Where do you get your money?

[Grip72]

Ok, i don't know if this is a weird question or not. But i don't understand where alot of you people get money out the ying yang! LIke some of you will just up and go buy air ride kits, rims, tires, engine mods and exterior mods every now and then. I can see people doing it now and then but it seems ALOT of you guys always have cash on hand to spend 1000-5000 (body kit, paint job, etc). So i'm curious as to if alot of you guys and gals take loans or borrow money or just have everythign paid off and can afford to do it. OR if your parents buy it for you, or if you get deals, or maybe if you do monthly payments. SO TELL ME!!

[SeoulJaGirl]

good question! i'd like to know too... well... i'm still stuck with the same job for another 3 years, but for future reference... i'm still living off of uncle sam. :no:

[sohc_vtec 2NR]

accord 17, i was gonna post the exact same thing...cept ask ppl what their jobs are...well anywho... here's my info..

well i don't have loads of money to go buy a turbo/supercharger...otherwise i would have already but i work as a RESIDENT HELPER in a nursing home. i get paid $7.30/hr (senior in high school, better than flippin' burgers) so i try to manage my money and save it up...but tax is a bi zotch...

[Wren57]

currently Im a sales assistant at Wachovia Securities, I basically do all the work for the stock broker but he gets all the money:mad: . Can't complain though, I get $10/hour and every once in a while some under the table money if I land a big trade;) . Other than that I just save my money and when I do spend it, I spend it wisely and shop around for a good deal and NEVER buy retail!:yes:

ps- Im going to be a freshman in college this fall

[DumbMoFo]

I print my own:cool:

I just save it, but instead of buying things for the car like you mentioned, I spend in on travel and golf things. Oh yeah, I'm a consultant in the pharmaceutical industry.

[Duckydos]

I'm on a BMW forum, and the amount of money that some of those guys have is outragous. There are quite a few people who have no real "job" but still have $50k cars. I think alot of it is rich families.

But me... I worked at supermarket for 2 years bagging groceries. Then, I started college and sponged off my parents until the scholarship money started coming in. Over the summer, I just lived off of savings and charged stuff on the credit card. Now, I am working full time for WalMart Neighborhood Market in the photo department. The pay isn't that great (started at $6.75, should go to $8.25 after my 90 day eval) but I get plenty of hours.

As for right now, I am going to have a $1000+ credit card bill coming in this month, and no real way to pay for it (payroll doesn't get caught up until early August). I might have to borrow some cheese from my parents or just pay the minimum and get raped on the interest.

-Ducky

[Grip72]

shyzer, i guess i am lucky to have had such well paying jobs but for some reason i dont' know WHERE the money goes!?!?!

[93Honda]

one word "government"

[mylittlecivic]

i dont have a job,i need a suga daddy;) j/k Im slacking off for the summer:o

[ebpda9]

i just bought a money printer ;)

seriously i get the stuff cheaper than most of you, and i have a job that's being paid pretty good.

[AzCivic]

pay off your big bills first by paying way more than the minimum(like car bills and crap) not only will you save on interest but you can use that cash every month that you were sending to the bill collector on MODZ!

[GT40FIED]

I only make decent money...but I've had the same job for around 5 years so my reviews are usually good and I get a decent raise fairly regularly (2 or 3 times a year. Plus my company is fairly generous with stocks and I work a shitload of overtime. It sucks ass but you just need to keep your mind focused on whatever it is that money will go towards. It doesn't hurt to do whatever work you can do by yourself and buy good used parts. It just takes time...my car has taken me a good 4 years to get where it is.

[JamieS697]

i have borrowed money in the past for mods but for recent ones i have just saved for a while. Basically spend every dollar on mods aside from car payments insurance etc.

[pimpinprelude]

i build chopper bikes.. 40 bucks a pop.. its good $$ for me...

[Mushroom]

Originally posted by DumbMoFo
Oh yeah, I'm a consultant in the pharmaceutical industry.

So, you're a drug dealer?

Money is relative. I took the money I saved from buying a used civic instead of a new car. :) Seriously though, I'm old with college degrees and a salaried office job... though I have fond memories saving up gas money at $6/hr back in high school.

[ShagginJet]

That's awesome Pimp....

I work for www.vugames.com, Techincal Support. Roughly $13 an hour, lots of OT though. Have to save up for anything. Besides that I frequent junk yards, buy parts there and sell them on ebay. Business is going down though, so many people have jumped on the import bandwaggon. it's crazy.

[thermal]

I'm really bad with money. I make close to $4k a month for being an E-6 in the Navy (11yrs). My civic is paid off, but I have a freaking over $10k loan from creditors and banks combined. I also pay $940 a month on a single bedroom apartment, utilities, insurance, blah blah blah....... overall, I'm strugglin. For the most part, what gets me through is patience. I wait and do long term researches before I buy upgrades for my car. I frequent junkyards like ShagginJet and sell stuff all over the place. I also have some connections who gives me free stuff for helping them work on their car. The best money saver out there is to install your own modification. Labor cost is a biatch!

[Grip72]

yes, labour IS a biotch. I just did my own front brake pads and the total cost was like $55. At the cheapest place in town, they wanted $150 plus taxes. So i saved a shyzer load. There aren't any great junkyards around here for imports. Imports are not very big in my town right now but slowly people are starting to modify them. I would like to frequent a junk yard and sell parts, but our junkyards are EXPENSIVE and i would have no buyers...

[autocrossthugg]

customer service rep for a cell phone carrier. I usually pay for my mods when I get a bonus check. (haven't gotten one in a while);( ;( . I should be getting a raise soon, that will help.

[ShagginJet]

Originally posted by thermalfi'd16
I'm really bad with money. I make close to $4k a month for being an E-6 in the Navy (11yrs). My civic is paid off, but I have a freaking over $10k loan from creditors and banks combined. I also pay $940 a month on a single bedroom apartment, utilities, insurance, blah blah blah....... overall, I'm strugglin.

WTF. I make like $2000 a month, spend about the same on bills and am only just making it cause I blow a good amount on having fun.

[pdiggitydogg]

the worst job ever...school custodian...
now, its alright in the summer...besides washing furniture...but I do a lot of hiding out and my "busy walk" so it looks like i do work. During the yr I clean up after people that etch things into tables, piss on walls, and leave gum in the carpet...oh and teachers that dump coffee in trash cans...wft!? Its about $2k/mo

Other job that I only work once in a while anymore is general construction (drywall and finishing) and demolition...that makes about $13/hr cash

I still dont have enough for tires for my new rotas......

[thermal]

Originally posted by ShagginJet
WTF. I make like $2000 a month, spend about the same on bills and am only just making it cause I blow a good amount on having fun.
he he he... Like I said, I'm really bad with money. But I'm dealing with other issues that are too personal to mention at the moment. I will vent it all out here, once everything is settled....

[ShagginJet]

For 10% I'll help you with your finances. Help show you where it's all going, and what you're doing wrong, and help you make wiser investments. It's only 10% what a small number that is.

[Kyle]

i'm a telemarketer...i really don't make a lot of money at all...but i will be pretty damn soon...
i'll be working 8 AM to 8 PM on the weekdays and 12-4 on saturdays and 12-4 on sundaysfor the next 2 months.
during the weekdays i get 7 payed hours and 4 full commision a day...and saturdays i get 4 payed and 4 full commision...and sundays isall commision...
so after about lets say 3-5 weeks...i'll be raking in the money.

[ShagginJet]

^^ Please take my number off your list.

[Kyle]

lol...we call pennsilvania..that state is like 100% pure SUCK...i want to call florida or something...but my boss won't lt me move into the other office...atleast you've got it down shag...
most of the dumbasses that just hang up....get called back...lol
JUST SO EVERYBODY KNOWS...IF YOU WANT A TELEMARKETER TO STOP CALLING...BE POLITE TO THEM!let them go through their script and then just say kindly to be taken off the list...they will do so right away...
and if they don't...sue their asses!

[thermal]

Originally posted by ShagginJet
For 10% I'll help you with your finances. Help show you where it's all going, and what you're doing wrong, and help you make wiser investments. It's only 10% what a small number that is.
LOL.....

[nonovurbizniz]

I've been un-employed for like 6months...

My wife's mom usually watches our kid but she was supposed to go away right when I lost my job... then she didn't go till may...

So she just got back and I'm probobly going to get a job cooking or fixing cars...

cars if I can get a specialty autojob otherwise it's the kitchen for me... another 120+ degree summer... SWEET.

[sohc_vtec 2NR]

Originally posted by Kyle
IF YOU WANT A TELEMARKETER TO STOP CALLING...BE POLITE TO THEM!let them go through their script and then just say kindly to be taken off the list...they will do so right away...
and if they don't...sue their asses!

that may be the best way, but its fun to mess with telemarketers sometime ;) another thing....is signin' up for that no call list gonna work?

[DumbMoFo]

Originally posted by Mushroom
So, you're a drug dealer?



No, I make it possible for the dealers (field sales reps) to sell more to prescribers, who ultimately write the prescription for whatever ails you.

I provide better physician information and the information that a rep needs to get to see a doctor. The rep provides product information to the physician and takes him/her to dinner and puts together programs for his/her staff. The physician write scrips for that product for you, and you take that drug. You pay for it, and the money goes back into many pockets.

[93Honda]

hehehe, i work in an amusement park, working in food service, i basically run the cash register and prepare your highly overpriced food. It's an okay job, can't do much else since i'm still in school. The perks are that i get free entrance into the water park and amusment park, talk about totally wasting myself on the rides

[Quevv]

Well. I just basically got fired today from my tech support job. My last day is the 31st. So I have to go find another job that pays good and doesn't suck.

I really don't mod my car, I just save up for college.

[thermal]

Originally posted by Quevv
.......... I really don't mod my car, I just save up for college.
Props...... shiet, I can go to college for free but I'm still too lazy to do it. Lots of respect to you :yes:

[m696]

highlander you make 10 somethign an hour, your going to be a freshman and you have a brand spanking new 350z!!! ???

something there dosnt add up

[Wren57]

I didn't buy the car myself nor claim to. It was a gift from my parents and grandparents, with a little bit of help from me. It took me over a year talking to them to convince them I wanted a sports car and that I wouldn't kill myself or anyone else in it. Now I'm enjoying my Z and being safe on the streets. I RARELY street race any more, and when I do its open traffic to only 80 or 90mph, and thats only like 12 seconds... never play through traffic, thats not cool and VERY unsafe...

[get_probed]

yeah, I'm still in college and I dont make shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit at work, I work at a golf course makin 6.25/hr (bout to get a raise though!) so I cant even afford to mod my car (aside from the sound sys) rite now cause I gotta pay for all my food, gas, insurance, phone, blah blah blah........ :no: when school starts tho, time for a lil mod-age with my savings

[Kyle]

Originally posted by sohc_vtec 2NR
that may be the best way, but its fun to mess with telemarketers sometime ;) another thing....is signin' up for that no call list gonna work?
actually...it doesn't effect most telemarketers...just go to the website...i think it's www.donotcall.org but i'm not sure.
Just read what it's all about...it doesn't effect non-profit organizations, surveyers, or phone companies...there might be a few other things too...if people mess with me though...i just **** around with them back...

[GT40FIED]

Surveyers are great cuz you can get free shit from them sometimes. Just ask them what's in it for you if you take their survey. If they say "nothing" just hang up. It sounds shitty but they're taking up your time and getting valueable marketing from it so it's ok. :yes:

[Daviso27]

Originally posted by Kyle
actually...it doesn't effect most telemarketers...just go to the website...i think it's www.donotcall.org but i'm not sure.
Just read what it's all about...it doesn't effect non-profit organizations, surveyers, or phone companies...there might be a few other things too...if people mess with me though...i just **** around with them back...

It will only affect telemarketing companies who you don't already do business with that require paymant over the phone...If the subject of the call does not require any form of payment (during the phone call) by law, it is not considered Telemarketing. It is a "courtesy call"

By the way, Be carefull what you say to a telemarketer...They can use your telephone numer on GOOGLE search to find your address...sh!t they even get a link to mapquest.com showing a map to your home.

I work at a calling center that had an issue. Some guy cursed out a co-worker of mine...Called him the "N" word...and it wasen't "Nizzle for Shizzle", and the kid was Equadorian which made the comment lose it's effectiveness, but never the less the kid got angry...Don't ask me how but the kid found out that the guy lived 30 miles from the office and caught up with th guy and wuped his ass infront of his wife and kids. Anyways they arrested the kid and the guy never knew why he got his ass wuped...

[Kyle]

Originally posted by Daviso27
It will only affect telemarketing companies who you don't already do business with that require paymant over the phone...If the subject of the call does not require any form of payment (during the phone call) by law, it is not considered Telemarketing. It is a "courtesy call"

By the way, Be carefull what you say to a telemarketer...They can use your telephone numer on GOOGLE search to find your address...sh!t they even get a link to mapquest.com showing a map to your home.

I work at a calling center that had an issue. Some guy cursed out a co-worker of mine...Called him the "N" word...and it wasen't "Nizzle for Shizzle", and the kid was Equadorian which made the comment lose it's effectiveness, but never the less the kid got angry...Don't ask me how but the kid found out that the guy lived 30 miles from the office and caught up with th guy and wuped his ass infront of his wife and kids. Anyways they arrested the kid and the guy never knew why he got his ass wuped...
lol, that would happen if we called texas...lol, funny story

[AzCivic]

Originally posted by Daviso27
It will only affect telemarketing companies who you don't already do business with that require paymant over the phone...If the subject of the call does not require any form of payment (during the phone call) by law, it is not considered Telemarketing. It is a "courtesy call"

By the way, Be carefull what you say to a telemarketer...They can use your telephone numer on GOOGLE search to find your address...sh!t they even get a link to mapquest.com showing a map to your home.


look up your # on google then click on the option to have it removed. problem solved.

I'd like to see a telemarketer come to my house, ahahahaha that'd be some funny shit when they took his body away in a bag.

[ohiochica]

i have removed my number about 30 times! it wont disapear for good! wtf!

[AzCivic]

thats weird.

[Kyle]

Originally posted by ohiochica
i have removed my number about 30 times! it wont disapear for good! wtf!
lol...there's more than just 30 telemarketing companies...

[2000Pimpinex]

I am a supervisor for one of the larger airlines in the world and my second job is working part-time at DHL on 3rd shift. I tried the college thing and made it through 3 years but needed some time off. So now I just work 2 jobs and will be turbocharged tomorrow. Yeah, can't wait.

[ohiochica]

lol kyle.......i menat i removed it about 30 times from google! i realize there is way more than 30 telemarketers.

[94 civic jdmD15b]

I work just outside DC installing pella products. 22.75 hr and work about 100-110 hrs every 2 weeks, and Im still broke. but I have 2 kids, and a wife ( she's in collage) to support.:yes:

[sohc_vtec 2NR]

22.75/hr i can only dream of that kind of pay, until i become an RN.... next summer i might get certified to be a CNA, then i'll be makin' $12.50/hr...that would be nice :yes:

[GT40FIED]

Originally posted by sohc_vtec 2NR
22.75/hr i can only dream of that kind of pay, until i become an RN.... next summer i might get certified to be a CNA, then i'll be makin' $12.50/hr...that would be nice :yes:

Hell, even as an RN you'd probably make less than that...depending on where you live. My mom was a CCRN and she didn't get paid nearly what she should've.

[dasica]

Two words STUDENT LOANS haha. J/K I can't wait til I'm done school so I can get a real job. But for now I work for a contracted company that works under MCI. So when you guys call that 1800# and snap b/c of a high bill. I'll just laugh and sell you a higher plan, and send you guys on your way. On the side I work on web pages, and computers my first major. After my grandpa's death I moved in with my awesome Grandma to keep her company. So that eliminated rent, food, utilities right there. I put my car insurance under my parents name. And take dates to McDonalds whenever I can and use the words I'm living on a student budget :busted: HAHAHA

[mylittlecivic]

well hey it works, you're so cute im sure your dates dont mind mcdonalds anyway;)

[dasica]

Originally posted by mylittlecivic
well hey it works, you're so cute im sure your dates dont mind mcdonalds anyway;)

Thanks I'm blushing now. If I ever took you out to McDonalds, I may go all out and buy you a McFlurry too! :) :)

[Civickid0to60]

i was a telemarketer for a while also, now i am working at Advance Settlement. ;)

I wish i was a "pharmaceutical consultant".:|

[sohc_vtec 2NR]

Originally posted by GT40FIED
Hell, even as an RN you'd probably make less than that...depending on where you live. My mom was a CCRN and she didn't get paid nearly what she should've.


your mom got paid less than 22.75/hr for bein' a CCRN? that's messed up. my mom makes 24/hr as an RN in a nursing home and get makes 26/hr at the hospital....and CCRN are suppose to be makin' more than an RN...

[GT40FIED]

I'm not exactly sure what she made...but I think it was around $23-$24/hr. Keep in mind this was a couple years ago, too. Hell...my brother makes close to that now as a paramedic. Go figure.

[vtracer20]

making 10/hr....was suppose to be 11 this year but i declined my raise, YES YES, i declined it....well because if i'm wokring 40hrs a week and get payed every 2 weeks...at 11 an hr i would be making over 7 grand, therefor i will loose alot of finacial crap for school....so i gotta stay at 10....but one more year of school so it's all good