Originally Posted by 48x16
What do you currently do? If you're sitting pretty right now and switch to being a messenger it's probably not worth it. Look at your rent and expenses. When I tried it I was only making about $50/day, so I quit. I couldn't take that kind of finiancial hit.
i'm currently an IT helpdesk "sys admin", i would say i'm sitting pretty but i'm making (for some reason)$16k a year less than my coworker who has the same experience as me and has worked here a year less, and i can't really get by on what i'm making, which i guess makes it even more stupid for me to consider being a messenger since i already expected to make less doing that, i guess i figured it might be nice to have a job i enjoyed some facet of. but yea, $50 a day wouldn't begin to cut it in cambridge for me. i currently make $46k and even with my wife making about $26k a year we owe 4 months of rent right now and have the money to pay 1 month.