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Nah, car window washers.
$2 per car, 4 cars per light change, 6 light changes an hour = about $50/hour.
Edit: Since people need more help with math:
1 light change: 6 minutes.
Time to wash a car window: 30 seconds at most (20 seconds is normal)
Lets call an additional 30 seconds between cars for moving 3 feet and getting money.
That's 1 minute per car. Out of a slow 6 cars per minute, doing ~24 cars per hour gives you plenty of time to account for resting and being turned down
$100 an hour would be a good hour, $20 would be slow. $50/hr is a round average. Most work a couple hours a day.
Yes, it's illegal to walk in traffic like that.
Edit edit: https://thewest.com.au/news/perth/a-16-year-old-perth-window-washer-reveals-what-life-is-like-on-the-roadside-ng-b881029234z
$375/day, $150 in "a few hours"
Sounds like estimation of a best case scenario. If I was in one of those cars I would definitely say "no." I don't even look at those median grifters. And if they did climb onto the hood of my vehicle and start washing my windshield without my consent, there would be hell for them to pay.
No, that's an average, not best case. They can get much more than that.
Proved wrong in the first sentence. The article states $375 is the most he ever got. "Can" is also doing a lot of work in the sentence "he can get up to $150 in a few hours".
How does $375 prove my $50 wrong?
No, never mind. I don't care. You want to live in ignorance, you do you.