Contest alert! We had so much fun sifting through the entries in the Best of the Beasts pet photo contest that we decided to do a contest for our “Money Issue” on April 1. So, here you go…

What’s the craziest thing you’ve done for money? Did you work an odd job? Betray a confidence? Eat something gross on a bet?

C’mon, we know you’ve got a story, and we want to hear it.

Tell us your tale for our “What I Did For Money” contest, and you’d get a chance to win a package of restaurant gift certificates worth $100.

We’ll print the best anecdotes in our Money Issue on April 1. Then we’ll invite readers to vote on which story is best.

The deadline for submissions is Monday, March 30, at noon.

Click here to submit your story.

We’ve already gotten some good ones…

This article appears in Mar 18-24, 2009.

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Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at...

2 replies on “What I Did For Money”

  1. The craziest thing I ever did for money was to work for Kinko’s for 16 years. Although I *did* meet my wife there… 😉

  2. Suzanne Podhaizer once paid me handsomely to acquire the blood of a virgin for a recipe. But I wasn’t supposed to tell anyone. Oops.

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