Let's say a person is already a wanted person, what jobs can this wanted person do?
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September 14th, 2009
For writing a story. Let’s say a person is in a police’s file as a wanted/fugitive person, (let’s make it falsely accused). What job/work can this person do, (day shift or night shift), that doesn’t require him to change his identity, but still won’t be traced?
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Fruit or veg picker, they are usually paid cash under the table, no records. Which of course is illegal, but he is already wanted so what does it matter!
Good. Thanks! I’ might use NYC as my setting. Do you think there is a place like that in NYC?
In NYC I think the restaurant trade would be more likely. I knew waiters and bus folks who were illegal. The key is being paid under the table.
Don’t think you’ll find many pickers needed in NYC!
It either has to be “under the table” or something self employed like handy man work, housekeeping, landscaping, or something illegal like drug dealing or “loan collecting,”
Making numberplates. Are we going to get credited in your book?
I would swear that half the odd-jobs and handymen I have had are wanted for something – malingering, two-hour lunches, no pre-planning, leaving messes behind and doing a sloppy job, if nothing else. (Arriving two months late and never returning phone calls, also.)
Possibly a nanny for a politician. They seem to pay their help in cash and not tell the IRS anything.
If it is in NYC it is easy to find a dish washing job under the table.
What kinds of jobs did the Incredible Hulk always get while he was hiding out and on the run? Didn’t he do a lot of work in diners and as a farm hand?
How about a personal shopper or a resume writer? There was an ad in our paper yesterday for a live in companion – room, board and a small stipend in trade for care of elderly couple.
Restaurant workers can be paid under the table.
Painting house numbers on the curb, and painting picket fences, or brushing weatherproofing/varnish on unpainted fences.
Our curb painters are very creative, they have background scenes they paint, similar to what you see on license plates. They charge $10 for scenery, or $5.00 for plain numbers.
Office housekeeping (the people who clean offices at night) are usually off the books, hired by the company contracted to building. That can lead to a lot of different scenerios for your book.
I was thinking the same thing, about the waiters. Just wanted to know how realistic it was. Thanks to the other underthetable suggestions. @filmfann, I never thought of that, office housekeeping. Very interesting…
@life – My step son keeps ending up as an “office housekeeper.” He likes to call himself a “nocturnal sanitation engineer.”
You could go to a place that does like telemarketing or phone calls like surveys for people possibly. I am not sure, the other suggestions about under the table jobs are good ones.
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