I was looking for ways to make money in my neighborhood, but all the ideas I found online wouldn’t work where I live. I needed to know how to make money in the ghetto, not in the rich neighborhoods where you can find people paying you $20 an hour to walk their dogs!
I finally realized that no matter how much I searched, I wasn’t going to find anything. It was up to me to find out. After looking around, I realized that there were ways to make money everywhere, even in the ghetto.
The first thing I realized is that even people who don’t have a lot of money are willing to invest in their children’s future. Obviously, poorer neighborhoods have worse schools than more affluent ones, so my first course of action was to offer tutoring services to people’s children. I knew I couldn’t charge a ton, but I found that if I had a group of 4 or 5 kids and taught them together, I could make quite a bit of money without breaking their parents’ budget.
While I was doing this tutoring, I realized that there were a lot of kids who had nowhere to go after school and ended up wandering the neighborhoods and getting into trouble just because their parents couldn’t afford after school care. While my goal was to make money, I realized that I could help them and make a fortune at the same time. By caring for up to 10 children at a time, I was able to earn $50 an hour and still have their parents pay for my services. Even in the ghetto you can find ways to earn quick money. The idea is to charge little money for services that you can perform simultaneously.