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Originally Posted by Dilman  I'm 13, and I'm wondering when is the best age to start doing stuff for money, and what kind of stuff to do. Like blogs, or just a job, what has good pay.. etc. |
I think you have a tremendous advantage in learning how to make some money now. Many people put off learning about how to make money until after high school... until after college... then maybe they go to graduate school and put off learning how to make money until after graduate school... and they live with a fear, maybe not a big fear, but a fear none the less, that they won't be able to make money. Or that they won't be able to get a job. Or that making money will be really hard. Or that the only job they'll be able to find is one that is unpleasant. And living with this fear, it's hard to make good decisions. They may make "safe" choices, when it would have turned out that making money wasn't that hard.
So learning how to make money is tremendously freeing.
To make money, you do something that someone else wants. For example, someone wants their lawn mowed. You mow their lawn, and they give you money.
The
trick, the
secret, is to find something that other people want that you
enjoy doing.
When you enjoy your work, it's easy to do. You do it a lot. You work hard, and you don't mind. And when you do it a lot, you get good at it. And when you are good at something, and you work hard, people will pay you a lot of money.
The second trick, the second secret, is to get paid for what
you get done. For example, let's suppose you enjoyed mowing lawns. Now, I don't know if that's true for you really. You could be thinking, "yeah! Kind of fun!", or maybe, "yuck". But let's imagine, for the sake of argument, that you like mowing lawns. Now you could go to someone and say "please pay me $X per hour for mowing your lawn". Now they don't know how long you're going to take, or how hard you will work, or if you're any good at mowing lawns. So they might say, "OK, I'll pay you $3 an hour to mow my lawn". But if instead you said, "I'll mow your lawn for $40", now they have no worries. It doesn't matter to them if maybe you'll be really slow or lazy or something, they still only need to pay you $40 when the job is done. If you wiz through that lawn in an hour, you'll be making $40 / hour! Wow! (third trick: offer to mow smaller lawns
)
Mowing lawns is just an example. It all depends on what you enjoy doing, that someone else wants. Maybe it's installing software. Maybe it's showing someone how to blog who doesn't know how to blog. The same principle applies. You can say, "I'll show you how to blog for $20", and you'll be making good money.