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mothballed 7 hours ago

If you can stomach it, the seafood canning and fishing industry in Alaska will usually (IDK what the situation is this year) hire anyone off the street, work them 16 hours a day for several months, and give them "free housing." You'll get dumped back in Seattle in several months with at least $10k in your pocket.

Edit: genuinely perplexed on the response. This saved my ass one winter when I had nothing for rent.

kristianp 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Surely it's not actually 16 hours a day, that would leave maybe 6 hours for sleep after other needs are taken care of.

insane_dreamer 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

my brother did that 20 years ago; I didn't realize it was still a thing today

t-writescode 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought the fishing industry paid … way more than 10k / 3 months. Color me surprised o.O

satvikpendem 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That's net after housing, perhaps a good deal depending on what your rent would've been otherwise.

hawgWyld 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Am good to let Boomer and GenX capitalism implode

In an abstract way this is like cold world war 3 to me; the "casualties" all the unborn as birth rates collapse, the destruction of the environment/climate change replacing bombs, the intentional financial engineering of poverty mustard gas

Mathematically airtight eugenics; no surprise to this, you and your family did not make the list