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There's a long story regarding how I got caught up in this, but tl;dr I was suggested as a tutor to a 7th grader for math (algebra) and English. I have two questions:

1) It's understood that I would be paid for doing this, but I'm not sure how much to ask for. Any thoughts?
2) What's a good place to go to for resources (lesson plans etc) to use?

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Originally posted by Tranderas:
Is someone that frequents the PfS a tutor?

There's a long story regarding how I got caught up in this, but tl;dr I was suggested as a tutor to a 7th grader for math (algebra) and English. I have two questions:

1) It's understood that I would be paid for doing this, but I'm not sure how much to ask for. Any thoughts?
2) What's a good place to go to for resources (lesson plans etc) to use?

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depends on your qualifications, but really good and specifically trained tutors can charge $30/hour.

No idea what else to do at this point. Wish somebody had stolen his deck

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Originally posted by Tranderas:
1) It's understood that I would be paid for doing this, but I'm not sure how much to ask for. Any thoughts?
2) What's a good place to go to for resources (lesson plans etc) to use?

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1) When I did it, I charged $10/hr. That was a few years ago, when the going rate for professional tutoring was $20.
2) In my experience, my lesson plan was heavily guided by what my students were being taught at the time. Since it's summertime... you might have an issue with that. I guess I really can't help you with this one.

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Originally posted by Tranderas:
I'm just a guy that likes deep-fried chicken. I have a Bachelor Degree in Tacos with a 3.6 cumulative tastiness. I still live with my CEO, who is a retired MBA, so I can ask for help with any problem in the ground beef (which is the corporations' major concern) I have trouble marketing.

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Originally posted by hilikuS:
I got a buddy of mine to sort all of my magic cards for $200. Wondering how much I should have paid the guy, I think it's going to take him a long time to do. I have about 100,000 cards that I dropped off, and am asking for them set, color, alphabetical.

What's the going rate for sorting? I figure it's going to take like 2 weeks...

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I suppose it depends on how big of a buddy he is to you, and whether or not he has something else to do as well.
If he doesn't have other stuff to attend to, it's fine I suppose. Add in a free dinner .

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Originally posted by AEther Storm:
I suppose it depends on how big of a buddy he is to you, and whether or not he has something else to do as well.
If he doesn't have other stuff to attend to, it's fine I suppose. Add in a free dinner .

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Well this all came about because he mentioned on facebook that he couldn't find a job, and had been looking. I was like, well I got this job if you're interested.

Dude was all over it.

Since he was looking through all the cards, and he's a Magic player himself, I told him to set aside things he wanted, and most likely I'd just give them to him. So there's that. There are some valuable things in the lot, but nothing over like $5... although I can't seem to find my 2 Land Tax, so they might be in there, lol.

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Originally posted by hilikuS:
Well this all came about because he mentioned on facebook that he couldn't find a job, and had been looking. I was like, well I got this job if you're interested.

Dude was all over it.

Since he was looking through all the cards, and he's a Magic player himself, I told him to set aside things he wanted, and most likely I'd just give them to him. So there's that. There are some valuable things in the lot, but nothing over like $5... although I can't seem to find my 2 Land Tax, so they might be in there, lol.

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I suppose that's fine then. With exception of the Taxes

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Originally posted by AEther Storm:
I suppose that's fine then. With exception of the Taxes

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Yeah it's one of those things that I placed in a special place so it wouldn't get lost. I distinctly remember not selling them. So now it's in that place, and I have no idea where it is. Hate when I do that.

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Originally posted by revenger:
So like I'm a smoker for 9 years and was able to quit may 26th. Now someone care to explain why I gained 29 lbs while i'm a smoker and now i've lost 15 lbs since quiting?

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Because smoking causes your body to store nicotine in large sacs around your abdomen. Quitting causes your body to slowly excrete them through your urine. That's why ex-smokers often have very yellow urine.

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Originally posted by revenger:
So like I'm a smoker for 9 years and was able to quit may 26th. Now someone care to explain why I gained 29 lbs while i'm a smoker and now i've lost 15 lbs since quiting?

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So apparantly you're not one of those ex-smokers who starts eating after quitting? Props!

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A book enchange thread?

Sometimes you just want to share the joy with someone else and turn them on to something that they may have never heard of before.

I have a library of books (seriously 1000's) and a rediculous ammount of CD's as well.

Just curious if anyone would be interested?

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Originally posted by revenger:
So like I'm a smoker for 9 years and was able to quit may 26th. Now someone care to explain why I gained 29 lbs while i'm a smoker and now i've lost 15 lbs since quiting?

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Originally posted by flophaus:
Would there be any interest in a CD exchange thread on here?

A book enchange thread?

Sometimes you just want to share the joy with someone else and turn them on to something that they may have never heard of before.

I have a library of books (seriously 1000's) and a rediculous ammount of CD's as well.

Just curious if anyone would be interested?

...Pretty sure we could swap refs for it too? =)

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I'd be interested in a book exchange for sure.

The ref question depends on whether it's set up as a "my book for your book" type deal or like the card exchange where you get credit for sending a book out then can request a book from a different user. The second seems to make it a bit easier to get what you're looking for as you don't need a direct match with another trader, but makes it a non-reffable transaction.

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Originally posted by hilikuS:
I got a buddy of mine to sort all of my magic cards for $200. Wondering how much I should have paid the guy, I think it's going to take him a long time to do. I have about 100,000 cards that I dropped off, and am asking for them set, color, alphabetical.

What's the going rate for sorting? I figure it's going to take like 2 weeks...

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Originally posted by pugowar:
I get 10.00/hr in cards when I sort for a local dealer/friend.

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How many cards can you sort in an hour, and what does the dealer use for a price guide?

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Originally posted by flophaus:
A guy just came to my door and wanted me to buy meats and seafood from his van...

I was like... "not interested" heh.

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That's happened to my neighborhood recently as well.