Regarding minors and jobs?
Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 by admin
Hi. I must first clarify that I am in fact sixteen, and I’ve been looking on the internet for a while now trying to find ways to make money. I’ve come across tons of different things, but there’s one that caught my interest; and that’s affiliate marketing.
It is a potential gold mine, because not only is the money just sitting there waiting to be taken, just for advertising someone elses product, but it’s so effortless. I don’t know much about HTML, but I’ve come across a program called “wysiwyg web builder” and it truly works miracles. It stands for “What you see is what you get”. And that could not be more true.
I’ve learned a lot of these little tips through the “Rich Jerk”, who is rude and concieted, but more honest than any other “guru” out there. He has an ebook, which is near perfect..
But all this boils down to one thing, can I do anything with all this considering that I’m a minor? I cannot even open a normal bank account yet. It’s infuriating!
Thanks in advance.
Cindy, you may question the validity of this, but the truth is thousands of people make money this way.
No one here is saying that it’s easy or fast, though if you do it well, the effort you put in pays off much better than any ordinary job.
I do not and never will suffer through school. It’s an absurd waste of my mental capacity, and I feel sorry for anyone who is there by force.
If your question is can you do any thing because you are a minor, then the answer is no. Since you can not even enter into a contract because you are not an adult.
Finish school, get your education…go on to college, as that is the way to get ahead. Not by get rich quick schemes. It is called hard work.
If you put all you energy into school and your learning you will do better, you will go farther this way than if you try get rich schemes. Not too many people get far trying get rich schemes.
I use to have a friend that was always trying the get rich quick schemes, all she ever got from it was being broke. She got played so bad all the time, I always felt sorry for her, I even tried to tell her. She just never listened.
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Look, I gave you an answer and that was all, it isn’t like it was engraved into stone and it was going to force you to do anything that you don’t want to do. It was simply some thing that I thought would be good for you to know, that is all. You are 16 years old and you will make many choices in your life as you go along. Some of your choices will be good ones and some may not be so good, but they will be your choices. My only reason for writing was to help inform you and that is all, I care about people. I have no bad intensions towards you, I didn’t mean to up set you in any way.
At 50 years old and given where I worked for all the years that I worked there, I have seen many people shoot the tubes and fall on their backsides. Some of what they went down for was because of get rich quick scams. These are cold hard facts that I am giving you, they are only meant to inform you and that is all. Mind you I am not saying that every thing is going to be or will be bad ideas, I just say use good judgement.
I hope that you reach your dreams and go as far as you hope to go. I won’t say that an education is a waste because I don’t believe that it is. Especially when a person is able to attend college, since it is geared towards what people are working towards in their life. College give people skills for the jobs that they are seeking, it is what helps to open doors that are other wise closed to them. Maybe that isn’t for you, that will be up to you and no one else.
Again, I only wish you the best in your life, good luck.
Okay… simple solution here. I even answered this for another kid that was 15 a few weeks ago! Talk to your parents and have them help you with your endeavor. Find a really good affiliate program that costs nothing for you to be a member to… and then do some research about website promotion for free or low cost.
I included the link to my website below… it has a link to the affiliate advertising network that I belong to by clicking the banner ad at the top. They are totally free and only make money when you do…
Your parents can open a bank account for you. I suggested to the other kid that he negotiate a partnership with his parents so that they split the income coming in, until your 18th birthday when you can sign up and have your parent(s) account switched over to your name.
Your parents will make a little extra money, you’ll make great money for being a minor, and all of it with little or no expense. I’ve spent a little over $200 to get myself started with them (includes website purchase, website hosting fee, and a few applications that I was able to get from developers online) and have already earned that back after my first month.
DO YOUR RESEARCH before you start. You want to know exactly how your can drive traffic to your website before you start paying for it. It will allow you and your parents to feel less stress than I did… I crammed all of my learning in about two weeks. =)