If you needed a bunch of money asap, let’s say you messed up - knocked up a girl and now you have a kid on the way that you’re not even close to being prepared for. Or let’s say a family member suddenly needs a lot of money for some medical treatments. How would you go about raising that money?
Personally I never knew how to make a lot of money or the kind of money to sustain not just myself, but have dependents, and not just survive but thrive. As per the new rules, to try and answer my own question, I guess I’d have to start my own business (I just don’t know what kind or what would sell well) because I just don’t see myself suddenly becoming the CEO at the minimum wage job that I have or getting a good job with the kind of education that I have, which is a shitty humanities degree.
I am doing community college courses to get into healthcare but I realise that any profit from that is years away, and I need the money today.
ExConvictNowMillionaire 3d ago
Affiliate marketing is the only industry that can make you rich overnight. But it's a million times harder than all those gurus sell it to be & one day you might do a 100k a day & the next day you're back to 0. Very uncertain industry
Typo-MAGAshiv Endorsed Contributor 4d ago
1) it's just about impossible to get a ton of money quickly without resorting to criminal activities.
2) what's with the artificial urgency?
Did one of those things happen to you?
In the case of getting a chick pregnant, that's a massive failure to be in control of the birth, and not something where you need a ton of money fast but rather need to brace yourself to shell out a lot of money over many years. After a DNA test, of course.
In the case of the relative needing medical treatment: why is their insurance not handling it? And on the few occasions in which I've dealt with such things as deductibles or partial coverages, the bills don't come until months after the treatment, and they're plenty willing to work with you on payment plans.
So what gives? Do you owe a loan shark or a drug dealer a lot of money, and he's threatening to break your knee caps?
Or do you just have a lack of patience thanks to our culture of instant gratification?
mattyanon Admin 4d ago
It is virtually impossible to make a lot of money quickly.
I don't know what "a lot of money" means, but let's say you mean $25k. $25k represents (very roughly) 1000 hours of work at $25 per hour.
So you have to give something of equivalent value that is worth 1000 hours of work. How the hell are you going to do that in a week or even a month?
Your options in life are:
For most people: just get a job.
For almost everyone else: get a job and work on a side hustle.
ExConvictNowMillionaire 3d ago
Perfect summary
Kloi 6d ago
Go find a factory paying decent wages with unlimited OT, otherwise the trades and soak up 80+ hour weeks.
Factory in my mind would be easier to get into. Trades in my experience to be more tolerable for long hours.
Either way, working that much sucks.
coolsocks00 1 1w ago
Question is why you're into cucked fields like humanities and healthcare. Unless you're a fucking god of music with a burning passion for jamming and making an actual boatload of money, or becoming a doctor or surgeon, the rest is total horseshit. Whoever is guiding or even allowing young men to casually enter these fields of study should be slapped repeatedly. With exceptions.
The essentials is that you need to be solving problems, to the highest bidder and for the least amount of work so you can do more of it. For most of us who arent extremely entrepreneurial, flexible and able to jockey between multiple disciplines, that means acquiring a set of hard skills to use in one competitive market. And then working your ass off for many years until you're ready to lead divisions, companies, or whatever you wanna do.
If i were to make these kinds of decisions now, i'd spend more time doing actual research on what is going to pay off the fastest. Instead of just starting off in a general direction. I would want to find a few fields where i can see several tangible positions each that are high earning, interesting and varied, and with a clear route to take to get there. Reverse engineer them and make decisions based on that. Literally i would do cold calls to people in these industries and positions and get their take on it.
Edit: for the "need the money today" part, while that is a silly statement, the answer is still probably gonna be in doing direct sales. There's a huge learning curve there too, but it's one area where simply being resilient and hard nosed will get you pretty far. And for good reason; it's not comfortable.
AbusiveFather1 1w ago
I was orphaned at a young age so I had to kind of figure things out on my own, but also was a bit of a hooligan growing up and didn’t care about my future and just got into trouble a lot. I got a full ride scholarship for a humanities degree and it was either that or stay in an environment which would facilitate my departure to prison.
And healthcare I picked because of the job security, (what I thought was) potentially good salary, and because I genuinely like medicine, and also because engineering and programming doesn’t appeal to me (dealing with college level math and staring into a screen all day).
I arrived in America only a few years ago so without any connections I thought that healthcare was a nice path for a nobody to have at least a middle class lifestyle. Now I realise that I need more than a middle class salary to truly respect myself and be respected by others, including women.
P.S. I’ve been taking nursing and med school prerequisites for the past year. I’m now nearly finished with the nursing prerequisites, so I’ve arrived at a crossroads - apply to nursing school and get in potentially next year (2026), or finish up med school prereqs and maybe (not guaranteed, or not as sure as nursing) get into a med school hopefully in 2-3 years. Thing is, I’m turning 30 next year, and I’m already pretty insecure about my current status and lack of money, I imagine that feeling will be exacerbated if I’m 35, still in school, still living with roommates and still driving a rust bucket.
Redpillpusher 1w ago
Because of the fact that respect is important to you & your age, I would suggest that you choose med school over nursing. Male nurses are inherently & sometimes subconsciously respected at low levels, esp. if you compare a male nurse to a male doctor. Many women look down on male nurses, regardless of the money they make. Trust that if you & a female you're intimate with get into an argument & she's somewhat trashy, low-class, etc. one of the 1st thing she'll use to attack you is your occupation as a nurse. The 2nd reason I suggest med. school is your age. I'm 35 in med school & will finish in 1.5-2 years. Being in a highly professional field (medicine, law, engineering, etc.) is the only thing that excuses you from being that old & not established financially & not having children. Imagine if you're 32 with a regular job & no kids. You're not necessarily a loser but status wise you're not commanding the respect you desire. I should have been a doctor years ago but without getting into it, I made the wrong people my enemies at my former school & had to find another school willing to finally take me w/all my credits. Anyway, if you're a 32 year old med. student, you still command respect from others despite your age because they know you have much potential.
MrSupreme 1w ago
Not from the US. I saw some video a while ago documenting how some guys just sell things on amazon or some other online platforms. THey sold deodorants,soap, basic needs stuff and they were very young and making plenty of money. Try to see if it is profitable
derdeutscher 1w ago
Not from US, but only real world answer would be 6 months of oil rig or maritime (cargo or fishing ships).
Forget other youtube/reddit/tiktok bullshit. Quick money does not exist for 99% of us.
No-Stress-Cat 1w ago
Uber, Lyft, Doordash, OnlyFans. You can do it! I believe in you!
cundardunfinished 1w ago
Plenty of successful people with a humanities degree. Get a sales job. If you're a sperger then yea do something to increase your hourly rate to as high as possible, but sales is usually the easiest path the the most money.
Recruiter, software sales, other other big-ticket sales Basically the more what you're selling costs the more money you'll make. Maybe with the exception of residential real estate agents just because it is so oversaturated (not that you can't make money but that it's probably easier with other sales jobs).
Working as a server in a nicer restaurant is a good way to make a living quickly, if the job market is tougher or you got bills to pay today. Anything with tips is a bit of a cheat code in the USA. It can also be enough experience to get a sales job. Some people even make a career out of it in finer restaurants