At 7 o'clock in the evening, the last meeting had just been held in the office building near Jiefangbei. Lin Yue threw his work badge into his bag and pulled out the slightly faded Meituan jacket from the trunk of the car. She calls this "skin-changing," transforming from an NPC in the office to a player on the street.
In fact, everyone knows it.
During the day, I argue with Excel, and at night, I rush to the navigation. It’s not just for the few dollars, it’s because I want to find the illusion that “I can control it” in the algorithm.
What's the point of delivering food after get off work?
Browse Xiaohongshu, and all you can see on the screen is, "Post-95 white-collar workers can deliver food after get off work and earn over 10,000 yuan a month," there are also "magic tools for decompressing" and "new outlets for side hustles."
It sounds like as long as you register for crowdsourcing, you can make money while enjoying the evening breeze.
But no one tells you that when you climb to the seventh floor with milk tea in your hand, and the first thing the customer says after opening the door is "Why is it so slow?", the grievance you feel at this time is even more aggrieved than being scolded by the boss.
Can food delivery really help you lose weight?
able.
Programmer Xiao Chen ran for three months and lost eight pounds. It's not because the exercise intensity is too high, but because at dinner time, there is no time to take care of eating. Because of a stomach attack, it cost 800 yuan to go to the hospital for treatment, which was equivalent to wasting the results of ten days of running.
This way of losing weight is called "sacrificing one's life".
Does a food delivery rider earn over 10,000 yuan a month?
Li Huan, a senior rider who has been doing food delivery for seven years, now specializes in pouring cold water on people. He claimed that if a newcomer could earn 4,000 yuan in the first month, it would be considered a good situation. After all, there are various expenses such as renting batteries, repairing mobile phones, and fines for traffic violations. Based on this calculation, his hourly income may not be as good as McDonald's.
There was a bank girl named Tang Xiaoxiao who worked for four months, and the highest she earned in one month was less than 2,000. However, she thought it was worth it, because at least she didn't have to force a smile at the wine table, nor did she have to reply to the boss's WeChat message. She only had to say "Wish you a happy meal" to the house number.
You see, sometimes what we pursue is not the money, but the freedom of "not having to pretend".
Is it true to start a short video side business in the name of delivering food?
This is the biggest pitfall.
Some people spent 6,000 yuan to buy an electric car, another 2,000 yuan to buy a GoPro, and even customized a coat with the words "White Collar Rider" printed on it. Such an act of spending money made them feel that they could successfully become the next internet celebrity.
The result? It took half a month to shoot and the number of views was 200.
What is even more miserable than other situations is the person named "Su Xingyan" who put on such a miserable scene as "waking up at four in the morning to deliver food" that lasted for several days, and was eventually given administrative penalties by the police.
You think you are recording your life, but in fact you are serving as a leek for the algorithm.
I'm under a lot of pressure, can delivering food help relieve my stress?
Xiao Tian, a game planner in Beijing, expressed it very concretely: Delivering food is like playing a task-type game. First, you have to fight for the order, then you have to run away quickly, and then you have to complete the delivery. Each step includes real-time feedback.
It's not like writing code during the day, changing it a hundred times, and the product manager says "the first version is still better."
But the problem is, the game can be turned off, but the takeaway cannot.
When the unit price doubles on a rainy day, you won't even think about getting off work. After finishing the last order, the system pops up a prompt saying "Add price by 2 yuan during peak period". You make up your mind and go to take another order.
By the time I got home, it was already eleven o'clock.
When you have a meeting with dark circles under your eyes the next day, your boss says, "Did you sleep well last night?" You can only smile bitterly.
Can you really balance your life by delivering food?
There is a programmer who works as a food delivery runner in Zhengzhou. He takes his girlfriend with him every day. He claims that this is a "real-life two-person trip". He can enjoy the night view against the evening breeze and earn money for a hot pot meal.
Quite romantic.
But there are more people who walk out of office buildings alone, then put on helmets, and eventually become blurry shadows in the traffic flow.
Just as Xiao Z, a girl born in the 2000s, said: During the day, there are endless meetings, and there are demands that are never aligned. And at night, enjoying the wind, listening to songs, and doing food delivery work, this is a kind of freedom that you have at that moment when you can escape from the cubicle.
A moment of freedom.
These four words are the truth.
What is the rational choice?
If you want to try it, don't just buy the equipment.
First use your mobile phone to place a few orders and see if you can withstand the rapid acceleration of your heart caused by the word "timeout".
Run alone at night where the street lights are bright, don't run a red light just for two dollars.
Do you really want to get involved in short video creation? Just shooting with your phone is enough. After you have accumulated 100,000 fans, it is not too late to consider changing equipment.
After all, we just want to live in a different way after get off work.
Not to die in another way.
Tang Xiaoxiao, the girl at the bank, told me that one time she ran to the Yangsigang Bridge and saw the sunset on the riverside. She suddenly remembered that she had not raised her head to look at the sky for three years.
At that moment, she was not looking at her phone, the navigation, or the timeout reminder.
She just stood there, blowing the wind.
This is what we really want.
Not those few bucks.
I hope that in this world controlled by algorithms, I can still find that moment when I feel that I am still a person with independent personality!
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