Friday, July 3, 2009

Life change

I wish to change my life, but I do not know how. This always happens when I am out of work, I get the urge to do something but I don't know what it is. I want to change the world, or at least my world but I don't know what to change, it's weird. When I look at everything there is really nothing to change I live a good life and there is really nothing to it, I just feel like I should be doing something other then sitting around doing nothing.
On another note it is a Friday and I am trying to think of something to do. At times like this I like to think about what other people would be doing on a Friday. The average seems to be either going out to a bar/club or nothing. This is an odd dilemma I do not know what to do, see for me being out of work a Friday has no more significance then a Monday, but I still feel like I should be doing something Friday nightish. Odd, very odd.
Anyway back to something other then my ramblings of what I should do with my life. I have come up with an idea for a summer project. I will read a book every week and a half and review it. This is more to keep my brain working then anything because I don't want to go back to school and find that my mind has atrophied. I have also made a resolution for next summer and that is to take summer courses. I enjoy university and these 2 months without education have made me feel like I am missing something, so next summer I will work part time and go to school. There it is in writing, so now I have to do it. Oh and don't hold me to that week and a half book thing because some books might take longer to read or I might be busy blah blah blah. Until tomorrow stay busy living your effective lives my dear readers.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Other money making ways

Yesterday I suggested a highly risky thing, day trading. This is not recommended unless you know what you are doing. After some more research into it I found that if you don't know what you are doing then day trading is basically as effective a way to make money as buying lottery tickets. So just a word of warning (I am reconsidering it myself). So I have been racking my fragile little mind for other ways to make money without a job. It is always fun to make money from doing little if any work. So far I have come up with ebay selling, penny finding, and starting an online store.
Now I know that making money on the internet is almost impossible, hell it might be more effective to buy a lottery ticket. However I have been thinking of creating a physical store for a while and that is a lot of work to do while still in school (when summer is over). So an online store might be better, only problem is that the online market is saturated and getting your name out is pretty hard. For my physical store front I was thinking coffee shop (impossible online) that sold fair trade coffee along with hemp products and vegan foods. Basically a hippie hang out, because I have a feeling that hemp and socially responsible products are going to get pretty big.
Long and short maybe I will start an online store that sells socially and environmentally responsible clothing, shoes and other products. Meh we will see this is more of a pipe dream then anything I have no idea where to begin anyway. Like I would have to find suppliers, have a stable and effective e-commerce site and organize it all into something coherent. I guy can dream though.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Stocks

Well long time no see. Anyway I have a new job working as a wading pool guard for the city of Toronto (all the full time lifeguard positions required an instructor certificate and mine has expired). Because of this I am currently out of a job as the city is on strike and according to all major news outlets the negotiations are not going well. In fact it looks like I am going to be on strike for quite a while, which means I am essentially out of a job. Now I could go picket to make 200 bucks a week, or I could get up to a crazy money making scheme.
Now since I was a young lad stocks have interested me very much. Mostly they interested me because I can make a lot of money off them with very little work (not entirely true but if your a lucky person it could be). So I was on my bank account web page today and realized that through other schemes and the such I have amassed 1000 dollars. I was going to go the safe route and lock it into a guaranteed income thing, but stocks seem a lot more fun.
So without further pause I am announcing my money making scheme, day trading. This is a process where you buy a stock in the morning and sell it in the afternoon (roughly). Now to do this properly you must sell even if you lost money, day trading does not leave room for sitting on stocks. It is the most volatile and risky type of trading and I am a guy who likes risk.
Now all that is left is for me to read a few books on trading, look at a few interweb articles on the topic and find a cheap web broker. Hopefully after that money will move fast and in a few weeks I will be a billionaire. I'll keep you posted my non-existent readers.