Basic capitalist economics 101: find a need, fill it with a product. Well, how's this:
A lot of people would love to do research at such-and-such archive (Air and Space Museum, San Diego Aerospace Museum, etc.) but for whatever reason, can't do it. Largely due to the headaches involved with flying cross/intercontinentally.
Well... I want to step up my archival travelling and digging to research topics for my own interest. But now that I am doing this semi-professionally rather than just as a tertiary side hobby, I have much more time for this sort of thing. But it still costs money. So, how's this: if you want to reseach something at Archive X, but you can't go due to schedule conflicts, high international air travel costs, or because you're still locked in federal prison for that unfortunate incident with the whipped cream, the belly dancers and the small neutron bomb... you send me money, I go and do the research for you.
Typically private investigators get some standard rate plus expenses. In this case, "expenses" would include air travel, rental car and motel. But if you want research done at an archive I want to do my *own* research in... the standard rate could be "zero."
Does this sound remotely useful or interesting?
A lot of people would love to do research at such-and-such archive (Air and Space Museum, San Diego Aerospace Museum, etc.) but for whatever reason, can't do it. Largely due to the headaches involved with flying cross/intercontinentally.
Well... I want to step up my archival travelling and digging to research topics for my own interest. But now that I am doing this semi-professionally rather than just as a tertiary side hobby, I have much more time for this sort of thing. But it still costs money. So, how's this: if you want to reseach something at Archive X, but you can't go due to schedule conflicts, high international air travel costs, or because you're still locked in federal prison for that unfortunate incident with the whipped cream, the belly dancers and the small neutron bomb... you send me money, I go and do the research for you.
Typically private investigators get some standard rate plus expenses. In this case, "expenses" would include air travel, rental car and motel. But if you want research done at an archive I want to do my *own* research in... the standard rate could be "zero."
Does this sound remotely useful or interesting?
. I'm one of that 500 happy owners in the World. I purchased it from Midland Counties Publications in 1992.
