Part-time Jobs to Acquire BI-type Skills
Window cleaner: Thief
Pretty much of all kinds, most common forms being burglary and petty theft (people who leave shit in their back gardens) etc. There’s been many times when I worked this job and I just split the ladder in half, placed one on the other side of the gate and climbed over, no questions asked.
You don’t actually have to be a window cleaner, just look the part with the materials and typical window cleaning attire. You could follow a cleaner for a while (say for about a month), get to know all of his rounds and how often he comes to do them. Take advantage of this, most people don’t even check when they hear the clanging of ladders, they just asusme it’s their window cleaner (if they’re in, often a fair few of them aren’t in during the day as they go to work), the rest of the community think nothing of it and you’re just their window cleaner so you won’t look suspicious.
Not to mention, once you get into it and do it quickly and get your prices right you can make a fair bit of money within the week. £500 a week atleast if you’ve got a good round. So it’s not an awful job if you want to go legit either, but fuck declaring tax. That’s an advantage to being self-employed your tax isn’t instantly deducted.
There’s various scams to pull on window cleaners and their customers too, but that warrants a thread of its own. Just not being caught out by the regular window cleaner is what you have to be careful of, myself and most other window cleaners I know definitely don’t take kindly to that shit.
Anything you set your mind to really, even a janitor of a corporate building could end up robbing the place easily. It’s all about taking opportunites, thus coming back to the window cleaner example, no one was occupying the house on the day I took this and the windows were wide open, obviously a ladder would be needed to get to the flat roof below the window. If I were so inclined and was that type of person (which I’m not) I could have burgled the shit out of the house.
Unlike in Scotland, there is no government licensing in The United States, England or Wales – this means anyone can claim to be a window cleaner.
Forensics: Self-explanitary
Pharmacist: Self-explanitary
Gym and security guard or bouncer work too.
Tax man: Help out your fellow criminals
This post was mine which spurred off from Entropy’s original post on zoklet:
There’s a somewhat common pattern of criminals going straight and using the skills they gained in a legitimate manner, especially in tech-related fields (think Kevin Mitnick). It seems that going the opposite direction makes a lot more sense and involves less jail time. If you gain the skills and knowledge legitimately and then apply them illegitimately, you decrease the likelihood of being caught or doing a shit job, because you’re already experienced. Something more along the lines of Breaking Bad, basically.
I’m looking for ideas of what kind of easily acquirable jobs could help contribute to a future criminal’s skillset. Obviously working for various government agencies (SSA, for example) would be helpful in terms of knowledge, but would be disastrous because you’d be in the system and therefore easily caught. I’m thinking more along the lines of working at a print shop to get experience that you can apply to counterfeiting, things like that.
I’m writing a novel about a career criminal who used this method to gain experience, and want to make it as accurate as possible.
