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Just a few options off the top of my head: 1. Email everyone I've done work for in the past 5 years, promising all of my time on Mondays for the next year to t
by edw519 17y ago
Just a few options off the top of my head:
1. Email everyone I've done work for in the past 5 years, promising all of my time on Mondays for the next year to the highest bidder by 2:00 p.m.
2. Same as #1, but instead of the highest bid, the first $10,000.
3. Same as #2, but $1,000. I will accept all checks received in the next 2 hours. What they will get: free use of my next web service for life.
4. Tell my employer that unless he cuts me a bonus check for $10,000 in the next 2 hours, I quit.
5. Write a one page book, "How I Lost 50 Pounds in 9 Months." Make as many photocopies as possible. Put on a pair of pants twice my size and sell the one page books for a buck a piece in front of McDonald's or the food court at lunch time. (I weigh 150 pounds.)
In all 5 cases, I leverage assets (goodwill & good health) I've already earned in much more than 2 hours.
The $5? For the lunch I eat while my "assets" (hopefully) earn.
- jcl 17y agoBut with several of those options, you take on liabilities that may exceed the money you made. By the same logic, you could use your two hours to get a mortgage on your house. (And the last option sounds like fraud.)
- mediaman 17y agoIndeed, accountants looking at this from an accrual perspective would dispute that he made much money at all.
- PostOnce 17y agoYou always see pictures of guy who are obviously tremendously muscular and who have gained 30lbs of fat for the sole purpose of photographing it and losing it again. The diet ad doesn't say, Hey, unless you have 65lbs of muscle under your flab and are able to devote several hours a day to working out, this 4 week plan/pill isn't going to work.
- fnid 17y agoAnd again, none of these can be done in 2 hours or leverage the $5.
- eli 17y agoThey had 4-5 days to plan before opening the envelope and discovering $5.
- rms 17y agoI've actually thought about writing a diet book. They are the most consistently profitable type of book. They're easy to write because there is a specific outline you follow. Mine would be about how to use meditation to gain control over your food willpower, then generic stuff about eating healthy and the right number of calories. The central tip would be "if you're feeling hungry, go meditate until you are aware that the feeling of hunger exists but you don't have to act on it." I think it could work but don't really want to write it right now.