How to make more money?

[Anonymous]

[quote=exsdgal]For some ‘money’ implies dollars, euros, pounds, pesos, bitcoins, etc. I prefer to think of ‘money’ to include monetary currencies along with trust, time, credit worthiness, self ability (skills), self interests (passions), personality and health to list a few. In our every day activities we essentially barter one set of ‘personal currency’ for something equivalent/better.[/quote]

It must be very confusing to do business with you.

[exsdgal]

[quote=harvey][quote=exsdgal]For some ‘money’ implies dollars, euros, pounds, pesos, bitcoins, etc. I prefer to think of ‘money’ to include monetary currencies along with trust, time, credit worthiness, self ability (skills), self interests (passions), personality and health to list a few. In our every day activities we essentially barter one set of ‘personal currency’ for something equivalent/better.[/quote]

It must be very confusing to do business with you.[/quote]

perhaps! At least the people I deal with know exactly what to expect from me, and that they won’t get screwed. That got to count for something right? 🙂

[exsdgal]

[quote=no_such_reality]
Finally, you got to work it. You have to actively work the compensation component of it, jumping ship when the comp isn’t there. You also have to work it and deliver. Don’t underestimate this one, deliver, deliver, deliver. Deliver when you said you would deliver. Deliver when no one thinks you can deliver.[/quote]

I agree with your assessment, with the exception about jumping ship. I am not certain jumping ship helps in the long run, unless the work experience/circle is large enough so as to never have any overlaps. Definitely in the case of bad/mis management it makes sense. Switching jobs just for the sake of dollars imo may not work out too well.

Now I would consider ‘deliver when no one thinks you can deliver’ to be the perfect blissful state!

[njtosd]

I have scanned the comments and don’t believe that what I’m about to say has been addressed – if I”m wrong, feel free to ignore.

You are a software guy. If you are good, there must be something that you could produce, independently, that someone would be interested in. Not sure about the terms of your employment agreement, but if you have legal room to generate and sell your own software I would think you should be putting your free time toward that. I don’t know anything about you, but my feeling is that if one were to put good engineers and good real estate agents/brokers on a Venn diagram, there would be little to no intersection of those two circles. Why try to retrain yourself when the skills you already have are valuable? I have six (at least) ideas of web based services that I think would be marketable – maybe I’m right, maybe I’m wrong, but if I have that many I’m sure you have more (and if you don’t, that’s something to think about).

Most people want others to give them a job. When they do that, they sell their time and there is only a finite amount of time. On the other hand, if you start your own business and you come up with Flappy Bird, or similar, you can sell millions of downloads in a day. And I’m being a little facetious, you don’t have to have a blockbuster – a little extra income goes a long way depending on how you invest it.

Best wishes to you.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=exsdgal][quote=harvey][quote=exsdgal]For some ‘money’ implies dollars, euros, pounds, pesos, bitcoins, etc. I prefer to think of ‘money’ to include monetary currencies along with trust, time, credit worthiness, self ability (skills), self interests (passions), personality and health to list a few. In our every day activities we essentially barter one set of ‘personal currency’ for something equivalent/better.[/quote]

It must be very confusing to do business with you.[/quote]

perhaps! At least the people I deal with know exactly what to expect from me, and that they won’t get screwed. That got to count for something right? :-)[/quote]

Why not just think of money as money, and time as time. Sure, there’s a trade off in life. But time, health, passions, etc… are not money.

[exsdgal]

[quote=FlyerInHi]
Why not just think of money as money, and time as time. Sure, there’s a trade off in life. But time, health, passions, etc… are not money.[/quote]

That does keep things simpler. I agree my definition is unconventional. In the context of OP’s question I do believe when ‘money’ is considered in a non-generic fashion there are opportunities to make more conventional money. Although time/health are not money, I would say time is more valuable, and without health it might be impossible to make money. In my personal experience separating the money aspect from the equation has created rewards far greater than I could have anticipated at that time. OMMV.

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