Question about insurance adjusters and how to get on vendor lists

[ExtraSlow]

Well in most consulting businesses, you should charge out about 2x what the individual gets paid.

Working for $21 for a year would get your name out. Probably can't get the top dollar for first couple of years.

[redblack]

$21 for sitting on your ass or following them around taking photos is not bad at all. Sure beats flipping burgers or stocking shelves.

[heavyfuel]

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$21 for sitting on your ass or following them around taking photos is not bad at all. Sure beats flipping burgers or stocking shelves.

$21 x 50 hrs/week $1050/week x 4 weeks = $4200/mth = $50400/year gross, using 2021 AB/Fed tax brackets works out to $39406 net, or $3283/month, my mortgage and bills before I eat or put gas in the tank are $2700, = not cutting it.

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Well in most consulting businesses, you should charge out about 2x what the individual gets paid.

Working for $21 for a year would get your name out. Probably can't get the top dollar for first couple of years.

Yeah I'm charging much less than the $75/hr Xp...err Mcdonald's charge but still didn't sign up for labour wages.

[killramos]

I agree that would barely cover rent in Vancouver

[ExtraSlow]

I'm just saying if you are trying to break into a new job, and it's a small and tight knit industry, you almost certainly have to get shit money and shit treatment for a while until you gain a good reputation.

I have no input about the pros and cons of that strategy for you personally.

[ercchry]

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THAT WAS A COUNTACH

Ferrari… pah

…he had both, near the beginning of the move there was the Ferrari scene, where it starts out with a red one and he goes “no, no, no. Mine was white”

[spikerS]

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Do insurance companies actually do this type of thing?

Yes, 100% absolutely. when i had a minor fender bender, the other insurance company hired someone to follow me. TBH, I had no clue until it was settlement time. I wasn't really worried about making big bank, but I was requesting $2k to cover my lost wages and parking costs while doing physio. Then they showed me pictures of lifting various things and moving around that this PI took. I just kinda shrugged and said "so...?" I never claimed I couldn't do these things...

Ended up getting my $2k. No idea how much it cost them, but, i am sure it was WAY more than $2k they paid me lol

[suntan]

You probably look really shifty.

[ExtraSlow]

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You probably look really shifty.

Can confirm SpikErS is shiFTy.

[AndyL]

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Do insurance companies actually do this type of thing?

WCB did it to me... "You were doing squats in the back yard" - "Yeah, probably a bunch of lying around with weights on my ankle waving my foot around in the air like i'm having an aneurism too... Do I get bonus pay for you guys having evidence I'm doing the prescribed physio exercises 3x a day as directed?"

[mr2mike]

I did know someone that did the private investigation job for insurance.
Honestly it was a very boring job. Sounded cool on paper but he said it's so boring. Sitting and waiting most of the time.

I think the better job is repo man. Not sure how you get into that. Talk to the banks?

[suntan]

First you have to repo a repo.

[heavyfuel]

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I did know someone that did the private investigation job for insurance.
Honestly it was a very boring job. Sounded cool on paper but he said it's so boring. Sitting and waiting most of the time.

I think the better job is repo man. Not sure how you get into that. Talk to the banks?

Absolutely. Did a surveillance job and it was boring as shit. But for $60/hr and not breaking my back doing manual labor, I can be bored for 8-10 hrs at a time given that I have no other qualifications and my only other work experience is manual labor.

[prae]

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Can confirm SpikErS is shiFTy.

I'm here for these dad jokes