Too poor to work
Weird, right?
With not a whole lot of success on the job front thus far in Seattle, I decided to respond to an ad on Craigslist this morning wanting participants for a focus group. The posting was essentially looking for local consumers to take part in a marketing, apparently for coffee companies. It requires 2 1/2 hours of your time for just one morning, during which you sample different coffees and give your feedback on them. The pay is $80 cash per person.
Sweet, right?
$80 for a morning of drinking free coffee and talking about it. Bring Jessica along and that's $160. Let's go with this.
I called the agency, located just a few minutes from our place, and spoke with a nice, middle-aged man. He explained that he just needed to ask me a few questions first to make sure I was eligible to participate in the survey. After lying about not having any friends or family in the marketing industry (my new brother-in-law is in the marketing department at Microsoft), he gave a few words of approval and said he had just one more question.
Easy, right?
"What's your average yearly income, sir?" Crap. Uhh, none, that's why I want to participate in your survey. Having no current income, I threw out an arbitrary figure: "$35,000."
Should be safe, right?
"Hmmm, that's going to be a problem," the guy said. "We're looking for participants in a higher income bracket." End of conversation.
I should have known better than to respond to an ad that says "Coffee Drinkers Needed" in Seattle.
With not a whole lot of success on the job front thus far in Seattle, I decided to respond to an ad on Craigslist this morning wanting participants for a focus group. The posting was essentially looking for local consumers to take part in a marketing, apparently for coffee companies. It requires 2 1/2 hours of your time for just one morning, during which you sample different coffees and give your feedback on them. The pay is $80 cash per person.
Sweet, right?
$80 for a morning of drinking free coffee and talking about it. Bring Jessica along and that's $160. Let's go with this.
I called the agency, located just a few minutes from our place, and spoke with a nice, middle-aged man. He explained that he just needed to ask me a few questions first to make sure I was eligible to participate in the survey. After lying about not having any friends or family in the marketing industry (my new brother-in-law is in the marketing department at Microsoft), he gave a few words of approval and said he had just one more question.
Easy, right?
"What's your average yearly income, sir?" Crap. Uhh, none, that's why I want to participate in your survey. Having no current income, I threw out an arbitrary figure: "$35,000."
Should be safe, right?
"Hmmm, that's going to be a problem," the guy said. "We're looking for participants in a higher income bracket." End of conversation.
I should have known better than to respond to an ad that says "Coffee Drinkers Needed" in Seattle.
posted by Aaron at 6:57 PM
3 Comments:
Wow. I can't even participate and I have a job. Do rich people have better taste buds or what? Are millionaires going on Craigslist looking for surveys to participate in for some chump change? It's just like big corporations to do that, the rich just keep getting richer.
Dang buddy. Some times things are just to good to be true. However, you are good and true...even if your not making a mad 1,000,000 dollars a year like me.
ps i blog again.
I didnt realize you were blogging again. I am happy now. I hope you are preparing something for BPD '07
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