Get Your License For These Jobs Too

Posted: 1/20/2013

"L-I-C-E-N-S-E"

So what do you figure on seeing this 6 letter word?

Guns? Cars? Church Wedding?

And are any of these obvious options correct?

We say nada!

License or permits are like dog-tags that businesses need to compulsorily wear before trading off for the clash-of- the-markets duel.

A piece of paper that gives you the 'Go-Ahead' to legitimately conduct a commercial exchange is what's called a License. Well what most of us believe is that, this is a prerequisite thing needed by only large MNCs or those quaint street shops we visit for groceries and essentials.

If you were on the same track, here's some food for thought you. We bring you some absolutely mundane and everyday works that actually need a license to be considered a legitimate activity.

1. Panhandling

Wondering what this is? This latest urban jargon is used for those street side persons with rag-boards with touchy messages, asking for alms or things most of us want to giveaway. Well frankly no one wants to be in this 'ground zero' place ever. Interestingly, panhandlers in downtown Memphis are required to have a $10 permit to official panhandle rich folks!

2. Personal Shopping Carts

Before you drift to your online shopping spree, we say hold your horses folks! All you moony-eyed shopaholics might have never realized this but you can have your own shopping trolley parked in your front lawns. But it comes with a pricey permit mind you.

3. Babysitting

This was the easiest way to make some handsome bucks as a teenager, looking after other kids. It was a good old tradition. But times change. Being a babysitter is one of the most happening and well paid jobs if you go through the right channels. But that too needs a permit folks. Even celebs do too, just like our singer dude Joe Jonas and others who had to officially get themselves registered.

4. Garage Sale

Shocked? Well that's the thing with these legal amigos, you just don't a law exists for things as personal and mundane as a garage sale. But its true. Its perfectly illegal if you host a sale without a permit. Some States also have stipulations about the number of such sales a person can hold in a month. Bravo!

5. Gym-in-Park

Morning walks and the jog is all fine. But if you secretly gather around folks to flaunt your fitness skills, well that's a telltale sign of criminality in Los Angeles atleast. You might as well be booked for gathering a mob to create public nuisance. So better get your permit cards out if want to keep your health quotient up.

6. Dog Owner

Most of us don't realize this, but laws related to animals exist too. Know why the dogs wear those collar tags? Just so that their owners don't get mugged up by patrolling officers for owning an illegitimate pet. Well keep your mushy emotions aside for a sec, and go grab a license so that you can cuddle your pets more dearly without any hassles.

Hope those of you with incomplete permits will now go do the right thing. Leave us your comments below.

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