I live just outside of Dallas and work downtown, so all day I see bike messengers carrying stuff around downtown and I thought it would be cool to do that on a uni. Anyway it made me wonder. Does anyone here use their uni as part of their job?
I guess delivery people would be most obvious but street entertainer and the like would count too.
I film events and have used my unicycle to get fantastic shots.
You have to do it at events where you won’t disctract too much from what you are filming.
Weddings, I would presume, are a no-no
Nice picture.
I use my muni at work, course I work in the woods logging over the summer, for up to a week at a time, so I have free time to uni. I dont use it will working, though.
That don’t look like Boulder to me. where are you working these days?
I used to ride it in shows. Sorry, kind of obvious but I guess it counts! Also I still do it occasionally, but it’s no longer my “day job.”
Actually I did it once in my day job (Web Developer), but that was when they hired me separately to ride around at a circus-themed Sacramento Ad Club awards event.
I ride it from the parking structure on one site of campus to my place of work each day.
I was very self conscious at first, the I realized that each day was starting and ending with people smiling at me. Even if they are laughing at me inside their heads, at least I’m making folks happy and spending less time and money on transit.
Can’t think of a better way to start and end each day!
B
I am a professional busker, so I make money juggling and unicycling. I’ve also given lessons for money. I found a messanger service that would hire me, but I had to get a coker for that, so next year I’ll be working there. My only job that I haven’t unicycled for was when I was a painter. I get bored of jobs, so I go through them pretty fast. My favorite job ever was bicycle mechanic, but I got laid off becaus a wal*mart opened up across the street from the shop and cut business down.
Hi Dan;
That was last summer (2004) when we did a field project out of Portsmouth NH., on the NOAA RV Ronald H. Brown.
Wal-mart…doesnt work on bikes…They’re bikes they sell are crappy anyhoo.
That doesn’t seem to stop people from buying their crap. And only a small amount of a bike shop’s income comes from repairs.
I’ve been having much fun this summer working at fezzies with my uni. Nipping across fezzie sites to fetch water and run errands on my Muni. Never spent any time serving chai on it though…Perhaps I should have.
Whats a fezzie? Is that a resturant or a ranch or something?
fezzie-festival
i make some money out of my unis (they’ve all paid for themselves, many times over) by working as busker type entertainer
i do this as a sideline
I have a friend who does that. At the local fair days he made $1000 over 3 days, two shows a day, juggling/devil sticking and unicycling. Thats a LOT.
I have used my uni as my site vehicle at various festivals over the years , its just that bit quicker than walking and you still have both hands free to carry cable or what ever. ( I use a back pack too).
The production comapny I’ve been doing festivals for this year have two wheelbarrows used to transport small ammonuts of kit around site, they both have UDC stickers on and are referd to by the Boss as uni-site-icles.
Sarah
well, I could use my uni at work. If I uni’d in - which is OK, I could use it to go and see my clients on. I just haven’t yet - and probably wont because I’m leaving in 3 weeks and the new job is about 40 miles away. Won’t be uni’ing to work for at least 3 years.
But I could have done.
Cathy
My brother used to work at Toys R Us. They don’t repair bikes either, but they assemble and sell them. Assembly is questionable. He was never trained (this was back in the 70s, before I knew anything either – though I did buy my first unicycle from a bike shop that was almost next door to the Toys R Us).
If I understand correctly, bike shops make their best profits on clothing and accessories. Profit margins on the bikes themselves are pretty slim, though I think more money is made on repairs than on bike sales.
Anyway, most people don’t understand the difference between a bike shop bike and a Wal-Mart bike, so it’s easy to see how a new Wal-Mart could knock out a nearby bike shop.