Why It's Worth Your Time To Pick Up A Penny

Ok how many people out there are working a part-time minimum wage or slightly-above-minimum-wage job? Would you like to earn a little extra cash for the amount of time you spend doing work? Would you like to feel better about yourself knowing that when you put effort into something, you're getting back a value that you deserve? I have the perfect solution to both of those things and it just takes seconds. Pick up pennies.

If you're walking along a sidewalk, and you see a penny, it takes probably around 2 seconds to stop, pick up the penny, and keep walking. That works out to about 30 pennies per minute. Extend that to an hour and you make about 18 dollars. Who wouldn't want to make $18 an hour? It's a pretty decent wage, probably around $36,000 a year, which sits you just nicely under the first tax bracket in Canada. Now according to The Independent, there are about 300 billion pennies in existence in the United States alone. That's 300,000,000,000 for those of you that aren't math majors. You're only looking for a mere 3,600,000 pennies to make your yearly wage. That's only 0.0012% of all the pennies in existence! The average penny is about 3 grams, so you'd be carting around 10,800,000 grams, or 23,810 pounds of pennies. Imagine the biceps! Ladies all over you! I honestly don't see a bad side to this lifestyle. On the other hand, if you sit at your nice job that pays more than $18 an hour, don't bother. I'm sure you're living the high life and then some.

Ok, I realize this has nothing to do with technology, but where is it written that I have to stick to what my blog title says? I used Windows Calculator to calculate numbers and Google for finding random quick facts. Both were excellent tools in this case. Good thing floating point numbers weren't involved, or I'd have to go on a rant about the inaccuracies of binary representation of floating point values. Sheesh.