That's MONEY Honey

People keep telling me making money is so0o0o0o easy.  Really, if it's that easy why are we still forcing children to attend college?  In the digital era however, it is true that is has become ridiculously easy to build up that nest egg.  We have places like e-Bay and Amazon Marketplace that make it stupidly simple to take photos of our merchandise and there are even business for the busy (like myself) that will handle the packaging and shipping of the items.  Piece of cake.

I went to school for International Relations and Economics.  Economics = money right?  Well, really only if you get your masters or if you had enough foresight to intern for the company you wanted to end up at every year so they never forget how valuable you are.  I didn't do that.  I admit to dicking away my summers and my schools years enjoying my teens/twenties.

This has cost me an $80,000 starting salary with any decent qualitative company.  I'm now in panic mode desperately looking for a new job.

My women's business group, ABWA, meets once monthly and our guest speaker this time was Gail Perry-Mason.  She and Oprah are tight so she must know what she's talking about right????  Aside from telling us the story of her adoption and meeting her birth mother (a hilarious story btdubs) she gave us some great financial advice for making money doing nothing basically that I feel I should share.

Her first suggestion was to attend school for legal mediation.  Eight hundred bucks a day those suckers get paid to sit and watch you and some other party bicker.  I could use $800.  The course work is pretty rigorous but if you work somewhere with good vacation pay, why not flood the bank?  I'm gonna be off my parent's lease here pretty soon so she suggested paidride.com for those advertisement cars you see on the roads or swapalease.com for taking over a lease.

istockphoto.com which I had previously been unfamiliar with.  Apparently, you upload your photos and people pay for the shots they like.  Awesome!  Love taking pictures, love getting paid even better!

I could go one but I haven't investigated these all yet.  I participate in e-rewards, e-miles, bzzagent, 20/20 research panel and NCP scanning.  My e-survey habit feeds my app store habit.

Here are the rest of the sites:
westathome.com - work from home website
pinkpanel.com - try out make up for free
ebates.com - buy something, check ebates, get paid. 'nuf said.
recycle.org - free things your neighbors are trying to get rid of
-freecycle.com (more of the same)
cashmoneylife.com - not sure I remember
howtoshopforfree.com - really?
thepennyhoarder.com