How much money could you make with $1,000?

I tend to troll craigslist looking for good bargains on things I know. One of my better ones was buying a 1995.5 Audi S4 with 50K miles for 9K driving it for a year and selling it for 14K. Or buying cars fixing them and selling them for a lot more. Example 500 dollar audi needed heater core, did that sold it for 4K. At one point in time I use to run a motorcycle part import business. This was before the economy collapsed. I was making a 300% profit margin on that stuff. Latest is more of a venture for an online business. Trying to see if this will be my big thing.

Never heard of "bitcoins" before, this bears more research.....

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Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey

expensive..but the investment in the class is $1000 or less :D

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So perhaps I should look into investing into an upstart company looking for funds for materials, or when your young investor decides he is ready to expand...

Rondog, you and half of America it seems. The high was $147 this morning and www.mtgox.com was even down for a bit today. Also, Puton just announced that he is demanding his political leaders submit all of their money overseas, and anything over what they can afford on their government is supposed to be explained and/or surrendered. I imagine this is mostly for show, but most of the money in Cyprus banks was from rich Russians trying to dodge taxes in the first place. Pretty difficult to seize anonymous money.

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Originally Posted by nynco

I tend to troll craigslist looking for good bargains on things I know. One of my better ones was buying a 1995.5 Audi S4 with 50K miles for 9K driving it for a year and selling it for 14K. Or buying cars fixing them and selling them for a lot more. Example 500 dollar audi needed heater core, did that sold it for 4K. At one point in time I use to run a motorcycle part import business. This was before the economy collapsed. I was making a 300% profit margin on that stuff. Latest is more of a venture for an online business. Trying to see if this will be my big thing.

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Need a gun-carrying employee? lol. I'm getting sick of healthcare as a profession...

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Originally Posted by Dingo

Need a gun-carrying employee? lol. I'm getting sick of healthcare as a profession...

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Right now what I need is to learn more about creating websites that are not just simplistic static sites. I am currently pounding through Joomla 3.0. But not sure if it will be capable of doing what I need. Its a steep learning curve, but no way to do other than pound my head into it.

I understand you need to get out of healthcare. I was a medic and then a Rad Tech. Being a Rad Tech is nothing more than a glorified Mc Donald's like position. There is a reason there is a shortage in Nursing and other heathcare... its because the system is just soul drainingly bad.

Amen... aside from the god-like doctors, the shortage of supplies/equipment, and the dangerous patient loads, the computer systems are cumbersomely redundant and largely just designed for hospital CYA. Very little time spent with the patients, and my eyesight's getting worse from living in front of a damn computer all night. It's a system largely designed to compartmentalize any potential legal liability to a single person who's doing the charting... it was glaringly apparent when I first started using EMR systems.

One of the things that was my wakeup call was how a local hospital (one where I use to work) use to purposely only schedule 2 rad techs for the over night on friday. We had to cover surgery, ER, floors in a level 1 trauma hospital. It was an impossible job and if something went wrong, the tech would have been the one answering the law. The dept was only concerned with profit and they burnt people out all the time. If something went wrong because they were asking the impossible, they did blame the worker. Then years later I find out the person who ran the dept like that had embezzled a HUGE amount of money.... what happened to him. Absolutely NOTHING. He walked away. That dept was running at a near 80% turn over rate every year for years.

It sounds like being a Rad Tach would be a bad investment then.

I worked in telecom for 26 years, until I was booted to the curb. That's a fucking cut-throat business, I'm not sure I want to go back in it. I'd love to come up with a way to make my own living, but I can't think of anything.

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Originally Posted by nynco

I tend to troll craigslist looking for good bargains on things I know. One of my better ones was buying a 1995.5 Audi S4 with 50K miles for 9K driving it for a year and selling it for 14K. Or buying cars fixing them and selling them for a lot more. Example 500 dollar audi needed heater core, did that sold it for 4K. At one point in time I use to run a motorcycle part import business. This was before the economy collapsed. I was making a 300% profit margin on that stuff. Latest is more of a venture for an online business. Trying to see if this will be my big thing.

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You claimed taxes on that profit right? I would hate for your liberal ass to get reamed by the IRS for tax evasion.