Get Paid To Exercise

 So how was it like on the first day of working for Foodpanda?  This time I went to Causeway Point to start my shift, since there were many riders over there, so I just followed.  So it worked!  There, I was so fast to get my first customer on the app and I just parked my bicycle and walked to the shop to collect the food.  After I had collected the food, I click on 'pick up' on the app and then the next job is to 'drop off'.  

Upon picking up the food, I walked to the bicycle and started cycling to the block number that was shown in the app.  Yesterday I worked for 7 hours.  Sometimes the distance to deliver is shorter and sometimes it was extremely long.  However, the earnings were kept constant at around $4 plus.  After 'dropping off' the food at customer's place, I had to cycle back to the 'centre zone'.  I had no idea where the 'centre zone' was, but just went back to Causeway Point.  

Generally I had constant deliveries coming in.  However at 11am to 1130am, I was idle.  There was no deliveries at all.  I saw that there were so many Grabfood riders around, but few Foodpanda riders.  At this timing when I was idle, I saw some Grabfood riders being idle as well.  So it was an unproductive time for me.  

Being cycling, I need to know my limits.  I was given a very far place of deliveries, a place which I was not familiar at 1130am.  It was admiralty road.  So I had to reject it.  It was no good to reject an order but I had no choice.  This will affect my acceptance rate.  

Yesterday, I tried to accept all the orders except for one mentioned above.  At the end of the day, finishing my shift I was dead tired, because there were steep slope at Marsiling 'hill point'.  I am not going to accept this area next time.  It was not worthwhile considering the same amount of money earn, which was $4 plus only.  

On average, within one hour, I just earn an average of $8.70, having two deliveries.  So for the seven hours that I worked yesterday, my earning was $60.81.  I had thirteen deliveries, some collected cash and some on cards.  

Photograph of my earnings from yesterday working as Foodpanda rider

So it was a strenuous exercise for me yesterday.  I was getting paid to exercise!

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Foodpanda Shifts

 Yesterday I started work with Foodpanda.  They have an incentive of $100 for me if I complete 50 deliveries within 2 weeks from the day I ordered my equipments.  But I had lost one week already.  In the beginning, I did not know how to start.  I thought that I can work anytime I wish to.  However it was not like that.  There were shifts (timing) for you to book before you can start work.  So when I wanted to start, it was delayed since I did not know that I need to book for shifts.

Then on the day of my shift, I login to the system, which is called the roadrunner app, I cannot start work still.  The app said that I was not at starting point.  I had a chat with the support, and the support asked me to delete and reinstall the roadrunner app.  I did that and still I cannot start work.  I asked them on the app, 'where is the starting point?'.   They did not answer me and they end the conversation.  I tried a few times and it all ended in closing the conversation.  So in the end, I did not start work on that shift.  

As regards to booking of shift, the availability of the day time shift work was little.  I only manage to get day time shift on Sunday which was yesterday.  The remainder of the shift that was available for booking were all after midnight.  I did not want to work in 'darkness' as it was dangerous if I should cycle on the road.  

Photograph of the car that knocked me down on 1 August 2020 at around 7am

The driver said, "I couldn't see you!"  He said it was dark.  So you see, it was dangerous to cycle in the darkness of the morning.  So I tried not to work in the darkness of the morning or even at night.  

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