Jiang Hao did not sleep. Lying on his bed, he took out his phone and started researching. No matter what industry he entered, he needed to do his homework in advance.
He first looked into designated driving services. Jiang Hao met all the other requirements, except for one: at least five years of driving experience.
He had gotten his driver's license in college, earning money through summer jobs to obtain what he had considered a very useful certificate. But it had only been a little over two years, so he did not qualify for designated driving.
Food delivery had fewer restrictions. After looking into it, Jiang Hao learned that errands had quite a few particulars too, including full-time positions and crowdsourcing.
Full-time meant being an official employee, signing a contract and receiving a base salary, but also being managed by others, with a basically fixed daily workload. Crowdsourcing, plainly put, meant working independently—downloading a rider app and freely grabbing orders. The harder you worked, the more you earned; the less you worked, the less you earned.
Many people online said full-time jobs were a rip-off. You had to buy an electric bike, clothes, a helmet, equipment, and so on. An electric bike alone could cost four or five thousand yuan, while the rest of the gear cost another six or seven hundred. It simply was not worth it.
Crowdsourcing also had one advantage: you could download multiple apps. You could deliver for Meituan, , UU errands, Meituan errands, Dada, and FlashEx.
No matter which platform had orders, you could take them. As long as you had the energy, you could keep delivering until one or two in the morning.
Full-time work also paid monthly, while crowdsourcing settled per order. Once you accumulated one hundred yuan, you could withdraw it from