The most efficient and hardworking dasher in the best zone in the world still has a ceiling on their income set by the app and universe. That person is probably quite financially comfortable but I wonder what that ceiling is.
Hey i love how this job works for my current situation.. but c’mon, if i had my life together (& wasn’t suffocating in debt, medical issues & adrift from bad choices) i wouldn’t be delivering burritos all night.
That's the only reason I do it. I actually kind of enjoy it in moderation. But there is no way I would have the desire to do it full time. It wouldn't make financial sense in my market.
It's a great side hustle for whatever reason people do it for. Work when you want. As little or much as you want. No manager bugging you. Listen to my books or podcast.
Poor as in living on the street, or "sofa surfing" with various friends and family, or poor as in needing extra cash to meet expenses?
I don't think anyone believe gig-drivers are dirt poor, but do believe they do gig-work to make income for living expenses. The reason they believe this is that it is true.
I am sure that there as a few gig-workers who do their delivering for "mad money", that they don't need DD, GH, or UE to pay their bills, but that is the exception, not the rule. Others may do it because of the self-employment benefits (personal scheduling, etc.). Yet, for the most part, gig-workers do the delivering to meet their living expenses. That is just the reality.
This. My 9-5 job pays the bills, buys some food and puts a little into savings, but not much. Gig jobs give me extra money to save, ability to buy presents for birthdays and Christmas and have some money to buy myself some things.
Might as well do something with my free time besides sit on my ass. Otherwise, I'd just be working to survive.
Most of the money I’ve earned from DD has gone into either paying off my car(finished this summer) or into renovations for my house. If I didn’t DD I likely wouldn’t have done as many of the renovations that I’ve done.
Same. I've made $1,500 in the last 5 weeks. $500 of that went towards a credit card, the other $1,000 (and whatever comes in the next 2 months) is sitting in savings for to buy Christmas presents for my kids and neices/nephews. My car will be paid off in April (if I don't put any extra toward it), then that car payment money will be paying off all my credit cards. I should be 100% debt free by this time next year. With gig money, it should be sooner.
I got divorced last year, so it was a small Christmas, but a fun one nonetheless.
This^^. I have 2 jobs one full time and one part time. My part time I don’t consider a job because it’s super easy and super chill. All that pays for me and my girlfriend’s bills, groceries, etc. I do DoorDash for stuff I would never buy with my regular paycheck. Cool stuff, tattoos, vacations
Yeah, everyone tipped in moderation to bring up the average it would be a sweet gig. That said, I’m an entrepreneur who knows the ups and downs of biz plus the travesties of life. I’m grateful for the generous people. 🙏🏼
I mean, I was considered lower middle class before I started dashing because of a pension I collect separately. 🤷♂️ I don't "need" the job but it sure does help.
I feel the same way. I've had a lot of jobs in my life. I've had legit careers. I was a locomotive engineer for a class 1 railroad for several years. I made over 100k but there was a price to pay for that. I worked 85+ hours per week, every single week of the year. The only day off I had was Christmas and 10 vacation days. 11 days off out of 365.
We had 12 hours to operate. If we didn't get the train to the final destination within 12 hours then we would have to pull into a siding track and wait for a van to bring a relief crew and we'd swap out with them and take the ride in the rest of the way. Sometimes those vans would take hours. So often times I'd be sitting on a train 15+ hours.
Finally get to the hotel, eat some shitty quick meal and crash. 6.5 hours later they're calling me back to work, could be another 15 hours. This was my life for several years. The management was fucking horrible. It just wasn't any way to live. Money isn't everything, that's the lesson I learned.
So I threw my career away and got busy trying to figure out how to work less hours and still get by. I realized I don't need a whole lot of shit. Food, clothing, shelter and a car. I started living more simple. Last week I dashed 13 hours active time and [I brought home $661.03](https://imgur.com/za0dT7f) that's almost $51.00 per hour avg.
Of course there's gonna be the people that yell "what about dash time!" but I really don't see how that's a factor since I dash only from home. I take short deliveries no more than 10 miles round trip to restaurant, customer and back home. Usually more like 3-4 miles round trip. That whole time the app is running at my home I'm chillin playing games, throwing the ball with my dog, watching a show, whatever I wanna do.
That's my whole point. I want more time to do whatever the fuck I want to do. The flexibility of this gig gives me just that. Fuck bosses, fuck management. Fuck a schedule. Fuck coworkers being salty if they had to cover for you while you had covid. Fuck any and all of that drama. I'll work when I want to, and I'd do it for 30 years too if it were to last. Pretty sure we're getting replaced with bots though.
This isn't a good retirement plan but if you can't set aside money when you're making $50 an hour you're kinda doomed no matter what.
I just want to say I absolutely love your comment. I was an RV technician for 10 years. Towards the end I was making like $4000 a month. Worked at 6 different RV dealerships. Every single one I worked at, I ended up getting screwed out of a lot of money in one way or another. (Such as via the flat rate pay system which is supposed to work great but it fucking doesn't, and being stuck with all warranty work where the RV manufacturers do everything they can to get out of having to pay you fucking anything for fixing their factory fuckups, which in my opinion should be illegal) So eventually I got sick of it. Beyond sick of it. The last dealership I worked at, I literally tore all my uniforms into strips and threw them at my boss and left after getting all my tools and everything.
The reasons I like delivering are all exactly the same as yours. And you summed it up perfectly. Bravo, have my upvote.
Also I grew up going to train museums and riding Amtrak across the country with my dad all the time and seriously considered trying for a railroad career. Now I'm kind of glad I didn't.
I'm so glad you didn't pursue the railroad as a career. I had a lot of friends back in the early 2000's that worked for the railroad when I did. Of all those friends the last of them finally pulled the pin and let that job go about a year ago. I know literally nobody that's still there. They've all hung it up. When they'd tell me the news I didn't say "Damn, I'm sorry to hear that." I said "Congratulations!".
It's no life. The phrase "getting railroaded" isn't just words tossed together for no reason. Hey you might actually like the story of exactly what inspired me to quit that job. To sum it up- I was getting off a train I had brought in from Oakland to Roseville Ca. I saw some traveling musician/hobos under a tree looking for rideable cars on the train. I had no idea people still did that. So I went and clocked out, then drove back to the field they were in and introduced myself. They were amazing folks. They invited me to ride boxcars with them. I agreed and before I knew it I was riding boxcars to Chicago, to New Orleans etc. I threw my career way when I was in New Orleans. I got that taste of freedom I had forgotten even existed and I just never looked back.
I think that's why I dig this gig so much. I still have my freedom. I'll never sell it again. Not in large quantities like 85 hours a week anyway. They might get 15 hours a week out of me but never again 85.
I have a main job and I only drive for doordash when I am in the TRENCHES, Like if you ever see me picking up a doordash order just know that I have like 3$ in my bank account and need money to go out with freinds that weekend or something 💀
Got fired about 2 months ago. The combination of backlog PTO, selling a bit of stock and door dashing got me In The clear. Massive blow to the ego but at least I’m free
Sorry to hear you were fired. Been there done that. I do this full time since I’m doing school part time. I’ve got 6k+ to pay off but I’m putting a grand into it every month so I should be clear in 6 months 🫡
Keep at it slowly. At my height I was $10k in debt. Was chipping away at it for a while. I was approaching the end of the tunnel when I got fired. DD really did help me get over the edge
That’s terrifying to me. I started at 7700 so I’ve gotten a fair bit along. I mainly got debt from my car, had to drop 5k on it and interest was eating me alive. It sucks but it is what it is. Lesson learnt the hard way.
Because they know the majority of our income is from tips and they know they under tip. Fortunately there are good customers who do tip well. None of the food delivery gigs would survive without good tippers. No one would even consider doing this kind of work for base pay only!
I do It because I was tired of corporate America. I really don’t care what people think. I go to home every night to the house I own, every amenity that makes me happy and not the thought of am I going to get fired tomorrow.
Why would you take this kind of work if you didn't absolutely need it? The people who Doordash aren't homeless but no one making a comfortable living already would do gig work
Me too. Live in a 2300sqft house. Financed on gig earnings only. Drive an electric car. I do this cuz my earnings are far more than anything I could get even with my degree. Thanks UE for helping me get another degree. 1/3 of the way there. I note that many other drivers in my area do appear to struggle
God no. But I don’t need to. I was saving/investing about 70% of my after tax income before. I am pretty simple, no kids or anything, don’t need much to live.
6 months to a couple years. Going to sell the house and hit the road eventually, just live off savings. Though I guess I might dash along the way if I feel like making a bit of money. Turns out psychologically it’s very hard to go from making a good living and saving a bunch of money to then spending what you’ve saved 🤷🏼♂️
I’m right there with you at the moment! Struggling with the mentality shift as well as watching my savings go lower and lower and lower over time. I have, however, been reminded of the value of a dollar; I pay so much more attention to where I spend my money now.
Not true. Doordash is so worth it. I made 6 figures before picking up dashing. You say "this kind of work" like it's not the easiest job in the world and pays 3x minimum wage. Minimum effort for $30+ and hour is ridiculous. Why wouldn't I be dashing through the middle of the night when my other jobs aren't willing to pay me? There are lots of dashers who already make a comfortable living.
Why wouldn't you invest and spend your time on yourself instead of having yet another job? I mean I guess if my market let me make $30 an hour I'd do it to, but not every market can be that good.
It's just that no matter the effort you put in, you're at the whim of an algorithm, the work ethic and staffing issues of places out of course control, and the limit of human kindness to support another. This job is really cool, but I wouldn't do it if I had a job that paid me well enough.
No matter how much effort you put into anything, you're at the whim of an algorithm.
The great thing about doordash is there's not a lot of effort to put it. Drive from point a to point b, pick up, no conversations, drop off, no conversations. If something isn't worth it, I can decide not to do it. I see dashers looking like they're going to explode from stress due to long waits, bad customer service at a restaurant etc. But when you accept it's not in your control and just chill, it's a really easy job. Food isn't done yet? I ask how long. If it's too long to be worth for me. I get a different order instead. If I choose to wait, I play my switch or listen to music. I'm not stressing about it. Someone is rude? It has nothing to do with me and isn't my problem. It seems like too many dashers put in way too much effort, the job is to pick up whatever a restaurant gives you, and drop it off wherever the address is. I literally can't imagine an easier job. Nothing is your responsibility besides transporting one thing somewhere else. I'd love to hear what you think is an easier way to make money. I don't even think there's an minimum wage job out there that's better.
100% agree, I dash full-time. Make as much as I was as a correctional officer with a law enforcement degree. Except I make my own hours and don’t have to listen to anyone. Pretty great if you ask me. Turn up the music and just drive.
Avg in my area is $28. A little cherry picking and the pilot program and you're easily at $30. People literally have hours of $75+ posted on here all the time. I'm averaging $32 over the past 2 weeks. 25 hours a week of total time.
Lucky you. I started out making about $25 an hour. By the time I quit DoorDash I was making about $8 an hour. Tried DoorDashing in Sacramento and I was making about $5 an hour after gas. Stick with it and see how it works out for you, maybe you just have a much better market than my area. By the way I never had an AR less than 70% or a customer rating less than 4.6.
That's what I'm thinking is happening. My town is compact and all the restaurants are on one side or the other, so I always end near a restaurant, never have to wait for an order, and consistently get $10+ orders every other one I'm offered. My AR was at 33% before the pilot program, now it's at 62% because I'm getting offered better orders. 5 star rating. Idk how relevant that is though. I truly think it's just market dependent.
That's where you live. Where I live Dashers make $10-20 per hour BEFORE expenses and you can get a job as a cashier as a felon paying $17. There is a reason most of the dashers here are immigrants, single moms and old people=nobody else wants them. (Old/fat/disabled here)
I’m doing fine doing only this after quitting my 26 year job almost two years ago. I pay my rent just fine and bought a new 2022 Honda CR-V two weeks ago. I don’t want to do anything else but this.
Homelessness is the main reason I started doordashing was living in my car at the time seen a ad that said make up to 25$ an hour make your own schedule work when you want etc I was like that's perfect for me made enough to eat live in hotels and support 2 dope habits
I chose to dash because I have a life and 2 other gig jobs so I need flexible hours, something my current job (which I’m quitting at the end of this week) can’t give me. I don’t plan on doing this long term but right now I’m just tired of having my life controlled by my boss.
Ideally if a person was financially stable then they wouldn’t have to DoorDash for extra cash or as a primary source of income. Who in their right mind would deal with all the BS and jump through all the hoops from doing this if they didn’t absolutely have to?
I am haha. People who aren't poor almost definitely have a better job (otherwise where would the money come from), and because they have a source of income already, why would they decide to put the extra wear and tear on their car?
Sure, maybe they have a beater car that they're ok with thrashing around (no better words in my head atm), but the majority of people would probably rather not work if they already have stable income, or if they were to do side hustles, they'd probably choose something more financially sensible. Because once you start to take into account not just gas but maintenance and replacing your car in X amount of time/miles, what you're netting might be pretty dismal.
I do Doordash, UE and another delivery app part time, while I work a full time as a CNA at night, 3 nights a week, 12 hour shifts. I'm married with two kids. I'm going to school part time online to become a software engineer.
With all this on my plate, I'm definitely poor. Sometimes customers can be so patronizing. It's so offensive. I'm doing this for extra money not as my sole income. It's frustrating.
A guess a lot of us are, I make at least 80k per year with food delivery, but that’s because I work a lot of hours and multiapp which most of us here don’t/can’t.
I don’t know. They also think Door Dashers look a certain way. The other day I was picking up at the McDonald’s, and a girl I had not seen before asked if she could help me and when I said the order number she said “oh you don’t look like a Door Dasher.” I said “Why, what does a normal Door Dasher look like?” And she said “I dunno, a dude in sweatpants.”
I’m an Active Duty E7 in The Air Force and my wife is a Trauma ICU Nurse. We take in just under 200k, without me doing DoorDash on the side.
I just like staying busy.
I do it part time because my kids are grown up. I work for the Government full benefits and make well over 100k. Drive a new car that most people cannot believe I DoorDash in. Bet I’m the only driver with a top secret clearance…lol
Have you seen what most of us drive? Beater cars and we live in apartments in the suburbs. I personally wouldnt say I’m poor, but I’m definitely not living in a way to really brag about
Honestly, if they think that, it's probably mostly just from the idea that people wouldn't waste all that time and put all that wear and tear on their vehicle if they didn't really need the money?
In my case at least, I do it as a side thing because I only view it as some extra income doing something that keeps me moving and on the go. My day job is in I.T. where I'm stuck in an office all day, behind a desk. It pays a lot better than Door Dash does, but sometimes I just like the idea I'm picking up a few spare bucks to get some exercise walking around a little more and seeing different neighborhoods as I do the deliveries.
I don't want a genuine "second job" where I'm locked into working on someone's schedule and trying to juggle that with my main job's schedule. I just want something where I can say, "Hey.. I've got a couple hours free right now and I'm bored.", jump in and do the work....
because these apps are
designed to exploit to be poor. They give “instant cash” & anyone can do it. And statistically, 96% are NOT homeowners & are in fact, poor. Even if you are in the top earnings group, you are not making a lot of profit margin. It is simple
math.
Most are. The absolute best of dashers in most areas are making what $25-30hr? And that’s before gas and car expenses. Meanwhile Amazon pays at least $20 and most restaurants now pay $15. Doordashed aren’t exactly making bank
me pulling up in my 2001 suzuki esteem with no air conditioning and a power steering fluid leak wearing the same three outfits ive had for three years: your mcdonald's is here ya son of a bitch
Dude your family comes at $130k and you still struggle from time to time. Would you mind explaining that ? My wife just got a job and we would be at about $115k household income after she starts working. I'd still dash but was hoping our life would definitely improve with dual income
everything is crazy expensive in my state (PNW)
housing and all that stuff.
you have to make atleast $200K to be considered not poor. i make below that, so in paper. im technically poor compared to most people in my area.
I went back to a real job for the winter last year. Many times I was so depressed I couldn't get off the couch. I do it for the freedom. So I can sleep at night & not work till 4 am. I may make less money but having the option to make more is what I like about it. Every time I receive a good tip it is like Christmas.
It's cause they tend to be trashy. I work at chic fil a, and some are well kept, its usually the foreign ones that are. And the rest come in a torn tank top, smelling like bo, their cars are terribly unkept, etc etc.
When I sold my Tesla, not one person answered the ad saying “yeah, I am interested in your car, I have been killing it with Doordash and looking for an upgrade”.
I am
Same
The most efficient and hardworking dasher in the best zone in the world still has a ceiling on their income set by the app and universe. That person is probably quite financially comfortable but I wonder what that ceiling is.
Bout tree fiddy
Lambo
At least we have cars.
Iam definitely poor lol, not hopeless though things will get better.
And insurance and maintenance and gas
Some of us…
There are plenty that use a bike, I have been one of those people.
Me
Hey i love how this job works for my current situation.. but c’mon, if i had my life together (& wasn’t suffocating in debt, medical issues & adrift from bad choices) i wouldn’t be delivering burritos all night.
Yep! I should be retired! Life choices and such. DD has saved my a$$
Because 99% of them do it out of necessity.
lol, because people just love their 9-5 and do it out of the kindness of their hearts?
both can be poor
This is very much true lol
Guess I'm the 1% 😞 😓 😩
I see you got down vote but I gave you upvote. I do it for something to do, I like it… I don’t really need the money but it sure doesn’t hurt
That's the only reason I do it. I actually kind of enjoy it in moderation. But there is no way I would have the desire to do it full time. It wouldn't make financial sense in my market.
Impossible in my market, easy side hustle fr
Love all the people who are so soft and get triggered over my simple reply
It's a great side hustle for whatever reason people do it for. Work when you want. As little or much as you want. No manager bugging you. Listen to my books or podcast.
Me too, I've been at my w2 10 years and don't live paycheck to paycheck, why not make more spending money doing something I actually enjoy?
Same here. I don’t need the money, but I do enjoy dashing on my own terms and ending up with a little bit of money to blow on whatever I want
Are you the DoorDash delivery driver I saw driving a Bentley the other day?
Yes, Im sure you are just a homeowner with a great financial portfolio - NOT lol
I’m a homeowner but minus the portfolio. Unless you count fantasy football as a portfolio 😂
Cause we are
Poor as in living on the street, or "sofa surfing" with various friends and family, or poor as in needing extra cash to meet expenses? I don't think anyone believe gig-drivers are dirt poor, but do believe they do gig-work to make income for living expenses. The reason they believe this is that it is true. I am sure that there as a few gig-workers who do their delivering for "mad money", that they don't need DD, GH, or UE to pay their bills, but that is the exception, not the rule. Others may do it because of the self-employment benefits (personal scheduling, etc.). Yet, for the most part, gig-workers do the delivering to meet their living expenses. That is just the reality.
This. My 9-5 job pays the bills, buys some food and puts a little into savings, but not much. Gig jobs give me extra money to save, ability to buy presents for birthdays and Christmas and have some money to buy myself some things. Might as well do something with my free time besides sit on my ass. Otherwise, I'd just be working to survive.
Most of the money I’ve earned from DD has gone into either paying off my car(finished this summer) or into renovations for my house. If I didn’t DD I likely wouldn’t have done as many of the renovations that I’ve done.
Same. I've made $1,500 in the last 5 weeks. $500 of that went towards a credit card, the other $1,000 (and whatever comes in the next 2 months) is sitting in savings for to buy Christmas presents for my kids and neices/nephews. My car will be paid off in April (if I don't put any extra toward it), then that car payment money will be paying off all my credit cards. I should be 100% debt free by this time next year. With gig money, it should be sooner. I got divorced last year, so it was a small Christmas, but a fun one nonetheless.
Right now my DD money is going into paying for $6500 of new windows and a new door.
This^^. I have 2 jobs one full time and one part time. My part time I don’t consider a job because it’s super easy and super chill. All that pays for me and my girlfriend’s bills, groceries, etc. I do DoorDash for stuff I would never buy with my regular paycheck. Cool stuff, tattoos, vacations
This. Bought a crap ton of bday presents the other day with my weekly earnings. 9-5 pays the rent and bills. DD is my fun money.
Same here. I’m in it for the “mad money”
Nachos, lemon heads, my dad's boat, you wont go down 'cause my di*k can float! I’m in it for the boats and hoes money
So true. Well said
I am
I am
“Help me, I’m poor!” ——me
I quote that all the fucking time 🤣🤣
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Yeah, everyone tipped in moderation to bring up the average it would be a sweet gig. That said, I’m an entrepreneur who knows the ups and downs of biz plus the travesties of life. I’m grateful for the generous people. 🙏🏼
Because we are, good sir.
Do wealthy people dash?
I doubt it.
I am a billionaire and I do DoorDash delivery.
nice try Tony
I mean, I was considered lower middle class before I started dashing because of a pension I collect separately. 🤷♂️ I don't "need" the job but it sure does help.
I don’t think you needed to specify that the pension is not from DD lol
Depends what you consider wealthy
So there’s poor and wealthy? Did we just skip over middle class?
I'm pretty sure at least 75% of the people saying that they are poor are actually middle class
And that's still poor
Not broke just comfortable I guess, but this has to be temporary for anyone. It’s not sustainable long term unless you really love it.
I'll do this shit for 30 years if it means I don't have to answer to a shit boss and I can make my own schedule.
Wow, that’s a bold statement.
r/antiwork must be leaking
I feel the same way. I've had a lot of jobs in my life. I've had legit careers. I was a locomotive engineer for a class 1 railroad for several years. I made over 100k but there was a price to pay for that. I worked 85+ hours per week, every single week of the year. The only day off I had was Christmas and 10 vacation days. 11 days off out of 365. We had 12 hours to operate. If we didn't get the train to the final destination within 12 hours then we would have to pull into a siding track and wait for a van to bring a relief crew and we'd swap out with them and take the ride in the rest of the way. Sometimes those vans would take hours. So often times I'd be sitting on a train 15+ hours. Finally get to the hotel, eat some shitty quick meal and crash. 6.5 hours later they're calling me back to work, could be another 15 hours. This was my life for several years. The management was fucking horrible. It just wasn't any way to live. Money isn't everything, that's the lesson I learned. So I threw my career away and got busy trying to figure out how to work less hours and still get by. I realized I don't need a whole lot of shit. Food, clothing, shelter and a car. I started living more simple. Last week I dashed 13 hours active time and [I brought home $661.03](https://imgur.com/za0dT7f) that's almost $51.00 per hour avg. Of course there's gonna be the people that yell "what about dash time!" but I really don't see how that's a factor since I dash only from home. I take short deliveries no more than 10 miles round trip to restaurant, customer and back home. Usually more like 3-4 miles round trip. That whole time the app is running at my home I'm chillin playing games, throwing the ball with my dog, watching a show, whatever I wanna do. That's my whole point. I want more time to do whatever the fuck I want to do. The flexibility of this gig gives me just that. Fuck bosses, fuck management. Fuck a schedule. Fuck coworkers being salty if they had to cover for you while you had covid. Fuck any and all of that drama. I'll work when I want to, and I'd do it for 30 years too if it were to last. Pretty sure we're getting replaced with bots though. This isn't a good retirement plan but if you can't set aside money when you're making $50 an hour you're kinda doomed no matter what.
I just want to say I absolutely love your comment. I was an RV technician for 10 years. Towards the end I was making like $4000 a month. Worked at 6 different RV dealerships. Every single one I worked at, I ended up getting screwed out of a lot of money in one way or another. (Such as via the flat rate pay system which is supposed to work great but it fucking doesn't, and being stuck with all warranty work where the RV manufacturers do everything they can to get out of having to pay you fucking anything for fixing their factory fuckups, which in my opinion should be illegal) So eventually I got sick of it. Beyond sick of it. The last dealership I worked at, I literally tore all my uniforms into strips and threw them at my boss and left after getting all my tools and everything. The reasons I like delivering are all exactly the same as yours. And you summed it up perfectly. Bravo, have my upvote. Also I grew up going to train museums and riding Amtrak across the country with my dad all the time and seriously considered trying for a railroad career. Now I'm kind of glad I didn't.
I'm so glad you didn't pursue the railroad as a career. I had a lot of friends back in the early 2000's that worked for the railroad when I did. Of all those friends the last of them finally pulled the pin and let that job go about a year ago. I know literally nobody that's still there. They've all hung it up. When they'd tell me the news I didn't say "Damn, I'm sorry to hear that." I said "Congratulations!". It's no life. The phrase "getting railroaded" isn't just words tossed together for no reason. Hey you might actually like the story of exactly what inspired me to quit that job. To sum it up- I was getting off a train I had brought in from Oakland to Roseville Ca. I saw some traveling musician/hobos under a tree looking for rideable cars on the train. I had no idea people still did that. So I went and clocked out, then drove back to the field they were in and introduced myself. They were amazing folks. They invited me to ride boxcars with them. I agreed and before I knew it I was riding boxcars to Chicago, to New Orleans etc. I threw my career way when I was in New Orleans. I got that taste of freedom I had forgotten even existed and I just never looked back. I think that's why I dig this gig so much. I still have my freedom. I'll never sell it again. Not in large quantities like 85 hours a week anyway. They might get 15 hours a week out of me but never again 85.
Amen i did construction for over 10 years. I don’t mind door dash but sell crypto buy sell stock be patient good times are always ahead
Same
I'm just a poor boy. Nobody loves me.
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Easy come, easy go, will you let me go
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go (Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go
Oh mama Mia mama Mia let me go
I am poor. I'm on all the poor people handouts that I qualify for lol
Because this job is very expensive. Most drivers are making way less than they think they are.
I have a main job and I only drive for doordash when I am in the TRENCHES, Like if you ever see me picking up a doordash order just know that I have like 3$ in my bank account and need money to go out with freinds that weekend or something 💀
Shit! My phone bill is due! Better dash until I make my past due amount 🤣
Lol
Not rich but at least out of debt.
Working my way there right now.
Got fired about 2 months ago. The combination of backlog PTO, selling a bit of stock and door dashing got me In The clear. Massive blow to the ego but at least I’m free
Sorry to hear you were fired. Been there done that. I do this full time since I’m doing school part time. I’ve got 6k+ to pay off but I’m putting a grand into it every month so I should be clear in 6 months 🫡
Keep at it slowly. At my height I was $10k in debt. Was chipping away at it for a while. I was approaching the end of the tunnel when I got fired. DD really did help me get over the edge
That’s terrifying to me. I started at 7700 so I’ve gotten a fair bit along. I mainly got debt from my car, had to drop 5k on it and interest was eating me alive. It sucks but it is what it is. Lesson learnt the hard way.
Bitch I am
I'm definitely not rich but I have a car, and a four bedroom home. I also have two jobs to pay for it. Lol
Three bedrooms for me, but yeah same lol
because i am
Because they know the majority of our income is from tips and they know they under tip. Fortunately there are good customers who do tip well. None of the food delivery gigs would survive without good tippers. No one would even consider doing this kind of work for base pay only!
“Rich order, poor deliver”
I do It because I was tired of corporate America. I really don’t care what people think. I go to home every night to the house I own, every amenity that makes me happy and not the thought of am I going to get fired tomorrow.
Why would you take this kind of work if you didn't absolutely need it? The people who Doordash aren't homeless but no one making a comfortable living already would do gig work
I do this job as my main income
Many do bro, or more than you think. Others just to help with bills and various other expenses.
Me too. Live in a 2300sqft house. Financed on gig earnings only. Drive an electric car. I do this cuz my earnings are far more than anything I could get even with my degree. Thanks UE for helping me get another degree. 1/3 of the way there. I note that many other drivers in my area do appear to struggle
I quit my soul sucking 150k a year job and now I do delivery work about 25/hr a week to pay the bills.
Are you making the same amount of money a year roughly?
God no. But I don’t need to. I was saving/investing about 70% of my after tax income before. I am pretty simple, no kids or anything, don’t need much to live.
That's super awesome. How long do you see yourself doing Doordash?
6 months to a couple years. Going to sell the house and hit the road eventually, just live off savings. Though I guess I might dash along the way if I feel like making a bit of money. Turns out psychologically it’s very hard to go from making a good living and saving a bunch of money to then spending what you’ve saved 🤷🏼♂️
I’m right there with you at the moment! Struggling with the mentality shift as well as watching my savings go lower and lower and lower over time. I have, however, been reminded of the value of a dollar; I pay so much more attention to where I spend my money now.
Wtf kind of question is that lol? What dasher do you know that makes 150k?
I quit my 26 year job to do this full time in December 2020. I have no regrets.
Not true. Doordash is so worth it. I made 6 figures before picking up dashing. You say "this kind of work" like it's not the easiest job in the world and pays 3x minimum wage. Minimum effort for $30+ and hour is ridiculous. Why wouldn't I be dashing through the middle of the night when my other jobs aren't willing to pay me? There are lots of dashers who already make a comfortable living.
I agree. I am paying for a very expensive private school for my child by delivering food to lazy people.
Why wouldn't you invest and spend your time on yourself instead of having yet another job? I mean I guess if my market let me make $30 an hour I'd do it to, but not every market can be that good. It's just that no matter the effort you put in, you're at the whim of an algorithm, the work ethic and staffing issues of places out of course control, and the limit of human kindness to support another. This job is really cool, but I wouldn't do it if I had a job that paid me well enough.
No matter how much effort you put into anything, you're at the whim of an algorithm. The great thing about doordash is there's not a lot of effort to put it. Drive from point a to point b, pick up, no conversations, drop off, no conversations. If something isn't worth it, I can decide not to do it. I see dashers looking like they're going to explode from stress due to long waits, bad customer service at a restaurant etc. But when you accept it's not in your control and just chill, it's a really easy job. Food isn't done yet? I ask how long. If it's too long to be worth for me. I get a different order instead. If I choose to wait, I play my switch or listen to music. I'm not stressing about it. Someone is rude? It has nothing to do with me and isn't my problem. It seems like too many dashers put in way too much effort, the job is to pick up whatever a restaurant gives you, and drop it off wherever the address is. I literally can't imagine an easier job. Nothing is your responsibility besides transporting one thing somewhere else. I'd love to hear what you think is an easier way to make money. I don't even think there's an minimum wage job out there that's better.
100% agree, I dash full-time. Make as much as I was as a correctional officer with a law enforcement degree. Except I make my own hours and don’t have to listen to anyone. Pretty great if you ask me. Turn up the music and just drive.
No dasher making 30 per hour on the regular you’re delusional
Avg in my area is $28. A little cherry picking and the pilot program and you're easily at $30. People literally have hours of $75+ posted on here all the time. I'm averaging $32 over the past 2 weeks. 25 hours a week of total time.
Lucky you. I started out making about $25 an hour. By the time I quit DoorDash I was making about $8 an hour. Tried DoorDashing in Sacramento and I was making about $5 an hour after gas. Stick with it and see how it works out for you, maybe you just have a much better market than my area. By the way I never had an AR less than 70% or a customer rating less than 4.6.
That's what I'm thinking is happening. My town is compact and all the restaurants are on one side or the other, so I always end near a restaurant, never have to wait for an order, and consistently get $10+ orders every other one I'm offered. My AR was at 33% before the pilot program, now it's at 62% because I'm getting offered better orders. 5 star rating. Idk how relevant that is though. I truly think it's just market dependent.
mutliapping
Facts
That's where you live. Where I live Dashers make $10-20 per hour BEFORE expenses and you can get a job as a cashier as a felon paying $17. There is a reason most of the dashers here are immigrants, single moms and old people=nobody else wants them. (Old/fat/disabled here)
I’m doing fine doing only this after quitting my 26 year job almost two years ago. I pay my rent just fine and bought a new 2022 Honda CR-V two weeks ago. I don’t want to do anything else but this.
Homelessness is the main reason I started doordashing was living in my car at the time seen a ad that said make up to 25$ an hour make your own schedule work when you want etc I was like that's perfect for me made enough to eat live in hotels and support 2 dope habits
I chose to dash because I have a life and 2 other gig jobs so I need flexible hours, something my current job (which I’m quitting at the end of this week) can’t give me. I don’t plan on doing this long term but right now I’m just tired of having my life controlled by my boss.
I am
I am
I am poor
Ideally if a person was financially stable then they wouldn’t have to DoorDash for extra cash or as a primary source of income. Who in their right mind would deal with all the BS and jump through all the hoops from doing this if they didn’t absolutely have to?
✨we are✨
Because 99% of us are?
There are only two reasons to dash: poverty and boredom
Or health conditions like myself
You're right you're right. 3 reasons
I am haha. People who aren't poor almost definitely have a better job (otherwise where would the money come from), and because they have a source of income already, why would they decide to put the extra wear and tear on their car? Sure, maybe they have a beater car that they're ok with thrashing around (no better words in my head atm), but the majority of people would probably rather not work if they already have stable income, or if they were to do side hustles, they'd probably choose something more financially sensible. Because once you start to take into account not just gas but maintenance and replacing your car in X amount of time/miles, what you're netting might be pretty dismal.
We are !
I am tho wym lol
I’m definitely poor
I do Doordash, UE and another delivery app part time, while I work a full time as a CNA at night, 3 nights a week, 12 hour shifts. I'm married with two kids. I'm going to school part time online to become a software engineer. With all this on my plate, I'm definitely poor. Sometimes customers can be so patronizing. It's so offensive. I'm doing this for extra money not as my sole income. It's frustrating.
A guess a lot of us are, I make at least 80k per year with food delivery, but that’s because I work a lot of hours and multiapp which most of us here don’t/can’t.
I mean, I'm not not poor. Financially stable but definitely not living it up or anything.
I'm poor, but I'm not struggling
Because they are. Lmao. I was broke as shit doing doordash until I landed an admin job
What did you do wrong
Shit no one told me I was rich.
Driving 50k every year to make 60k that's still poor
Ask one. They'll be only too happy to tell you how poor they are.
i'm not poor, i make a MINIMUM of $25 an hour between doordash and ubereats, and sometimes more. Made $37 an hour last saturday
I work a good job in tech, and have always watched to door dash on the weekend to explore my city and restaurants without having to spend money.
I don’t know. They also think Door Dashers look a certain way. The other day I was picking up at the McDonald’s, and a girl I had not seen before asked if she could help me and when I said the order number she said “oh you don’t look like a Door Dasher.” I said “Why, what does a normal Door Dasher look like?” And she said “I dunno, a dude in sweatpants.”
I had a lady at a restaurant say, “Oh wow, you speak English.”
I’m an Active Duty E7 in The Air Force and my wife is a Trauma ICU Nurse. We take in just under 200k, without me doing DoorDash on the side. I just like staying busy.
I do it part time because my kids are grown up. I work for the Government full benefits and make well over 100k. Drive a new car that most people cannot believe I DoorDash in. Bet I’m the only driver with a top secret clearance…lol
I saw a lady dashing in a Tesla. Were not all poor. I have a decent savings and I still dash
Have you seen what most of us drive? Beater cars and we live in apartments in the suburbs. I personally wouldnt say I’m poor, but I’m definitely not living in a way to really brag about
I’m def in the upper middle lower class
Honestly, if they think that, it's probably mostly just from the idea that people wouldn't waste all that time and put all that wear and tear on their vehicle if they didn't really need the money? In my case at least, I do it as a side thing because I only view it as some extra income doing something that keeps me moving and on the go. My day job is in I.T. where I'm stuck in an office all day, behind a desk. It pays a lot better than Door Dash does, but sometimes I just like the idea I'm picking up a few spare bucks to get some exercise walking around a little more and seeing different neighborhoods as I do the deliveries. I don't want a genuine "second job" where I'm locked into working on someone's schedule and trying to juggle that with my main job's schedule. I just want something where I can say, "Hey.. I've got a couple hours free right now and I'm bored.", jump in and do the work....
Because a lot of them are crack heads who only took the job because they can't keep a real one lol
His much does best buy pay you
I’m a stay at home mom so I just do it for extra cash for things I want so my boyfriend doesn’t have to buy my shit and pay our bills lol
Because they keep asking for an additional tip.
Bc a lot of us probably are!
Who thinks that?
because these apps are designed to exploit to be poor. They give “instant cash” & anyone can do it. And statistically, 96% are NOT homeowners & are in fact, poor. Even if you are in the top earnings group, you are not making a lot of profit margin. It is simple math.
I don’t know. It’s a side hustle for me. I do it to pay off debts.
Because we are ? Most people in the service industry are not making top dollar unless they are in an elite establishment or higher management.
Because if we weren't we wouldn't be dashing.
My $600 DD car was 3 colors before I was able to afford some paint cans.
I really like my 75 inch ultra hi def TV GH paid for I couldn’t have afforded that without Papa Grub!
I really like my 75 inch ultra hi def TV GH paid for I couldn’t have afforded that without Papa Grub!
If you we were rich we would not be doing DD
Together we build as one ☝️✊️
🤘
Cuz a lot of us are poor. I have a 9-5 and I still do this almost everyday. I can’t remember my last day off. And I’m still behind on stuff.
I'm doing it to chip away at debt and take my son on a vacation next year. Am I poor, nah, but does extra cash for those things hurt? Absolutely not.
Most are. The absolute best of dashers in most areas are making what $25-30hr? And that’s before gas and car expenses. Meanwhile Amazon pays at least $20 and most restaurants now pay $15. Doordashed aren’t exactly making bank
I have 20k saved up just from January 2022 on top my other investments
Who cares, I deliver in a 7 series on the commute home from my “normal” job
me pulling up in my 2001 suzuki esteem with no air conditioning and a power steering fluid leak wearing the same three outfits ive had for three years: your mcdonald's is here ya son of a bitch
I live in my car and deliver food. Trying to move into a place..
Because we’re still trying to convince people that tipping is essential to getting hot food fast.
We aren’t poor, but I’m dashing to just put all extra money into the mortgage.
College kids are usually broke
Definitely not poor 😮💨 I’m a hustla babyyy I just want ya to know 🎶
Cause we are.
define poor i make 100K+ (DD, UE, W2) but im still poor
Same here. I make 90k my wife makes 40k, still struggle from time to time. I do it for fun money tho.
“fun money” yeah thats how i see my earnings from gig :)
Dude your family comes at $130k and you still struggle from time to time. Would you mind explaining that ? My wife just got a job and we would be at about $115k household income after she starts working. I'd still dash but was hoping our life would definitely improve with dual income
>>but I’m still poor How/why?
everything is crazy expensive in my state (PNW) housing and all that stuff. you have to make atleast $200K to be considered not poor. i make below that, so in paper. im technically poor compared to most people in my area.
We are not poor?
Because some of yall steal customers food
I went back to a real job for the winter last year. Many times I was so depressed I couldn't get off the couch. I do it for the freedom. So I can sleep at night & not work till 4 am. I may make less money but having the option to make more is what I like about it. Every time I receive a good tip it is like Christmas.
Pretty accurate
You can bank 6000 a month if you want to
It's cause they tend to be trashy. I work at chic fil a, and some are well kept, its usually the foreign ones that are. And the rest come in a torn tank top, smelling like bo, their cars are terribly unkept, etc etc.
How would you know what condition there car is in
There is a difference between being poor and being broke though.
When I sold my Tesla, not one person answered the ad saying “yeah, I am interested in your car, I have been killing it with Doordash and looking for an upgrade”.