rjt Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 Can Geocaching become a job? I mean if someone can earn a living through hunting? Life short, Hunt more. Quote Link to comment
WIZARDMASTER Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 Well I doubt if looking for caches has any commercial value that someone may be willing to pay you for, but there is an extremely small possibilty that the USGS might grant you a small contract or give you some temporary employment to find and record benchmarks........good luck. Virtual caches may have value to someone with more money than smarts. If you figure out how to spend your days geocaching for a living please let me know. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 I guess if you find enough Wheresgeorge bills. "You can only protect your liberties in this world, by protecting the other man's freedom. "You can only be free if I am" -Clarence Darrow Quote Link to comment
lowracer Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 1) GEO Supplies Online: You could sell geocaching supplies on eBay. Refurbished and repainted ammo cans, backpacks, waterbottles, GPS equipment. There's always someone waiting to bid on whatever you offer on eBay. Many people make a living at it. 2) GEO Wear Online: You could also make your own geocaching-logo or artwork and sell items with this artwork on cafepress.com. The good part about this is that once you design the artwork, cafepress.com does all the work and you get to go out caching while the money rolls in. 3)GEO by Proxy: You could put an ad in the paper and offer a "geocaching by proxy" service for executives and other workaholics who would like to have a work/life balance but can't pry themselves out of their office long enough to pursue a hobby. You find the caches and log the finds for them using their ID; they read all about their vicarious adventures on geocaching.com. I'm sure there are other possibilities... Quote Link to comment
+GIDEON-X Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 I read some where, this last year about a outfit that offered "Geocacing" weekends. They would take folks out on "Hunts" Mzee ~~~ "There must be someway out of here", Said the Joker to the Thief ~~~ Quote Link to comment
BassoonPilot Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 Market the final coordinates to multicaches in your area at $10 a pop. The idea would work just as well for solutions to cache puzzles, parking coordinates and can't-miss hints for those really hard caches. You'll be rich in mere weeks. Incidentally, have I mentioned that I keep a complete and extremely detailed database of all the caches I've visited? Quote Link to comment
umc Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 Cache Maintenance. Charge a small fee to lazy geocachers who don't want to maintain thier caches properly and you can go around restocking, repainting, drying out, replacing log books, cameras and so on. ______________________________________________________________________________________ So far so good, somewhat new owner of a second/new Garmin GPS V 20 plus finds so far with little to no problem. We'll see what happens when there are leaves on the trees again. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 Sure, why not. By collecting all the ammo cans, replacing them with Glad Ware then re-selling them to geocaches you meet on the trail you could probably make enough to keep a moped in gas or at least your mountain bike lubed and yourself fed as long as you keep it cheap. ============================== Wherever you go there you are. Quote Link to comment
+The Leprechauns Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 quote:Originally posted by BassoonPilot:Market the final coordinates to multicaches in your area at $10 a pop. The idea would work just as well for solutions to cache puzzles, parking coordinates and can't-miss hints for those really hard caches. You'll be rich in mere weeks. Incidentally, have I mentioned that I keep a complete and extremely detailed database of all the caches I've visited? There's already a Yahoo! Group devoted to free posting of spoilers, final multicache coordinates and so forth. It ain't doin' so well (which is a good thing). Better stick to your day job. Err, night job. Ummm, the blowing in the reed job. x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x I was formerly employed by the Department of Redundancy Department, but I don't work there anymore. Quote Link to comment
BassoonPilot Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 quote:Originally posted by The Leprechauns:There's already a Yahoo! Group devoted to free posting of spoilers, final multicache coordinates and so forth. Sheesh, and here I thought that even as a joke the idea was ludicrous. Egads! Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 quote:Originally posted by The Leprechauns:Better stick to your day job. Err, night job. Ummm, the blowing in the reed job. Hey! I resemble that remark! Quote Link to comment
morrillb Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 I know that this isn't what you were looking for, but my day job is as Director of Career Services at a Community College, so I help students find jobs every day. http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos040.htm This would be the largest VirtualCache, map the earth! Bil Quote Link to comment
+IV_Warrior Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 start a magazine related to geocaching, and get a bunch of people to pay for subscriptions? and if anyone takes this idea and runs with it, i wanna be on the payroll, too Just because you're paranoid DOESN'T mean they're not ALL out to get you. Quote Link to comment
+cachew nut Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 Negotiate a deal with your county to remove all of the caches placed without permission. You could theoretically keep yourself in business for a long time, as long as new caches keep appearing, hint hint. Quote Link to comment
+TheGertridgeExplorers Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 I did, theoretically get paid to go geocaching one day. I work for the provincial gov't and the provincial Parks folks wanted to know more about geocaching so they could form some guidlines on caching in Provincial Parks. A Parks staff member knew I was a geocacher so they asked me to take them out to a local cache. We took about an hour one afternoon to go out and find "Up the Ash (tree)". There were four of us on "official gov't business". They were much more comfortable with geocaching once they had been on an actual hunt, and it was much more enjoyable than sitting in front of my computer all day! -Donna G Quote Link to comment
+RichardMoore Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 I'm a volunteer with the Cleveland Metroparks, mainly in the Geocaching program. There is no financial reimbursement, but it does make you feel good knowing that you're promoting geocaching and helping others. RichardMoore www.geocities.com/richardsrunaway Quote Link to comment
+Dersu Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 If it became a job, would it still be fun? Then I would have to get another hobby, maybe at WallyWorld, saying "Welcome to WalMart". I have flouted the wild, I have followed its lure, fearless. familar, alone; yet the wild must win, and a day will come when I shall be overthrown. By: Robert Service Quote Link to comment
+evergreenhiker! Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 quote:Originally posted by DonnaG:I did, theoretically get paid to go geocaching one day. I work for the provincial gov't and the provincial Parks folks wanted to know more about geocaching so they could form some guidlines on caching in Provincial Parks. A Parks staff member knew I was a geocacher so they asked me to take them out to a local cache. We took about an hour one afternoon to go out and find "Up the Ash (tree)". There were four of us on "official gov't business". They were much more comfortable with geocaching once they had been on an actual hunt, and it was much more enjoyable than sitting in front of my computer all day! -Donna G I could see a Fish and Wildlife tech getting to bag a couple of caches on their surveys if near some caches. When I was such a tech ten years ago, my job was to creel for anglers in the Priest Rapids/Hanford Reach section of the Columbia River. One day a week, I'd be assigned to a very remote boat launch called Parking Lot 7 at end of a gravel road that heads up north from Ringold Fish Hatchery. Anyway, one day I brought my fishing pole and egg clusters to try for the salmon. Didn't get any salmon,but I caught 25 channel catfish...catcyh and release. Smallest was 3 lbs and the largest about 8 lbs. Great way to keep one busy. Boats didn't show up til last two hours of shift. My boss didn't mind at all. As long it didn't effect my work that was fine with him. Quote Link to comment
rjt Posted April 5, 2003 Author Share Posted April 5, 2003 quote:If it became a job, would it still be fun?Then I would have to get another hobby, maybe at WallyWorld, saying "Welcome to WalMart". I just want my job also to be my fun. If my job is hunting, I won't hate job anymore. What kind of the job is will affect its fun or not. Life short, Hunt more. Quote Link to comment
+MercRocks Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 I got a couple weeks work with a local surveyor looking for 1895 corner posts. He had to resurvey them in for a new mine lease. As a added bonus, I also learned how to run transverse lines as well. Sure was neat to find the old posts if we were lucky, or the witness posts. Original survey listed 8" fir, Now 35" tree hardly anything showing , we cut into it and sure enough there's the roman numerals cut over 100 years ago...Wow...Got me interested in learning how to be a differential GPS operator...Now wouldn't that be a nice GPS to cache with..........R Without your brain, a map is a piece of coloured paper, a compass is a glorified magnet, and a GPS is a waterproof battery case." " FSAR " Quote Link to comment
+cachew nut Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 quote:Originally posted by MercRocks: Original survey listed 8" fir, Now 35" tree hardly anything showing , we cut into it and sure enough there's the roman numerals cut over 100 years ago...Wow Wow is right! You would think that after 100 years that tree would have grown more than 2.25' You must mean diameter or circumference of the trunk. Can you describe how you cut into it? Quote Link to comment
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