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19 March 2024

Jobs that pay Dh90 per hour - to queue up

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By Shuchita Kapur

The world is full of people looking for ways to make money and a novel one that we came across recently is one of getting paid for waiting in the queue.

Actually, this is something that we in the UAE witness during popular property launches. Several people charge money to stand in line outside a master developer’s office during the launch of at least two of its popular projects.

While these are more of a one-off thing to do for people to make money, the concept has been used by certain people in other parts of the world to make it their full-time job to earn a living.

A portal We Can Wait For You (www.wecanwait4u.com) does just that on a professional level. The company offers premier line sitter and line management solutions and promises to have people who can wait on behalf of its customers for just about anything.

Whether it’s for an iPhone, concert tickets, anything, this company does it all. “Whatever the event or product, we show up and do the work so you don’t have to, freeing you up for important things like... life,” reads the website.

And what exactly does it offer? The company provides line sitting services at broadways, standing room only concerts, open houses/interviews, Apple product launches, designer sales, for events and shows, autograph signings among other events.

Besides catering to an individual customer, this company also services businesses. They also specialise in something that they call “event line management”, a concept we’ve seen in schools.

Line order maintenance and inventory updates to crowd is something that they offer companies and charge for it, a novel ideal to make money.

For general waiting services like for events, stores, ticket sales, etc., they charge $25 (Dh91) for the first hour and $10 (Dh36.7) each for additional 30 minutes. The company also provides a complete package of waiting, purchase and delivery.

There are several companies in the UAE which are in business of charging a fees for running their customers’ errands, whether it is dropping off forgotten lunch boxes, picking up dry-cleaning, paying your bills, doing your groceries and many other things.

Mashaweer Errands Service, for instance, charges from Dh28 per delivery but prices vary across town; Genie Delivery Services does it from Dh45 per errand with Dh15 per additional stop, and Assist.ae charges Dh100 per hour.

Standing in line and getting paid for it may have been primarily limited to property launches in Dubai so far, but it’s only a matter of time that somebody makes it a full-time venture.