was a stay at home mom and didn?t work. Though I did my best to help make ends meet by spend lots of hours in the summer canning goods and other stuff to make our money go farther. I also did a lot of sewing and made most of our blankets by quilting.

Then when I got divorced, I got child support and alimony. Though at that time I only had one kid still at home. I also started teaching piano lessons and selling Avon to help make ends meet. I considered getting a regular job, but a few years after getting divorced I started having major issues with my health.

I had enough issues that I finally applied for disability. I nearly lost my vision waiting for the approval as I needed surgery on both of my eyes to repair damage that had been done. Fortunately I got it in time as then the insurance that came with it paid for the much needed surgery.

Now I live on disability and the child support that I get for Aaryanna, though that mostly goes for what ever expenses she may have. And to be frank, even though I do not get along with my ex, he has always provided for the children. And he has always done more than the law requires. It is he who got Aaryanna her Bichon and pretty much pays for all of the expenses related to that cute little fur ball.

[Esther]

[QUOTE=Retribution][size=1]Hm. So how much do you make on average for one blog site/community? That, and do you get money through page hits or ad clicks? I understand that the payment would rely on you advertising your site, and I don't mean to pry, I'm just seeing if it's something worth looking into seriously.

Thanks.[/size][/QUOTE]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=1]A perfect example of a person who get's paid to blog/advertise is Wendy Cheng ( or more commonly known XiaXue ). Her blog can be found by clicking [COLOR=Blue][U][URL=http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/]here.[/URL] [/U] [/COLOR]

She usually just takes pictures of herself, but sometimes she has some advertorials here and there. Wendy is a really nice person, if you're looking into blogging for some cash then she is probably a good source.

As for my job, I write freelance for magazines. The pay differs, it depends on length of article, magazine, product/story you're writing about, etc etc. I really enjoy my job, it's just so much fun to write about something different everytime. x]

The best part of my job is that I can write multiple articles at a time and get lots of money! Hehe. I only learned of this method recently, so now I'm writing at least 3 articles so I can get at least $2,000 a month.

The worst part of my job? Hmm, I guess it would probably have to be finding a job that pays a good amount of money. I once had to work for a company that had nothing to do with writing because I couldn't find a job...[/SIZE][/FONT]

[silpheedpilot]

[COLOR=DarkSlateGray][SIZE=1]ComCheck eCash. Curtesy of GameStop Inc. Every two weeks, after dredging through telling folks how much better the WiiSixty combo is over the PSWii (Or just the 360 to all you Nintendo morons) my money is deposited into my bank account, but the only way I can withdraw it is with this neat little green plastic thingie...Other wise known as a debit card.

Ah yes, the wonders of plastic. Problem is that whenever I wanna withdraw it takes, oh lets go with, $1.50 - $2.00 thus forcing me to return to the more archaic method of buying and selling; cash.

OH! Right. You wanted to know what my job was, not HOW I get paid. Excuse me, the title was mid-leading. [Don't confuse my witty sarcasm with not reading the opening post.]

I work for GameStop Inc. Or rather the sister store EB Games. I sell videogames to a casual populus stopping frequently to tell people the truth about the new consoles and that we ARE NOT currently taking pre-orders on the Wiieiner or the PSnotsoamazing3. I keep the store tidy by keeping the games on the shelf in alphabetical order and I make sure people are constantly helped. It isn't much, but it is REALLY easy.[/SIZE][/COLOR]

[DarkFactor]

My dad and I do freelance painting jobs. We contract our own work. Its fun, mindless, and financially rewarding. since my old man is kind of- sort of my boss, not that there is really much supervision to it since we just do what the consumer wants, I just get paid in cash money, he handles taxes. Its awsome.

[Horendithas]

[COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]I don?t actually, unless you consider grants and scholarships for school. I do work, but it?s volunteer work that I do not get paid for. However, since the type of work I do is central to my major, it?s something that later on will help ensure that I get a job in my chosen field as the experience I am getting far outweighs getting paid at this point.

I do occasionally get care packages that often include a little cash as well as goodies from my parents. Which is a nice gesture, but hardly necessary as the stuff I get for school is usually enough to pay for all my expenses. Though it is nice to have that cash when there?s something out there unrelated to school that I really want to get. Like the newest Zelda game coming out in December. It?s perfect timing. I will finish up with finals, get the GameCube version and then spend my holiday immersed in the world of Zelda. [/COLOR]

[Goodbye, Face]

[font=arial][size=1]I have some crazy sleeping disorder that keeps coming and going randomly, and it keeps me up to where I can't sleep at all some nights. I usually hardly have enough energy for school, and this kind of prevents me from keeping a job. Also, I have a lot of homework this school year and it's like a job in itself (which is why you guys are hardly seeing me on here now).

So how do I get paid? I mow lawns on the weekends. It's the Southeastern region of the US, people are frickin' lazy and were paying my parents 30bux for mowing their lawn. Now I'm doing about half of my parents' lawns in their stead. It's a great business and a great way to wake up and also a great workout when i can't get someone to go with me to the gym.

Prior to that, I worked for like a month at a games store like half an hour away from my house right afterschool. I had to get a ride from school (this was ninth grade) to make it on time. With my arrival, I hosted tournaments at the place. However, after that month, my boss decided games weren't for him and he sold his store. The new manager comes in and fires all of the employees and hires his sons and I was jobless for the summer.[/font][/size]

[Guest Heero yuy]

I work for the Target Corporation as a backroom stock boy.

It's nothing serious, just a job that I got during highschool and use now, just gain money so I can leave and go to college.

The worst thing about my job is dealing with people, but not only customers, there's employees that work in different areas, there's always a clash of who's job is harder or who does more.