really. i totally need a new fierce look for the summer.

also, i deliver $12 dollar french fries for pastis in manhattan and 14 mac and cheese in brooklyn. ahh thank god i'm going to med school in aug. i'm over this ****. its starting to make me hate my bike.

I started selling gold and houses from Ultima Online on eBay about 10 years ago and it just kind of went from there. At 18 years old I learned all about marketing and pricing from old Philip Kotler books. Bought some old finance and business planning textbooks. After a while the people I played with in the game and I kind of just evolved into a firm that does what I listed before.

Right now the big companies are hurting for white/black Americans who can speak and read Chinese. (DISCLAIMER: i know i know, not legal, but true. I won't get into the reasons why. Just for the record; we don't do it because we don't hire. Most people get away with stuff like this because it's not a simple "submit an application" process or post on Monster.com). However, it's like any other industry, you need to fulfill certain functions. If you've got a marketing degree you'll work in the marketing department of certain websites. If you're a lawyer and you're any good with international law you can work in house. If you're good at finance or management (and you speak/read Chinese or Romanian) you can fill those roles. I guess it all kind of depends what you want to do and what your qualifications are.

Back in '98 if you played a game you could make it in the industry because for all intents and purposes this industry was born from a few people selling stuff on eBay then turning into full blown arbitrageur with companies to back them; this was before it exploded and became the billion+ /yr industry it is. With that kind of money these companies are attracting top talent so anymore it's not good enough to just be an avid gamer who's sold an item or two on eBay. You need valuable skill sets or a proven track record.

Hope this answers your question.

Er, I kind of skipped over some stuff... most of the big guys who are around today actually go into games with dupes and controlled the market that way and built so much capital and such name recognition that they could control the market. Then came the farms in games where there were no dupes. Regardless though, in present day you have to have like real business world skills like you'd need in any other corporate job... it's just a lot less formal.

Hmmm... I'm a photographer in and around the Chicago area.

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i'm a senior in college and work part time at a sun and ski sports. i pretty much work the skateshop putting skateboards and **** together and occasionally i'll bug the bike guys about bike ****.