Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Hiring labor

[Marty Roberts (MartyR]

On Tuesday, October 29, 2002, at 10:01 AM, Rob wrote:

> There are community members who are hired regularly for individual 
> work done
> for other members, for example house painting, landscaping, house 
> cleaning,
> massage, carpentry work. These are private transactions between 
> members -
> sometimes money changes hands, sometimes its a trade.
>
> We tried out a community barter system but it never worked out, so 
> people
> just negotiate among themselves for what they provide or need. Seems 
> to work
> out just fine, with no community overhead needed.

That sounds like a good system in a larger community like Sharingwood, 
but here at TAW we currently have 13 households (our 14th is traveling 
for a year).  some are single parents, some are getting arthritic, 
seveal have bad backs, all are very busy.  since we don't have enough 
people to get all the work done, we also don't have enough people to 
hire or help each other either (all the time, that is - we certainly do 
help each other often).  We really need some outside help now and then 
or else the smallish percentage that does most of the work will go 
cuckoo!


Marty Roberts Productions
Video and Web Site Production
http://www.martyrobertsproductions.com
(707) 829-9191

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