Word: shorey
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...been offering her services since freshman year. Her assistance varies from writing and editing to proofing, typing and helping out with anything and everything that is needed. However, about 75 percent of the actual writing is done by homeless people. FM caught up with Michael J. Shorey, age 35, who vends outside Bank Boston, for his inside scoop...
...Vendors can turn a pretty good profit in a day's work. Shorey estimates that most people make from between 40 to 80 dollars a day. The money is never constant and varies from person to person. "I know some vendors who make a hundred dollars a day and some who have trouble making 20," Shorey says. These days, he makes about ten dollars per hour. For Shorey, like others, Spare Change has allowed him to move off the streets and into housing; he presently lives in Lynn...
...With income being entirely commission based, location and ability as a salesperson can be crucial to profit. "You need to be vocal otherwise people won't listen," Shorey says. Any Harvard student who has walked by Au Bon Pain is familiar with the aggressive sales pitch--"Young lady, young lady, young lady, well hello...
...Vendors are assigned locations to sell papers. Shorey, who is assigned to Back Bay Station, admits that he ignores this suggestion and vends in the Square. So do other vendors. "There are only supposed to be about five or six of us in the Square," Shorey says. But there are certainly more than five or six stationed along Mass. Ave., waiting to lessen the weighty wallets of Cantabrigians. "I think the people in Cambridge are generally more generous than in Boston," says Shorey, indicating the attraction of Harvard Square. Conveniently, Spare Change's production is right in the Square...