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@taki
you'll only earn good money if you know london backwards, the slower you are the less jobs you tend to get. on my first day i was out 10 hours and made £20, mainly because although i thought i knew london well i was being sent to what were pretty much alleyways in borough and law firms down the back streets of cheapside. each package you'll get about £2.50 unless you go more that a postcode then you'll get £3 (got £4 once for a package going down to dulwich village from WC1, got lost as fuck and took about an hour and a half). you should probably expect to get about £150 a week on your first couple of weeks which, for 10 hours working a day, is piss poor.
so yeah i work in an office now. it's nice being out on the road all day and you meet some nice people but it's hard to get a good company unless you work for ages at a shit one. and even shit companys won't touch you unless you know london fairly well!