![]() ![]() Some restaurants don't prioritize delivery app orders, and instead seem to put in-store customers first. Still, there's been multiple times where I've been waiting for an order just to see a line of customers come and go while I'm still waiting. Waiting for an order to be ready is sometimes inconvenient but understandable. Most of the time, the restaurant already has the order ready to go and placed aside, but there are times where I have to sit around and wait Sometimes I have to wait a long time - the longest I've waited for an order has been about 45 minutes.Īfter I accept an order, I drive to the restaurant to pick it up. Once I arrive at a hotspot, an order will pop up on my screen and I have a few seconds to accept or decline. If there are no orders in my immediate location, the DoorDash app will instruct me to drive to a "hot spot" - an area that has a lot of restaurants that tend to be busy. If it's a slow morning, sometimes I'll make the trip to Portland because it's always busy there. I try to stay around Beaverton and Hillsboro when I'm doing orders, because I don't like to be too far away from home. I live in Forest Grove, Oregon, about a 35-minute drive west of downtown Portland. If not, I drop my younger daughter off at my sister-in-law's house, and get on the road around 9 a.m. If it is, I may log on just for an hour or two for the breakfast rush. Then, I come home, wake my older daughter up, and get her breakfast ready so that she's ready for school. On the days I work as a Dasher, I wake up around 7 a.m. I started working regularly three to four days a week. During my first shift, I made $50 in two hours and was sold. After that all came back clear, I was ready to start working the very next day. You have to show your driver's license, proof of insurance, and pass a background check - which came back quickly. ![]() The application process was fairly standard. I was hired as a Dasher in September 2020. I saw promising things, so I was excited for my first day. I decided to watch YouTube videos and find Reddit groups talking about what it's like to be a Dasher: how it worked, and how successful you could be. I wanted to do something other than cooking, I was a chef for over 17 years, and was feeling burned out by it. While I was job searching on Craigslist, I kept coming across ads to be a delivery driver for DoorDash, so I thought "Why not?" and decided to apply. In March 2020, I was laid off from my full-time job as a chef due to the coronavirus pandemic. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mike Hayes, a DoorDash driver. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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