How I earned $6,517. This is a true story. :)

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Hello everyone! I've been around MyLot for quite sometime for extra money making reasons, and I'm pretty well aware that a lot of us here for the same purpose. I thought of sharing what I've been up to for the past 2 weeks, and gladly share, without purpose of bragging, how I was able to earn $6,517. I'm just really glad that this happened to me. :) So just a background of me and my background (you may skip this part if you want since I'm pretty much aware that my life is a bit boring). I've been really patient as well as hard working when it comes to earning extra bucks. I just graduated from college this March and since I plan to get a job 2 or 3 months from now, I decided to explore various means of money making just to get a few extra bucks to sustain my lifestyle and give my family a little bit of stuff. I'm an average post-teen-pre-yuppie girl, who enjoys doing a couple of things like eating out and traveling with my family, grabbing coffee... things like that -- and yes, it can be pretty costly. To be honest, I'm from a pretty average family, but my dad is the only one who works, and so far he is able to make ends meet. We are 5 in the family (and I am the eldest) and what he earns is what sustains us, our need and our wants. Sadly, my mom has cancer, and her medicine and laboratory exams cost a lot. Since I don't want to add to the burden of having to ask money from them, I try to earn it on my own. I also don't know how much time my mom has left. She loves traveling, and I thought that it would be great for us to travel abroad before her time comes. But she always tell us that the traveling expenses might as well go to her medicine, and the food we eat. That made me cry so I decided to earn the money by myself. That has been my primary motivation to earn. So yeah, this is probably the part where my online money making comes in. I thought it will be easy, and the money would come in fast but it didn't. Just recently my mom has been released from being sponsored by this certain pharmaceutical company. Hence, we have to pay for all her medicines, check-ups, hospital bills to ourself. I realized I didn't have enough time so I decided to explore another avenue to earn, so I decided to try the stock market. I decided to handle old stocks, like really prehistoric ones even older than me. She said it would be useless since our stocks were only worth P0.63 (that's in Philippine pesos, so if you want to convert it to dollars you have to divide it further by 40). But my drive to have my mom and my family travel prevailed, so I decided to sell the stocks, no matter how useless it seemed. I fixed papers for days and days, having to go to various offices to update stock certificates and to submit papers, and having to study stocks and the stock market since I knew very little of it. But yeah, I guess when your reason to earn is for a good purpose, blessings come. I was told that the 18,650 stocks we had that initially worth 0.63 pesos per share has grew to become 14.00 pesos per share. Imagine that. In dollars that's pretty much $0.02 to $0.35. And there, 18,620 shares x $0.35 pretty much makes $6,517 dollars. My mom became really happy with the outcome, so I decided to give her the money with the condition that she spends it on things she wants. She was happy enough and she decided to give me a share for my hard work. And yes, we are gonna travel soon yey! :) So there. That's pretty much my simple story of how I made $6,517. I realized that when one's purpose to earn is for others, the motivation is stronger, and the blessings come in faster. I just want to share my humble story. Many people have said that with a proper goal and mentality, you reach whatever goals or aspirations you have. Mine was simple, and in my young age I am proud to have reached mine and to have given my mom this gift. I don't know if the saying holds true... because in my case, love, genuine purpose and selfless determination is what makes dreams and goals do come true. :) E.