Posted on 06/23/2006 12:14:02 PM PDT by agooga
http://www.pfadvice.com/2006/06/21/creative-job-commute-helper/
Creative Job - Commute Helper Sometimes I’m amazed at the creativity of some people who earn a good living filling needs that anyone could do. I was at a gathering today when I struck up a conversation with a man who described his job as a “commute helper.”
“OK, what exactly is a commute helper?” I asked
“I help people have a smooth and quick commute,” he replied.
“How do you do that?” I asked
“I sit in their car, ” he said with a smile.
This is what happened. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, the commutes in certain sections are absolutely horrendous. This guy was sitting in a traffic jam one morning watching all the people in the carpool lane drive by while he was moving at snail’s pace. He decided that he needed to get someone else in his car so that he could get to work in a timely manner using the carpool lane, and at first thought that his only option was to start a carpool.
As he thought about it more, however, he thought that he (as in himself and his body) was actually a valuable commodity and he could sell himself and that is exactly what he did. He walked to the freeway entrance and held up a sign that said,
“Traffic is bad. Spend 2 hours or pay me $10 and get there in 20 minutes”
true ingenuity at work :D
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pure genius
He should bring donuts, too.
ROFL!!!
Silly me, I thought this was a thread about Ted Kennedy!
For $10 a day? Maybe $20 if you could get someone to drive you back for a second trip. Possibly twice in the afternoon, so $40 a day max.
The "law of unintended consequences" strikes again.
I like that "value added" approach.
Apparently Folks in SF have never heard of a Slug line.
Ask folks in the Northern VA/ DC area.
He raises his prices when there's an accident, and gets to make money in both directions.
Says he makes between $100 and $300 per day.
At $200/day * 5 days/week * 50 weeks/year, thats $50k - and probably tax-free.
If you read the whole article it goes on to say he makes between $100 and $300 a day-- that's tax free, of course.
I thought it was a thread about Algore.
Nah. 20 bucks a day and you get to your day job 1.5 hours sooner and leave it 1.5 hours later.
at work? No, getting to work. LOL.
Of course you can buy a hybrid and use the car pool lanes. Q. When does a hybrid get no better mileage than a regular car? A. When it's on the highway. So the gas savings are wiped out by the desire to get people to buy hybrids.
Hello,
I thought it meant that Al Gore was looking for a new job...
Glad to be here, MOgirl
pretty clever still, i say :)
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