money

before i start dishwashing at the local pub or doing a paper round or something does anyone have any clever, original ideas of how to make money or anything they did in the past ?

bearing in mind im 15 lol.

going towards a prs se :)

im going 2 work at my grandfathers buisness, im very lucky, both my dad, mom, and grandfather own their buisnesses, so i can work for either, i shouold make around 600 or so american. ill make or take in another 1.2k or so with the most ingenious idea since dry socks, parking cars at my grandmothers house during the football games. heres how it works. my grandma live bout a block from the stadium, ideal paarking distance. the parking lots on campus, and the sidwalks fill 2 days b4 the game, so any 1 coming in tht day are screwed. what many houses close 2 campus do is they sell parking spots. i dont acctually "park" the cars, but i get the money :). i offered it 2 my grandmother, she didnt want it, said she couldnt use it, shes 100. i can park about 15 cars, i leave the sign on an oak tree facing both traffic directions, she lives on the campus street, and i play football, games, eat, tons of stuff and make anywhere from $20 when the college isnt playing a rival to about $50 if ther playing alabama, their #1 rival. its a good way of "stealing" money. maybe somthing like tht?

since dry socks?!?!

that is a plan tho.

we have a big up horse race (cheltenham gold cup for anyone who cares :p) down the road so i could do something like that :].

although my parents might mind lol

Anything but lifeguarding... I've done it for 3 years now, and I don't know why I'm still doing it - it's so boring!

yeah my way is that my grandpa is about the 3d richest guy in my entire town so he pays me money to do pretty well whatever ranging from selling christmas trees all the way to leaving me to watch his house for a week at a time also he's a big time stock market guy and hes making me a protfolio, I've personally seen some f his stocks in one company be worth over a Million

can't you get a "regular" job at 15?
from my own personal experience.....
get a job selling shoes in an upscale shop that caters to girls your age. easy job, meet girls, learn how to shmooze. good experience and if a lovely lady in a mini skirt comes in, well that's just icing on the cake!
it's all in the mirrors...........think about it........oh yeah
phip

yeah man in Canada you need to be 14 for a real job unless you like know the manager or get paid under the table but I've been working for my grandpa off and on since I was a little under 6 years old

are you computer savy? Fix computers or build and code myspace pages for people. I know a guy who makes extra money doing it. i think it amounts to 200 extra a month or more.

Cut grass I started doing that when I was 13... Come to think of it you don't see too many kids doing that anymore ???

Good idea Les_Paul. get a tan, put on some muscle, bulk out. Let's face it Joe, you could use a little bulking up! Lol I"M JUST KIDDING JOE! geez

Nope les paul you dont around here its all done by landscaping companys get a job at Mc Donalds thats where my daughter and son work..my sons to young to work construction with me yet.

What kind of construction do you do Notim? I do pipe line construction.

Do life guarding, it is boring but depending on where you are you get lots of money... I make 2 grand a week, or at least over summers at this public pool, 8 hours a day 5 days a week at 25 an hour. :) The best part is that it's like 5 ft deep at most so people don't have issues that often... Although I think it might just be my area because other people say thats lucky as hell..

i heard thers a nice view if u know wut i mean... ;)

$25 an hour! That's insane, but then again it's a public pool. I work at a private pool and we get £5/hr which is about $10/hr!

Damn, who knew there was so much money to be earned in LIFE GUARDING!?!?

I used to babysit some little kids. The kids were evil but the parents paid really well. They would always fight each other, and never stop even if I tried to break them up, so I eventually let them fight it out themselves. A lot easier for me, and it seemed to help them solve their own problems.

@phip. you need to be 16 to get a real job.

but a shoe shop sounds interesting when my birthday does come around :P...

computer one sounds interesting.

as does babysitting.

and cutting grass lol.

well lifeguard is sort of impossible at the moment.

ironically our local swimming pool was flooded and work has been going on for a while to fix it lol.

i got my own pool :) lol. baby sitting can be a pain in the ass, but it pays about $10 an hour.

But sometimes it's really easy, when the kids fall asleep or they listen to you.

What can a 12 year old (13 in august) do for money?
Allergic to pets of all kind and I am allergic to kids too (haha not really but they get on my nerves)

lol, i h8 kids. being one i should know lol. in the us the min age to get a job is 14. and u cant work a lot.

@EMB

And even then, I think you have to get a work permit.

you're lucky lol.

over here you have to be sixteen to be in any sort of formal employment.

its just paper rounds and shiz that you can do until then.

Yeah it's 14 here too but you can only work like, a few hours and on weekends or something.
I need money bad too

u have to be 16 here also, but at 14 u get to work like 20 hours a week, and u dont earn a lot. i have my paprs btw.

i used towork on a store, like walmart or something like that packig or putting in bags what costumers buy, i had only like a few cents that most costumers gave me and withtn 5 hours i had like 20 bucks(dlls), very good for someone my age in here

Soy, that actually doesn't sound too bad. Like it's bagging groceries and stuff. Not bad especially for age

I know someone who makes an extra £50 ($100) a week from selling stuff on eBay on behalf of other people who are too computer illiterate to do it themselves. That seems like a pretty easy job to me!

Afro

@ afro. haha that sounds like money for nothing.

why wouldnt you just learn to use a computer in the first place lol.

@Joe, it actually does.
That would be an awesome way to make some money!

I would pay someone to show me how to use ebay. lol... I have an account but have never used it. I would like to sell some things and maybe start like a part time job selling on ebay, But I have to learn how to use it first. I'm not that great on a computer.