My first hard-earned bucks!

irshadreyaz · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 5 Location: India

Perhaps, It's the best topic to start the posting on ForumBooster!
I had got my first pay-check while I was in my Diploma first year. Of 28$, not as fat as you may have thought. However, as someone said, "You earn with experience" and the same for me.
Ok this's my buck-story!
What about you? Let us know.

adikobih · Joined: 24 Apr 2006 Posts: 6 Location: Madison, WI USA

My first hard-earned bucks? That will be writing job I got incidentally from GetAFreelancer.com for $29.50. I wrote 25 articles in two weeks for a very low pay, just to get the feel of being a writer.

I love this job, and keep searching for more Wink

. Great pays too when you get more experiences along the way.
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QuietLunatic · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 160

I used to write massage therapy articles for Suite101.com, but I stopped writing for them when they stopped paying for articles per se, and began paying based on page views. It didn't seem reasonable to me to do the work I was doing for potentially less than I was making. Of course, it could have been potentially more...but I prefer to be paid for my efforts, not for random views. Does any of this make sense? Should I go have more coffee before I babble on more?
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adikobih · Joined: 24 Apr 2006 Posts: 6 Location: Madison, WI USA

Yeah, I do agree that writer should be paid for every things that he or she writes. Not per views, that is unfair.

Anyone interested to write articles on salmon fish and get paid for each articles, please PM me.

Thanks.
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aqui_c · Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 12

Are there any sites where you get paid for writing?
I'm from Argentina, here, some years ago, existed a site called livra.com.ar there you could write a revision of some products and get paid. It was more or less a good ammount if you could find those articles forgotten by the community, for example there were several posts about the same book, different editions, so you bassically wrote the same a couple of times.

There's also a magazine where you can send your stuff and get paid IF they publish your work. But, perhaps you spend 1 month writing something that's never published, not because It's bad, but because It's not what the magazine needs at the moment.

It would be great if there is any site to write translations into Spanish, or Italian and get paid for that.

alfie1848 · Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 5 Location: Norman, OK

At the end of March, I entered CNBC's Fantasy Portfolio Challenge. I decided it would be interesting to start a blog to track my progress throughout the course of the contest. I got a .Blogspot domain, and started adding some content. When I set the blog up, I added some two AdSense units to the blog. I never expected to make any money, but I put the ads on anyway.

I began posting comments on the official CNBC blog, which contained a link to my blog. I began to notice more traffic, maybe 50 or 60 uniques a day. This continued for a week.

To spare you a long, drawn out story, I started posting the daily "Bonus Bucks" answer on my blog. Within a week, my traffic had exploded to 1500-2000 uniques a day, and my ads were starting to get quite a few clicks. I began getting serious about writing content and AdSense optimization, and my efforts paid off.

By the end of this week, my blog will have made more than $600 from AdSense since the end of March Smile

So, the moral of this story is, if you have something to say, get a blog and put your ideas out on the Internet, and maybe you'll make a buck or two along the way Wink

myownwoman · Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 6

Hey kiddos,

I'm an English major at a university, so Lord knows that I coluld use some extra cash. I love to blog for fun, but I recently found several sites that help writers profit from their web-postings. This is a great way to publicize your witing, join a community of writers, and make a few extra dollars at the same time!

The blogs that you will be writing in earn revenue through something called Google Adsense. There will be related Google links posted with your entry - generally there are three of them tacked on prior to your entry. When a visitor clicks on this link, you get paid! The reward varies with each link.

Here are two communities that I am involved with:

Writing Up
This site has over 2,000 viewers at any given time. It is a very active community with a diverse group of opinions. It's worth checking out, even if you aren't interested in earning money.

Blogger Party
This is vey similar to the above site, only it is still in it's infancy. I would encourage cross-posting to reach a larger audience.

Anyways, I hope that this helps you all! Let me know if you decide to join. I'm curious as to how it works out for you.

Anna J.

missy · Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 14

After graduating in college taking Bachelor of Secondary Education major in Science last March 2005, i was hired as loan officer in the biggest cooperative in Region 8 Philippines on August of the same year. Yeah right, teaching and working as loan officer is very far related in nature or its not related at all. Except when i gave loan orientations every weekend wherein some teaching strategies and techniques where applied. I just knew how to deal with the job thru the training they gave me.

Well, i received my very first salary after graduation a month after August. Country side earners in the Philippines are said to be low paid. It might not be too much but just enough to nourish my own body.

stephpoet · Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 11

My very first job was selling ads and writing articles for a community newspaper in 1994. I always wanted to be a journalist and loved the work. It opened a lot of doors for me at a young age, and I was able to get my first professional, full-time newspaper job at 18.

sitemaster · Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 5

The first money I ever made was with my newspaper route which was nearly 20 years ago. I sure feel old! The first money I ever made online was with Adsense ads which I had placed on one of my travel sites.

The Emirates Gallastico · Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 7

My first payment was for doing three online articles about football (soccer) for a website 3 articles x $10 = $30 Cool

). Since then I've been paid many times, mainly for writing about my favourite sport as well as other subjects anything really Very Happy

Stormhawk · Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 11

I worked hard for my first bucks, I really did.

I earned three diplomas in two-and-a-half years (Applied Science, Biotechnology and Pathology), my teachers thought I was great, and I had no problem with any of the course material (except for my dreaded enemy: chemistry equations). I had a job interview the same day as I finished...and didn't get it.

Had many more interviews...and didn't get it.

Got professionally written selection criteria done up, and never heard back from the job I used them to apply for. (Eventually heard back, after about four months).

Finally got a job - so very far from where I lived. It was five hours of public transport a day (up at 4.30am, train at 5.10am, bus at 6.20am and a 10-15 minute scooter ride (the push one, not the cute Vespa kind). ...then the work day started, and then had to do it all again in the afternoon.

I got my first paycheck, and bought my fiance a computer. Smile

Lola · Joined: 19 Oct 2007 Posts: 5

I actually earned my first bucks in elementary school. I wrote daily journals to help non-native speakers learn English. I wasn't paid per se, but the company allowed me to choose some books from the bookstore. They did offer to pay in cash, but I chose otherwise! I was a real book geek back then. Razz

rofflewoffle · Joined: 03 Nov 2007 Posts: 5

The first bucks I truly earned myself were from a website called TreasureTrooper, which pays you to complete offers and do other such stuff. I was bored with filling in a contact information form and having to give out details, so I decided to get other people to do it for me. They have a referral program going, so I posted the link on a few forums and other places. This netted me a nice ~$200 until they switched to paying by check and closed my account for no apparent reason.

Now I'm making some extra money from my blog and writing articles for websites like Associated Content, Triond, and Helium (I've found Triond to be most effective. I generally get at least 50 cents a day even if I don't write anything. A paltry sum to some, but the prospect of "free" money is very appealing to me).

ammulu · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 11

My first earn was $150 from a site where we answer queries and rate queries, answers once we become a council member. I still follow this site and I am new to forumbooster, I wish it to be a good way to start earning.

victoria_trix · Joined: 01 Dec 2007 Posts: 5

The first buck I ever earned online was from writing an article. I actually made a big $4.50 for that one Laughing

but since then I have been hooked on learning how to be at home with my family instead out in the crazy madness of 9-5 or worse yet having to work an afternoon shift and then really missing out. So far things have been going well. I work totally from home except during the holidays (such as right now) where I do bell ringing from the Salvation Army 6 days a week. That still only pulls me away from my family from 9am-3pm and by the time I get home the kids have only been home from school for 25 minutes and on Saturday they get to spend quality time with my hubby while I work. Seems to be a win-win for all of us and Christmas doesn't break the bank Wink

moexie2 · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 6

My first earned buck came from a department store in the mall. I worked long hours but I worked hard. I think I was 15 years old, I earned my first $100 which was a lot to me, I loved it! I'll never forget that day. Now $100 dollars is like a dollar these days. Confused

daddyfree · Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 8

when I was in 5th grade, I was selling cellphone casing and housings. I earned around $30 only. I always think on selling something because I want to be successful someday. It started with a small things and small revenues. Someday, it will be bigger. They call me business-minded. I want to earn money when I'm not doing anything. Time is gold in business.

mlant · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 5

The first time I made "money for nothing" was when I was 11 years old and in 5th grade. My mom would pack these little gummy candies in my lunch and each day I would sell them for $1 to my friend. It was incredible. I honestly thought that I was rich.

That extra $5 a week was nice though, I think I usually spent it at the arcade. Money well spent I say.

Dr_Jest · Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 9

I made my first money on a Sunday paper route when I was about fourteen years old. It was about eleven bucks for one morning's work, once a week, and took about three hours to do it, but how much you got paid varied. You collected the payment from the customers as you went round, and some weeks, customers wouldn't have the money so you'd come in short, and the short-fall would be deducted. The next week, they'd pay double, and you'd get extra instead.

After doing the round for a few months, I'd been counting up the money I was bringing in and the amount I was supposed to have, and figured out that the guy I was taking the money to was deducting anything I was down, but then skimming off anything extra that I brought in. After that, I started stopping my round before going back to the paper shop, counting up all the money and left-over newspapers, then pocketing anything that was over the amount I was supposed to bring in. I got a dead-even eleven dollars almost every week after that, but I had plenty of extra money pocketed too!