Commuting - Getting paid to ride?

I was trying to think of professions that entail riding a bicycle as part of the job. I could only come up with a few:
1. Bicycle Messenger
2. Tour leader/guide
3. Pro competitor (racing, freestyle, etc)

Can anyone think of others? If you are one of the fortunate few getting paid to ride, what is your job?

Cycling instructor
Mobile advertising rider
Corporate cycle commuting advisor
Local authority cycling officer/consultant

bicycle taxi driver

Police bike patrol
(similarly, bike security officer [we have them here at my campus])

I posted a thread about this under car-free living and there may be a few more responses by now. There is some very cool info out there if you do some data mining.

Rickshaw driver would be one that hasn't been mentioned yet.

I'll find a link to that thread and post it later.

Don

In Atlanta, the Clean Air Campaign (http://www.cleanaircampaign.com/) will pay you to ride a bike.
http://www.commuterrewards.com/cash_for_commuters.htm

Most of the TMAs (http://www.cleanaircampaign.com/about_us/what_is_a_tma) also pay "rewards" for using alternative transportation.

Has everyone here checked to see if his/her city has a program like this? $$$$$

Here you go:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=190530

Fast food delivery.
NYPD has some bike cops (as do other Police Departments).

I kind of get paid to ride. Well actually I get paid 32 cents a mile to go from a central office to a work place and return. One job was 21 miles each way and I was getting $13.44 added to my paycheck each day. Bus, car, bike, the company did not care as long as I got there. Not enough to live on but sweet none-the-less.

In Atlanta, the Clean Air Campaign (http://www.cleanaircampaign.com/) will pay you to ride a bike.
http://www.commuterrewards.com/cash_for_commuters.htm

Most of the TMAs (http://www.cleanaircampaign.com/about_us/what_is_a_tma) also pay "rewards" for using alternative transportation.

Has everyone here checked to see if his/her city has a program like this? $$$$$


My county does, They're paying me $100 upfront to answer quarterly surveys for a year about bike conmmuting.:) Hopefully they'll act on my replies.

Newspaper delivery boy.

A dying breed, to be sure, as a recent Associated Press story pointed out.

I was trying to think of professions that entail riding a bicycle as part of the job. I could only come up with a few:
1. Bicycle Messenger
2. Tour leader/guide
3. Pro competitor (racing, freestyle, etc)

Can anyone think of others? If you are one of the fortunate few getting paid to ride, what is your job?

Well, I don't know if it counts in the way you mean it, but I get paid 33c/km for any travel I do. I went on a business trip to Truro (about 100km away), so when I get around to submitting my expenses I'll be getting around $65 for that alone. Also, in return for not requiring a parking pass at work, I get $50.

I get paid for all travel I do - including walking to customer sites (anywhere up to 50km/week).

I used to drive a pedi-cab back in the 80's. It was the best job I ever had. Got to meet a lot of people, was paid cash and could set my own fees, claim only a mere pittance of it on my income tax (if I so wanted---ahem), work my own hours and I even got lai---err---met some nice young women a number of times. I could take a day off whenever I wanted, stop whenever I wanted and generally do as I please while on my shift. Averaged $200.00 a day when I worked (while collected UI benefits): top driver every shift I worked, in fact. One night, a ticket scalper jokingly asked if I'd take him about seven miles all up hill. I jokingly said sure, for $300.00. He plopped the 3 bills in my hand and I took him where he wanted to go and promptly turned my cab in four hours early (exhausted) and four hundred in my pocket. Another time, two 20 year-olds from Quebec were visiting and I ended up touring them through the club district all night. They paid me $300.00 and bought all my drinks and then, after I took them back to the depot to drop off the cab, we went out to the after-hours bars and then back to their hotel. Man, I miss that job.

Where I could get a job like that in Philly?

That would be awesome .... strength training while you are getting paid.

^^^ So to summarize: A bicycle gig enabled you to evade taxes, **** around, get drunk, scam the government out of yet more money, all whilst riding a bicycle at your liesure.

Where do I apply?

Man, you're making me get all misty-eyed. I have some great memories of that job. Like the time when a Scout troop from the Yukon asked me to ferry 15 kids three at a time from a restaurant to the CN Tower and at the end they made me an honorary member of their troop and presented me with a medal and a patch and everything. It was cool: me a long-haired, skinny sweating guy in shorts and a muscle shirt having all these kids in uniform salute me. Or the time that I was going downhill slowly and couldn't turn because my passengers were too heavy and we went slowly into a wall (the bike had a single rear wheel which my saddle was situated over while my handle bars were attached to the back of a canopied bench in front: a reverse trike). I took them down to their hotel after assuring them that I would get them there safely and refused to take payment from them. The next day, right after picking up my bike (cab) from the depot, located only a block from their hotel, they stopped me and had me bring them up to the shopping district and the guy handed me $100.00 US for a $5.00 fare. Who says no good deed goes unnoticed?

Too bad they outlawed the things. They were great. Tourists loved them. Regular cabbies hated them and motorists didn't much like us either. But I say anything that inconveniences, slows down or otherwise p-o's cabbies and motorists has got to be a good thing.

Just get a job in IT. They pay us couch potatoes NOT to drive :)...a voucher comes every quarter. It's not much ... but it adds up