Thread: Tell Me How to Make Money as a 16 Year Old!

You could start some small, temporary business doing something. What are your talents?

invest in the stock market.

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

You could start some small, temporary business doing something. What are your talents?

Actually, this is a possibility. My Dad owns 2 or 3 businesses and he and his brothers have sold 3 or 4 others, so he could help me.

And I've talked to him about helping me make concerts or music festivals. You reminded me of this Mes, thanks! I'm going to talk to him later about it.

Most of my other talents go into sports like skating, wakeboaring, and snowboarding; or music. Most of this money will be to advance in my music, and the sports are kind of not available right now.

Originally Posted by Pyrofan1

invest in the stock market.

Too young, and you need money to start with. With the little money that I have right now, I wouldn't want to gamble it on the stock market.

if your ankle wasn't busted i would tell you to compete in tournaments that offer cash prizes.

Cool! Glad I could remind you of that! What with your family's experience, you seem to already have a bit of an advantage.

First, tell them you're 18.

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Cool! Glad I could remind you of that! What with your family's experience, you seem to already have a bit of an advantage.

I brought it up to my Dad a bit ago, and he was kind of reluctant because he's lazy lots of times haha. He said it could be fun though, so I think he'll go for it and help me if he sees that I'm serious about it.

My uncle knows a couple country stars pretty well, and I've met them a couple times, so we could probably get a good hookup with them to play if this really does happen, and they could get more people and get me talking to a label or something with other people. I'm thinking too fast haha.

I think it could happen though.

Originally Posted by Stephent91

Please do not tell me just to get a job. I'm not a dumb ass, and I'll say why many of said jobs aren't possibilities. You can be goofy or whatever, but don't just say get a job or have that kind of mentality.

In other words you want to make money without doing work.

Get a job.

Don't want a job... want steady income... unless you're a programming whiz or a poker pro, you're probably going to have to resort theft.

sell your soul on e-bay!

Yeah. You need to get a job. I'm 16. I have a job.

I have a steady income. Do it fortuhlulz

It didn't sound to me that Stephen is refusing to work. I think he just wants a more specific solution than the advice "get a job."

I don't know of much that a 16-year old can do to make that kind of money in a short amount of time. Maybe the first thing I'd do is ask my parents for a "matching grant." That is, if you go to work, they will pay you for each dollar you make. They might be willing to contribute some if they see you are trying in a serious effort.

As to what sort of job to take, you'd be very lucky to get something that made much more than minimum wage without prior experience. Perhaps you could learn to design websites, and advertise that service cheaply.

Another route: Maybe you've got some valuable comics or other items you can sell?

Get a job


Well, eh, apart from that, I don't know any quick ways, to get $7000. That's a whole lot of money, and unless you plan to win the lottery, I don't see any fast ways. Would at least take a year with an ordinary job, where you limit all your other money using.

I'm sorry to say but getting a job really is the best option for you. Not all jobs require you to be active....

I have been working since I was 14 - and in education till 20 so it can be done.

Other than that, learn poker, and fast! I make quite a nice amount on the side from poker

I've earned about the amount you need, in a year, so it is possible. It sucks to know, that the first year of money you'll make, you'll have to just give away. How did you get to owe all this money?

Why does everyone always only propose perfectly law abiding and stereotypical ways?

You could learn a skill of some sort and either get a job doing it or be self-employed doing it.
You could become skilled in stealing and thievery and get the money that way.
You could blackmail someone, you could form intricate plans for tricking others into surrendering their wealth over to you in some manner or another and so on and so forth.

The possibilities are endless. Both good and evil. Don't fall victim to conditioning.

But, aye, as can be seen from above, to attain money you need some sort of skill that is valuable to others or yourself at least. Then you can use it to achieve your goals, including wealth.

Because if he hasn't got the balls to get a job, and somehow got to owe a whopping $7000 to different people, we don't expect him to be smart enough to do that.

No offense, but in order to get into your situation, one has to be pretty dumb, or just very unlucky.

Or both.

Strip.

do a barrel roll!

Call radio stations all day every day and try to win money.

Push awesome drugs that are legal but not well known. Don't sell anything illegal. Narcs are everywhere.

Sit on a street corner, play a guitar, and have a hat by you for people to put money in. You only need to learn one song. You have downtown Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio to work with, and of course New Orleans has the French Quarter, but you will have fierce competition in the Quarter. You could give your driver a cut every day you go.

Have a bake sale.

Open up an amusement activity for people to do, such as one of those inflatable things kids jump up and down in or a merry go round.

Bet people they cannot eat two pieces of bread in under two minutes without drinking anything. You will win every time even though it seems like you would lose every time. Always propose it by asking people how fast they think they can eat two pieces of bread.

If you are a good salesman, get a job in sales in which you can get a commission. There are jobs where you can do that on the phone.

Open up a year round haunted house.

Get your parents to pay the $7,000?

Originally Posted by skysaw

It didn't sound to me that Stephen is refusing to work. I think he just wants a more specific solution than the advice "get a job."

Thank you! That pretty much says what I need to say.

I don't refuse work, but lots of jobs either aren't available because of my injury, don't pay near enough or I am too young. Such as the exact thing I've said in the first post.

Marvo, I'm not in any debt. I did get into an accident that a bit under a thousand that I have to pay my Dad back, but the rest is for music and other things that I want to buy in the near future.

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

Bet people they cannot eat two pieces of bread in under two minutes without drinking anything. You will win every time even though it seems like you would lose every time. Always propose it by asking people how fast they think they can eat two pieces of bread.

I love doing this to people.

It also works with 6 saltines, but they have to be saltines.

Sorry... had to go for a bit so I didn't get to write more than the above post...

Anyways...

Please read the first post carefully before you ridicule. It's annoying. Maybe I didn't word it right, but I think that I said that I never expected any get rich quick schemes or easy money schemes that don't require work. I'll definitely work, and the past 3 jobs I've gone to apply for turned out to be 18+ only. Like I said, most other jobs wouldn't pay near enough to get me the ammount of money I want (not for debt, Marvo ). Like I said, I don't expect some overnight thing, I would want this money to come over a period of about a year and a half to 2 years.

Just looking for any ideas that are a bit outside the average or whatever.

For poker, I play it a lot, but my parents won't let me put money online and there's very few people that I know that play regularly. I try to enforce it, but people don't like risking very much money regularly. Somebody was going to put money onto a full tilt or pokerstars account for me, but we haven't done it yet.

That's a really good idea, skysaw, the matching grant! I'll definitely pitch that to them. Don't really know if they'd go for it, but it'd be worth a shot right?

Thank you for giving so many ideas Universal Mind. Legal drugs would be good probably, there's definitely a great market for it and I would be the only person selling them; and I've heard that the average hobo makes over $20 an hour, so playing guitar could be very rewarding hahaha.

My parents wouldn't pay the $7000. Since I owe some of it to my Dad for the wreck and I want the rest to pay for instruments. I could possibly get them to pay a little bit, but I don't know.

Aren't those called... telemarketers?

And finally, I can't do a barrel roll because I'm on crutches.

Just find a job. If they're not paying you enough, complain to some kind of job-unit fairness thing.