Friday, August 29, 2008

Personal Fullback

Fullbacks in American football do a lot of different things. They're pretty underrated as far as I'm concerned, but generally their job is block defenders from tackling the dude on their team with the ball. Maybe it's the running back, or maybe it's the quarterback. Either way, they chew up people who would generally hurt their team. And they don't get a lot of credit for it.

So today's idea is for us to take this concept and apply it to the real world. I give you: the personal fullback. What does this person do? They deal with all the stuff you don't want to. Chores, bills, errands. They eat that stuff up so you can focus on more important things. But I'm not proposing this be a service you can purchase. It's more like a community thing where in you get a fullback sometimes, and other times you have to do the dirty work. You give one and then you get one. It can't be more one way or the other. You don't want people taking advantage or willingly being taken advantage of.

You just put out a notice of what you need and people respond, and then you respond to other people's needs. It's kind of like a favor co-op.

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