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11-26-05 | 12:14 PM
#101
likes avocadoes
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 1,125
Likes: 1
From: oakland, ca
Bikes: heh, like that info would fit here...
I love riding my bike. I also love going into offices and talking with people. I'm not sure if it's the fact that I'm in a relatively progressive town, or just not in a hustle and bustle big city, but almost all of my clients are incredible. They offer me coffee/water/chocolate/whatever, let me use the bathroom. I have clients that I ride with after work. Several times per day folks who see us riding around town yell out and say hello. Parents point us out excitedly to their kids. I even had one client who baked some cookies for us one rainy day and left them out with a package for pickup. Unfortunately he recently relocated to portland...
11-26-05 | 09:35 PM
#102
Senior Member
Joined: Jul 2004
Posts: 732
Likes: 0
From: NYC
Originally Posted by r-dub
I love riding my bike. I also love going into offices and talking with people. I'm not sure if it's the fact that I'm in a relatively progressive town, or just not in a hustle and bustle big city, but almost all of my clients are incredible. They offer me coffee/water/chocolate/whatever, let me use the bathroom. I have clients that I ride with after work. Several times per day folks who see us riding around town yell out and say hello. Parents point us out excitedly to their kids. I even had one client who baked some cookies for us one rainy day and left them out with a package for pickup. Unfortunately he recently relocated to portland...
That sounds very cool, unfortunately it's generally not like that in new york. I might still be doing it if I was out your way...
11-26-05 | 09:39 PM
#103
Senior Member
Joined: Jul 2004
Posts: 732
Likes: 0
From: NYC
Originally Posted by RedMenace
i don't know... that really depends. here in new york i average about $100 a day or just over that, but i don't work -that- hard. a lot of guys make substantially less than that, and a lot of guys make significantly more. the range can be fairly wide, actually. the rub is, it's expensive to live in new york. $110 a day doesn't go nearly as far here as it did in Philadelphia. if i worked quite hard at TCC, i could make upwards of $150 a day... if i worked 'normally,' i averaged about $100. in philadelphia that's a lot of money. in new york it isn't. relativity applies to more than just high-velocity particles (or particle-like objects)!
but not in the same sense, of course.
but not in the same sense, of course.
The sad thing is that's kind of how it was(around $100 day) ten years ago. And rent here is certainly different than what it was then.
11-27-05 | 12:07 AM
#104
poser/hipster/whatever
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 994
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From: milwaukee, philly, and back, minneapolis in july
Bikes: d/a allez -trek t1
Originally Posted by RedMenace
i don't know... that really depends. here in new york i average about $100 a day or just over that, but i don't work -that- hard. a lot of guys make substantially less than that, and a lot of guys make significantly more. the range can be fairly wide, actually. the rub is, it's expensive to live in new york. $110 a day doesn't go nearly as far here as it did in Philadelphia. if i worked quite hard at TCC, i could make upwards of $150 a day... if i worked 'normally,' i averaged about $100. in philadelphia that's a lot of money. in new york it isn't. relativity applies to more than just high-velocity particles (or particle-like objects)!
but not in the same sense, of course.
but not in the same sense, of course.
11-27-05 | 12:23 AM
#105
Junior Member
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 17
Likes: 0
From: B O S T O N
heres another thing that sux about messengering... getting done working on a tuesday at 7:00. going out to eat with your girlfriend. and then having your girl get pissed because its 8;30 and all you want to do is go to sleep.
