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During the day, West worked as a telemarketer to pay the $200 a month his mother demanded in rent. At night he honed his delivery and made beats for other rappers. Within a few months he had his first major sale--$8,000 from a Chicago rapper named Gravity. "That's when I knew the one-year plan was out the window," says West. Soon he was making beats for Bad Boy Records' rapper Mase, and in 2001 West produced several tracks for Jay-Z's groundbreaking album The Blueprint, using samples of old songs (the Doors' Five...
...caretakers are people thinking about where they want to retire, and they take a short-term job in a certain location to see if it really is where they want to be. Caretaking is also attractive to people who have downsized in midlife and want to travel while living rent-free...
...people needing a house sitter while they go on an extended vacation; corporate retreats wanting to have someone on-site during months of vacancy; and national parks requiring a groundskeeper during the winter. Jobs can last from a few weeks to several years. Compensation runs the gamut from rent-free living in exchange for light chores to a small stipend for more extensive tasks to $60,000-to-80,000 a year plus living expenses for a more-than-full-time...
...appeal of caring for the property of others is as varied as the people who take those positions. For Don Davison, 72, a retired banker in Knowlton, Quebec, the decision was strictly financial. "I can rent my condo, which is in a resort area, for three months and make a chunk of change that will help me overcome inflation, since my pension isn't indexed," Davison says. Still, he needed someplace to live for three months. The solution: he took a position as summer house manager at his ski club at Mont Tremblant, in eastern Canada, where he lives rent...
...home in Dugit waiting for an army truck to take him, his son Eden and the last of his belongings to his new home in Netiv Ha'asara, a seven minute ride away. It would be his last journey from his home to the house he will rent in the Israeli village just across the border. He will no longer be allowed back into the Gaza Strip...