Make exactly $39
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Get laid, make money. I just need one.
I make that in an hour of work. So... keep doing what I'm doing?
Even if I didn't make that at my normal job, or it was non-business hours when I can't just go to work for money, I feel like $40 in 3 hours is pretty doable with just gig work (grocery/restaurant delivery, Uber).
Sell some stocks I guess.
Unless you mean my net worth has to go up $40? In which case, I'll probably look for someone who would be willing to pay me $40 ahead of time to teach them some machine learning over some negotiable span of time. Or to build a website or something. There are lots of businesses in the area that could use it, and $40 is insanely cheap for something like that.
sell a joke to my family for $40.
Ask my friends to transfer money real quick.
Get a loan from the local loan shark.
Go to the roulette table at the casino. Bet it all on 32.
Lose my bet.
Go back to the local loan shark for $40.
Bet the $40 at the roulette table.
Lose.
Repeat until either I get the money to pay the loan shark and save my family. Or I gues it's RIP for my family and my kneecaps.
Easy. Sell a gun on FB Marketplace for a ridiculously low asking price. It would sell faster than I would be banned.
Time to get into sex work.
I don't have anything I could sell that quickly, even.
Was my first thought tbh.
Sell my car to the next person who walks by, I guess.
But I'll hint to them (family) strongly that I won't be selling two cars, so they need to get less explodey.
Run to the neighbours and try to sell some DVDs
Depends how you define "make"
If standard pay from job is too late, then I'd sell a CSP or CC from my brokerage account and I technically "made" the premium
If that's not urgent enough, take some jewelry to a pawn shop and hock it
Um...my job?
Right? 3 hours is $288. Any other families that need not exploding?
Go to work for an hour
Take my bottles to the depot
Ask a buddy to spot me 40
Sell a couple things
… check my bank account?
$40 isn’t that much money…
40 dollars? That's all? I'm salaried and can work any hours I want to, so I guess I'm logging in at work and writing a few lines of code or answering some emails.
Twenty minutes will do it. Probably round it up to half an hour just to be safe. And honestly, if I get into the zone, an hour will fly by, easy.
Twenty minutes will do it. Probably round it up to half an hour just to be safe. And honestly, if I get into the zone, an hour will fly by, easy.
Sorry family. I got into the flow at work. Oops about that.
Can't I just take $40 out of my wallet?
Just pick up a shift at work.
I would just ask my brother to give me $40. I think he would probably do that to avoid exploding.
This is the winner in my book
Start suckin and fuckin 🫡
Grab all the canned stuff I made at home, and either just ask my mother to buy all them for 40 (a family member can pay me, right?) or convince the family friend who loves the candied jalapeños to buy them.
Damn that sucks, all y'all unemployed?
I open my laptop and answer about six emails.
You can answer SIX whole emails in three hours?
damn that's like a full day for me.
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Donating plasma only takes about an hour
Go to a cash dispenser
Can you grab some for me, too, while you're there?
Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.
Needless to say I'm not too fond of my family...
Sit on my ass. Maybe play a video game.
Fuckers.
am I already scheduled for a shift? I make that hourly.
So $13.33/h?
That's less than £10 which I believe would be below minimum wage in my country, so basically any job would do it
Assuming you get your paycheck either weekly or monthly, you won't have $40 after 3 hours through, even if you did $40 worth of work.
make $40
Doesn't say you have to acquire it personally.
what about "make" as in "create"
everyone's family explodes in this thread
Break out the crayons.
Or the HP ink-jet and hope your print heads don't need cleaning (they do).
I could suck one dick and have $60 to get my family dinner after their ordeal.
You guys are getting paid?
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I scroll on my phone for a bit and call it a day.
Hop on the Uber hamster wheel again. And again. And again.
Explain the situation to my family and sell them stuff.
I just hope they can scrounge up the $10,000 between them.
Before or after tax?
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