Wanted: A Select Few to Commit 1 to 3 Months...
 

I am looking for a select few…
I am developing a documentary on not just surviving but thriving. You will be provided with $20, your social security card and driver’s license along with 3 changes of clothes as well as a cell phone (for emergencies and pics/vids) and a notebook and pencil. You will be dropped off in a city where you have never been (in the US) and don’t know anyone. You have 1 to 3 months to find a place to call home, a secure job and save $500. You shall document your experiences. GO! Up for it? Lets talk…

I cannot take that much time off, but if I could, I'd take the challenge and win.

Whats my reward?

I knew a guy like that!
His name was Jim. Jim was way down on his luck as usual, wandering around looking for a job, when he passed the Baptist church. He went in and said, “Pastor, I don’t want a handout, I just want me a job.” The preacher told him they happened to be hiring a janitor, and gave him a job application to fill out. Poor Jim started to shake and said, “Pastor, I’d fill this out, but I can’t read.”
Pastor told him because of all the chemicals with hazard warnings and specific directions printed on them that the janitor had to use, he had to be able to read. “I cant hire you, but we just had a food drive and there is this bag of apples left over. Have some apples to eat, and good luck.”
Jim took the apples and ate one. He walked around the neighborhood and sold the rest for 50 cents each. The next morning he took that money down to the fruit distributor and bought a whole box of apples and sold them for 50 cents each.
After a few weeks he was selling so many apples he bought a cart.
Soon he had a truck, wholesaling apples all over the city.
He started putting money in the bank every week, and became good friends with the bank president. After a few years he bought out the fruit distributor, and every week he took his extra money down to the bank.
After 25 years Jim decided he would retire. He sold the fruit distributorship for a million dollars and put the money in the bank.
One day he went to the bank to get some of his money out, and the bank president was there. He said, “Jim, I’ve been watching you for 25 years and you have been thrifty and ambitious. It is a testament to the spirit of freedom of opportunity in this great country that a man who can’t even read could become a millionaire. Do you have any idea where you would be today if you could read?”
“Yeah, I know ‘sacly where I’d be,” Jim said. “I’d be the janitor down at the Baptist church.”

What do you want it to be?

not fame!
maybe fourtune

So it's kinda like Survivor, but without a million dollars?

fascinating project. i believe this is what some monks have to do to become ordained, the sec that the current pope is from has to do something similar to this, except they get dropped off anywhere in the world with a small amount of money, and left there for a year.

i think its a big reason why he is such a liberal pope.

Sounds like what I went through when I got out of the service. But I had $67.

You've described my late teens into my mid-twenties...NYC, LA, and SAN FRANCISCO.

Next to zero money, no job, no apartment, no friends, and no contacts.

It sure was fun.

I am doing what you said and I hate sleeping under a bridge. I give up.

I'd buy the best broom I could get for $20 and start sweeping for food, money, or a place to stay. I'd have the $500 in a couple of weeks.
Jim

I could do it. Except the 104 pound dog says if I go so does he. And the IRS would tell any employer that my Social Security number was invalid and that they must withhold all pay from me.

Jim, I think Matt should do it with his 3 kids and wife! You should do it with your dog. Great stuff!!!

Without anything and it shall be true reality ... no stupid challenges just real world strife and struggle...but if you succeed then not only is that worth bragging it worth writing about and more so, worth talking about.

I hope you all can see the direction this could go if done well and pure.

There is a very real possibility of tragedy from this.

In my opinion, by posting this on Pelican, you are putting our gracious host at SERIOUS legal risk. It would be prudent for you to delete this thread.

Just do it yourself if you think it's such a great idea. :rolleyes:

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Could you drop me off some place warm?

do this offer come with bennies?

The answer to the riddle is: Window Washing. You take the $20 to the nearest supermarket and buy a bottle of DW soap, a pail and a squeegee. You start walking up the street in any business district offering to wash store windows for $5/10, whatever the going rate is which you'd figure out pretty quickly. In the right neighborhood, you could be making $50 hour if you're good.

Very soon, you'd have a nicer bucket and equipment and maybe an assistant. Rinse and repeat until you're a millionaire.

You're welcome. :)