1001 Ways to Make Money If You Dare (95 page)

587 HIRE OUT YOUR JOB-SEARCH SKILLS.
With people being laid off left and right, they need help finding new jobs. If you're at the computer most of the day anyways, you can make a few quick searches for customers.

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588 BUY AND SELL ART.
You know the difference between a master who painted a beautiful abstraction and an “artist” who threw paint with no direction. Congratulations — you meet the qualifications of being an art dealer (as long as you also have a handle on an inflated sense of self-worth). Go to open galleries and search online for undiscovered talent that art aficionados will love.

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589 DAY TRADE.
Buy low; sell high; trade regularly. It's never been easier to act as your very own stock broker. You can use the Internet to keep track of your stocks as well as buy and sell when the timing's right. (You do however need a handle on what you're doing — otherwise you'll be losing money rather than making it.) A little tip for you: Campbell's soup stock didn't drop when the stock market plummeted.

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590 PARTICIPATE IN THE CURRENCY EXCHANGE.
With this roller coaster ride of a global economy providing ups and downs and enough corkscrews to make you barf, you should consider cleaning up by trading currencies. You need to keep on top of which country's coin is plunging or rising.

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591 BUY PENNY STOCKS.
You wasted your money on a huge level by trusting the shady business practices of Wall Street, so now what do you do? You invest in low-investment penny stocks. Just watch out for fraud because, after all, you are dealing with stockbrokers.

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592 WORK AS A PERSONAL STYLIST.
If you obsessively watch
What Not to Wear
and constantly advise your friends on their hair, makeup, and wardrobe decisions (and you're right), this is the job for you. Look for job listings online or just charge your friends for making them look smoking hot.

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