Carlos Augusto is divorced and lives together with his to children and his father in Cocotá, a middle class district in the north of Rio. Despite having a secondary school graduation, he was not able to find a job which paid sufficient to feed his children.
He got around selling in public-transport buses through his neighbour who earned well working this way. At the end of the 90ties Carlos Augusto also earned very well because of the strong national currency and thereby low prices and high spending capacity. He could even send his children to a private school. With the devaluation of the Real and the increasing number of hawkers in buses his profits collapsed. Furthermore many bus enterprises forbid their drivers to let the hawkers enter. Carlos Augusto was temporarily obliged to send his children to a public school. Today his ex-wife pays the children’s private school.
Carlos Augustos Familie beim Mittagessen
The ware Carlos Augusto offers to he bus passengers are mainly eucalypt pastilles, which he purchases in the sweet shops in the back of the central station (Central do Brasil). Close to there, on a small square, he prepares his ware for sales and waits on one of Rios main transit axis, the Avenida Getúlio Vargas, for a bus driver who lets him enter. After presentation of the product and sales he debarks and waits until he is allowed to enter the next bus. Carlos Augusto works today on the route Centro-Praia do Flamengo-Praia de Botafogo (see >>> interactive city map)
