rmarshall

When my last contract job ended, I got a job delivering papers. It pays $16/hour (as a driver) and is one day a week. So, for one day a week, I walk (and drive) and go up and down front steps for 8 or 9 hours. I feel pain in my legs for a day or so after, each week.

After a while, I got another part-time job fixing computers for 4 days a week. I'm mostly on my feet all day. I could work 5 days, but I decided to keep the paper job.

I figured the exercise is not enough, so I got another job delivering Sears catalogs. I deliver about 800-1000 catalogs twice a month. This job pays by the catalog, usually 17 cents each, but can go as high as 25 cents for the few really big catalogs. But I can only do about 35 or so catalogs per hour, so I only make about $6 per hour.

I started to walk each street twice: once to deliver and again to walk back to the car. Then I got smart and looked at the map as collection of circuits. I go down one street, maybe another street or two and walk to the car via another street. So, I learned to walk each street only once. This cuts down the walking and increases the papers per hour.

I don't know how many miles I walk but its a lot. I do this job in my "spare" time. The time I used to waste playing on the internet.

Why do I do it? For the exercise. Walking 40 to 50 hours per month, 2 hours each morning and 2 hours each evening delivering catalogs, on top of the 8 hours each thursday delivering papers is keeping me in shape. My blood pressure has gone down and my legs don't hurt any more.

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