Panhandling can be more lucrative than a full-time job?!?!

[Warpy]

1. Yes and no. I'm sure on a "hot" corner at peak hours, it is a lot more lucrative

than 8 hours at what your average skinflint pays his workers. However, you've got to grab that corner early and be out there for a lot of slow time before "peak" occurs. It also helps if your sign is witty and you've got a smile and "thank you" always at the ready.

If it rains, you're just SOL for the day. Same thing if somebody else grabs the corner 5 minutes before you get there.

It's just another measure of how low our wages have fallen that trusting one's ability to find a good corner and hang in there waiting for traffic to pick up and hope the weather holds averages better pay than a minimum wage job does. That's what sucks. America needs a raise.