- People are being paid as much as $40 an hour to wait in line for others—and Robert Samuel, owner of Same Ole Line Dudes in NYC, has a staff of 45 taking on the gigs. Waiting in line for anything from the Sean “Diddy” Combs case to high-fashion sample sales, Samuel typically rakes in between $25 and $37.50 hourly, and people are eager to join his operation.
There are a lot of unconventional ways to turn a dime into a dollar—and one entrepreneur struck gold by taking on the everyday annoyance of others.
