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I signed up to deliver for Uber Eats on my Bike. Here’s me on sunday morning before my first big day

Day 1

I was extremely excited to get my first delivery request. I sprinted on my bike up college hill to Wayland Square Diner , getting mildly lost in the process and having to stop and take several deep breaths to reorient myself before I can locate it. I walk in and yell-talk “HEY IM FROM UBER THIS IS MY FIRST DELIVERY HAHA” to the woman at the counter. I take the order, and stuff it in my backpack. “I have pancakes in my backpack” I say to myself. I bike a mile to the delivery address. “YOUR MY FIRST DELIVERY, I’M ON MY BIKE HAHA” I say to the guy as he opens the door. he says “cool”.

My next delivery request is from PVD Donuts . I walk in and say “HEY IM FROM UBER IM DELIVERING ON MY BIKE HAHA”. A manager type person looks at me apprehensively and notes that the square donut box will not fit horizontally in my bag and asks another employee to place the donuts in individual clamshell packages. The manager was helping another customer with what looked like a complicated and large order of donuts. The customer mentioned she worked for uber marketing, and that I should try to get an uber delivery bag.

I am totally manic at this point, still totally high off of making $3.xx biking to some guys house with pancakes so I start motor mouthing at both of them as they’re trying to navigate this like complex donut transaction. The employee wrapping the donuts asks if I think rubber-banding the clamshells together will help, I professionally reply “I don’t know I’m just a guy on a bike”

After dropping this delivery off I’m called back to PVD Donuts. I sense the manager is not pleased to see me. I offer to remove the donuts from their clamshells and put them back in the box before I deliver them which she respectfully declines for what in retrospect was probably sanitary reasons as I am now drenched in sweat from manic flights up and down college hill (I wasn’t going to take them out of the clamshells) . She makes specific note of two of the donuts that are especially delicate. I nod in understanding and don’t attempt to beat my fastest Wickenden Street speed time or take any sick jumps out of respect.

For my final delivery that day the app made me bike 20 minutes to a McDonalds in Cranston.

I live to the left of those buildings, the final delivery took me waaaay out of town

Day 2

strava heatmap of where I went day 2

On day 2 I calmed down a bit. I ended up biking 40 miles over the course of 6 hours to net I really started to get into the flow of the app. I am totally addicted. Riding a bike in traffic already reminded me a lot of video games. you need to avoid obstacles, explore new paths on the fly, and keep in constant away of your surroundings. using uber rides made the experience way more gamified. The app gave me a “quest” that worked like so: If i did 2 delivers I got an extra 6 dollars in earnings, if I did 4 I’d get 14, 8–22 all the way up to 16 for 70 extra dollars, the payouts growing exponentially. When you accept a request the app plays a slot machine like DING . I started to get into that nice flow like I was writing code or playing starcraft.

I ended up going all over Providence. I love seeing more of the city and It’s been exciting figure out shortcuts and tricks the GPS doesn’t know about.

Money

Day 1 Earnings

Day 2 Earnings

I made 13.75 an hour. As you can see 1/3 of the money I made day 2 was from the “Quest” I was on. I imagine those will dry up so I’m guessing my long term earnings will be close to 10 an hour.