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I have 2 months to make £1500 - how?

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  • LizD_2
    LizD_2 Posts: 1,503 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Are you near any universities or hospitals? They often have their own banks of temporary workers and don't draw from agencies. There can be allsorts of jobs - manual, clerical etc.
    I've been temping for a local uni for the last eighteen months and I've rarely been out of work (except by choice).
  • lyndsey80
    lyndsey80 Posts: 637 Forumite
    Just from watching a few of those reality programmes on airports and things - Customs can stop you entering if they feel you don't have sufficient funds to support yourself. I don't know the purpose of your trip, but if you don't have a work visa then Customs will want to see that you have enough funds to last the duration of the trip and that you aren't planning to take on work illegally.

    I booked a week's hol to Greece and stayed there for 6 months and some of my mates just got a flight over and then found someone to rent off and find a job, depends what country you are going to.
  • LizD_2
    LizD_2 Posts: 1,503 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    lyndsey80 wrote: »
    I booked a week's hol to Greece and stayed there for 6 months and some of my mates just got a flight over and then found someone to rent off and find a job, depends what country you are going to.

    Greece is part of the EU, so you don't need work visas if you're an EU passport holder.
  • lyndsey80
    lyndsey80 Posts: 637 Forumite
    Oh... Sometimes I am very stupid!!!
  • LizD_2
    LizD_2 Posts: 1,503 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    lyndsey80 wrote: »
    Oh... Sometimes I am very stupid!!!

    Not at all!
  • max2009
    max2009 Posts: 543 Forumite
    Alton Towers is a bit out of my way as I'm without a car, will look into it though, cheers

    Alton towers had 7,000 applicants in january for several hundred jobs summer 2009.
  • max2009
    max2009 Posts: 543 Forumite
    I'm currently out of regular work and planning a trip to North America at the end of June.

    America are very strict now and ask if you have any kind of criminal record and how much savings do you have to fall back on if you have money problems in their country.
  • If you cannot show you can support yourself in the USA you will not be allowed in.
  • max2009
    max2009 Posts: 543 Forumite
    * Ebay
    * Paper Rounds - how much roughly can I expect?
    * Leaflet Dropping - how much roughly can I expect?
    * Surveys / Mystery shopping / Online reviews - how much roughly can I expect?

    I'm based in the Newcastle-under-Lyme / Stoke-on-Trent area, any more tips welcome!

    cheers! :D

    Agencies in stoke-on-trent are currently recruiting for new look (ASDA) in newcastle-under-lyme.I think they are days and noon shifts packing.
  • max2009 wrote: »
    Agencies in stoke-on-trent are currently recruiting for new look (ASDA) in newcastle-under-lyme.I think they are days and noon shifts packing.

    great thanks I'll do a search for that
    Aim to raise £1500 for trip to America in late June, saving between mid April - late June 2009

    Current total from working / Ebay / other fund raising = £400 - £1100 to go!
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