How do you pay for your paintball stuff?

[IcantBelieveit]

I am 19 year old Technician. Graduated with an Associates in Applied Sciences...soon to go back and get my Bachelors in something?? I work 10 hour days, Working on cadillacs and H2 Hummer (don't by a hummer) Soo everythign is bought and paid for myself (or Visa whom i eventually get around to paying back)

[JesseB]

Sam's wholesale club pays me 6.50 to push carts 27.50 hours a week.... so i play when I want and do whatever I want...

Also I'm 18 and I am getting my basics finished up this next semster then its off to finish it up somewhere else

[askman]

I financed my paintball habit by buying and selling on ebay. each year, I invest about 3 to 5k during off season, and buy/sell them during spring time reinvesting until late spring. I grossed about 10k each of last two year, and made 2-3k each year on it. enough to pay few newer markers and field/paint fee, as well as give me chance to try out different markers.

I am old by this board standard with a good job working as engineer, but it is not easy trying to make ends meet with mortgage, one kid with another on the way, and a stay at home wife. pb buy/sell has been my second job, but I am ready to retire from it. got a decent raise this year....

[DiRTyBuNNy]

I'm 26 and I work for a software company doing tech support. Most people here know my reputation..I get bored easily..so I end up selling a lot of stuff and just reinvesting it in paintball...I just bought a new car...I play ice hockey...so I don't have a lot of play money but I do ok..

[kosmo]

I used to work about 70 hours a week, 40 to 50 as an electrician, and the other 30 at a pizza place. During school I worked whenever I wasnt at school or playing paintball. Then I joined the Army, turned 19, and havent had any money to play because the Army doesnt like to give people their pay checks.

[DWill]

Im 16 and am the kind of person who will dive in front of a truck to get that shiny penny on the ground. I am unemployed (every place that is hiring already has 50 applicants...the jobs are pretty much dried up around here) so I dig deep from my bank account from which I have stored all my birthday and christmas gifts since I was 6. I also do odd jobs around the house and block and loan my mom money from the bank account and she pays me back and adds interest later. I also get allowance but that all goes toward my car insurance and gas. This is why I am truely AO's offical bum .

[breg]

I went to Kuwait and got TDY pay to pay for mine.

[funkmunky56]

I'm 25, working as an industrial electronics technician, married, and with a wife that works at Starbucks, while she has a 4 year ART degree, that I'm paying off. On top of which I live in a really expensive little suburb, and rent kicks my ***.

So, I sell drugs to pay for my paintball habit.



Okay, not really. Actually, I sell all the CRAP I've accumulated over the years on eBay. Video games, electronics stuff, old paintball stuff, anything. I'm selling my fancy sampler right now, just cuz I'd rather play paintball (and buy a house) then have that.

[GT]

www.shsu.edu . Hopefully by this fall I will be in a grad program at ww.uh.edu and my wife has already started her MS. Paintball is not my only expensive hobby, I also mod imports. I promised not to touch the minnow for at least one year after purchase. Just like my mag project, I will bring updates and cool pics to AO.

My best advice for you younger guys, go to college and do not give up if you bomb a class or two, trust me its worth it.

jb

[pito189]

Do what is the easiet, have lots of kids, and then make them go work in a factory. It's a simple math equation. More kids + factory work = more money for you to play paintball with. It worked for me.













Or I just work my job in the summer I hate, and then the job that is great when I go back to college. Either one will work.

[Big'n slo]

I just trade for all my stuff. Usually I trade the #'s on that little plastic card in my wallet for pb gear....

[Crazy]

drugs, booze, and prostitue sales fund my game. at 17.

[Sparq]

18 - work in a grocery store bakery at early morning hours I didn't even know existed.

[SyntaxError]

15

Play for Shooters & Looters...takes care of itself

[Corbet]

I'm 16... I basically mooch a bunch of money off my parents. I get like 30.00 a week so I try to save it.