@Shop-et-al wrote:
@Niner wrote:
This loose thing is painful to read.
Your clothes are loose after you lose weight.
Loose that truth into my world! Now! Bind that blubber from me! Now! (I am stuck at 16, if the brand is generous with fabric or the material is stretchy.)
No offense to anyone. What could it hurt, if a few ounces or millimeters of lard left me?
@KarenMSW wrote:
"We all need to remember that as many as there are who do this work, there are as many valid reasons for how we all run our businesses. And no, I do not run my business to benefit anyone but myself and my family. I trust, as we are all grown ups, that your reasons are valid and would hope that I would be accorded the same respect. Could I be making more? I suppose so. However, for me, I take almost all of the same types of shops (gas stations with a few cell phone store audits thrown in for variety) so I have minimal preparation time. I also can crank them out in less than 20 minutes per location plus I get mine and my family's snacks paid for and all of my gas as well. I can literally count on one hand the number of tanks of gas that I've had to pay for in the last year. As I drive 80 miles round trip to take my teenager to HS..."
I appreciate the kuddo's you have given your work as a mystery shopper, but you would have to be superwoman to give credit for all this to mystery shopping. You let shops bribe you with free gas and snacks. Your opinion in this matter suffers logic. I would just like to say that $12 for 20 minutes would be $36 an hour plus the bribe. I would love to know more about this.
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@maryanncostello wrote:
@KarenMSW wrote:
"We all need to remember that as many as there are who do this work, there are as many valid reasons for how we all run our businesses. And no, I do not run my business to benefit anyone but myself and my family. I trust, as we are all grown ups, that your reasons are valid and would hope that I would be accorded the same respect. Could I be making more? I suppose so. However, for me, I take almost all of the same types of shops (gas stations with a few cell phone store audits thrown in for variety) so I have minimal preparation time. I also can crank them out in less than 20 minutes per location plus I get mine and my family's snacks paid for and all of my gas as well. I can literally count on one hand the number of tanks of gas that I've had to pay for in the last year. As I drive 80 miles round trip to take my teenager to HS..."
I appreciate the kuddo's you have given your work as a mystery shopper, but you would have to be superwoman to give credit for all this to mystery shopping. You let shops bribe you with free gas and snacks. Your opinion in this matter suffers logic. I would just like to say that $12 for 20 minutes would be $36 an hour plus the bribe. I would love to know more about this.
Know more about what? And BTW, I was not giving credit for all this to mystery shopping, however the point of my post was that the income derived from this business is often more than cash. In my case, the fact is that my gas and food are almost always paid for. And yes, the reimbursements are "payment" because they are things that I would have been otherwise spending. For example, the 290 mile round trip to pick my daughter up from GS Camp? - all expenses paid, in "bribes" as you put it, but in reality those were costs that I was already incurring that someone else paid (plus that trip ended up nicely bonused since I was going to an area without a ton of shoppers). Another 242 mile trip that I made for a Chorus performance was more than covered by audits (and bonuses). In fact, I make it a practice to find work when I have to make those types of trips. I even did a couple of airport shops when I returned from International since I was traveling by myself. In addition, the flexibility that this job has afforded me is more important, at this point in mine and my family's lives than a larger bank balance. Quite honestly, with the chaos that was inserted in my daughter's life (HS Freshman who found out midway through the school year that her school was closing at the end of that year so had to look for a new school, very ugly and unfair), had I not been able to move my schedule around her year would have been much more difficult. That, plus the other complicating factors of competing on both an academic and an athletic team and her other extracurriculars, as well as my hobby, the flexibility that MS has afforded us has far exceeded the larger financial return that the corporate world would have brought. Another example - I took my daughter to school today to participate in a cleanup project. Were I not to have been able to fill the 4 hours with work I would have been less inclined to take her so instead of wasting my time sitting in my car I was paid for my time (6 gas station visits) and the gas that I was already burning to get her there and back as well as food during the day. Much of it depends on what your goals and intentions are and everyone's goals are different. Ours are to operate on one income while allowing the kiddo to get as much out of her HS experience as possible and to allow me to be able to afford to compete at Regional and International yearly and MS more than accomplishes those goals.
@ceasesmith wrote:
If there were any jobs in my area for a 100% disabled ancient female, I would be part of the regular workforce.