I pick up dog poop for a living. Glamorous? No, but there's a little more to it than meets the eye. Stay with me and I'll teach you something about it.
How did I get into this area you ask? It's not a long or complicated story. It's actually a very short explanation. I like it for it's simplicity.
The whole principle of picking up dog poop is about as simple as you can get. You load a couple simple tools into your vehicle each morning and start out on your pre-planned route of regular stops. It's somehow very satisfying in its simplicity.
Here's a typical stop. Unload a long-handled scoop and over-sized hotel lobby dust pan from your vehicle and line the bin with a small plastic garbage sack. Walk to the gate of your customer's yard, open and begin a deliberate back and forth walking path of the grounds about five feet in width. As you encounter a pile drop the bin behind it, sweep it into the bin with the scoop and move on. Keep up a systematic walk of the yard until you've covered it all. It's as complicated as that!
Now all you have to do is load everything back into your vehicle. Grab a large garbage bag, open it and place the small bag from the bin into it. Put your scoop into a bucket containing about six inches of sanitizer so it will be cleaned by your next stop. Load up the bin and you're gone to the next customer.
Time elapsed from arrival to leaving? About 15-20 minutes is all it takes at most stops on average. Some take more, some less.
If you get yourself organized you can do up to 3 stops per hour. The key to this is trying to make the stops as close together as possible.
It's kind of an industry standard to charge by the dog per week. Right now we average $16 per stop per week. If you can maximize your routes to be able to do 3 stops per hour, the math says we would be making nearly $50 per hour. Are the lights going on yet?
Our routes are not as dense with customers as we'd like yet. We're still a little too thin in spots. As it is we only average about 1.6 dogs per hour, which is still over $25 per hour. We're striving to add customers every day to fill in those routes to make it even more efficient.
Plus the job has so many other perks. You're your own boss, you set your own hours, there's almost no investment, you don't have to deal with the public hardly at all, you get to play with dogs a lot of the time and most customers are happy to pay on time so you'll come back.
There's not much prestige in this line of work as you can imagine. But does prestige buy the bacon? I don't think so. We buy ours after we pick up dog poop! - 29953
How did I get into this area you ask? It's not a long or complicated story. It's actually a very short explanation. I like it for it's simplicity.
The whole principle of picking up dog poop is about as simple as you can get. You load a couple simple tools into your vehicle each morning and start out on your pre-planned route of regular stops. It's somehow very satisfying in its simplicity.
Here's a typical stop. Unload a long-handled scoop and over-sized hotel lobby dust pan from your vehicle and line the bin with a small plastic garbage sack. Walk to the gate of your customer's yard, open and begin a deliberate back and forth walking path of the grounds about five feet in width. As you encounter a pile drop the bin behind it, sweep it into the bin with the scoop and move on. Keep up a systematic walk of the yard until you've covered it all. It's as complicated as that!
Now all you have to do is load everything back into your vehicle. Grab a large garbage bag, open it and place the small bag from the bin into it. Put your scoop into a bucket containing about six inches of sanitizer so it will be cleaned by your next stop. Load up the bin and you're gone to the next customer.
Time elapsed from arrival to leaving? About 15-20 minutes is all it takes at most stops on average. Some take more, some less.
If you get yourself organized you can do up to 3 stops per hour. The key to this is trying to make the stops as close together as possible.
It's kind of an industry standard to charge by the dog per week. Right now we average $16 per stop per week. If you can maximize your routes to be able to do 3 stops per hour, the math says we would be making nearly $50 per hour. Are the lights going on yet?
Our routes are not as dense with customers as we'd like yet. We're still a little too thin in spots. As it is we only average about 1.6 dogs per hour, which is still over $25 per hour. We're striving to add customers every day to fill in those routes to make it even more efficient.
Plus the job has so many other perks. You're your own boss, you set your own hours, there's almost no investment, you don't have to deal with the public hardly at all, you get to play with dogs a lot of the time and most customers are happy to pay on time so you'll come back.
There's not much prestige in this line of work as you can imagine. But does prestige buy the bacon? I don't think so. We buy ours after we pick up dog poop! - 29953
About the Author:
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