Side hustles to the front: Memphis bartenders are using other skills to pay the bills
Scott Briggs was a full-time bartender with twenty years experience in the restaurant industry before he found himself out of a job.
He drove for Uber and Lyft for a while but quit due to concerns about contracting the novel coronavirus from the many people he was transporting in his personal vehicle.
Briggs began to consider his other professional skills and hobbies he could enlist towards some cash flow. With 10-plus years of experience as an avid home gardener, Briggs launched Laid Off Lawn Care in late March.
Laid Off Lawn Care offers landscaping and gardening, yard work including edging, and leaf and limb removal. Most of the time, the work is zero-contact. Any face-to-face interactions with customers are conducted outside from a minimum of 6 feet apart.
“Most people just tell me what they want over the phone while looking out their window, ” Briggs said.
He said he's gotten an unexpected joy from seeing the happiness his work brings to his customers during such a stressful and disheartening time.
