Money

[ryan_d_sucks 0]

Money is a hard thing to come by. I used to just scrape by, do an odd job here and there when I needed to finance something. I'm a full time student, so that shit takes the majority of my time. But now that I've gotten into skydiving I've found that I need lots of money, and I need it comming in regularly. So I applied all kinds of places around town and finally about a month ago got a job at Subway making shit sandwiches. My boss is a drag queen (seriously) and a general douche (true).

As much as the job sucks, today I got my first paycheck and I was stoked to go pick it up because I knew I had about 40 hours, so it should be a decent chunk of change. The thing is they never told me how much per hour I was making. I asked a few times but they said "it depends" and shit like that . So I pick up the check, and after taxes walked away with $161. Shitty. The pay rate is $6.00 per hour, and after taxes translates into a cool $5.33 per hour . Damn! I can't help but laugh a little bit.. I'm glad I'm only trying to finance recreation with it.

So, its off to the plasma bank to bleed twice a week for $60, and then to the psych building to be a test subject in the paid experiments. What a bummer! The experiment I'm signed up for next week tests your ability to select the correct word and image combination, but for incorrect answers punishes you with an electric shock.

The point of my long ramble on here is: I'm broke and I like skydiving a lot. What more besides work at Subgay, sell plasma, and be a psychology guinea pig can I do for some extra cash? And no prostitution isn't an option for me (my drag queen boss at subway honestly tried to convince me to be a 'topper', seriously) Have any of you done any similar funny things to raise jump cash?

Take it easy.

[normiss 905]

Sling dope at the DZ on weekends???


Find something other than fast food industry or retail...go work at a real restaurant and you will probably be better off. And hopefully less one drag queen as well.

[livendive 8]

Learn to pack. A buck a minute while you're working should finance a few jumps.

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

[countzero 7]

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go work at a real restaurant and you will probably be better off.

too true, back in my waiting tables days i made loads of cash. too bad i wasn't a jumper then and blew most of it on partying.

you could become a packer at your DZ.

diamonds are a dawgs best friend

[karenmeal 0]

Learn to pack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was my part-time college job for over 3 years until I hurt my knee and had to quit. It allowed me to pay all of my bills (except for tuition), skydive some and live fairly comfortably. I probably averaged working around 20 hours a week.

One thing that is nice about packing, the harder you work, the more money you make.

"Life is a temporary victory over the causes which induce death." - Sylvester Graham

[ryan_d_sucks 0]

Wow..! I definately have been considering the whole packing thing. I introduced it to some of our packers at my home DZ and they told me once I learn to pack I can definatley join on and pack for cash. The only thing is we are a smaller dropzone and its not always terribly busy. Wed-Friday we're only open from like 4pm-sunset, and all day sat and sunday. We're a small cessna operation. And I think the going rate for pack jobs is 4 for SL rig, 5 for tandem, and between 4-8 for someone's personal rig. What do you guys make for packing a rig?

I am definatley thinking about canning the subway shit and trying to get on at a real restaurant.

[Spatula 0]

Just curious, but why would you accept a job without knowing what the pay rate is? Seems like something you'd discuss in the interview.

Regardless, jobs that pay a decent hourly rate are out there you just have to look harded. If your near a mall, go apply at your favoirte stores (plus you get a discount). If you like being outside, apply to landscpaing companys to be a cutter (mowing lawns on a crew). If you like working with food, be a server at a decent chain resturant (Outback, Roadhouse, etc..). Servers there make decent cash.

If your DZ isn't the biggest operation and packing won't garnish the funds your after, well...find something else. There's always a better job out there (part time or fulltime) if you look hard enough.