Making Money On-line

I agree that this is a hobby, nobody can't count on this money for paying bills. I call it fun money.

@Rollo1 You are so right, this is not work, it is not a place where you are paid for your writing skills. But it is fun, and there are some very good writers here on myLot that are also writing elsewhere and getting paid work.

@marlina It is fun money in every sense of the word. It is fun doing what causes the money to grow. It is fun when you get the money that grew while you were having fun lol...

@Jessicalynnt You are so right Jessa writing especially good writing is hard work and you have to make sure your facts are right. I think that you, because you actually are a writer, will stand a much better chance of making good money self publishing. At least that way you get to choose your subject matter. E-books have opened doors that in the past only publishers could open for us.

@maggs224 I think about it, and then never go anywhere with it, maybe this year I will do something with my NANWRIMO novel.

@Jessicalynnt One thing is for sure Jessa if you don't try, you will not find out. Who knows you might be the next J. K. Rowling just sitting on a best seller. After all, a NANWRIMO novel deserves to see the light of day after all the effort that goes into writing one.

@maggs224 That is so true. I am wise to the sites that say you can make rediculous amounts of money. They certainly are scams, yet they say they are legit.Yea, right. You would be surprised though how many people fall for those scams.

@rosekiss Often people are desperate and clutch at any straw they can find. It is sad that these get rich quick and easy schemes prey on people who are in desperate circumstances :(

@rosekiss There are a lot of scams out there all telling you how to make ridiculous amounts money for doing nothing. When you find a reliable site that does what it says it will, you are wise to stick with that site.

@sherryeb I couldn't agree more Sherrye it is a great place to find all those things.

Great place to interact with others, learn, have fun and get advice...

@maggs224 And since I like icing on my cake, I guess I am at the right place.

@marlina That is why I am glad that I have not come to myLot to make money but to enjoy myself. The fact that the site's owners give us a share of the revenue they make is like icing on the cake.

@marlina It certainly sounds like you have found the right place Marie :D

@maggs224 indeed, such occurs here 's well. i contacted our local food bank the other day 'n they said their shelves were barren . the shelters 're strugglin' 's well 's donations 've plummeted, the demand 'n need so high. i'm workin' to see what i can do to remedy such. folks think they've gotta donate a large quantity to such 'n so they don't donate 't all sadly. they don't seem to realize that e'en a bag 'f beans 'n sack 'f taters could go far fer a family.

@maggs224 i've the wonders if'n they don't start such sites 'n offer such high 'pay-outs' jest to tempt those kinda folks - then realize the err they've caused?

@crazyhorseladycx I forgot to say, I agree with you those who were talking the loudest were those who did the ten posts a day about whether the sun was shining or what they had for breakfast. For many of those people it was the first time that they had ever posted something on-line. You know what they say, if something seems to be too good to be true... Having seen other sites start off the same way as Bubblews only to crash and burn, it was clear that it was only a matter of time before the Bubblew bubble was bound to burst.

@maggs224 I have a full-time job. I do this for some fun and relaxation. I do wish I could earn just a little bit better here as I would like some extra cash to get my debts paid down... but I just enjoy my time instead of worrying about how much I'm earning. The earning is just a bonus.

@katsmeow1213 ...lol No I am not advocating that you get out your begging bowl and hit the streets. I am just saying that you have to invest a lot of time here for very little monetary reward. But if you come on here for the fun you have interacting with others from all over the world, then the rewards are quite high, just not in cash.

@katsmeow1213 When you do that you are winner on both fronts. When you are not fixating on the bank total but enjoying the interaction the bank total will not be your focus. So you be able to concentrate on relaxing and enjoying the interactions on myLot more. With your focus on enjoying yourself you will not be getting frustrated by the speed or lack of speed of the money total in the bank. I think you made the right choice and so you get two bonuses fun and money lol

@maggs224 To those famous people, their fame is a resource of fortune. Any time they need money, they could just sell such resource and get a lot of money. It seems so good, but we ordinary people lack such resource.

@Simon1223 You are quite right Simon, if you were rich and famous people would be falling all over you to get you to do a piece for them. Many celebrities make quite a lot of money selling their stories.

@Simon1223 But neither do we have a lot of the problems that come with being rich and famous either. When I look at the lives of many of the rich and famous I would not exchange mine for theirs.

@maggs224 I didn't know that, I thought Canada, Australia and the UK could also. Bummer.

@rebelann SWAGBUCKS and a lot of others like it are fine if you live in the USA. Many only accept USA citizens :(

@rebelann You are right some do accept other English speaking countries too. Bubblews changed the rules two or three times regarding none English speaking locations. First it was a longer waiting period for us, which came and went, then it was each redeem would be individually looked at. For me, this resulted in three redemptions not being paid. I was born and educated in the UK I have a good command of the English language so I thought that I was discriminated against unfairly. I am under $5 away from a redemption, but I think I will not see that one either.

@maggs224 It was done as a prank, when I was in college. It seems a long time now. You won't believe, we posted the details of it in a local daily and, thoroughly regaled the staff of that newspaper while we were there.

@gregario888 I don't think that it is something that I could do, and I seriously hope that no-one finds themselves in a situation where they have to do this to put food on their table.

@gregario888 Our universities in the UK used to have what they call rag week. Rag week is where they do silly stuff and and publish a rag magazine and they raise a lot of money for charity. Rag week use to be very popular in the city where I lived. Our local university held a big parade during Rag week which ended up in the Market Square in the city centre. I am not sure they hold Rag weeks as much these days as they did in the past. It was all good natured fun back in the fifties and sixties.

@maggs224 You are right, so many people have double jobs and they cannot still arrive at the end of the months. This is so sad, in a sense we lived better in the past.

@LadyDuck It is a sad state of affairs Anna it seems that there is no satisfying the greed of the 1% so I doubt that things will change much until they are forced to.

@LadyDuck I agree Anna, social sites like Bubblews and myLot are not our employers and we do not earn a fee based on the quality or content of our writing . I think that there are very few people who enjoy sitting with a begging bowl. Most people would prefer to work for a living and get paid enough to live on. Sadly many today hold down more than one job and still do not have enough to live on. Just look at how many food banks have sprung up in so called first world countries since the recession started.

@maggs224 That's great about your cobbler, he sounds more like our local harness maker. It's good to patronise those sort of people.

@jaboUK The quality of his workmanship is incredible, and he charges so little we can hardly believe it at times. We invariably end up paying him more than he asks for because we just can't take at the price he says. As you might guess he gets a lot of business from the locals too.

@jaboUK You are so right Janet, if making money is your object then the return on your time spent is pitiful. Even on this site the time you need to actually spend interacting in order to make $10 is humongous. I like dropping in and interacting, but if I didn't I would not spend my time here. One thing you learn as you get older is that time is far more precious than money. I know we need money to live in today's society but even that is beginning to change. A lot more people are giving up the rat race and trying to live off the grid. Going back to bartering their skill, time, talents and produce for things they need. Where I can, I support the small local businesses. I am delighted to say that where I have gone small and local I have ended up doing myself a favour. I take all sorts of things over to our cobbler, he has done all sorts of altering and mending. It seems if you can tell him what you want he will figure out a way to do it. Bags, belts, dog harnesses you name it and he has fixed it better than the original.

@maggs224 In my lifetime I have had 8 books published wrote numerous newspaper and magazine articles, had 3 columns for a few years--if I had written to make money I wouldn't have been a waiter for 38 years thought I loved being one!!

@GreatMartin It seems like you have and are living a very eventful life and making the most of the moment :D

@GreatMartin I have not done an on-line survey, but some friends have done them. I think that many writers write for the same reasons you do :D

@CollegeQueen When we lived in the UK I know that when e-bay first started up my husband was able to make quite a lot of money there. It is not so easy here in Spain as things do not work the same here and the postal service, at least in the part of Spain I live in, is not reliable enough or cheap enough to make e-bay a viable proposition.

@arthurchappell It certainly did Arthur I got around $600 before the bubble burst which was very nice to have indeed. Plus I had a lot of fun too :D

@maggs224 Agree. they want to get more work done for low cost. and they keep on changing the specs. and this is because they want more work done for low cost. it happens with every freelance job.

@skysnap You are so right, I think they focus too much on the first syllable of the word freelance lol...

@skysnap I have also found that clients often have no idea how much work goes into the jobs that they give you. Clients give you a brief for a job and when you give them what they ask for, they often change their mind. The client will often then ask for what they think of as minor changes that are anything but minor, especially when 3D photo realistic drawings are involved.

@maggs224 I agree. It's kind of like a win win situation.

@simone10 I think that if we treat sites like this as fun then we will get far more out of them. If you are having fun interacting then you are fun to interact with. So while having fun you are more likely to generate more views and comments and thereby the money will grow faster.

@Sheilamarie78 You are quite right the on-line market is filled with people trying to make money from their writing. But I am glad to say that there are still good freelance writers who are making money by writing on-line.

@sherryeb I think that reason we can remember this kind of thing is because it is the exception rather than the rule. Most beggars on our streets are not picked up in fancy cars and they are struggling just to put food on the table.

@simpleliving3251120 I think the same as you Amy a little extra money is always helpful :D