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Im on the opposite side. I worked at a restaurant for 12 years and it was the worst time of my life. I would constantly get called into work at 3 am due to random people not showing up. Inventory, dealing with 20+ people who don't care about the job. Terrible customers, and horrible people really left my bitter. To top it all off I was stresseed out of my mind and broke. Im a dev now and its deff stressful but doesn't compare to my days in a restaurant,plus I have some money now.Guess the grass is always greener

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Yeah this feels very American Beauty, rose-tinted glasses. Kevin Spacey goes to work in a drive thru stress-free because he doesn't care about the job or need the money and is sick of responsibilities. Same thing here. Except we needed that job and had to be responsible because we didn't want to make $5.25/hr or have terrible shifts.

You're only there for 2 weeks, you know you're only there for 2 weeks and everyone knows you're not going to get the terrible end of the stick unless they're specifically going out of their way.

I delivered a lot of different food in high school and it honestly was one of the worst jobs of my career, I'd much rather work in retail or clean pools. All of my income went into gas and repairing my car. If I got a tip it was a few bucks and back then we had the 30 minute delivery thing that caused so many drivers to get into wrecks I'm pretty sure it was eventually banned or made illegal (or they all just dropped it).

I wish, but weed is very difficult to find around here ;)

The car is provided by the restaurant, and it's large scale corporate customers so no tips.

I make enough money to survive, a chance to make people happy and get free food. I've been doing this for several months now.

Ah this was 20 years ago for me, I'm glad delivery driving has changed some for bigger/wealthier deliveries. I worked for tiny little pizza shops so they just gave us a shirt and a car topper and told us to deal with car insurance ourselves.

It is a relaxing job when it's going well and not rushed. I like driving around aimlessly.

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