how does £20 an hour sound?
all you have to do is queue, photograph Melanie
Pongratz/Unsplash, for the
last three years, 31 year old Freddie Beckitt, a historical fiction writer from
Fulham, London, has been supplementing his monthly income by
working as a professional queuer, waiting in line on behalf of wealthy clients
to the tune of £20 an hour, by virtue of being a Londoner, Beckitt says
he has queuing “down to an art” and will easily spend hours standing in line,
as long as someone is willing to pay him for it, “Honestly it came about by
just stretching around here, there and everywhere, Taskrabbit enables you to
list various different odd jobs and clients just select you from the roles you’ve
listed,” Freddie told English tabloid, The Sun, “They listed lots of random low-skilled jobs
and when I saw that I thought it was the easiest job in the world!”
Beckitt
lists his waiting services on Taskrabbit, and says that most of his clients are
well-to-do people who either don’t have the time to sit in lines themselves, or
couldn’t be bothered to do it, most of his 'jobs' involve him waiting in line for tickets at popular events and
shows, and while summer is definitely the busiest time, he has also had to wait
in line outside in the dead of winter, “I worked
eight hours for a job queuing for the V&A’s Christian Dior exhibition for
some very well-to-do people around their mid-sixties,” Freddie said. “The
actual queuing was just three hours but they asked me to collect their tickets
too and wait for them to arrive, so I just had hours perusing the V&A
museum being paid £20 an hour, it was great!”, Beckitt
says that the flexibility it offers is a big bonus, “Unfortunately
I don’t think I can charge any more than £20 an hour and it doesn’t require any
skill or even hard work, but it gives me lots of flexibility to earn and fit it
about my writing schedule,” he said, what a neat way to earn a bit of extra cash and you can bring your own collapsible chair and read a book!
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