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Do you spend hours adjusting your dating profile in online matchmaking sites and browsing through endless profiles? What if you could outsource the task of finding your dream date to a team of people working 24 hours a day around the globe?

Tim Ferriss, a man who lives in San Jose and believes in outsourcing mundane tasks in one’s life, did just that.

After failing at several attempts to find love online and as a social experiment, Tim decided to contract out the work of finding him a date to various outsourcing teams. The teams he hired were located all over the world in India, Jamaica, among other places.

Some problems encountered during the process including one of the team just got too “creative” and decided to impersonate Tim in online conversations. Also, some outsourcing teams just plainly gave up as they couldn’t grasp the concept.

Publicity stunt or not, it seems like the team of contractors did actually deliver around 20 potential dates for Tim to pick from at the end.

Here’s the link to the original article in San Jose Mercury News.

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