I feel a little confused as to why more people don’t seem to do it. Apparently you can get like $200-300 a week and it seems like there are no serious short term or long term side effects, but I feel like I must be missing something.

  • My sister did that in undergrad for extra cash and it seemed to mostly work out for her. I cut myself and injured myself enough working as a machinist and factory worker that took too many stupid risks to think being down on bodily fluids pre-injury wasn’t a good idea. Then I have mostly made it through grad school and academia with alcoholism, which I think may cause problems or disqualify me, so haven’t looked into it recently.