> If you had no connections, money, investments, or any property/possessions to sell, what would be your first steps?
That'd a harsh set of constraints.
I think the only answers remaining with those in place are "prostitution" and "crime", aren't they?
Ditch a digit, $100 in a week, and you could do it with any normal job, stack shelves or whatever, but I don't see that getting you to $1k. $500 perhaps, from what I hear of US jobs (you did mean USD not any of the other dollars, right?), but not $1k.