My adventures selling blood plasma for cash

[ambition]

I'm broke, so I had to do that today. It took 6 hours in total, 4.5 of which was waiting around, hanging with crack heads and prostitutes, getting spoken down to by 11 an hour plasma employees. Man, what an experience. Some thoughts:

-In my opinion, 9/10 people in real poverty are not lazy, they just have an undiagnosed mental illness. Seriously. I'd imagine the net IQ in that room was not triple figures. It was very sad. A few people are just down on their luck, with a few college kids sprinkled in as well. Yet most of these people will never leave poverty, I fear. They don't have the intellect required to hold a conversation about football, let alone serious, work-related discourse.

-Crack is a helluva drug. Some sketchy dude wouldn't STFU to me in line, telling random prison stories. Eventually I guess he felt we had bonded, so he leaned over and whispered "You holdin? I got Newpotes' brotha. Let's go to yah whip and do it."

When sitting in a car with a shady ex-con doing drugs at 8:00am on a Wednesday sounds like fun, you know you're in a tough spot in life. I whipped out a bag. His response was immediate, and harsh. My new friend was extremely disappointed to learn that my drug of choice was cannabis, and not crack-cocaine. He hopped out of the car with a few choice words, and slammed my car door.

Poverty rules, ladies and gentlemen.

 

[RedRain]

wow, that sounds like quite an adventure... K+ to you for not getting shanked in your own ride!!

fucking crackers!!!

How much do they pay you per pint of blood? In canada we donate our blood, all we get is a cookie and maybe some juice if you feel woozy!!

 

[Hammerhead]

Oh ya Pot would put them tweakers to sleep that dont want that It's pretty sad really.

 

[rick shaw]

So what was the payout,$35 for six hours. I bet that warehouse job is looking pretty sweet about right now.

 

[trichrider]

right now selling blood is looking pretty damned inviting...too bad, the hepC really puts the kibbush on that...

 

[fabvariousk]

Pretty awesome that this guy went from being someone who was annoying you in line to smoking him out in the car. Sounds like you might have known he wasn't down and having a bit a fun with mr. cracky. good times.

 

[ambition]

The payout was 50 bucks because I'm a first time donor.

 

[kmk420kali]

right now selling blood is looking pretty damned inviting...too bad, the hepC really puts the kibbush on that...

Yeah...I had Hep B 25 years ago...I can't give blood....damn, and I so wanted to smoke out a Crack Head!! lol

 

[RedRain]

yikes!! hep c !! is it common to contract hep c when donating blood?

did they still let u donate after you blazed? good to know if you get into an accident in the us there is a ton of cracked out blood waiting for you!!!

 

[ambition]

yikes!! hep c sounds fun!!

well good to hear that nothing bad happened...did they still let u donate after you blazed? good to know if you get into an accident in the us there is a ton of cracked out blood waiting for you!!!

I went with Visine just in case.

I've never been really poor like this before, and to be honest with you guys, it's way harder mentally than I expected. I need to write this as an outlet. I'm too embarrassed to tell my friends. I went from the top to the bottom in a moment. Even the employees at this place spoke to me like a criminal. It's like the world is looking down on me as a piece of shit.

It's testing my mental toughness, that's for sure. One minute sweet job, nice savings, then Boom! This shit happens to other people, but not me. I'm too responsible, too much in savings, etc., right? Fucking wrong. Reality checked me hard.

I got a very good job (pending background check ) in another state, but don't have enough cash to get down there. Hope everything works out. Thanks for reading my whiny bullshit.

 

[kmk420kali]

yikes!! hep c !! is it common to contract hep c when donating blood?

did they still let u donate after you blazed? good to know if you get into an accident in the us there is a ton of cracked out blood waiting for you!!!

I think he/she meant that they had Hep C...so could not donate/sell--

 

[rick shaw]

Theres always cans and bottles,nickel-a-piece. College grads don't bend over,so get a broom stick with a nail to get the cans. Your story's are priceless. I just heard from a friend who got on a crab processor,he is expecting $6k in the next two months and unemployment eligibility.

 

[ambition]

Theres always cans and bottles,nickel-a-piece. College grads don't bend over,so get a broom stick with a nail to get the cans. Your story's are priceless. I just heard from a friend who got on a crab processor,he is expecting $6k in the next two months and unemployment eligibility.

What do you mean "my story's are priceless?"

 

[jd4083]

Somehow I am not at all surprised to see this thread after the last one.

How much could you have possibly needed that $50? What did you buy with it, a bunch of extraneous shit like, say, that bag of herb that you mentioned having? Not to delve into your personal finances, but perhaps you need to take a look at your priorities here. That 6 hours would have been better spent pounding pavement with your resume and a fire under your ass. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you couldn't come away with at least a part time minimum wage job after 6 full hours of job searching, you just plain aren't going to make it in the real world. But since you're too proud to take such a menial job (but somehow not too proud to spend the entire afternoon mingling with crackheads and other lazy white kids), I guess you'll just have to settle for this kinda stuff for the time being, yeah?

Maybe tomorrow you could go jerk off in a cup, and follow it up the next day with a couple of pharmaceutical trials. After a few days of that, you might be willing to take the ego hit. If you don't get it together soon, mom is TOTALLY going to kick you out of the basement.

Good luck dude. Christ, you're gonna need it.

 

[ambition]

Somehow I am not at all surprised to see this thread after the last one.

How much could you have possibly needed that $50? What did you buy with it, a bunch of extraneous shit like, say, that bag of herb that you mentioned having? Not to delve into your personal finances, but perhaps you need to take a look at your priorities here. That 6 hours would have been better spent pounding pavement with your resume and a fire under your ass. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you couldn't come away with at least a part time minimum wage job after 6 full hours of job searching, you just plain aren't going to make it in the real world. But since you're too proud to take such a menial job (but somehow not too proud to spend the entire afternoon mingling with crackheads and other lazy white kids), I guess you'll just have to settle for this kinda stuff for the time being, yeah?

Maybe tomorrow you could go jerk off in a cup, and follow it up the next day with a couple of pharmaceutical trials. After a few days of that, you might be able to afford that ego hit just so that you can afford...well, anything at all.

Good luck dude. Christ, you're gonna need it.

Do you feel better about yourself, you transparent, mean-spirited shithead?

I actually lost a high-paying position to help a family member in need. Long story, but I was offered a great job in another state yesterday. I'm struggling to get my finances in order for the transition pre-first check. I never said I was "too proud" to take a menial job.

But by all means, if it boosts your self-worth to illiterately and belligerently pose mean-spirited attacks on people sharing themselves on icmag, continue on your crusade. I'm here to help.

 

[jd4083]

Do you feel better about yourself, you transparent, mean-spirited shithead?

I actually lost a high-paying position to help a family member in need. Long story, but I was offered a great job in another state yesterday. I'm struggling to get my finances in order for the transition pre-first check. I never said I was "too proud" to take a menial job.

But by all means, if it boosts your self-worth to illiterately and belligerently pose mean-spirited attacks on people sharing themselves on icmag, continue on your crusade. I'm here to help.

Hit too close to home? I would hardly call my post illiterate, although belligerent might not be too far off. I call it like I see it, and since you posted your story on a public forum, you not only went into this knowing that somebody might speak up, you actually INVITED it.

Hey, if I'm wrong, no skin off your back, you know the truth...right? But if not... Like I said, best of luck.

 

[Goodkarma]

retard blood?

retard blood?

So, if I go to the hospital for an emergency and need a blood transfusion, is there any way I can ask for the smart persons blood.
And if not, are they going to ask me easy questions when I am in the recovery room?

Can I ask for the junkies blood and skip the morphine drip?

 

[ambition]

Hit too close to home? I would hardly call my post illiterate, although belligerent might not be too far off. I call it like I see it, and since you posted your story on a public forum, you not only went into this knowing that somebody might speak up, you actually INVITED it.

Hey, if I'm wrong, no skin off your back, you know the truth...right? But if not... Like I said, best of luck.

This isn't about having an opinion and expressing it. It's about creating an alternative reality, and using that to push through a host of mean, angry, dopey rhetoric.

You manufactured this lie in which I thought I was too good for menial work, which lead to some Sarah Palin-esque, cliche'-riddled verbal diarrhea about hard work and time management. It had no basis in the reality of the situation I presented. You just have some issues to work out psychologically that all came pouring out the moment you saw a vulnerability in an environment without a consequence; the internet.

Thus, the transparency, and the mean-spirited illiteracy (the two often go hand-in-hand), exposed.

So, if I go to the hospital for an emergency and need a blood transfusion, is there any way I can ask for the smart persons blood.
And if not, are they going to ask me easy questions when I am in the recovery room?

lol!

 

[rick shaw]

Ambition(or lack there of) jd4083 was not being mean-spirited or a shit head. He was telling you honestly how you are coming across and offering tough love suggestions. I was being snarky. I didn't like you calling Hemotologists "11 dollar plasma employees". As thin skinned and righteous as you been,don't work with blue collars. We will tear you a new corn hole.

 

[jd4083]

This isn't about having an opinion and expressing it. It's about creating an alternative reality, and using that to push through a host of mean, angry, dopey rhetoric.

You manufactured this lie in which I thought I was too good for menial work, which lead to some Sarah Palin-esque, cliche'-riddled verbal diarrhea about hard work and time management. It had no basis in the reality of the situation I presented. You just have some issues to work out psychologically that all came pouring out the moment you saw a vulnerability in an environment without a consequence; the internet.

Thus, the transparency, and the mean-spirited illiteracy (the two often go hand-in-hand), exposed.


lol!

See? In the time it took you to type that rambling, incoherent attempt at a psychoanalysis (Freud, who is obviously your hero, would be ashamed ), you could have applied to 3 different jobs online and/or used that $50 you got selling plasma to buy a nice tie for an interview. Time management...where have I heard that phrase before? Hm...


Verbal jousting aside, are you going to honestly say that the 6 hours you spent to make $50 today could not have been better spent in search of a more long-term solution than selling plasma? Even if that did not necessarily mean an immediate reward in the form of cash today which, in all likelihood, you will have already spent by tomorrow?