Cartoneros are the city’s recycling program. Men and sometimes children from the villas miserias (aka slums) come into the city and wheel around a cart collecting the cardboard and paper products from the trash that litters the city.  You see them in every neighborhood at all hours of the day. When I first got here, […]

In a continuation of the Odd Jobs Series, I am highlighting expat tour guides who have found their niche in Buenos Aires.   Last time, I interviewed Jonny and Marina from Graffitimundo. Next up…. Meet Chance from BA LOCAL. BA LOCAL provides private tours, including city tours, off-the-beaten-path tours, shopping tours, art tours, and Jewish tours. […]

In the previous Odd Jobs for expats interview, you met Jonathan from Buenos Aires Local Tours. Next up . . . Jonny and Marina from Graffitimundo What is your tourism niche in BA? As part of our project graffitimundo, we run guided tours of Buenos Aires street art and graffiti. We know many of the artists […]

We’ve covered the dog walkers and the human billboards.  Now I present an odd job for expats. The Tour Guide Buenos Aires is such a huge, exciting city with lots of history, grand architecture, diverse artwork, high-end fashion, and much more.  Because of all of this, there are a lot of tour guides in this […]

Advertising is done differently in this part of the world. Sure, we have people dress up in silly costumes and hold signs to draw in customers in the US. But this is different.  This seems much worse. Human Billboards This is on Avenida Santa Fe at Plaza Italia, one of the busiest parts of the […]

I decided to do a series on odd jobs in Buenos Aires because ,well, I find some of the jobs I’ve seen people doing here quite interesting. If you travel to Buenos Aires on one of those cheap holiday offers, you will definitely notice the first odd job featured in this post. The first odd […]