[AIM9X]

Hello world? No one's gonna help?

[Dukat_Reloaded]

Hi, find regular work such as mcdonalds, work 40 hours aweek there, work at burger king for another 40 hours and you'll have a nice amount of $$$$ comming in. In your off time download some microsoft msce courses, after you have learn't the material and are scoring well in the practice tests, you can spend $100 and take msce certifaction tests and starting jobs for people with these qualifications are generally high.

You can make alot of money working hard or having good luck.

[emersonbiggins]

14 lanes, 80 signal cycle changes per hour, 8 hours a day, possibly up to 40,000 "window shoppers" per day - you do the math. What you "sell" is up to you...

[AIM9X]

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14 lanes, 80 signal cycle changes per hour, 8 hours a day, possibly up to 40,000 "window shoppers" per day - you do the math. What you "sell" is up to you...

[emersonbiggins]

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14 lanes, 80 signal cycle changes per hour, 8 hours a day, possibly up to 40,000 "window shoppers" per day - you do the math. What you "sell" is up to you...

[Dreamtwister]

If you want to get rich like the big boys, you have to do what the big boys did - steal it.

That, or strike oil.

[clover]

Rob a bank.

[Jogger]

If you were female you could have gone to work in a Nevada brothel. Nevada, the only state in the United States where selling sex is legal, could have given you your fortune!

[Vexed]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')e: HELP! I wanna get rich quick!

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AIM9X', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mekrob', 'F')ind a way to go to college, get a degree in geophysics and become a reservoir or petroleum engineer. Starting salaries are 80 k for B's and 100k for Master's. But in that 4-5 year span it takes to get your degree, it's likely to go up to 120-150 spread for the two. That's a quick buck (those are the starting salaries )

[AIM9X]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('clover', 'R')ob a bank.

[AIM9X]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mekrob', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AIM9X', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mekrob', 'F')ind a way to go to college, get a degree in geophysics and become a reservoir or petroleum engineer. Starting salaries are 80 k for B's and 100k for Master's. But in that 4-5 year span it takes to get your degree, it's likely to go up to 120-150 spread for the two. That's a quick buck (those are the starting salaries )

[AIM9X]

Jogger, Dreamtwister, emersonbiggins, Vexed

When the SHit Hits the Fan (and even a few years BEFORE it does)
the situation will get worse and worse, Panhandlers will get
COMPETITION! If you think other people won't have thought of the
same idea then you are fooling yourself. People always go for
the easy quick get rich methods, (like real estate) and
it nevers works real good because then there is to much competition.

Jogger, even if I was a female and could work as a prostitute, you are
forgetting one thing. When the shit really hits, thousands of hot females in Vegas will starve, even prudes will hit the streets giving
sex for money. BUT when shit really hits, the MALES won't even have
enough money to EAT, so do you really think they will still pay the high rate for sex? And even if they DID, the influx of SO MUCH EXTRA
females will be too much supply to little demand, and price per screwing will definetly go DOWN, way DOWN. But in the meantime, price of oil, water, food, everything will go WAY UP, so that won't even
earn anyone a living anymore! NOT A GOOD IDEA!!!!


Vexed, I see more and more people doing that EVERYDAY!
So say after post peak and everyone and their dog writes
a a series of books on how to get rich quick, WHO's gonna
buy them? Exactly! No ONE!

Guys, Mekrob is the only one in here that gave me some good sound advice. I get the feeling most of you are just joking and poking fun at me, esp that person that told me to go rob a bank

[PrairieMule]

Stand back I'm going on a rant..

I think it is possible to build wealth in a hard crash scenario. For the last 12 years outside my normal day job I have focused my efforts in real estate, land management and will eventually agriculture (Cattle). I may crow a lot about the family ranch but if a nuke turns it into a glass crater, I got options.

In fact I have no assets in a 401k or stocks. It's all in Commercial and agriculturally zoned land but NOT residential properties(rent houses). Folks, there is a heck of a lot of opportunities in the future if you could muster 5-10 grand over the next 5 years. It's not a complete answer but it adds up to a partial solution. I'm into select harvesting timber management (not clear cutting) , leasing land for hunting or recreation, and I have 30yr lease on a cell phone tower to Cingular. $100 here a $100 there, all reinvested in land or a fund to buy cattle. I think the big winners in a hard crash will be the land owners, farmers, merchants and tradesmen.

Little things add up, and little by little I feel better, almost-optimistic... Maybe because of that fact I can have a sense of humor in the face of doom. Just look at posters like Ludi, Pops, Nik, Spec, EB, Smallpox, shanny, turtle and way to many others to name: these are average folks creating solutions AND they are willing to share knowledge freely on the internet.

Speaking as a conservative baptist white male, I'm at the point now where I could care less where you are politically . We are going to have bigger problems than tax credits, school vouchers, prayer in school,or other issues that have divided this country to the left and the right. All I care about now is:ARE YOU AWARE? Getting our heads out of our asses is half the solution, If you are on this website you are amongst the few who actually can have a decent shot in a hard crash.

[AIM9X]

While oil will run out some day, it will not be within our lifetime, nor will the desire and need for it. Nor will the need for those capable of exploiting the resource. Other than farmer and other techs (alt. energy and the sort), petro/reservoir engineer is one of the only professions that will have (close to) 100% employment.


Mekrob, after re-re-reading your last post I got another concern I'd like to address.

You see, there are a lot of people in this world, a lot of SMART people.
So if YOU see what is happening, you can bet almost millions of others in America see it too! (even if only 1% of the US population see what is happening, that is STILL 3 MILLION PEOPLE!) and when everyone and there dog see's jobs like Petro Eng bring in lots of hard cash while jobs like Computer Science or Doctors and Lawyers, and Businessman doesn't pay for crap anymore, EVERYONE and their Mother will clamour around for an Oil, Farming, Alt Energy JOB! Last Night I had a dream and in the dream MSM Openly and publicly announced the validity of PEAK OIL. The point is this Mekrob, when SHIT HIT THE FAN everyone will suddenly know about Peak Oil, and even if they don't everyone will certainly know which jobs pay the best and go for them (even the stupidest people in the world are good at following where the MONEY goes!!)

So when that happens, there will be a SURPLUS of Oil engineers (just like in the dot-com bust there was a SURPLUS of computer people and they got all laid off or salary cut big time) so the demand will naturally taper off and the pay will certaintly not be as high as a result.

So I ask seriously Mekrob, do you really think this is a good career path for the next 10-15 years? (ie from 2007-2020)?

Thanks!

[Dreamtwister]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AIM9X', 'I') get the feeling most of you are just joking and poking fun at me, esp that person that told me to go rob a bank

[clover]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AIM9X', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('clover', 'R')ob a bank.

[Anjorni]

Well, even IF 3 million people were to pick up on the job, they wont be doing it for another 2 or 3 years, which at that point, you'd already be well into your engineering education (hopefully where the company has been paying for you - therefore has a vested interest in YOU). And if you can really get into gear (18 units/semester, summer/winter courses) and be done in 3 years (hey - my wife did) you will already be in the industry at the height of salaries, and even one year @ 80k is still 80 friggin k.

Aside from the salary you have already earned, you will have a leg up on ALL the others, as you will have EXPERIENCE and if you're good at what u do, the company would be a fool to let you go.

or

lets say you do get your salary slashed.... wouldnt 30/40 K be better than zero?

In the meantime, while you have been working in the field, making ur 80k, you can choose to keep your lifestyle the way it is, with low overhead, and all the extra money you'd be brining in could go to building a sustainable life, or at least stockpiling essentials away to help you ride out the really serious part of the dieoff...

it's still a helluva lot better than being on welfare when TSHTF!

As an aside - a lot of those ppl laid off during the dot com bust were busters - the ones who really knew what they were doing either didnt get laid off, or they were picked up elsewhere, and now are excelling in their careers. So it's not all for naut when/if you get laid off.

If I were in your shoes, I'd be looking for a job on a rig right about now.

-Good Luck

[Vexed]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'V')exed, I see more and more people doing that EVERYDAY!
So say after post peak and everyone and their dog writes
a a series of books on how to get rich quick, WHO's gonna
buy them? Exactly! No ONE!

[AIM9X]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Anjorni', 'W')ell, even IF 3 million people were to pick up on the job, they wont be doing it for another 2 or 3 years, which at that point, you'd already be well into your engineering education (hopefully where the company has been paying for you - therefore has a vested interest in YOU). And if you can really get into gear (18 units/semester, summer/winter courses) and be done in 3 years (hey - my wife did) you will already be in the industry at the height of salaries, and even one year @ 80k is still 80 friggin k.

Aside from the salary you have already earned, you will have a leg up on ALL the others, as you will have EXPERIENCE and if you're good at what u do, the company would be a fool to let you go.

or

lets say you do get your salary slashed.... wouldnt 30/40 K be better than zero?

In the meantime, while you have been working in the field, making ur 80k, you can choose to keep your lifestyle the way it is, with low overhead, and all the extra money you'd be brining in could go to building a sustainable life, or at least stockpiling essentials away to help you ride out the really serious part of the dieoff...

it's still a helluva lot better than being on welfare when TSHTF!

As an aside - a lot of those ppl laid off during the dot com bust were busters - the ones who really knew what they were doing either didnt get laid off, or they were picked up elsewhere, and now are excelling in their careers. So it's not all for naut when/if you get laid off.

If I were in your shoes, I'd be looking for a job on a rig right about now.

-Good Luck