John Tash is a 25 year old grocery-store cashier. He rents a small apartment in Melbourne, Australia. John is barely surviving money-wise; being a cashier isn’t a good enough income to live by. He can’t find more work (that is better paying anyways). He was using Google to try and find some ways to increase his income. He came across this website called “triond”. It was a website where you published articles, and every time someone viewed an article, you got money.

He joined up, and made a few quick articles, that were mainly copied from other websites, with a few altered words. All he wanted was income; he didn’t see the fun in writing. When he realised the shocking income it provided, he left triond. He continued to Google some more ways for money.

He came across a website called “Rewards Central”. It was a survey site, fill out surveys and get money for it. Simple enough. From doing his surveys as he got them, he was making around $10 an hour. After a few weeks of doing this, he realised that he was only making 5 dollars every few weeks, and wasn’t such a good thing.

He was stuck on ideas for some extra money, so he scanned through his newspaper. No luck there, he didn’t find anything he was interested in, and things he was interested in, he wasn’t qualified for. He was done for ideas, but still needed extra money. He considered becoming a YouTube star and packing his videos with adds for money, but he had no video making skills.

He applied at his work for some extra working hours. At the moment, John was working from 9 in the morning, to 9 at night. He tried to extend this to 9 in the morning to 12 at night, to try and take more advantage from the extra night shift pay. He was accepted, and was now working an extra 3 hours daily.

He was doing this for a few weeks, glad of his extra pay. He was a bit overworked and still not happy, though. Being a cashier was still bad pay, regardless of how much he worked. Plus, he wanted to move on from his small Melbourne apartment. He had to do something, but what…

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