Craigslist amazes me. It's the word's largest classified site and one of the most traffic sites on the web, yet there are no banner ads on it's only profits come from charging for job postings in a few of the largest cities. Everything else on the site is free. And it looks just like it did when it launched more than ten years ago. All these things are pretty interesting, but what's really amazing is what you can do with Craigslist. Want an apartment? Go to Craigslist. Want a boyfriend? Go to Craigslist. Want someone to pose for your romance novel cover? Want someone to sit in your office and pretend to work for you so that you seem busy and important to prospective clients? Want someone to help you lose weight and then help you write a book about how you lost weight? Go to Craigslist. It's these last ads (all real, all posted in NYC this past week) that pique my interest.
You see, I'm unemployed. So I went to Craigslist. And I discovered gigs. The gigs section of craigslist has all sorts of postings for temporary jobs. Most are looking for people to star in their student films or to do something sexual and sketchy. But there is a good chuck of ads just looking for people to do some really odd things. These ads were little paragraph-long peeks into what had to be some really interesting stories which really started to make me wonder what the whole story was. And there's only one way to find out, and that's to respond to the ads and go do the weird jobs. So that's what I'm going to do. I'll scour the pages of Craigslist and when I find some weird ad, I'll respond. Maybe I'll meet some interesting people. Maybe I'll make a few bucks or a few friends. Maybe I'll end up in the trunk of someone's car. Who knows?
Craigslist awaits!
