My current specs are:
Pentium 4 2.40 GHz
376MB RAM
Intel integrated 82845G<p>I've been using this PC for the past 10 years. The only games I can run are outdated and I've played them tonnes of times. I can now hardly run current games like minecraft (playing for 6 months) and warband. It has become increasingly frustating now.<p>So, HN please help me buy myself a gaming PC. I'm all for online jobs recommendations but being in a non-US country has made it very difficult. I've tried most of the programs but all of them were unsuccessful. My goal is to get $200-$300.
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2818128" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2818128</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3958812" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3958812</a><p>how did you go from being 14 to being 16 in less than a year?<p>Very fishy
There's a great deal of fairly unskilled work available on oDesk - copy editing, transcription, basic web design and so on. Odesk have their own system of skills tests, so you can assess your own abilities and demonstrate them to prospective employers.<p>Pay is generally quite low because of the competition from workers in low-income countries, but if you make the effort to develop good relationships with clients and earn good feedback you could easily make several hundred dollars a month in your spare time.
I wrote this blog post, and just to see what would happen I turned the book links into Amazon affiliate links. I made $291.99.<p><a href="http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/leaving_academia.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/leaving_academia.html</a>
Try to win a few projects on <a href="https://www.elance.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.elance.com</a> or other freelance sites. Bid only the minimum price if the project isn't too large (until you get more experience and projects under your belt on the site).<p>There's also <a href="http://fiverr.com" rel="nofollow">http://fiverr.com</a>, and you can sell almost any type of service you can think about for $5. Check the ones that already exist for inspiration.