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A Boring Dystopia
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I spent about 1 year selling plasma; I already had a full time job, and other gig work on the side. It fucking sucked. You'd wait an hour to have a nurse take your vitals to determine if you were healthy enough to donate. Then you'd wait an hour just to get hooked up to a machine. For me, once I was hooked up, it took 50 minutes to fill the bottle.
Those bottles of Plasma retailed for over $1000. I got paid $60 a bottle. I could donate twice a week. Every moment of it sucked and it left scars in my arms.