1001 Ways to Make Money If You Dare (34 page)

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203 ENTER A JINGLE CONTEST.
Think you have the chops to create a jingle catchy enough to stick in people's heads and send them to store shelves? Try your hand at writing jingles. Oreo once offered a $10,000 prize and a trip to New York City to the lucky person who could wow them with their musical advertisement. That can buy a lot of cream filling.

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204 WORK AS A BOUNCER.
Do you have big muscles and an elevated sense of self-importance? Try a job as a doorman or bouncer at a bar or nightclub. While not as profitable as bartending, bouncers are often paid well by business owners who want to keep the riffraff out. So hit the weight room and put your muscles to a task more useful than flexing in the mirror.

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205 REPO.
One job that actually becomes more secure when the economy is in the toilet is working as a repo officer. It can be a less than pleasant chore to visit those in a cash crunch and leave with their crap, but their loss is your gain, so stop worrying about other people's feelings and start taking their stuff.

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206 JOIN THE CIRCUS.
Are you a bearded lady? Can you contort your body to fit into a tiny box while wearing a skintight unitard? A career in the circus may be for you. True, you'll probably spend a lot of time living in trailer and shoveling elephant shit, but you'll definitely meet some interesting characters.

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207 BECOME A STUNT MAN.
You already enjoy pulling off
Jackass
-like stunts, so why not get paid for putting your life in danger? Falling off buildings, being set on fire, and getting thrown through plate glass will replace the ho-hum of sending a fax, updating spreadsheets, and checking emails. Now if that's not incentive enough — what is?

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208 WORK AS A STUNT DRIVER.
The only thing Hollywood likes more than a gratuitous boob shot is a good car chase. It's far too risky to send Will Smith off a cliff at 120 miles per hour, so movie studios hire stunt drivers for the challenge. Is it a rush? Absolutely. Will a lowly director's assistant scrape you off the pavement? Quite likely. But this testosterone-pumping job can pay big time, so grab your helmet and head to the set.

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