Moving to NYC... without any money?

Kevin Vega

Kevin Vega

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Anybody have suggestions on how I can make my way up to NYC without a job? I've been looking at apartments in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and if I can find something where I'd be making $40k to $50k a year, it's certainly with in reach. I just need to get up there to find something first.

Any ideas on how best to proceed?
 
I lived in Greenpoint for the last ten years before I moved away, and man rents have gone WAY UP in the neighborhood. However you can still find deals further down Manhattan ave. The only problem is the transport sitch down that way isn't that great, so get a bike, or spent quite a bit of time waiting for the B62 in the winter time!

It's totally doable on that salary if you have roommates, but I think that moving to NYC without money or a job is probably a bad idea. The job should come first, move there for it, live somewhere temporary for a few months and then get an apt.
 
Get the job first... live upstate (much cheaper) and take the train into the city each day....then , once you're rollin'...get a place in the city (if you still want to).
There are a bunch of people that live all the way up here (Albany, NY area) that take the train each day. It's a nice ride along the hudson river and you can get a ton of work done
before hitting the city (Penn station...it's about a 2 hour ride).

You can get much closer too...look in Westchester...Yorktown Heights...Kingston...Woodstock....or even out on the island....

Best of luck! :happy:
 
All great advice. My first follow up question would be, does anybody know of any place in hiring in New York? Looking for something that would average about $200-$250 a day for an average of 25 days a month. Anything other than retail.
 
Kevin Vega said:
All great advice. My first follow up question would be, does anybody know of any place in hiring in New York? Looking for something that would average about $200-$250 a day for an average of 25 days a month. Anything other than retail.
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There are tons of places hiring in New York. The main question is what kind of experience do you have? You can't just try to buckshot like that, especially when moving to one of the most expensive cities in the US.
 
MikeFunktastic said:
There are tons of places hiring in New York. The main question is what kind of experience do you have? You can't just try to buckshot like that, especially when moving to one of the most expensive cities in the US.
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Well technically I've never worked for anybody else (other than concession sales). I currently am CEO of 4 companies and a partner at a 5th. That's about all I got, as far as work experience. As far as education I attended a Film/TV Production school back in High School.
 
Advice is, have savings before you move if you can. Doesn't even matter if you get a job that pays 100k a year, if you're trying to live close to the city and have $0 to nail down a place to stay AND no friends to put you up, you just won't be able to even get there and survive till your first paychecks come in

At least when I was looking into what it would to take to movew to NY, that's what I discovered. So I'm currently working in IT saving up so I can do it right :beer:
 
Kevin Vega said:
Well technically I've never worked for anybody else (other than concession sales). I currently am CEO of 4 companies and a partner at a 5th. That's about all I got, as far as work experience.
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I don't want to sound like a prick, but this part is really throwing me.

As CEO of 4 companies (what kind of companies?), do you not have any business contacts/connections whatsoever to New York?
 
Just remember that if you go through a broker to find an apartment in NYC you pay first months rent, one months deposit, and a brokers fee (often a months rent) right up front. The other option is finding a room through craigslist, which saves you some cash...but can often be a crapshoot.
 
Kevin Vega said:
Well technically I've never worked for anybody else (other than concession sales). I currently am CEO of 4 companies and a partner at a 5th. That's about all I got, as far as work experience. As far as education I attended a Film/TV Production school back in High School.
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Well for a couple hundred bucks in SBA fees, anybody could become CEO / partner at 5 companies. Your companies, I will assume, aren't making you much. Otherwise you wouldn't be looking for a 250/day job. So again, what kind of marketable skills do you have? If you have produced films / docs, then great! Set up a website, some business cards, and start making friends. There's a good thread in the Marketing section about how to gain new clients.

If all you have is sales experience then tough luck. If you don't want to work in retail / sales, then you better go to school or start learning some other kind of marketable skill so that you can get a job that banks what you want.
 
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