Would you take a job as a private chauffeur?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

Looking at the intertubes wages can run ~$40k annually to as much as $100k.

I can't say I'd refuse that kind of income out of a general moral indignation for the wealthy.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. For who?

Someone fun like Bill Maher? Paul Mooney? Ellen Degeneres? I'd seriously consider it if my boss was a fun person!

[Ohio Joe]

2. Yes

Right now, aside from jobs I physically cannot do, there is no job I would not take.

[99Forever]

8. I agree 1000%

Except working for Walmart. I'd starve to death first.

[Ohio Joe]

10. Not me, I've applied for a bunch of Walmart jobs

I really just don't care any more.

[madmom]

18. sure you would... I worked for walmart, I enjoyed my job.

[rustydog]

3. I would imagine a VIP chauffeur would need to know some defensive/offensive driving tactics.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. I've been told I drive pretty offensively.

[pnwmom]

5. LOL. n/t

[MicaelS]

7. I bet hubby says you're a sweet kitty, who

Turns into a tigress behind the wheel, right?

[cliffordu]

6. If I could carry a gun.

[Major Hogwash]

16. That would tend to make you a bodyguard, not just a chauffeur.

"I pity the fool that thinks that bodyguards are just chauffeurs!"

[Bill O-Rights]

24. I was sort of a private chauffeur for years...the vehicle was an airplane though...

and the boss was a bigtime Republican but it was a job I mostly liked, did well and got paid what I requested. And I carried a gun too.

[dawg]

9. I like to drive.

If I needed a job, I'd be glad to do it. I hope they would let my carry my iPod, because I imagine the job would involve lots and lots of waiting around.

[hunter]

11. For someone like Newt Gingrich, no.

Barbara Boxer, yes.

All the way down the scale to wealthy white local Republican activists (God no!) vs. eccentric elderly entertainers doing charity events for the SPCA. (Yes!)

I think I'd be happy as long as most of my passengers were not too malignant. But I'm imagining Donald Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney...

Would I consider driving them, um, somewhere, a golden opportunity to rid the world of evil???

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. No, because I hate to drive

[davsand]

13. Depends on who I'd be hauling around.

Being a driver for somebody like George Clooney would be a sweet gig if I could get it. Having to haul around somebody like Brittany Spears or (worse yet!) Herman Cain might end up with me driving them out in the boondocks and LEAVING them there...



Laura

[Mojo on Stand-by]

14. No

I don't think that I could take on a job that requires for me to smile and pretend that my employer is always right. And then there is the matter of being privy to his/her personal issues without saying a word.

The only difference that I can see between being someone's private chauffeur and working as a living mannequin is that the chaffeur is periodically mobile.

[dawg]

19. "smile and pretend my employer is always right"

Isn't that true for *every* job?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

21. More like, every*thing*

Go ahead and start a thread about whether or not Obama's moral compass is capable of leading him to re-election.

"smile and pretend my president is always right"

[pa28]

34. Correct! If somebody other than you writes the checks the situation is the same. n/t

[Mojo on Stand-by]

35. None .....

None that I've ever had.

[Motown_Johnny]

15. Yes

In fact I may go look for one right now

[demosincebirth]

17. Thats more of a rhetorical question

[HopeHoops]

20. Depends on who it was. Paris Hilton? No way.

If it was someone who kept a low profile and had the intelligence to remember his/her undies, then I probably would. Lincoln limos are cool.

[Kurmudgeon]

22. It would depend on the client.

There's some people I just can't imagine being stuck alone in the car with.
Other than that, I wouldn't mind that job.

[sarcasmo]

23. I drove taxi for quite awhile and it is much safer than picking up strangers.

[TheWraith]

25. Hell yes. Good money and I enjoy driving.

Not to mention, how much of your time at work would actually be "work"? Probably 80% of your day would be sitting around reading the newspaper just being ready, rather than actually driving.

[quakerboy]

26. Sure

I don't have a problem with there being wealthy people, or even with wealthy people doing ridiculous things with money.

I have a problem with poor, disabled, and working class people not getting a fair chance.

Why would I refuse if a rich person wanted to give me money? If they wanted me to do something that I could not in good conscience do, sure I would say no. But driving people around, well cabbies and bus drivers and ambulance drivers do it often. Nothing inherently wrong with it.

[Raine]

28. TOTALLY agree. nt

[savalez]

27. I know a guy

who was a cab driver. He picked up a business owner. They hit it off. Ten years later, upper management.

Do it.

[barbtries]

29. probably

if i needed a job i doubt i'd pass it up.

[Quantess]

30. It's a job. Work is work.

Could be very entertaining, too. Some jobs are a font of interesting stories.

[etherealtruth]

31. Uhhh .... yeah n/t

[Raine]

32. Asolutely ... I used to work as a domestic and

most all the people were really nice and it paid well. The ones that were the most trouble were the "poser" types, those who hadn't really made it, social climbers types but you learn how to handle them. I actually enjoyed it. I could've worked in an office but domestic work gave me more freedom and I wasn't stuck at a desk.

[Jean V. Dubois]

33. Of course I would. Any honest job (assuming one can work, of course) is more dignified

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than being supported by others.

[Codeine]

36. Certainly. I like to drive and I do not share the disdain some have

for honest work. If someone wants to give me that kind of money to put on a uniform and drive around while not hearing what they're discussing behind me then I'm all for it.