Okay, I'm seriously at my wits end a lot of time at work. I drink too much, usually in the mornig. What is the best way/company to try to get hired on here in the TC? I could do a lot of early mornig runs, and it would keep me from heading home and hitting the Jameson and putting up pointless posts on bikeForums... I'm kind of sick of the docutechs, and would love to have a or 5 hour shift after I get off of work and have had acouple of shots (espresso, not Jameson) then go out and attack traffic.


Maybe I'm crazy for asking when I can't type, but I don't really care.

I'd even be willing to stop smoking for a messenger job....

It's because I'm so fu**ing smart.
















What TF am I posting? Just get me away from my real job.


I hate it when you sober up mid post...

OK. Again, in English?

Well aren´t we all a little fed up and drinking a little to much since it is bloody hard to make a living and support a family on Your passion? (me having had a few right now)

"I cried because I had no super fancy track frame until I saw a man who had a geared bike”

i think --that turning mess. is not gonna be bliss..never was, never will be..why do you talk it up to be all that?

So you're thinking of keeping your 3rd shift print job, and then go out and play in traffic for money? Sounds good to me, altho very demanding, both phys. and mentally.

I often have to read to my kids at night so I try to buy books that I can enjoy too. I bought "Messenger, Messenger." Messenger man gets up before daylight. He sleeps on a mattress on the floor of his (apparently) one room apartment. He rides all day, eats lunch while riding and comes home at night and hits the bed. I'm not sure if this book deals in reality, but it seems plausible.

The life of a messenger doesn't seem very attractive to me and I doubt my kids will want to be messengers when they grow up.

Maybe I just have a weird image of what messaging really is like, but it sounds fun. If you keep a cool head all the idiots and bad drivers won't get to you. It would just be you, your bike, and a package that need to get somewhere really fast.
It really depends on who you are, just because its a job that you can have low intelligents and still do well doesn't make it a bad job. I enter numbers at my job, seriously a monkey could do it...but I like it because it gives my time to think

If you like a goal oriented job, messing could be good. Like when I ride, I want to be going somewhere not just tooling around.
Everything I have seen and read about makes it sound like a very tough job. Lots of work, low pay, getting ____ on by the suits. Wait, it sounds like the bike shop, why don't you do that instead, at least you don't get rained on

it's ok, some opf the best messengers i know here were the biggest drunks for 3 years, and smoked cigarettes. one just quite drinking, so he wont run into bike racks and brag about quitting ontime drunk again. he still smokes.

what im saying is, get a messenger job, just dont expect to lose yer substance abuse (except maybe in europe, where theyre spandex hotshots in lotsa places)

I smoke like a chimeny and drink like a fish... welcome to messenger life

Yeah, it's not like I wanted to stop or anything - I just think I could do something more productive with my time than sitting at home surffing bike forums and drinking Jameson... I've also heard it's kind of difficult to get messenger work out here, and don't really know any of the companies or anything.

I'm probably just going to start forcing myself to spend a couple hours on the trails each morning after work. There's just not much to do in the twin cities at 6:30 in the morning. Definatly nothing on TV. So I hit bike forums more often than not and end up looking at the time or how much that bottle I drank... or what I'm typing...

got a leg or two? half a brain? a bike? HIRED!

Hmm... maybe I should move to Funland. My understanding was that jobs out here are scarce, even in the winter. Maybe they were just feeding my a line of bull...

umm... "certain" companies are always hiring... for the usual reasons. Winter/Autumn is a good time to get hired, as summer posengers flee to warmer climes

Yea, there's always the rookie companies that take on whoever and as many as they can. Basically just places to get some experience.
But they'd be great for second jobs. Ride around the city, get a little extra cash, not come in when you don't feel like it.

...get the crap jobs, your check skimmed, held on standby for hours... ah, the rookie days