My family has been hit with the need to buy a house six months earlier than our financial plan, because our rental home is being sold. We may have to move within sixty days even. Which means we need cash for closing costs, stat! There are various ways you can help (some you might not have even though of!), so check out the list below.
I’m a veteran, so I can bypass the down payment, but there’s between five and ten grand in other costs, which can only paid with cash. And yes, I am aware of, and attempting, all the tricks to get that down to the lower number, but they don’t always work, as all parties have to agree, including the seller and the bank. We have the five. But we don’t have the ten. And anything over we can use to cover moving costs.
So I need work!
Here are the various jobs I can take:
You can hire me to appear on a show (please first ask its host if they want me on!) or for a private video consult, or to research and blog a specific topic or question (or a critique of a particular video or article; or even book, though that’s more expensive), or to help you with anything else in my skillset (I often consult for hire on patron’s scripts, books, articles, dissertations, and private research projects).
You can even just hire me for month-long asynchronous AMA (ask-me-anything) in Google Groups, where I can answer one short block of questions or followups every day (with weekends off) for $49. Or take one of my online correspondence courses which amounts to the same thing, albeit focused on one topic.
Otherwise, my rate is $150/hour for live hires (public shows or private consults, which you can record) and $100 per 3000 words for an in-depth analysis or $100 per 5000 words for an at-sight analysis. The downside is that I can’t complete all jobs right away. I need to front-load as much cash as possible to get into a new home; then I can complete the projects. So any hire is pay-in-advance, and for written work I can guarantee completion within six months. Although live hires (shows or video consultations) I can complete within thirty days (host willing).
Contact me by email or Facebook Messenger (@richard.carrier.phd) if you have questions or want to pitch a project and secure a rate. I’ll appreciate every offer.
And, of course, mere donations are always welcome! You can always find my PayPal window on my How to Help page. Just be sure to let me know it’s a donation so I don’t lose track of what anything incoming is for.
How is it FGS possible that such an eminent scolar and writer like yourself needs money?
Thanks for your work!
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I’m not even poor. It’s the cost of living in America. Houses where I am increased in value fourfold in the last six or seven years. A modest three bedroom here is now running 200-300k, and that’s in the poorest of neighborhoods. And American medical insurance does not cover thousands of dollars in annual costs for a household of disabled people (much due to price inflation caused by medical industry middlemen, a.k.a. corporate parasites, and not the actual cost of care). And reckless driver culture in Georgia (as well as bad traffic design statewide) runs our car insurance bill up (since we are absorbing the costs those reckless drivers create). And so on. After a few commonplace catastrophes, we’ve been digging back up, and were on track to have the 10k we need to get a house in the 250k range by January. But our landlord is selling. So we have to jump now.
But, too, it is true, accomplishment in academia does not correlate with fame; and only fame correlates with income. And I’m only micro-famous at best. 🙂
Would love to send you some funds man! Been struggling financially right now with a lot going on right now. I would love for you to write a piece on one of Richie from Boston’s bitchute videos.
I admire your work🤓👍
I’m curious. Would it cost anything to have you respond to the new research that’s recently come out on the Shroud of Turin? It’s been big on the news lately and I’d be interested to hear your response to the research that has been published.
I’m waiting for expert responses myself. But I could do an article on problems with the original paper’s internal logic (it’s a classic crank bait-and-switch model, whereby the precise claims in the study do not actually warrant the resulting headlines). That would be a $200 job. I’ll reach out in email to explore your interest.
Have you considered crowdfunding for charitable grants?
Many people would gladly send you money with no strings attached (or work required), myself included.
I only go that route for genuine catastrophes. This is more of a pressing inconvenience (albeit not a trivial one). So I prefer to earn everything with work this time.
If this were something more severe (like a bankrupting hospital bill or our rental home burning down and renter’s insurance not covering all our costs or some kind of uninsured burglary setting us severely back), I would definitely do the charity route.
But I definitely appreciate the sentiment and support. And anyone is welcome to send me funds unstringed (as several persons have already done today). We’re very grateful for that, too. My How to Help link at the top menu of this website will take you to my PayPal window, for example.
PayPal is probably the best for me then to thank you for all the hard work. I was watching many of your talks on YT and they were always quite eye-opening. If I buy your books, I would probably never read them and you would get just a small bit of their price anyway.
Indeed. I have done that before, but only when my situation is dire and not merely inconvenient. For this, I prefer to earn it.
But many people do still donate anyway, with no strings attached, and have done that this time as well.
I always appreciate donations toward my work generally. You can find my PayPal window in my How to Help page, which is always running and has several ways to “tip” me or otherwise support my ongoing work. I am very grateful for that support, too.
The same thing happened to me and my wife in Lawrenceville. Landlord decided to sell, so we had 60 days to move out. So, we moved in with a friend. His Landlord decided to sell 2 months later, so we all moved together and saved up to buy our house. I’ll contact the host of one of my favorite podcasts and see if I can pay for 2 hours segment interview help you out.
I’ll appreciate that. Thanks!
To follow up on what woodypwx said, how much do you benefit from folks purchasing your books? What percentage of sales do you actually get from that? I may not have much time to read them, but I’ve always wanted to have them.
Good question.
Royalties vary by book and format. But its a few bucks in any case. And I earn double from self-published books (Sense and Goodness without God, Not the Impossible Faith, Why I Am Not a Christian, Hitler Homer Bible Christ).
If you buy any book (even ones not mine) through a link on my website (for example my recommendations list or my own booklist) I also earn a commission from Amazon on top of that (roughly 7%), and indeed I earn commission on the entire resulting basket (so if you click through my link and then buy other things as well, from shower curtains to microwave ovens, I get commission on all of them).