07-05-2008, 12:54 PM
There are also other ways of paying folks than money. Should you have a task that needs to be done that you can't do and there is someone who can do the task and perhaps there is something they can't do that you can then a trade could be made. Everyone would win on that one. I keep hoping someone will offer to do extreme weedwhacking in exchange for drafting but so far nobody's taken me up on it.
When I lived on boats, it was very typical for everyone to get together and help whoever had their boat hauled out to repaint the bottom paint. Then when your own boat was hauled out there was a ready made work crew. That can work for all sorts of projects, help someone with their work for an afternoon in exchange for them working on your work for an afternoon.
This, of course, won't provide a living wage but if you can't afford to hire them they probably can't afford to hire you and this way everyone gets their work done.
When I lived on boats, it was very typical for everyone to get together and help whoever had their boat hauled out to repaint the bottom paint. Then when your own boat was hauled out there was a ready made work crew. That can work for all sorts of projects, help someone with their work for an afternoon in exchange for them working on your work for an afternoon.
This, of course, won't provide a living wage but if you can't afford to hire them they probably can't afford to hire you and this way everyone gets their work done.
Kurt Wilson