Just made $200 for doing absolutely nothing

[disneysteve]

I do a lot (A LOT!) of medical surveys. Most are online. Some are via phone. Some are in person.

I was scheduled for a phone survey today at 7:15pm. I was all set and ready, sitting at my desk waiting for 7:15. No call came. Then 7:20 still no call. At 7:25 I emailed them to check in. I got a reply that they would be calling shortly, they'd still be sure to finish on time, and I'd still get paid. I kept waiting and finally, at 7:40, my phone rang.

The caller said he had good news. They had double-booked to avoid open spots in the schedule and I was the extra person tonight. There would be no interview (a 60-minute interview by the way) and I'd still get my $200 honorarium.

In all the years I've been doing this, this is the first time that ever happened. So $200 for just waiting around for an interview that never happened. I can deal with that.

[sv2007]

I just logged into one of my brokerage accounts, and noticed that it went up $750 today.
I guess I can say that I also made some money doing nothing today : )
(Over all market was up, so I'm sure my other accounts are positive today too.)

Turning this into a question to forum readers, would it be better to work for money or let money work for you?

[dawnwes]

Nice!

[disneysteve]

I just logged into one of my brokerage accounts, and noticed that it went up $750 today.
I guess I can say that I also made some money doing nothing today : )
(Over all market was up, so I'm sure my other accounts are positive today too.)

Turning this into a question to forum readers, would it be better to work for money or let money work for you?

I think that would be a good topic for another thread rather than changing the topic of this one.

[james.hendrickson]

I just logged into one of my brokerage accounts, and noticed that it went up $750 today.
I guess I can say that I also made some money doing nothing today : )
(Over all market was up, so I'm sure my other accounts are positive today too.)

Turning this into a question to forum readers, would it be better to work for money or let money work for you?

I gotta say, this is a really excellent comment. The best thing to do is buy as many cash producing assets as possible.

[rennigade]

I just logged into one of my brokerage accounts, and noticed that it went up $750 today.
I guess I can say that I also made some money doing nothing today : )
(Over all market was up, so I'm sure my other accounts are positive today too.)

Turning this into a question to forum readers, would it be better to work for money or let money work for you?

Congrats on the threadjack...and congrats to our admin who should know better...james.hendrickson for feeding the threadjacker.

$200 for sitting around for 30 minutes is hard to beat!

[bjl584]

Can't beat $200 for nothing.

And, I have to agree with Rennigade. An Admin. should know better than to feed on someone jacking a thread. It would have been better to move the comment to a new thread.

[phantom]

I think it depends on what you have the freedom to do while you're just sitting around and how long you have to wait. I'd take $200 to sit at home and do what I pleased for 25 minutes. But, I recently left a job where I was making $48/hour because there was entirely too much sitting around in an office with absolutely nothing to do. I remember looking at the clock about half way through the day and thinking, "At least I've 'earned' nearly $200 for this, and there's another $200 coming if I make it to the end of the day."

[disneysteve]

I think it depends on what you have the freedom to do while you're just sitting around and how long you have to wait. I'd take $200 to sit at home and do what I pleased for 25 minutes.

I was at home, sitting at my computer. I could do anything I wanted. I just couldn't get into anything involved because I was waiting for the phone to ring.

[sv2007]

Congrats on the threadjack...and congrats to our admin who should know better...james.hendrickson for feeding the threadjacker.

$200 for sitting around for 30 minutes is hard to beat!

I thought my comment was pretty relevant to getting paid for doing nothing.
Perhaps more so than OP's.