[Trampa501]

A million jobs to do

She seems to have a fairly wide skill set, and is offering her services starting from a pound a job. Obviously if she gets jobs of higher value, it'll take her less time to reach that magical million target.

I reckon it'll work (so long as she manages to keep publicising her website) for the following reasons a ) she can combine with her "day-time" job b ) Small jobs well done can lead to repeat orders c ) she can undercut established businesses.

[Trampa501]

X-QUORK, on Jul 12 2009, 03:08 PM, said:

Interesting concept, I hope she can make it a success.

She's keeping a running total on one of her webpages. She's got just £140 so far, but it's very early days. As I stated before I reckon this idea's got a good chance of taking off, but we'll have to wait and see. If she does manage to make this a success, she'll have done it through hard work, so kudos to the woman.

[Warwick Yellow]

Trampa501, on Jul 12 2009, 02:52 PM, said:

A million jobs to do

She seems to have a fairly wide skill set, and is offering her services starting from a pound a job. Obviously if she gets jobs of higher value, it'll take her less time to reach that magical million target.

I reckon it'll work (so long as she manages to keep publicising her website) for the following reasons a ) she can combine with her "day-time" job b ) Small jobs well done can lead to repeat orders c ) she can undercut established businesses.

Agree it's an interesting concept, although you could argue precisely the sort of thing better tried on an economic upswing.

Anyway, good luck to her........always good to see someone with ingenuity.

This post has been edited by Warwick Yellow: 12 July 2009 - 02:16 PM

[Trampa501]

anorthosite, on Jul 12 2009, 03:25 PM, said:

She's doing it for a house she has her eye on. She might not have to make a million.

I'm not sure about that. If hyper-inflation takes off (watch the inflation figures post-October) then a million may soon be not nearly enough.

[RichB]

awww nothing rude or inappropriate.


shame.

[cells]

Will not work unless people overpay her lots.

I see no reason anyone would pay more than £5 ph which means it would take her 200,000 hours or 55 years working 10 hours a day every day!!!

However, the internet being the internet. You could get people offing £100 for “what letter comes after D?”.

[europbaron]

cells, on Jul 12 2009, 11:30 PM, said:

I see no reason anyone would pay more than £5 ph which means it would take her 200,000 hours or 55 years working 10 hours a day every day!!!

Well the minimum wage is £5.73 per hour.

[cells]

europbaron, on Jul 13 2009, 07:23 AM, said:

Well the minimum wage is £5.73 per hour.

It is piecework.

Someone can offer her £1 to write a report on the evolution of humans. Will probably take her longer than 10 mins which would be less than minimum wage.

[I_Claudius]

cells, on Jul 13 2009, 10:52 AM, said:

It is piecework.

Someone can offer her £1 to write a report on the evolution of humans. Will probably take her longer than 10 mins which would be less than minimum wage.

not sure she's legally obliged to accept any work offered her way.

nice idea tho, good luck to her.

[I_Claudius]

X-QUORK, on Jul 13 2009, 11:01 AM, said:

Must admit, having thought about her plans a little more, I don't see how she can overcome basic labour cost issues. As Cells points out, her only real hope is for some numpties to pay well over the odds.

I think her real problem will be getting people to employ her to do tasks for which she's not really that qualified

I pay people way over the £5 an hour mentioned to do a lot of the things on her list of skill sets (catering, graphic design, event management etc etc) and she has little or no overheads so could undercut most professionals; whether people will be trusting / sentimental enough to trust her to do these things and pay her a comparable amount is another matter.

This post has been edited by I_Claudius: 13 July 2009 - 10:08 AM

[Sadman]

heh, i thought it would be one of those things where someone trades a paperclip and ends up with a mansion a few hundred trades later.