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Nagesh answers:

Culver’s minimum hiring age is 14 with a workers permit.

I called many stores because I am 14 looking for a job. This was the response they gave which makes me happy after looking for so long.

Find a local one go online and apply and go in store to apply or call and ask if they are hiring.

What I did was Google a bunch of business near my home and found their numbers using Google maps or their sites and I called and directly asked if they are hiring and what age do they hire at.

Try local grocery stores, pizza parlors, retail stores, fast food restaurants.

Nagesh answers:

Most online or at home jobs are a scam. If you want more money, then you will somehow have to figure out a schedule to do so. Find a part time job you can work when the baby sleep. A couple years ago, my family and I hit a financial bind. I worked all day and still wanted to be able to spend my nights with my kids, so I took a job bartending from 9-3am. That way I could be with the kids and still earn extra fund. I didnt do it everynight, as I would have burnt out pretty quickly, but I worked 3 nights a week and made enough to get us through a really bad spot.

Nagesh answers:

A call center in your home
In recent years, you’ve heard a lot about companies routing their customer-service calls to workers overseas, but a less-noticed trend is the growth in home-based call-center workers.

The flexibility that Opara likes also benefits companies. Home-based operators are typically contractors who are paid for each minute spent on the phone, so companies can quickly gear up to meet high demand without having to pay for idle workers during slack times.

The job isn’t without drawbacks. Pay usually starts around $8 an hour, assuming you get enough calls, which can come slowly at the beginning, Opara said. The jobs that simply require taking orders often pay the least, while the better-paying jobs typically require that you have sales skills.

Call centers usually have no tolerance for audible distractions, so a crying baby, barking dog or ringing doorbell could get you fired. (Some companies require their workers have dedicated offices with doors to minimize potential distractions.) An operator also needs a dedicated phone line, a computer and high-speed Internet access.

Some call centers that employ home-based workers:

Alpine Access
LiveOps
Arise
West at Home

Start a Web business
Paul and Alison Martin, who met while they were students at Stanford University, decided to launch a Web-based baby-product business shortly after the birth of their twins, Ainsley and Sierra. The couple launched Noss Galen Baby in February 2004, just before Paul graduated.

By May 2005, Paul said, the site was profitable enough to support the family.

The Martins had some distinct advantages. Paul had programming and start-up experience from a stint at PayPal, so he built and maintains their Web site. The couple also moved from expensive Menlo Park, Calif., to more reasonable Albuquerque, N.M., which keeps down their living costs.

Perhaps even more significant, the Martins were able to capitalize their business with stock-option money from Paul’s time at PayPal. But Paul said initial inventory costs were just a few thousand dollars, and he could have gotten a small-business loan or worked a part-time job to keep the venture going until profits came in.

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Turn a hobby into a business

Working from home is a dream for many — and a reality for a few. Turn something you now do for fun into something you do for a living.”The most important thing is to have the mindset that you’re going to make it work, that you’re going to learn from your mistakes,” Paul said. “It may take longer than you think. . . . There were difficult times when we were wondering if we were ever going to turn the corner.”

The Martins’ business isn’t the only thing that’s expanded. The couple had their third child, Dax, early last year.

If you find a concept that works, you might make additional money teaching other people what you know. Tamaira Sandifer of Sacramento, Calif., launched a service called Fun Mail for Kids that sends customized packets, complete with stickers, personalized letters and crafts projects, to kids via the U.S. Mail.

As with any small business, it can help to draft a business plan. The U.S. Small Business Administration has a free business set-up guide on its Web site.

Online auctions
Online auction sites have helped people do more than empty their attics (or fill them up again). The largest online auction site, eBay, says it is home to more than a million “professional sellers” who report the site as a primary or secondary source of income.

Mystery shopping, survey taking and ‘piece work’
Mystery shopping and survey-taking opportunities have been around for a while, but the Internet has made finding them easier, Webb said.

“Mystery shoppers” are typically paid $5 to $100 per assignment to pose as average customers and then critique a store or service, Webb said. The range for filling out surveys or participating in focus groups can be even wider, from a few dollars to a few hundred bucks a shot.

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As with other work-at-home jobs, applicants need to be prepared to start small and work their way up. Research companies look for reliable, articulate, detail-oriented people and tend to reward the ones who consistently perform well, Webb said.

Both jobs tend to come with freebies as well as cash. Webb said she’s been given such products as free laundry detergent and free diapers in exchange for her opinion on surveys.

Mystery shopping tends to take more time and effort but generally pays more. Webb said she makes about $6,000 a year in cash, plus free goods and services worth $3,000 to $4,000.

Nagesh answers:

Sorry, but there are no miracles.

You need to do a search as your question is asked and answered many times, every day.

There are no work at home jobs online, other than Ebay (which is quickly becoming a disaster due to more sellers than buyers)despite the number of “scam offers” you are about to get, seeking only to part you from your money with “starter kits”, “demo set up kits”, etc.

Stay away from any replies to your question with URLs (web sites) embedded in them. They are scams.

Surveys pay about $1, and getting paid is always a challenge.

You asked for the truth, and there it is..

I wish you Good Luck

Nagesh answers:

There’s lots of things you can do, just be creative.

~Start doing a paper route. You can make about $100-$200 a month on that.
~The obvious – babysitting. Try sticking flyers in the doors of houses in and around your neighborhood. When I tried this, I got tons more customers.
~Pet jobs. Pet-sitting, Dog walking, cleaning cages and fish tanks, washing and grooming, etc.
~Roadside sales. Try setting up a lemonade stand, snowconge stand, etc. Once again, get creative. Usually you can’t do these in the winter though. It’s more of a summer thing.
~Once again, more of a summer thing, but washing cars, bikes, scooters, mopeds, skateboards, pets, etc. Can bring in a lot of moola.
~Try doing extra chores around the house, and if you don’t already have one, make a pay-plan with your parents. For every chore you do, you get a certain amount of money (ex: 25 cents for emptying the dishwasher). Make a chart to mark down when and what chores you do, so at the end of the week it will be easier to collect your money.
~Ask your friends if one of their parents owns a small restaurant or something, and maybe the two of you could start helping out around the shop after school for a couple of hours. I you get $5/hr. And help for 2 hrs. After school every day, plus 4 hours on Sat., that’s $70 a week, and that would be about $280 a month. You could also ask a family member who owns s buisness if you could help there too.
~Doing lawn services. Not only mowing lawns, but also weeding gardens, watering flowers and plants, etc. Maybe even plant-sitting when people are on long-ish vacations.
~Offer to clean a family members house for $20-$30.
~Have a garage sale, and have it be a thing for the whole family, not just yourself. Then anything that you sell that is yours, you get to keep the money off of.
~Sell stuff on eBay.
~Make bracelets and necklaces. It’s very simple. Just go buy some elastic cor and glass beads (this way they won’t be cheap). Then simply just make them. You can also find some books on how to make different styles. I sold mine for $5 when I made them. It adds up quickly. Just sell them to family and friends, and maybe even offer to make them for people at school.
~See if you can become a life guard at a local pool.
~Try helping out the elderly. If there are some older people in your neighborhood (or old relatives, like grandmas) offer to do some lawn work, buy some groceries for them, shovel their sidewalk, etc.
~Shovel driveways
~This isn’t the greatest idea, but ask your mom if you can participate in online surveys and such. They can offer up to $50 a survey I hear.
~See if there’s anything you can do around your church to help out.
~Offer to clean your neighbors windows, and other odd jobs.
~See if your local nursing home would pay you for helping out. I know some do for playing games with them, helping them eat, reading to them, etc.
~Recycle cans. My brother and I used to do it. They would pay us 25 cents a pound for uncrushed and 30 cents a pound for crushed cans.
~Any type of craft you can make and sell would be great. For ex: greeting cards, hair accesories, mittens, fleece tie blankets and pillows, etc. Be creative.
~You aren’t old enough yet, but when you’re older and you need some cash, donate blood and plasma.
~You can get a job at Cold Stone Creamery (and lots of other places too, like grocery stores) when you’re 14.
~Become a referee for your town’s local soccer league. My brother does that (he’s 14, but I think you can start at 13) and he makes between $10-$35 per game, depending on how old the players are and how long the games are.

Whew! Here’s a bunch of ideas. I hope this helps, and good luck!

Oh, also, look at these and see if parents will let you join one of these:
http://www.bored.com/categories/paidtopl…
Http://www.olympiasalesclub.com/