$2 per car, 4 cars per light change, 6 light changes an hour = about $50/hour.
Edit: Since people need more help with math:
1 light change: 6 minutes.
Time to wash a car window: 30 seconds at most (20 seconds is normal)
Lets call an additional 30 seconds between cars for moving 3 feet and getting money.
That’s 1 minute per car. Out of a slow 6 cars per minute, doing ~24 cars per hour gives you plenty of time to account for resting and being turned down
$100 an hour would be a good hour, $20 would be slow. $50/hr is a round average. Most work a couple hours a day.
Lol, right. Just like you can just ignore air resistance when doing your physics homework.
We all know there’s just a line of hundreds of cars, everyday, waiting to willingly give $2 to a random homeless person to wash their windshield. Just all day, cars coming through and voluntarily giving up $2 for a service they don’t need BECAUSE THE CAR CAN DO IT ITSELF.
Yes. As I said, I have read the reports. I am looking for actual evidence that they’re accurate. II was more looking for a first person perspective from someone who has actually been in that position. So not you.
Sounds like estimation of a best case scenario. If I was in one of those cars I would definitely say “no.” I don’t even look at those median grifters. And if they did climb onto the hood of my vehicle and start washing my windshield without my consent, there would be hell for them to pay.
Proved wrong in the first sentence. The article states $375 is the most he ever got. “Can” is also doing a lot of work in the sentence “he can get up to $150 in a few hours”.
Wow… So your proof, is an honest 16 year old kid who stated as soon as he can get a better job, he’ll stop, that he’s just doing this as a way to help out the family and his mom lets him because it’s a one way street and it’s less likely for him to get hit by cars. While washing windshields, he has been repeatedly assaulted. He apologized if he ever washed someone’s window without asking. And yet, this, this apologetic, honest kid trying to help his family is your example of people making bank. You’re an asshole.
Well in my area. It’s people that just sit at a traffic light. Maybe with a dog and people just give them a couple dollars when they pass by. There’s so many different individuals going through a light at a grocery store that everybody has the chance of giving them some money without feeling like they’re being imposed on. It’s a very lucrative racket in the right area.
It’s a fantastic way to earn money if you have no morals or self-respect.
Ahh twitch streamers and youtubers.
Nah, car window washers.
$2 per car, 4 cars per light change, 6 light changes an hour = about $50/hour.
Edit: Since people need more help with math:
1 light change: 6 minutes.
Time to wash a car window: 30 seconds at most (20 seconds is normal)
Lets call an additional 30 seconds between cars for moving 3 feet and getting money.
That’s 1 minute per car. Out of a slow 6 cars per minute, doing ~24 cars per hour gives you plenty of time to account for resting and being turned down
$100 an hour would be a good hour, $20 would be slow. $50/hr is a round average. Most work a couple hours a day.
Yes, it’s illegal to walk in traffic like that.
Edit edit: https://thewest.com.au/news/perth/a-16-year-old-perth-window-washer-reveals-what-life-is-like-on-the-roadside-ng-b881029234z
$375/day, $150 in “a few hours”
Lol, right. Just like you can just ignore air resistance when doing your physics homework.
We all know there’s just a line of hundreds of cars, everyday, waiting to willingly give $2 to a random homeless person to wash their windshield. Just all day, cars coming through and voluntarily giving up $2 for a service they don’t need BECAUSE THE CAR CAN DO IT ITSELF.
What reality do you live in?
Also: https://thewest.com.au/news/perth/a-16-year-old-perth-window-washer-reveals-what-life-is-like-on-the-roadside-ng-b881029234z
$375/day, $150 in “a few hours”
Not bad for a 16yo kid.
Yes. As I said, I have read the reports. I am looking for actual evidence that they’re accurate. II was more looking for a first person perspective from someone who has actually been in that position. So not you.
If you want to live in ignorance, I can’t help you any further.
I’m specifically not trying to live in ignorance, which is why I was looking for factual evidence? You seem confused…
And yet, here you are, ignorant as shit.
I don’t think you know what the word “ignorance” actually means.
But ok then bud.
I was being conservative. They’ll often get more than that.
And yes, thousands upon thousands of cars, every day, all day long.
But they’re not waiting to get their windows washed. As I said, light change. The cars are waiting at stop lights.
It’s illegal, but that doesn’t stop them.
Yeah but like 95% of those people will refuse it or not give them anything. They don’t get paid by every car. Maybe like 10% max.
If you say so.
Sounds like estimation of a best case scenario. If I was in one of those cars I would definitely say “no.” I don’t even look at those median grifters. And if they did climb onto the hood of my vehicle and start washing my windshield without my consent, there would be hell for them to pay.
No, that’s an average, not best case. They can get much more than that.
Proved wrong in the first sentence. The article states $375 is the most he ever got. “Can” is also doing a lot of work in the sentence “he can get up to $150 in a few hours”.
How does $375 prove my $50 wrong?
No, never mind. I don’t care. You want to live in ignorance, you do you.
https://thewest.com.au/news/perth/a-16-year-old-perth-window-washer-reveals-what-life-is-like-on-the-roadside-ng-b881029234z
$375/day, $150 in “a few hours”
Wow… So your proof, is an honest 16 year old kid who stated as soon as he can get a better job, he’ll stop, that he’s just doing this as a way to help out the family and his mom lets him because it’s a one way street and it’s less likely for him to get hit by cars. While washing windshields, he has been repeatedly assaulted. He apologized if he ever washed someone’s window without asking. And yet, this, this apologetic, honest kid trying to help his family is your example of people making bank. You’re an asshole.
It’s an example that people here (like you) have no idea how much money window washers can get.
Well in my area. It’s people that just sit at a traffic light. Maybe with a dog and people just give them a couple dollars when they pass by. There’s so many different individuals going through a light at a grocery store that everybody has the chance of giving them some money without feeling like they’re being imposed on. It’s a very lucrative racket in the right area.
It’s a fantastic way to earn money if you have no morals or self-respect.
Doesn’t seem any different to me than standing their working as a retail cashier. You’re getting paid to destroy your feet. That’s the point.
Plus you can still collect unemployment benefits!