Odd Jobs
01 March 2006
Today we launch a new free service for our readers, Odd Jobs. Odd Jobs is a space on the forum where idlers can offer short-term or part-time work to each other, in exchange for cash or service.
The odd jobs offered could be anything from gardening, to cleaning, to websites, to house-sitting, to carpentry, to night watchman, to bar work… in the 18th century, we understand, the newly rich used to employ hermits to live in a shack in their grand gardens.
The idea is to create an alternative to the job system, where work will be freely exchanged by private contract rather than commodified by the jobs market.
Finding an odd job could give you the cash you need to pursue your own projects. And providing an odd job could give you some much-needed extra time.
Go to the forum to post your Odd Job.
"I do nothing and then I do something. But it's taken years of investigating idleness in all its forms to be able to achieve this. My discipline is borne out of concerted study of idleness."