Why don’t you just continue to save it?
Put it towards your retirement.
[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
I would use part of that mine to write several articles about how major gold deposits have been found, equal to 1,000 times what we’ve ever mined, wait for the price of gold to DROP upon this announcement, buy up as much as I could, THEN wait for the “truth” to come out and prices to go back up.
Goddamn, I am diabolical.
RSGZ:
My girl’s coworker bought Apple stock when it was about $1 ! I think it’s over $350 now.
If you REALLY care about stock…go look up companies that make NFC chips. Buy a shit ton of stock.
I wish I had bought ARM when it IPO’d. Look what it’s at now, due to all the ARM chips used in mobile. Goddamnit.[/quote]
Damn, how many shares? That’s insane, literally life changing if you have a good amount.
How’s this - I know of a guy (friend of a friend) who bought stocks in a company called Beowulf Mining (LON:BEM Ticker) a little over 8 months ago.
£5000 @ £1 a share.
8 months on, the shares are up at £70 each - that’s £345,000 profit so far. He’s estimating to make over a million by the end of the year (although I’m assuming he has other stocks too). I’m still keeping my eye on them though, but that makes me rather envious.
Thanks for the heads up on NFC manufacturers too, I’ve been researching companies supplying Apple and such with all their chips - they are pioneering a lot of this industry and I think they have some more suprises to come come June/July.
I need to email you a catch-up!
I’d buy $9,995 worth of cocaine and a burrito.
Are you guys kidding? $6.50 article is great pay for someone in the Philippines. At that rate you could easily hire someone with specialized knowledge and an advanced degree - you would never know the article was even written by someone overseas.
The average engineer only makes $5,000 US in the Philippines. You can get a nice apartment in a major city for $200 a month there - I am sure many people on this board would be happy to write an article a day for free rent at a decent place.
Also, at that rate you can even hire people in the US, so I am not sure what you are all in an uproar over. An article only takes 20-25 minutes to write if you are knowledgeable on the topic and have any sort of typing skills. I am sure there are plenty of people on this board who are reading this right now who would be very happy to make $13-$18 an hour given that you can roll out of bed and get a few hours of work in your underwear on an otherwise laid back Sunday morning. Honestly, you would be pressed to even find someone who wants to pay $6.50 an article!
I actually know of a retired school teacher who lives out in the country in North Carolina who I have hired a few times. She says she writes about 2-3 articles an hour and works about 10 hours a week. The extra $500 a month or so goes a long way to supplement her income since she is retired. Hardly slave labor.
There are also tons of expats who have chosen to live a slow-paced lifestyle in getaways like Costa Rica where the cost of living is very low. They can work a few hours a day as a freelance writer for $5-$7 an article and live the stress free lifestyle have have been seeking with no problem at all.
OP seemed to be asking for some unusual ways to invest money, so I figured I would share what I would do.
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
[quote]JaseHxC wrote:
Two chicks at the same time, man.[/quote]
Fuckin’ A
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That quote is the only reason I even clicked this thread.
[quote]challer1 wrote:
I’d find a writer on odesk to make a 300 article website on a very general topic like health…$1500-$2000
I’d then pay a designer to make everything look nice on wp and set up some decent navigation…$500-$1000
I’d then pay my writer to continually add content (1 article per day)… $200/month
I’d use the rest on SEO to make my site rank highly in the search engines… $500/month for a year.
I’d put ads up on the site and test to see what worked best. I’d let the site mature over the course of a year, see where the chips fall. If I think it is underperforming I will keep it and continue to work on it, if it is overperforming I’d sell it.
I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it, but that’s what I’d do![/quote]
A good idea if you find the right niche. Better yet just use MechanicalTurk.com and get articles written for hella cheap.
[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
$6.50 for an article? That would offend even a sweatshop worker.[/quote]
ROFL
You guys don’t know wtf you’re talking about. I have articles rewritten all of the time for me for $1.50 - $2.00 for a 400 word article.
There are plenty of workers in other countries that will do this shit for dirt cheap.
[quote]markdp wrote:
[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
$6.50 for an article? That would offend even a sweatshop worker.[/quote]
ROFL
You guys don’t know wtf you’re talking about. I have articles rewritten all of the time for me for $1.50 - $2.00 for a 400 word article.
There are plenty of workers in other countries that will do this shit for dirt cheap.[/quote]
It really seems we are not talking about the same thing when we say “writing”. When you say rewritten, what do you mean by that? Is it plagiarized copy?
To me, an article should be accurately researched and edited, so it reads well, is grammatically correct and doesn’t have a host of spelling errors. Is this what you get for 2 bucks from China? Or are your “articles” more like the following magazine cover?
Sorry, but that shit bothers me. I work in a creative field and know a lot of very good real writers. But I am guessing you get what you pay for, do you have a link to your 2$ essays?
If you think you can’t get a well-written and well-researched article for $6-$7 you simply have not looked. I could start a niche site on mesothelioma (just an example) and be easily able to find a nurse with a master’s degree from the Philippines who wants to make some extra cash that would then happily put together a 40 page site which would put webmd or medline to shame in terms of thoroughness and quality and only run me $300.
I understand that there is a certain tipping point where someone’s skill with the pen exponentially increases the value of their work. However, these people are far and few between and certainly not in abundance in the places I operate.
Pay down my student loans.
[quote]challer1 wrote:
Are you guys kidding? $6.50 article is great pay for someone in the Philippines. At that rate you could easily hire someone with specialized knowledge and an advanced degree - you would never know the article was even written by someone overseas.
The average engineer only makes $5,000 US in the Philippines. You can get a nice apartment in a major city for $200 a month there - I am sure many people on this board would be happy to write an article a day for free rent at a decent place.
Also, at that rate you can even hire people in the US, so I am not sure what you are all in an uproar over. An article only takes 20-25 minutes to write if you are knowledgeable on the topic and have any sort of typing skills. I am sure there are plenty of people on this board who are reading this right now who would be very happy to make $13-$18 an hour given that you can roll out of bed and get a few hours of work in your underwear on an otherwise laid back Sunday morning. Honestly, you would be pressed to even find someone who wants to pay $6.50 an article!
I actually know of a retired school teacher who lives out in the country in North Carolina who I have hired a few times. She says she writes about 2-3 articles an hour and works about 10 hours a week. The extra $500 a month or so goes a long way to supplement her income since she is retired. Hardly slave labor.
There are also tons of expats who have chosen to live a slow-paced lifestyle in getaways like Costa Rica where the cost of living is very low. They can work a few hours a day as a freelance writer for $5-$7 an article and live the stress free lifestyle have have been seeking with no problem at all.
OP seemed to be asking for some unusual ways to invest money, so I figured I would share what I would do.[/quote]
Um…yeah, I pay $15-50 an article and charge about the same. $6.50 an hour is a rip off even the most basic 300 word part-time poster wouldn’t even look at, sorry.
The point is I, as well it seems others, like to pull good/great writers out of the wood workers for writing. The drastic difference between the results of a job offering at 6.50 an hour and that of $15-50 an article is immense towards hirer quality.
[quote]dianab wrote:
[quote]markdp wrote:
[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
$6.50 for an article? That would offend even a sweatshop worker.[/quote]
ROFL
You guys don’t know wtf you’re talking about. I have articles rewritten all of the time for me for $1.50 - $2.00 for a 400 word article.
There are plenty of workers in other countries that will do this shit for dirt cheap.[/quote]
It really seems we are not talking about the same thing when we say “writing”. When you say rewritten, what do you mean by that? Is it plagiarized copy?
To me, an article should be accurately researched and edited, so it reads well, is grammatically correct and doesn’t have a host of spelling errors. Is this what you get for 2 bucks from China? Or are your “articles” more like the following magazine cover?
Sorry, but that shit bothers me. I work in a creative field and know a lot of very good real writers. But I am guessing you get what you pay for, do you have a link to your 2$ essays?[/quote]
Not an article that needs to be written from scratch; I was referring to rewrites only.
And BTW there are plenty of people in India that speak the English language more proficiently than many English speakers I know.
Buy $2000 of meat, $1000 in booze, $7000 on red.
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]challer1 wrote:
Are you guys kidding? $6.50 article is great pay for someone in the Philippines. At that rate you could easily hire someone with specialized knowledge and an advanced degree - you would never know the article was even written by someone overseas.
The average engineer only makes $5,000 US in the Philippines. You can get a nice apartment in a major city for $200 a month there - I am sure many people on this board would be happy to write an article a day for free rent at a decent place.
Also, at that rate you can even hire people in the US, so I am not sure what you are all in an uproar over. An article only takes 20-25 minutes to write if you are knowledgeable on the topic and have any sort of typing skills. I am sure there are plenty of people on this board who are reading this right now who would be very happy to make $13-$18 an hour given that you can roll out of bed and get a few hours of work in your underwear on an otherwise laid back Sunday morning. Honestly, you would be pressed to even find someone who wants to pay $6.50 an article!
I actually know of a retired school teacher who lives out in the country in North Carolina who I have hired a few times. She says she writes about 2-3 articles an hour and works about 10 hours a week. The extra $500 a month or so goes a long way to supplement her income since she is retired. Hardly slave labor.
There are also tons of expats who have chosen to live a slow-paced lifestyle in getaways like Costa Rica where the cost of living is very low. They can work a few hours a day as a freelance writer for $5-$7 an article and live the stress free lifestyle have have been seeking with no problem at all.
OP seemed to be asking for some unusual ways to invest money, so I figured I would share what I would do.[/quote]
Um…yeah, I pay $15-50 an article and charge about the same. $6.50 an hour is a rip off even the most basic 300 word part-time poster wouldn’t even look at, sorry.
The point is I, as well it seems others, like to pull good/great writers out of the wood workers for writing. The drastic difference between the results of a job offering at 6.50 an hour and that of $15-50 an article is immense towards hirer quality.[/quote]
Unless you are working with 20+ articles per day and hiring out of the country than we are not on the same page or operating under the same business model.
Sure, if you have a business and need to get a newsletter drafted or some kind of promotional piece, pay them $50 a page. If you are having sales copy written, pay $200 a page.
However, I am talking about putting together an info-based website; I don’t care if it’s funny or loaded with colloquial puns and I am not willing to pay 3-8x the going rate for a good article as long as it’s accurate, reads well, and is useful for the user. I can easily get what I need for a fraction of the cost… so why wouldn’t I?
Think about what I am suggesting more like the local newspaper. The paper for my county pays its staff writer’s like 25k a year. It’s an entry level job. They aren’t going to win the Pulitzer prize but at it’s readable and they do a decent job. The people reading the paper get what they are looking for - local news. They don’t care that they aren’t reading the NY Times and are happy to take it for what it is.
As an more recognizable example, AOL.com’s business plan recently leaked and their writers are expected to get done 10 news articles per day and then work on static content. I think they are expecting an upwards of 15 pieces of content to get done per day. This amounts to something like 9-10 dollars an article and this is being done for a multi-billion dollar company. According to alexa, AOL is the 16th most popular site in the united states (and no, AOL’s dwindling subscription list could not ever possibly hope to make the site 16th in the US), so people (to the tunes of millions per day) are logging on and enjoying these “cheap” content.
I did not mean to turn this into a flame-fest, merely giving an investment option that is unusual and very much hands on. Anyone with a few thousand bucks on hand can start a really nice hobby site… why not get it jump started by using an overseas writer. You can then work on it in your free time and if you work hard enough you can build for yourself a real business with a tenth of the investment a normal business would require.
Buy precious metals.
I have about 12000 to play with and just began investing yesterday. I put 3000 in a Dividend Fund (80 shares), 2400 in a Gold ETF (80 shares) and 1400 in a Silver ETF (60 shares). The other half I will bet more aggressively if opportunities arise.
Really sucks to buy Gold and Silver when they’re as expensive as they’ve ever been (my account wasn’t yet operational during the correction in price last month $#%#!) but even if they fall hard it’s just an excuse to buy more before the next spike.
[quote]OsakaNate wrote:
So, over the years I’ve been living in Japan, I’ve been saving money for a goal that, unfortunately, did not come to fruition.
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What goal?
Finding a middle school girl with D-cup breasts to spank you with a Hello-Kitty paddle?
Easy. If you have any oustanding debt with any kind of interest rate, pay that off. If you don’t, open an account where you gain some sort of interest. You could do this online, ING is offering around 1% I think.
Or, blow it. It feels good to do that, trust me. It feels horrible like a year later when you realize you could have done a lot with it though lol
open a forex account, learn a little bit about it, sell oil now in a few weeks when the middle east settles down buy it.
Yes i did type that correctly, sell before you buy and eventually when you buy, you net the differance.
Before jan25 (egypt kicked off) oil was circa $90 a barrel bow its pushing $120.
$10,000 x 100 leverage which you can get with most trading accounts would of given you $1,000,000 of money to buy and sell oil.
Around 11,000 barrels x $30 profit… you do the math…