Courier - My Experience and Advice Reviews
Newest Review: ... going to be physical work, I knew I'd be dealing with incompetent muppets' on the road. No biggie. If your used to the service/retail industry you deal with idiots all the time. My interview process was a few basic questions. 'Do you know London well?' 'Yes.' (but not as well as I thought…) Do you ride regularly or do any other physical activities? 'Yeah, I ride BMX and do Thai Boxing'. Pay was a retainer of £250 a week cash in hand, up to me to sort out taxes/expenses. obviously the more drops I did, the more I'd earn. I averaged about £300 a week, working 10-12 hour days. Then I shadowed another messenger on his route for a week, ... more
Customer Courier - My Experience and Advice Reviews (4)
by - written on 17/08/07 (Very useful, 6696 readings)
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It's Courier, or bike messenger bty... Well, after graduating in drawing pretty picture from an allegedly top London College for drawing pretty pictures I embarked on the glittering and glamorous career in warehouse work and bike shop staff. As testing and fulfilling as these careers were, I felt that dying slowly from alcohol abuse and boredom in the Midlands (London was to expensive for a skint graduate) wasn't for me and saved up cash to move back down to a flat in suburban west London. Using my Miarella Frostrup level of connections I soon found out art galleries only employ trust fund kids or their mates niece. I needed cash fast ... Read the complete review
by - written on 21/09/05 (Useful, 628 readings)
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Alison was an Army officer for 21 years and Michael worked in banking for 30 years, before we met in 1995 and got married in early 1996. Life had not been “a bed of roses” for either of us, being both made redundant in 1995. In 1992, Michael had been divorced from his then wife and the settlement in 1993 left him with no house and no cash after paying £15,000 in legal fees. Michael tried various work after redundancy, but found them all unrewarding until we joined Kleeneze in June 1998. We started with 200 catalogues, and took orders of £1,690 in our first 4-week period earning us £490, and £2,945 in our 2nd , earning us £913. We ... Read the complete review
by - written on 15/08/05 (Useful, 414 readings)
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We run our own homebased shopping biz from home,around our 3 children on a part time basis. We joined 6 months ago after being with another well known home shopping company for 21/2 years and its been the best decision we have made. We deliver and collect catalogues in our local area, place the orders and deliver to the customers - we have our own territory to work and nurture, the catalogue is an A4 glossy brochure with over 800 products in - items such as Ecover environmentally friendly products(washing up liquid, washing powder, shower gel, in fact all products in all sizes, HG cleaning products, printer cartridges, hoover bags, traditionally made sweets, ... Read the complete review
"On Yer Bike!" (2813 words)by - written on 26/04/02, updated on 27/04/02 (Very useful, 40869 readings)
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Me (the 'phant), in a rare moment of confidence: "I've made a decision. I'm quitting my office job and I'm going to spend the summer working as a bicycle courier." The reaction? Hysterical laughter vibrating through telephone receivers, disbelieving e-mails and numerous slaps on the back and pokes in the rib cage. "Um...yeah...best joke I've heard all day". That was the me of 2 years ago. My temping agency had fixed me up with a job which started out as acting PA and ended up as 8 hours a day of filing and tea making. I was fed up. It was summer and it was hot and I wanted to be under the blue sky, not ... Read the complete review
