• howrar@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    Sell some stocks I guess.

    Unless you mean my net worth has to go up $40? In which case, I’ll probably look for someone who would be willing to pay me $40 ahead of time to teach them some machine learning over some negotiable span of time. Or to build a website or something. There are lots of businesses in the area that could use it, and $40 is insanely cheap for something like that.

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      Even if I didn’t make that at my normal job, or it was non-business hours when I can’t just go to work for money, I feel like $40 in 3 hours is pretty doable with just gig work (grocery/restaurant delivery, Uber).

  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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    3 hours ago

    Get a loan from the local loan shark.

    Go to the roulette table at the casino. Bet it all on 32.

    Lose my bet.

    Go back to the local loan shark for $40.

    Bet the $40 at the roulette table.

    Lose.

    Repeat until either I get the money to pay the loan shark and save my family. Or I gues it’s RIP for my family and my kneecaps.

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Easy. Sell a gun on FB Marketplace for a ridiculously low asking price. It would sell faster than I would be banned.

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    5 hours ago

    Sell my car to the next person who walks by, I guess.

    But I’ll hint to them (family) strongly that I won’t be selling two cars, so they need to get less explodey.

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    9 hours ago

    Sell my shirt to my dad for $40. I’m pretty sure he’d rather buy my shirt than explode.

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    9 hours ago

    Depends how you define “make”

    If standard pay from job is too late, then I’d sell a CSP or CC from my brokerage account and I technically “made” the premium

    If that’s not urgent enough, take some jewelry to a pawn shop and hock it

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    14 hours ago

    Go to work for an hour

    Take my bottles to the depot

    Ask a buddy to spot me 40

    Sell a couple things

    … check my bank account?

    $40 isn’t that much money…

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    16 hours ago

    40 dollars? That’s all? I’m salaried and can work any hours I want to, so I guess I’m logging in at work and writing a few lines of code or answering some emails.

    Twenty minutes will do it. Probably round it up to half an hour just to be safe. And honestly, if I get into the zone, an hour will fly by, easy.

    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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      Twenty minutes will do it. Probably round it up to half an hour just to be safe. And honestly, if I get into the zone, an hour will fly by, easy.

      Sorry family. I got into the flow at work. Oops about that.