Job as a courier / messenger?

isn't there already enough message services? most phone companys give free texts! and you can use many online sms services for free also. sounds like a busy market to be entering

isn't there already enough message services? most phone companys give free texts! and you can use many online sms services for free also. sounds like a busy market to be entering

Messenger/Courier service.......carrying A4 and A3 packages. Not Message service.

Can an A3 artwork be sent by sms?

JesusTapdancingChrist! Where do we find these people?

EDIT: Maybe he was trying to be funny. D- (D minus).

i did but i shot it in the face. serious comments please

Here - http://www.movingtargetzine.com/article/london-fgss-new-web-site-for-fixies

i did but i shot it in the face. serious comments please

Trying to decode this but can't. Anyway, I advise you to get on your bike and get a job as a courier. This will answer your questions and make you see how absurd they are. Asking on an internet forum in the hopes of setting up a business seems a recipe for disaster, and for that reason, I'm out.

and for that reason, I'm out.

lol

and for that reason, I'm out.

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if anyone know of a good place where to start, this month - let me know, please.

Courier Systems told me about 3/4 weeks ago that they're gagging for riders because of crashes over Christmas and big new contracts. Start there, email this guy:

david.wilks at couriersys dot co dot uk

Say you're responding to a Gumtree ad.

Courier Systems told me about 3/4 weeks ago that they're gagging for riders because of crashes over Christmas and big new contracts.

They've been saying that for the last 3+ years!!

thank you very much. if i get a job there - i owe you a pint or three. :]

They've been saying that for the last 3+ years!!

That's what a couple of people have said to me, but he offered me a job there and then. I would have taken it but circumstances changed and I'm going down a different path.

^you mean the medicine started to kick in?

Ha! I think it's the other way round. I turned down paid work for unpaid work. I must be retarded.

smells like an unpaid media internship to me!

smells like an unpaid media internship to me!

Loads of places are pulling this stunt the now and idiots fall for it....

that's right, make him feel good.

Ha! I think it's the other way round. I turned down paid work for unpaid work. I must be retarded.

errr...i had goats cheese and spinach.

Media internship! I ain't no lackey. It's a teaching internship... which is probably no better.

Loads of places are pulling this stunt the now and idiots fall for it....

Just the way things are, definitely in the design industry— it's pretty much standard practice..

Just the way things are, definitely in the design industry— it's pretty much standard practice..

It is pretty standard practice and it's making a mockery of the design professions. Talented young designers are looking to other industries (to which they are often poorly equiped) as they cant afford to work for nothing.

I know lots of practices who do this and charge their clients for the time. It's just greedy and there's no excuse for it.... Cunts.

...and don't get me wrong it isn't just the practices that are at fault, working for free is not only stupid but is effectively being a scab, as in people who work during a strike. Well actually it's much worse 'cos strikes are associated with corrupt trade unions and don't always represent the workers and scabs often have a family to feed etc. working for free doesn't feed anyone.

It is pretty standard practice and it's making a mockery of the design professions. Talented young designers are looking to other industries (to which they are often poorly equiped) as they cant afford to work for nothing.

I know lots of practices who do this and charge their clients for the time. It's just greedy and there's no excuse for it.... Cunts.

...and don't get me wrong it isn't just the practices that are at fault, working for free is not only stupid but is effectively being a scab, as in people who work during a strike. Well actually it's much worse 'cos strikes are associated with corrupt trade unions and don't always represent the workers.

+1

Another problem with the internship culture is that it dosent make for a competitive market and allows stagnant design practices to carry on leading the industry. It's rapidly meaning that cities like London are coming close to loosing their cutting edge status within the design world.

It also means that the people getting into industry are generally not the best equipped rather the ones who can afford to intern for months on end (so people with family in London or *the rich).

*I really think that unpaid internships should be made illegal for the good of inumerable industries. It would help growth within those industries and also increase the competition within the market.

May I also take this opportunity to denounce the University of the Arts as a criminal organisation

p.s I graduated four years ago with an upper 2:1 Ba honors degree and I'm now working as a courier.

Your absolutely bang on. People with family ties/links/monies get a head start in an already over saturated industry.