Need help getting my son started {unemployed}

[Yakamoto]

Please do not post "negative" comments, like...."Tell him to get a real job...etc. etc" {Believe me, we tried}

Sorry, but to be honest, these kind of "negative" comments are the most realistic suggestion.
Your son really need to understand that he can't be relying on his parents forever...

Yeah, but he can lean on him for a bit. Which I`m sure majority 90% in america already do.

Exactly.

[Fearless]

Well actually, If he can't find what to do on his own, studies are the only option to get education and work. Suggestions wont really help If he can't think It out what to do on his own he'll get stuck on even smallest obstacles that always occur in life. Only doing everything on his own he can understand what he is doing and the solutions to the problems that occur.

[Virtual Exchange]

Please do not post "negative" comments, like...."Tell him to get a real job...etc. etc" {Believe me, we tried}

Sorry, but to be honest, these kind of "negative" comments are the most realistic suggestion.
Your son really need to understand that he can't be relying on his parents forever...

Yeah this is true. Like I said post an ad on craigslist saying you're hardworking and have been job hunting but all applications are online so it's not really up to skill level just past job experience, education, etc. I posted an ad and got 4-5 legitimate responses within one day.

If you can't find some way to make a living he's going to be eventually homeless. Or you being in debt from paying all his bills. There's a lot of resources out there for finding work and making money you just have to find and use them. Tell him to work on building some stuff or refurbishing furniture and re-selling it, you can make some good money from that. Buy an old wooden entertainment center for $50, refurbish it, and sell it for $200+.

His son is in a wheelchair and they are in Africa. I doubt Craigslist even exist in many of the African countries and even if something similar existed it isn't that effective like you think.

Under those circumstances I would just say save up enough money to fly to America, we will help you out if you can't work. If you guys live in Africa I'm sure there's a lot of stuff that's native to your territory. Go out and get it or buy it and re-sell it online for profit. You can sell it anywhere, Bitcointalk, eBay, any site that has a marketplace.

[makebitcoin]

Your best bet is getting him on the forum to get paid per post for signature space or if he has some kind of skill to sell his time for bitcoins. He could also try to set up a shop with bitcoin, but in that case you might as well accept cash also.

[Kprawn]

Some people just jump into the middle of a thread and read 1 or 2 posts and then spill their minds.

Read the whole thread and then comment constructively.

We as parents are not doing EVERYTHING for him, look in previous posts, he is delivering pizza's and getting into other people's trash to collect cans
to sell for money.... !!

We just want him, to do something in the house, where he is safe and he can make some extra income, instead of being in the sun all day, going
through people's trash.

But he wants to do something and we did not intervene.

We just, did not have any other alternative, but to ask for help.

Anyways, thanks to the people, with positive and workable solutions.

On the signature issue... Yea it does help to get people "active" in threads, where they would normally, not have commented.

[Flashman]

Another little secret about something that might be thrown out and can somewhat easily be repaired and resold when you know the trick ...

NiCad and NiMh rechargable battery packs are commonly made out of standard sized individual cells which might be, C, sub C, AA, 2/3AA 1/2 AA, N etc sized cells. They are common for power tools, portable phones (of the household type) radios and many other devices.

What usually happens when they "die" is that one individual cell has gone bad inside the pack, either completely dead or voltage reversed. This means that if you get several similar packs, they can be stripped apart and the dead cells replaced with good cells from another pack. For say a 3.6V three cell pack in a portable phone, 3 discarded packs should make 2 good ones, because they each probably have 2 good cells each. Cells must be matched for type (NiCad/NiMh) and capacity (in mAh usually)

Here's some sources about power tool packs, the principles are the same.

http://makezine.com/2007/08/31/repacking-nicd-battery-pa/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtOS5evrqrQ

The guy in the video is using new cells, but cells tested good from other packs can be used.

[loewen.brad]

If he hasn't done it already, have your son sign up here and post listings for small odd jobs in the Services section of the forum (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0). Many users here are willing to pay a few dollars (for just a few minutes of work) to have someone post advertisements and such to their facebook page and various other social networking sites. Another thing he can do is to sign up at sites like coinad.com that offer referral programs. The more people that sign up under him and use the service, the more money he'll make. I personally have 89 referrals on coinad and that brings in about $2-3/month. I know that may not sound like much, but once I spread my referral link, I haven't done a thing but sit back and collect. I haven't even clicked on a single ad in maybe three months. Earnings potential is limitless with coinad. The more referrals you get signed up under you, the more money you'll make. With enough referrals, you could potentially be bringing in several hundred dollars per month for doing nothing but spreading a single link. Speaking of... here's that referral link I speak of. https://coinad.com/?r=NIOXAYF0QCSFJGN

[Kprawn]

Just a little update.

He is currently subscribed and registered to a lot of these "click" ad sites, and earning some coins.

He is still delivering pizza's and collecting cans.

He constantly sends out emails to all his friends, to get referrals and also help them to register on some of these sites. {He still believe, if he has enough referrals, he will have a constant income stream}

He also subscribed to one of those sites, that pays you for your photo's, but they have not excepted any of his photo's as yet. {quality and content issues} 

He is also taking apart lithium batteries from friends, in an attempt to "repair" them, and then to sell them.

So he is taking your advice seriously.

Any other ideas and suggestions are welcome.

[Yakamoto]

Just a little update.

He is currently subscribed and registered to a lot of these "click" ad sites, and earning some coins.

He is still delivering pizza's and collecting cans.

He constantly sends out emails to all his friends, to get referrals and also help them to register on some of these sites. {He still believe, if he has enough referrals, he will have a constant income stream}

He also subscribed to one of those sites, that pays you for your photo's, but they have not excepted any of his photo's as yet. {quality and content issues} 

He is also taking apart lithium batteries from friends, in an attempt to "repair" them, and then to sell them.

So he is taking your advice seriously.

Any other ideas and suggestions are welcome.

This is good. Referrals will be beneficial.

Photos will always take time to master, but I'm sure he can start mastering it soon enough.

How much research has he done on the lithium batteries? I wouldn't jump right on that unless I had done some serious research and practiced as much as I could. I guess he is getting the practice, though.

Good luck with rest, and if he wants, have him send me some PMs with referrals. I'd gladly help!

[Flashman]

Well good luck with the lithiums, I had thought most of them were monolithic (One lump, made to fit) but I guess there's some that are made to fit compartments that also take ordinary batteries.

[techgeek]

Has he looked into doing fiverr gigs?

Elance or other freelance work?

Or anything else online related?

Its pretty simple to make english testimonial videos and upload them.

The more immediate profit, can be buying something off clearance and re-selling it.

[iopq]

I suggest this:

1. Use gimp to make funny images about dogecoin
2. Post on http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/ your image
3. People tip you if they like it

you can make a dollar or so if people like your funny doge image

[Acidyo]

He could make a decent income by having a signature of sites that pay for your post amount while using their signature. But most want you to at least be member status. Maybe you can contact one of those and show them this thread and they may let your son slip this time and he could make a minimum amount of btc per post with his lower activity.

[FredDag]

Just a little update.

He is currently subscribed and registered to a lot of these "click" ad sites, and earning some coins.

He is still delivering pizza's and collecting cans.

He constantly sends out emails to all his friends, to get referrals and also help them to register on some of these sites. {He still believe, if he has enough referrals, he will have a constant income stream}

He also subscribed to one of those sites, that pays you for your photo's, but they have not excepted any of his photo's as yet. {quality and content issues}  

He is also taking apart lithium batteries from friends, in an attempt to "repair" them, and then to sell them.

So he is taking your advice seriously.

Any other ideas and suggestions are welcome.

Hi there.

What has been working alright for me recently is taking advantage of the wave of "Free IPO" alternative crypto currency launches. There seem to be a few every week at the moment ( A3Coin, PIXX, SMURF ) which distribute the currency 100% free at launch to users who have registered. These are generally 100% POS (proof of stake) currencies which do not require any mining.
These free coins can then be dumped on exchanges at launch for a quick profit, or held for sale later in hopes of a greater profit.... all depending on how the holder sees the prospects of the currency.

For anyone familiar enough with the crypto currency scene, there are always bounties offered for writing articles & blog posts, just reed the [ANN] OP's.
Plus I have seen quite a few writing jobs advertised recently on site like elance, looking for writers on crypto currency topics.

Hope this helps.

[alani123]

I suggest this:

1. Use gimp to make funny images about dogecoin
2. Post on http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/ your image
3. People tip you if they like it

you can make a dollar or so if people like your funny doge image

Not sure if serious or not. I can't help but laugh when I think of what you mentioned as a full time job.  

On a serious note though, freelance article writting is pretty easy. There are plenty of bitcoin related news websites currently looking for writers! It easy to get started into writing this way.

What has been working alright for me recently is taking advantage of the wave of "Free IPO" alternative crypto currency launches. There seem to be a few every week at the moment ( A3Coin, PIXX, SMURF ) which distribute the currency 100% free at launch to users who have registered.

Care to mention how much you've made this way?

[FredDag]

What has been working alright for me recently is taking advantage of the wave of "Free IPO" alternative crypto currency launches. There seem to be a few every week at the moment ( A3Coin, PIXX, SMURF ) which distribute the currency 100% free at launch to users who have registered.

Care to mention how much you've made this way?

In the last 2 weeks I have made about 0.1 BTC directly from selling coins received through Free IPOs.
By trading in other coins with that profit I have easily doubled that since then.
So I would guestimate about 0.2 - 0.3 BTC total in the last couple of weeks.  Hard to say exactly as it is all currently reinvested.
It's not alot, but would easily be a few $$$ a day, and it is interesting learning experience.

The coins in my signature are there as part of qualifying to receive more F-IPO.

[mrhelpful]

I suggest this:

1. Use gimp to make funny images about dogecoin
2. Post on http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/ your image
3. People tip you if they like it

you can make a dollar or so if people like your funny doge image

Not sure if serious or not. I can't help but laugh when I think of what you mentioned as a full time job.  

On a serious note though, freelance article writting is pretty easy. There are plenty of bitcoin related news websites currently looking for writers! It easy to get started into writing this way.

What has been working alright for me recently is taking advantage of the wave of "Free IPO" alternative crypto currency launches. There seem to be a few every week at the moment ( A3Coin, PIXX, SMURF ) which distribute the currency 100% free at launch to users who have registered.

Care to mention how much you've made this way?

The gimp attempt, is just a marketing play which can get possible tips if its funny enough I`m sure.

It can be taken seriously, if the person did this a weekly thing or daily, that has a constant good premise similar how a article is written.

But then it would be more of a comic strip, which I`d tell the person to head towards.

As for the comment on IPO thing, I doubt this person will explain anything lol. Anything that good happens stays within them of knowing it since they did the hard bull crap lifting of making it work for them.

No free lunches.

[Kprawn]

Hi, I would surely want to investigate the Free IPOs suggestion from MrHelpful.

Can you point me to a noobie thread or possibly start a thread on this, to explain in more detail, what must be done?

My son have followed most of the advice on this thread sofar, and it helps to keep him positive for the future.

Thanks so much.

[Spearmint]

Get him to register on this site and after a few weeks he can join a paid signature campaign. He'd earn alot more than $1 a day doing this provided his posts are meaningful and helpful to others.

[giantkin]

Get him to register on this site and after a few weeks he can join a paid signature campaign. He'd earn alot more than $1 a day doing this provided his posts are meaningful and helpful to others.

thats been mentioned 3 or 4 times...just in this thread.

Read the entire thing before you post.