@shoptastic wrote:
@MFJohnston wrote:
@shoptastic wrote:
Dunno if you all factor in job board hunting time, negotiating with schedulers, and just "waiting" for the right pieces of a route puzzle (or non-route shops too) to fall into place into your hourly.
I might make $5/hour after that.
OOPS - wrong thread
I do... The last two months it's been north of $40/hr. after all that.
Yeah, we don't have jobs like that out here. That's awesome you get that hourly, MFJ!
The job board here looks like:
$6.00 fee Burger meal that is reimbursed
$7.00 fee for going to comic book store
$5.00 fee for a carry-out pizza + reimbursement
$65 fee for opening up a checking account
$40 fee for apartment shop
asked about bonuses for everything...almost always get denied
Thankfully, I've found a few shops that less people want to do and can get a driving and small hourly bonus added to make it worthwhile. Those are rare. They happen once a month on average probably. So, it's like lots and lots and lots of little shops you have to string together to get anything over $30 (non-reimbursement profit) when leaving the house.
That's why I don't even like to shop anymore or leave the house to shop. I have to do it to some degree to make some side money, but I hate doing it. No motivation to leave the house to do a shop that will take several hours for a company paying me less than min. wage for those several hours.
Sadly, lots of people in my area take those jobs. They practically fly off the boards.