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Work, Repair some stuff for family and friends and ask some money for the jobs and I buy some used hardware and build computers and sell them with a llittle profit.

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This is aimed for at people around my age, that can't get a job yet. I'm 15 and I babysit my little sister for money. What do you guys do?

I mow my huge lawn for quite a bit of money and I wash my parent's cars.
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Save up money for 2 years by doing yardwork

I know that feel. Before my sister was born I hard to do hard manual labor for money.

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I repair/build computers for people. Just yesterday I made $100 for going to a local business and connecting their new computers to the office's network and drives.

Easy for me, looks like magic to them :D.

How do you get people to know you do that kind of stuff? I would love to do that but I don't know how.

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Magic...

 

At least that's what I call it... I cut expenses on transportation and food (from an already measly ~20USD(converted) a week) to save up... No time to work (damned tertiary education system)...

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CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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My job

Case: Phanteks Evolve X with ITX mount  cpu: Ryzen 3900X 4.35ghz all cores Motherboard: MSI X570 Unify gpu: EVGA 1070 SC  psu: Phanteks revolt x 1200W Memory: 64GB Kingston Hyper X oc'd to 3600mhz ssd: Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB ITX System CPU: 4670k  Motherboard: some cheap asus h87 Ram: 16gb corsair vengeance 1600mhz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

 

 

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+1 for AMorassOfPixelz suggestion. Best way is to start offering to help people you know, that's what I used to do. Local businesses might not want a 15 year old working on their computers but neighbors sure will.

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How do you get people to know you do that kind of stuff? I would love to do that but I don't know how.

I have a site

Www.10khelp.weebly.com

And I advertise on local ad boards, on some websites, and we have a thing in Vermont called Front Porch Forum, which is basically a neighborhood forum, so I post to that every few weeks. I don't get a ton of business, but $50 or $100 two, three times a month never hurts.

I'm looking into getting a job at the local Apple retailer soon :D (sadly, Vermont gets no official Apple Store love).

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+1 for AMorassOfPixelz suggestion. Best way is to start offering to help people you know, that's what I used to do. Local businesses might not want a 15 year old working on their computers but neighbors sure will.

 

I earned 5USD (converted) for cleaning up and optimizing a neighbor's notebook... Can't charge too high since it'll scare off the customers...

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CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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Well I'm not sure what the barrier of entry to the workforce is there.

 

When I was 15 I was living out of home and working full time. Before that I'd been working cash in hand at a takeaway shop since I was like 12. Look around, you will most likely find something you can do and get paid for.

 

If you can babysit your sister, offer your services as a baby sitter to the wider community perhaps. 

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I earned 5USD (converted) for cleaning up and optimizing a neighbor's notebook... Can't charge too high since it'll scare off the customers...

I installed Photoshop on my sisters friends computer. Wasn't gonna ask for money, but she gave me $20 for it.

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 Game Consoles:

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Softmodded Fat PS2 w/ 80GB HDD, and a Dreamcast.

 

If you want my attention quote my post, or tag me. If you don't use PCPartPicker I will ignore your build.

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Well I'm not sure what the barrier of entry to the workforce is there.

 

When I was 15 I was living out of home and working full time. Before that I'd been working cash in hand at a takeaway shop since I was like 12. Look around, you will most likely find something you can do and get paid for.

 

If you can babysit your sister, offer your services as a baby sitter to the wider community perhaps. 

I babysit right after I get out of school 5 days a week. At that rate if I do anymore I won't have time to play with my new components. But in the U.S. you have to be 16 to get a job legally, and even then it's very difficult.

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Intel Core i3-5005U, 8GB RAM, Crucial MX 100 128GB, Touch-Screen, Intel 7260 WiFi/Bluetooth card.

 Phone:

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TruPureX, Asus Zenwatch 3.

 Game Consoles:

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Softmodded Fat PS2 w/ 80GB HDD, and a Dreamcast.

 

If you want my attention quote my post, or tag me. If you don't use PCPartPicker I will ignore your build.

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Just save money, don't spend ...

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I have job

Motherboard - Gigabyte P67A-UD5 Processor - Intel Core i7-2600K RAM - G.Skill Ripjaws @1600 8GB Graphics Cards  - MSI and EVGA GeForce GTX 580 SLI PSU - Cooler Master Silent Pro 1,000w SSD - OCZ Vertex 3 120GB x2 HDD - WD Caviar Black 1TB Case - Corsair Obsidian 600D Audio - Asus Xonar DG


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Just save money, don't spend ...

I'm fine with money, I'm just curious how everyone else my age gets money for their components.

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Intel Core i3-5005U, 8GB RAM, Crucial MX 100 128GB, Touch-Screen, Intel 7260 WiFi/Bluetooth card.

 Phone:

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TruPureX, Asus Zenwatch 3.

 Game Consoles:

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Softmodded Fat PS2 w/ 80GB HDD, and a Dreamcast.

 

If you want my attention quote my post, or tag me. If you don't use PCPartPicker I will ignore your build.

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I'm fine with money, I'm just curious how everyone else my age gets money for their components.

 

At your age I was just collecting money I didn't spend when I was 14.. at age of 15 I got to a point I got enough, and bought myself a new cpu, mb, etc... to boost up BF3 performance :x.... Well, I couldn't stay with a crappy PC.

 

Now Im 17... I still am saving the same way for a new GPU i want.. (Uhm... GTX 980)....

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I installed Photoshop on my sisters friends computer. Wasn't gonna ask for money, but she gave me $20 for it.

 

Lucky... Considering the local economy is keeping my fees low... I'd have charged 5USD an hour for labor plus a 5USD diagnostic fee if I could... It'll also scare off my customers...

Mutsuki:

CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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Lucky... Considering the local economy is keeping my fees low... I'd have charged 5USD an hour for labor plus a 5USD diagnostic fee if I could... It'll also scare off my customers...

Man that must suck. At least you've got customers though ;).

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Intel Core i3-5005U, 8GB RAM, Crucial MX 100 128GB, Touch-Screen, Intel 7260 WiFi/Bluetooth card.

 Phone:

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TruPureX, Asus Zenwatch 3.

 Game Consoles:

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Softmodded Fat PS2 w/ 80GB HDD, and a Dreamcast.

 

If you want my attention quote my post, or tag me. If you don't use PCPartPicker I will ignore your build.

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I got my job when i was 15 and unfortunately im still there 4 years later. Get paid twice as much as i did when i started though and get to talk shit to managers and tell people what to do which is nice.

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I earned 5USD (converted) for cleaning up and optimizing a neighbor's notebook... Can't charge too high since it'll scare off the customers...

5 bucks here will buy you a cheeseburger or something, charge atleast 20, 20 bucks is still like nothing but it actually adds up after a while 

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5 bucks here will buy you a cheeseburger or something, charge atleast 20, 20 bucks is still like nothing but it actually adds up after a while 

 

I'll scare off my customers... I charge really low since I'm in a low-income neighborhood... The fixes don't cost too much too... I charge slightly higher if I'm working with higher-income brackets...

I'm also trying to undercut a lot of repair shops around here... Like SST... They charge 40USD for diagnostics plus a 10USD per hour labor plus parts and software fees (even though some software are free)... Not to mention the long repair times (changing out a fan can take as long as two months last time I asked), crappy warranty terms, and possible invasion of privacy...

Mutsuki:

CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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