Topic: Help this time with a personal situation - page 4. (Read 784 times)

If that's the case, why do you calculate the price of eggs in dollars, and not in pesos? It can't be that a box of eggs costs two thirds of your monthly salary. If that's the case, you'd have starved to death by now. So I'm curious: how many Cuban pesos do you spend on your groceries each month?

I've never been there, but I've read about it a few times. It sucks for the people
If eggs would be that expensive, I'd eat something else. I still don't get it though: hatching chickens is no rocket science. If someone has a a few hens and a rooster, they'll basically multiply themselves and eat whatever they can find.

So, if a Cuban citizen were to earn 1 mBTC (worth $28.73 at the moment), would he be able to use that money? How many pesos would he get for that? If exchange rates are that twisted, what's the point of converting? Do you need dollars for daily expenses? I don't get it: if trading and imports are expensive, can't the (tropical) country focus on producing for it's own needs? It looks like a beautiful place, and it's such a waste to see it in poverty.

For reference: if I sell 1 mBTC, I'll get €26.10 (after transaction fees). That's enough to buy 88 eggs in a supermarket. And eggs already got a lot more expensive lately, because of inflation and regulation that improves living conditions for chickens.

Well, this idea is not a bad one but there's need for you to remind the poster that signature campaigns are not always a guarantee. Aside that signature campaigns can stop at anytime unexpected, it is also about luck. Take a look at the current active campaigns and the number of participants and compare the number of rank up members from full member who are not in the campaign. Having rank up your account to full member will not guaranteed you a campaign although, you will have some chances but my point is joining a campaign should not be a priority or the reason for putting effort to rank up. My advice to op is to find an area of specialization and improve his skills both online and offline.

LMAO!!

Well, it is not fun, I visited Cuba several years ago and I know that it is true. The fact that there are few chickens in the island, importations are restricted, and the Government give a few to each citizen every month make remaining eggs surprisingly expensive and only affordable for tourists.


This is also true: there are extremely different exchange rates for Cuban pesos (for citizens) and USD pegged pesos (for foreigners); 1 to 250 is not what I saw when I was there, but in the last years thing may have worsen to that extent.

Ok, since you asked on the side about how to make $2 every day without having to invest. I will invite you to get more than your expectations, start by improving the quality of your posts. Pursue your rank to at least Full Member and then you can join the Bitcoin Paid Signature Campaign.
It's not easy to achieve it, especially now that you're still a newbie, but as long as you're willing to try to make your dreams come true, you can get more than you've ever hoped for.

 
I want to clarify something in this forum, because I see that it is something very serious, I am realizing that 90% of the world population is unaware of the reality of Cuba, the government shows exchange rates that are not real, those numbers are only possible. For the foreigner or tourist who is visiting and can buy things in Cuban pesos, in reality for us each USD costs us 250 pesos, therefore do the respective calculations, NOTHING or NO information that the government shows to the world is REAL, just show something beautiful, a mirage, we Cubans live in a parallel universe, I'm not saying that, you can go to any other chat and talk to a Cuban so they can see the harsh reality we go through. Here I leave you a YouTube video about some of the money in my country: the bad thing is that it is in Spanish, I will look for some in English

This is a good thread for you to keep an eye on, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/overview-bitcointalk-contests-and-giveaways-5448924. Try your luck for free.
Pay attention to the requirements, some may not yet accept beginners to join.

That's bad advice, considering the OP is a doctor the recommendation should be rather good.

It's hard to see good online schemes that could get you some little earnings nowadays. A lot of them has proven to be scams. Since you don't really like the pay of your salary, but you have your internet then you could learn some online skills. Skills like graphic design, web development, artworks and so many others can get you good money. After getting this skill you can create an account in some legit freelance website, there are many on the internet, but I will recommend Upwork and Workaspro.

If you find it difficult over there because there are lot of competition, then you can create your own service announcement thread here in the forum and share your portfolio on the thread. Definitely if your good at your skill people will contact you for short term jobs or long term.

According to Google, it's 145.83 dollars. Why did you divide by 12?
Google also shows the minimum wage is 2100, and the average is 4000 CUP. I guess the cost of living is also a lot lower than most countries.

Instead of cloud mining, it sounds like you need some chickens.

I can see you really earn a little amount of money monthly, which I believe with your age,$12 will not solve your financial problems, and you said monthly I don’t know how you cope with your problems. However, hard work pays a lot. You can also earn in the forum, so you need to put in more effort, read hard, and learn all the possible things for you to be eligible to participate in the signature campaign. And again, as you can see, your account is still new, so it will take time before you rank up. What if you get another job doing something aside from your job that you earn $12 per month? If you have skills, you also need to utilise them for you to be able to meet up with things.

Try to think what are other possible ways to earn using your skills or hobbies mate. That way, you may not feel the extra burden of having a part-time job. There are a lot of opportunities nowadays, especially online.

If you love playing games, I heard there are games that allow you to earn $2 daily. A lot of games may not stay consistent over time but there are new games that are coming as well. But I keep hearing about Flyff Universe players earning for years now. It's an MMORPG game that I do not like since I prefer games like DOTA but I might try it one of these days. Some are playing the game for their monthly bills so it could be worth it.

Your best bet right now to earn from cryptocurrency and improve your income is through this forum. The 2$ or 1.5$ per added to your income will certainly improve your economic and mental well being.

You'll need a lot of self improvement and self development in the area of Bitcoin. And come back here to write what you may have learned that will be helpful to the community.

I would like to know how you can save anything with a daily salary of 40 cents. If he wants to save, he needs income first.

And the advice about trading is not any better: trading is straight gambling, and I don't think that he is in a position where gambling is a good idea (again, that's only an option when you have income and some spare money).

CryptoDeivid, it is true that signature campaigns can give you as much as much as 12 dollars a day, bit it will take you several months or a few years to get there. You can try and join different altcoin campaigns in the meantime: expect zero payment in many cases, but I think that a few ones that pay will make worth the effort, especially when just a few bucks are so valuable in your situation.

Y, por último, te informo que tenemos una sección local en español]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=27.0]sección local en español en este foro, donde te animo a participar: serás bien recibido, aprenderás algo y probablemente te ayudemos entre todos a subir de rango poco a poco. ¡Ánimo!

Since $12 is really valuable for you, I think there's nothing wrong to try join a bounty project, even you're still a newbie you can join as long as you have facebook, twitter, etc. I must admit if bounty is full of scam, but you can minimize it by joining a bounty managed by good bounty manager and the funds is escrowed.

I thought doctor is a profession that get paid accordingly since it's really cost a lot and hard to learn.

You may have missed that he lives in Cuba and that he is a doctor. The situation in Cuba is so disastrous that qualified professionals have trouble feeding themselves. Wonders of socialism.

CryptoDeivid, I think the best advice you have been given is to use the forum and over time you can join the signature campaigns that will pay you at least $50/week when you start, and over time you can aim for $100/week or more but it is a long term plan, to use the forum well regularly and not see money in about 9 months at least.

When I saw your monthly salary scale, the first thing I did was to search for "Cuba minimum wage" and I was surprised there is no minimum wage for Cuba. The salary scale is base on what the employers deliberate and agreed on upon. Isn't that abuse of labour union or you guys don't have any union or organization that represents labour in your country? This is sad, like $12 is too small.

You should listen to some advice that were share above, you can earn and make a living through them but you must be ready and don't over depends on them because anything can happen at anytime.

That platform does not have the exchange rate of Cuban peso to dollars updated, in fact you can notice that the CUC currency appears in Cuba, which was eliminated long ago within the Cuban economic system, nothing to do with that change guys, I hope!! !!
The Cuban system, or government, does not pay us that amount of pesos per dollar, I show you the official exchange rate within Cuba https://www.bc.gob.cu

You only earn $12 in a month? that sounds bad. You need to work harder and improve your skills to be able to get a better job. In my country there is assistance from the government for poor people, but this assistance is given to those who are married. Are you married? If yes, hopefully you will get help from the Cuba government, if not then you will have to fight harder to have a good income when you get married.

If you are patient and contribute to the forum, you can earn money from here. Start building your reputation and account ranking, this will make you have passive income from the forum

3500 cuban peso is actually 147 USD~ according from xe.com though this wage still sucks

You can go to micro earnings board, see: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=212.0
quick disclaimer: I'm not saying you'll find the exact figures you're looking for but it's good place to start lookin'

Honestly, I don't really recommend spending many hours on faucets every day as you're better off learning a new skill with that.

Thank you, I'm trying 2Captcha, I'll be using it today to see how much I can generate in a day, thank you very much, is it sure it pays? well if it works it will help me I think !!!!

For sure this 2$ on the faucet is not true at all, even back when I was just starting on cryptocurrency i wasn't really able to accumulate that much, probably I earned around 30-50$ my whole life claiming faucet on freebitcoin website which is really popular as a faucet back in the day when the faucet was kinda thing, probably faucets grinders could earn more but today it wasn't possible to earn even lower than 1$ in faucet especially if it's going to be daily.

I mean there was no other way the safest thing you could do was find a job since it would just require your skills if you only earning 12$ then you're gonna need to find another side hustle so that your gonna have other sources of income, some members are already recommended signature campaign here in the forum which I think is really a good side hustle especially if you are already established here in the forum, but your gonna need to rank up first and need quiet a few merits in order to even join one.

One thing that you can do, is if you have skills or products you could also post here in the forum, you could offer your skills in exchange for Bitcoin as well as offer your products or something like that.