Delivering for Doordash is a Real Job

Have you ever heard an individual make a statement that sounded so ridiculous that you had to fight yourself to be quiet? It happened to me a few weeks ago when I was doing a dash at a local Wing Stop.

While I was sitting there waiting for my food, I couldn't help but overhear another dasher who was there talking to a Wing Stop employee. Apparently they knew each other because they were talking about their old high school days. These old days could not have been very long ago because they could not have been over 25 years old.

 

Anyways, as the conversation went on they started talking talking about what they were doing these days. Obviously one of them was working at Wing Stop and the other one was a dasher. The dasher told the Wing Stop worker that he was dashing full-time. When the Wing Stop worker heard this, he seemed to take on a body language of superiority.

He started telling the dasher how he could hook him up with a job at Wing Stop. When the dasher declined his offer and told him that he prefers dashing, the Wing Stop worker asked him "Don't you want a real job?" The dasher didn't answer and their conversation basically ended right there, but it was one of the most annoying conversations that I have ever heard.

Is delivering for Doordash a real job?

 

If an individual is providing a service and getting paid for it then it is definitely a job. There is no difference between a dasher and another food delivery driver, such as a Dominoes Pizza delivery driver or a UPS driver. If you are getting paid for your services, then you have a job.

If we want to get technical about things, then I guess dashers don't really have a job as they don't have an employer. Dashers are independent contractors that are paid for their contracted work. Dashers are in fact small business owners that work for themselves. Hopefully things stay that way as California is on a mission to make dashers and other gig economy workers into hourly employees. If you want to read more about that, you can check it out here.

Getting back to the subject at hand here though, I want it to be understood that when an individual talks smack and says that dashing is not a real job, they are not talking about the independent contractor concept of this line of work. What they are really saying is that the dasher does not have what they consider to be a real job. They are basically belittling the dasher and saying that they have a fake job.

 

Dashers earn more money than a lot of full-time employee workers

One thing that I've noticed about most of those that belittle dashers about getting a real job is that they have no idea how much Doordash drivers earn. I mean, if the "Get a real job" comment is based on earnings, then these people are really ignorant.

They are under the impression that they are earning much more than dashers by working at their minimum wage job at a fast food chain, a gas station, the 99 Cents Store or wherever it is they are working. There is nothing wrong with working at these places, but I am just trying to make a point here. Generally, dashers earn much more money per hour than minimum wage workers do.

Why would someone think that Doordash is not a real job?

I assume that some people think that dashing is not a real job because it doesn't come with the basic elements that a so called regular job does. It must be understood that the majority of people grow up being trained to be a worker for somebody else.

That means that they will always have a boss giving them direct orders and telling them what to do. Their boss will supervise them and tell them when they have to be at work, when they can leave, etc. Their boss will orchestrate basically everything about their job.

Again, there is nothing wrong with any of this. I have found that some people are better suited to be workers at a regular job. The problem though is that some people's minds are so brain-washed that they think that if you are not always being told what to do then you don't have a real job.

If that's the case, I guess us dashers don't really want a so called real job. We're perfectly fine working when we want and how we want while making double of what the so called job employees earn.

How much can Doordash drivers earn anyways?

I'm sure some regular job people are wondering how much Doordash workers earn anyways. That answer will vary from dasher to dasher. It really depends on how good a person is at dashing. Can they navigate through the city quickly? Do they know how to get around traffic in their neighborhood? Do they know back street shortcuts? Do they know which restaurants to avoid because they take long? Do they know the right Doordash calls to accept and which ones to decline? There are so many things. Generally though, most Doordash drivers earn between $15 and $20 per hour, and that is counting their expenses.

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