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.
I did it back in college but it kinda sucks. I had weird bruises all the time, sometimes I’d get turned away for not having juicy enough veins, sometimes it hurt to get jabbed. Not a fun experience but it got me by.
It also sucks that they’re allowed to call it “donating” when these companies primarily sell and export your plasma for profit. It’s selling blood to vampires.
If I just get a bruise here and there it wouldn’t be a big deal to me, as long as they heal. Just more literal than the usual means by which the vampires feed off of me.
I guess I’m just wondering if there’s any way in which it is particularly worse than other forms of exploitation.
Always wondered why those places exist but there’s nowhere that will pay you for whole blood. A little bit too on-the-nose?
The plasma centers make medicines from your antibodies and shit. Technically you aren’t selling your plasma, and it is a donation, but they are Just compensating you for your time. That’s the loophole I guess
Idk why blood banks don’t pay except for a $10 amazon gift card or a tshirt here and there. Maybe they just have enough public goodwill and there is still enough altruism left in this world
HRT bars me from I have learned
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.
