Working from the saddle!
deptfordmarmoset
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After all this time as a fake commuter (because I didn't have a job) it appears that I'm not only going to be commuting to work for 6 weeks starting on Monday but I'm going to be working from the bike!
To get myself off the dole, I applied for a job as a census collector going from house to house in the area getting people who haven't returned their census forms to do so. I got it and I've just cleared it for working by bike. And I'm allowed 20p expenses per mile for the bike while in the work area, which is only a couple of miles away. (Cue convoluted route planning....)
So not only will I get in some genuine commuting but I'm also going to get paid for cycling for a good part of spring! They even throw in the hi-viz urban camouflage for free
At under a tenner an hour I'm not going to get rich but that's not the point. Getting 20p for every mile I cycle in the work area strikes me as ineffably cool! The more I cycle the more I'll be able to buy a better bike...
Anyhow, I've just calculated that if I had been paid 20p expenses for every mile I've ridden on my current bike, I would have earned over £1600. How big would your expense claim add up to? Or, if you prefer, what bike would it have bought you?
To get myself off the dole, I applied for a job as a census collector going from house to house in the area getting people who haven't returned their census forms to do so. I got it and I've just cleared it for working by bike. And I'm allowed 20p expenses per mile for the bike while in the work area, which is only a couple of miles away. (Cue convoluted route planning....)
So not only will I get in some genuine commuting but I'm also going to get paid for cycling for a good part of spring! They even throw in the hi-viz urban camouflage for free
At under a tenner an hour I'm not going to get rich but that's not the point. Getting 20p for every mile I cycle in the work area strikes me as ineffably cool! The more I cycle the more I'll be able to buy a better bike...
Anyhow, I've just calculated that if I had been paid 20p expenses for every mile I've ridden on my current bike, I would have earned over £1600. How big would your expense claim add up to? Or, if you prefer, what bike would it have bought you?
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Congrats!
Getting paid to ride sounds like heaven. You are now a professional cyclist!
Have you started doping yet?FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!0 -
Well done. If you need help with your preparation the folk on Pro Race have probably got the addresses of clincs in Spain which may be of assistance.
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EKE_38BPM wrote:Congrats!
Getting paid to ride sounds like heaven. You are now a professional cyclist!
Have you started doping yet?
It's funny really - I think most of the recent cycling I've done is because cycling stops me getting depressed about not having a job (and the role and status that those jobs confer). Getting paid for doing something you do because you're not getting paid is a very very strange concept. It's the kind of idea I could only get my head around on a bike
Doping shouldn't be a problem - rehydrating with alcohol might be, though...still, I don't have to work mornings! 0 -
Stone Glider wrote:Well done. If you need help with your preparation the folk on Pro Race have probably got the addresses of clincs in Spain which may be of assistance.
I'm going to celebrate with a slap up meal: boeuf contador, ibex potatoes with extra mountain goat sauce washed down with a smooth glass of tiger's blood sounds about perfect to me 0 -
congratulations DM, really pleased you're getting some paid miles in
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Going of last year im owed £600 so thats a surly cross bike then0
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