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Provide a way for people to go workout by doing hard physical labor for a business. The employer gets some work done and the person gets paid to workout rather than paying someone else for the priviledge of using specialized gym equipment.
The service would hook up “job” seekers with job providers.
People would only work for 1/2 hour to a couple hours every day.
Halfbakery: make money while you exercise
make_20money_20while_20you_20excercise
Specifically, work for a moving company. [jutta, Jul 07 2009]
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Employers could advertise for labor by describing the muscle groups involved in their jobs. And they could show before-and-after pictures that not only portray the -after- people with firmer abs and buttocks, but also with big wads of cash in their hands. |
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Odd, I've been thinking lately of doing this. I was never in better physical condition than when I was younger and working in a warehouse moving freight around all day. |
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The angles, the twisting, stooping and bending combined with different and random sizes and weights of objects were far more effective for physical conditioning than the gym-bound program I do now. Just this past weekend I got to do some warehouse work and realized just how much difference there really is. [+] |
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Baked. It's called Habitat for Humanity. You don't get paid, per
se, but if you volunteer enough hours you get a house.
Residential construction from the ground up will get you in damn
good shape, and I'll take a zero interest loan on a house any day.
A lot of construction companies advertise the workout as one of
the 'perks' and frequently hire day laborers who only work a few
hours a day or a few days a week. I'm afraid this really isn't
anything new. |
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But is Habitat for Humanity in every major and minor city? Am I more or less guaranteed work any day of the week? All industries ebb and flow. To be successful this service would have to encompass more than the construction industry. |
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Obvious jobs/sectors: plant nursery, delivery guy, yard work service, stocker, warehousing, gym cleaner-upper?, farming, ditch digger, and on and on... |
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//big wads of cash in their hands// - big wads of cash in their blistered hands (aha - therein lies the rub!) |
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There's some sort of construction going on all the time in every
city, major and minor. Painting, interior remodelling, sheetrock,
renovations, groundup construction, insulation, window
installation, solar panel installation, roofing, etc. And there's
always
someone hiring on a short-term basis in those industries. I
know, because I've done almost all of those jobs. They're always
hiring because they can't keep people for long because few
people actually like manual labor. If you crack open a newspaper
Classifieds section and look under Jobs, in the general category,
you'll see what I mean. |
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If you sign on with a temp agency, they always search for work
for you. I never went without work when I contracted through a
temp service, and it paid pretty well, too. And it was always
backbreaking work. |
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