If you had your current skills but were starting from scratch, in that you couldn't use any existing stuff you've built or any of your connections, and had exactly 7 days until your cash ran out completely, what would you do?
Fun thought experiment, if I had to absolutely make money in 168hrs:<p>- Buy drugs from darknet rush shipping and go to sktechy area, sell for 50% markup while trying not to get robbed. Look for local customers on reddit, nightclubs, parties, college campuses, etc.<p>- Sex-work, apparently even men can make decent money camming for other dudes<p>- Pan-handling<p>- Get a job at local chipotle/mcdonalds/etc, would be interesting to see how fast you could get a paycheck<p>- Try to get some contract work for software on fiverr<p>It ain't much, but it's honest work
I would buy something semi-expensive from Amazon, lie to them that someone stole it, get a refund and then resell it to someone else.<p>I would sign up for the most profitable affiliate program, get a friend to sign up for something with free trials, cancel it, and then get a commission. I would ask multiple friends to do this in exchange for a split of the money.<p>I would spam Redditors with affiliate links in threads where they are looking for recommendations to buy something.<p>All shady stuff that wouldn’t benefit me in the long term but hey, you said I got 7 days to make $$$.
Sell everything that’s not nailed down.<p>There’s no good, legal way to make a living in 7 days. Manual labor can get you quick cash, but not much, and depend where you live you may have a lot of competition for unskilled labor.
I’d probably haunt expired domains websites, buy one that looked promising, update it w new content, then try to sell it. And repeat until I either had real money or went broke.
> If you had your current skills, but were starting from scratch, and had exactly 7 days until your cash ran out completely, what would you do?<p>Nothing special? Use my credit card, perhaps be late on a few bills until my next salary payment. Or if your premise is that I don't have a job either, then the same thing but for a bit longer until I find one.<p>I feel like the title and the text inside don't match - I don't get why starting from zero means that you need to make money fast.
Some places pay for plasma donation.<p>Day labor.<p>Sell your stuff.<p>Hustle people at something you're good at.<p>Not making money, but if you need money then a loan or charity.<p>Otherwise it's mostly illicit stuff for fast cash.
Sell belongings online at places like eBay, Amazon, Craigslist (or equivalent), Facebook market place. Take on short term loans/debt from banks, lenders, friends, family to get a cash base. Use that to buy and sell something, e.g. could BBQ food or make coffee to sell to people, at an event or crowded places.