The time now is 8:30pm, October 6, 2022. I woke up to notice my high temperature was gone. I had a long day sleeping in bed today. Now I don’t feel too tired.
By 9pm I snuck out of the house, got in my car and drove to the petrol station to fill my car up with petrol. The trusty Toyota Camry was on a quarter tank of petrol until I purchased $25 worth of petrol. That filled up a quarter of a tank.
I’m going to do deliveries through the DoorDash app again tonight because I want to make money. I’m going to probably make another $50 tonight. I’ll try to work until 12:30am or maybe later.
I calculate that for every $50 dollars I earn, it roughly costs $20 in petrol to do those food deliveries.
Starting DoorDash Food Deliveries
While I was in the petrol station, I turned the DoorDash app on and clicked the “Dash Now” button to start work. I was lucky to be offered an order at Hungry Jacks just across the road.
I drove to Hungry Jacks to pick up that DoorDash food delivery order. It took 10 minutes to wait for Hungry Jacks staff to complete the order. The good news is I delivered the food across the street from where I live. I made $6.09 out of that order.
Then, almost immediately, I received another order, also from Hungry Jacks in the area.
For the next three hours I continued with DoorDash deliveries. I delivered to a lot of different suburbs, such as Mount Annan, Campbelltown, Eagle Vale, St Andrews, even all the way out to Gregory Hills. I delivered food for Hungry Jacks, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, and Kebabs Pizza On Queen.
I got stuck around Mount Annan between DoorDash deliveries. I wasn’t getting any orders, so I made the decision to come back towards Campbelltown. That’s where an order from Campbelltown McDonald’s came in.
By 12:20am I picked up a food delivery from Campbelltown McDonald’s. I will deliver the food to a customer in Ruse. Then I might think about heading back home to get some work done on the diary.
I’ve done well on petrol. I’ve only gone through half of the $25 worth off petrol. I stand to earn $72.93 from these eight deliveries tonight. If I’ve spent $15 on petrol but made $70 gross, that is still a good outcome. I made $60 when you deduct petrol expenses.
Food Deliveries In The 1990s
The funny thing about being a DoorDash driver is that it takes me full circle all the way back to when we used to do Pizza Hut deliveries in 1996 and 1997 in Campbelltown. I never had a car when I was seventeen years old, so I was never able to do deliveries. Still, I always drove on deliveries with my friends.
Now I get a chance to be that Pizza Hut or Domino’s Pizza driver. The difference is that I’m doing food deliveries independently through the DoorDash app, for myself.
I wonder what Rory would have felt like if there was an Uber Eats or DoorDash available back in the day? Would he remain employed by Pizza Hut or would he sign up for the new technology and work for himself?
Ending My DoorDash Run
The time was 12:50am when I ended my DoorDash run. I returned home within ten minutes.
Once home, I redeemed $30 as a bank transfer from Octopus Group for the online surveys I did. Then I began to do my finances.
I saw that I have made $120 in total this week from DoorDash deliveries. Going by my average daily DoorDash earnings so far, I estimate that I could earn $500 in DoorDash earnings by the end of the week.
I only have $340 saved in the bank currently. With the income earned through DoorDash deliveries, my savings should go up from $340 to $900 in a few days. I’m looking forward to that.
Google AdSense is looking like a positive earner this month too.
Diary Of A Mad Chaos is a daily diary written from March 1996 until today, of which individual books and book series have been created, namely “The Lost Years” an exploration of young, entwined love, the “Wubao In China (猎艳奇缘)” book series which provides an extensive comparative analysis of the cultural differences between Eastern and Western societies, and the book titled “Foreigner (华人)” an exploration of race relations in Australia.
