How to make money?

[ykdadamaja]

Serious question, folks: Have you ever put any thought into how to make money? Or at the very least generate considerably more earning power and revenue than you currently are?

What are some of the ideas you have that could shed some light on things. Or, what are you doing now that we can help with guiding you to better earning power?

Right now, for me, I have a public relations company. Not sure how to go about getting clients. I also have an online magazine, its new so I don't charge subscriptions. I do, however, run two contests- a short story contest and a poetry contest- that is a pay to enter contest. I am in my third year running both, but it has not been as lucrative as I thought it would be. I thought I would have been getting at least 300 entrants- at least 300 entrants.

The contests are geared towards Caribbean and Central American people of their respective diaspora's- meaning, they could be living in the UK, US or Canada and still apply once the can prove their lineage to the region. So far, they have not been yielding as much revenue as I envisioned. What am I doing wrong?

I also run a music competition that I raise money from sponsors for. Other than that, what else can my measly little PR company do? How do I take advantage of the information superhighway and make more money?

My mind is open to suggestions and comments.

[Master]

Use the social media more, twitter, tik tok, facebook etc?

Use VR and AI?

I have no idea what I am talking about as I am old.

[ykdadamaja]

Use the social media more, twitter, tik tok, facebook etc?

Use VR and AI?

I have no idea what I am talking about as I am old.

lol. ok

[Kirkland Laing]

There doesn't seem to be anywhere perfect to post this and I can't be bothered to start a thread but if anybody out there is thinking about going to college to do a degree in something like law or accountancy or similar then maybe think about becoming a plumber or an electrician. Something that involves working with your hands:

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...11014936698881

The first twitter message has been half deleted but it was saying that one of these AI bots can now get a hundred percent on MIT entrance exams.

and

https://twitter.com/semafor/status/1661413046185590786



Pretty soon there are going to be computers doing infinite amounts of legal, accounting and similar work for free around the clock. Maybe a few years, maybe a decade but it's coming and it's going to devastate the white collar economy.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

There doesn't seem to be anywhere perfect to post this and I can't be bothered to start a thread but if anybody out there is thinking about going to college to do a degree in something like law or accountancy or similar then maybe think about becoming a plumber or an electrician. Something that involves working with your hands:

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...11014936698881

The first twitter message has been half deleted but it was saying that one of these AI bots can now get a hundred percent on MIT entrance exams.

and

https://twitter.com/semafor/status/1661413046185590786



Pretty soon there are going to be computers doing infinite amounts of legal, accounting and similar work for free around the clock. Maybe a few years, maybe a decade but it's coming and it's going to devastate the white collar economy.

Absolutely 100% true. I think we were so a barrel of crap in the 1980s and the 1990s about going to college. I went and got my bachelor's degree from Rutgers and then I went and got my masters degree from Thunderbird, and no matter how many resumes I sent out or how much networking I tried to do, I could not find a good connection with a Fortune 500 company in which I can start to earn $75,000 per year end up. I was confined to clerical jobs at anywhere from 12 to 15 dollars an hour from 1990 all the way through until 2007. When you have to pay your rent every month and you live in an expensive place like New York City, you don't have time to really do a lot of career shifting or go back to school. Nobody is there to help you and you just struggle through and grind and trudge through with these low paying menial clerical jobs.

Much better to learn to be an electrician or a welder or a plumber or things like that. Even a CDL license and be a truck driver. Nowadays I'm not sure but back then you would make a killing and you could retire by now. But what about mechanic? You could be a diesel mechanic or airplane mechanic. You can even go to police academy and become a police officer and a cushy little Anglo-Saxon town with no crime in northern New Jersey like in Bergen county, and they started you out with about 75,000 per year and after 20 years you retire with a full pension at the age of let's say 38.

I guess University used to lead to good jobs back in the 1940s and 1950s and 1960s and even 1970s, but unless you're going for something really specific and lucrative like ceramic engineering or petroleum engineering, or you're going to law school, you should pretty much forget about University. It would be much better if you simply started buying and selling houses when you were 21 years old.

[greynotsoold]

Sell drugs, or rob people that do.