Originally Posted by Treespeed
It's so much more than the money or freedom. ...better yet, the look of pure envy on the office drones during one of those rare sunny days when they are all stuck inside and they know that you are outside riding a bike for a living.
I don't get it, first you say it's so much more than freedom. Then you go on to describe that the advantage of being a messenger is basically back to freedom, but then going back to it, I had even more freedo mand more pay...
I had the freedom to go outside on a "rare" sunny day (85% of all the days in NYC are sunny in the summer usually) and take a 4 hour lunch break and do damn near nothing and I still got paid. I think that's even MORE freedom than what messengers have.
Forgive me if I think that while someone's stuck "having" to deliver stuff back and forth to get paid on a sunny day, I can be out riding where ever the hell I want outside the city on nice roads with fresh country air and I *still* get paid whereas if a messenger did that and stopped delivering, they *won't* get paid.
Maybe you can help me cause I'm really confused on this issue. Are you trying to say that it's better to be riding through dense traffic everyday for 8 hours hauling packages and being paid more to pretty much do absolutely nothing more than throw in 2-3 hours of analysis time a day is somehow WORSE?
Not everyone sees a stressful 8-6, 51 week, $350,000/yr job as the end all to happiness.
Not everyone sees a dangerous, 5 days a week riding through dense traffic making $35,000 a year if you're lucky as the end all to happiness.
But if someone's paying double that for 20 hours of work a week while you can pretty much sit on your ass (or saddle) and do whatever you want, I'm sure most people here would gladly take that over the 35k/yr job.