Just after 4 p.m., Li Lin, a 21-year-old girl in Jingzhou, Hubei Province, opened the Hungry Rider App, and in just 5 minutes, the system automatically assigned 3 takeaway orders. "This is the first time I have been in a foreign country for the New Year, and I stayed in Shanghai to deliver takeaway food in order to better prepare for the adult self-examination." Li Lin's idea of staying in Shanghai for the New Year was quite surprising.
"I didn't like to sit all the time since I was a kid, and now I choose to be a rider, mainly because I can get started quickly and can run everywhere." Li Lin is not a typical "well-behaved girl", due to boredom after reading the first year of high school, he dropped out of school at home, worked as a classroom teacher in the local kindergarten in Jingzhou, and also worked as a micro-business for two years.
After a period of confusion, she set her sights on Shanghai. At the end of 2019, Li Lin ran to his friends who worked in Shanghai with the mentality of trying it out, and after playing for a while, he wanted to find a job and settle in Shanghai, but the "sequelae" of dropping out of school began to appear. "I read a lot of recruitment revelations on the Internet, the starting point is college degree or above, and most of the jobs I am interested in have academic requirements." After some research, Li Lin decided to take the adult self-examination in Shanghai, with the goal of majoring in exhibition planning and management at Shanghai University of Technology.
In order to stay in Shanghai to review the exam, she began a year-long half-work and half-study life, successively working in the foreign trade telemarketing and medical consulting industries, and returning to the shared house at night to brush up on the exam questions. Kung Fu pays off, last October Li Lin passed the exam of 6 courses at one time, according to the existing plan, in April this year, he passed 6 more courses, and the remaining 2 courses were completed in October, and this year he can get a college diploma.
By chance, in early January this year, Li Lin found that there were takeaway riders recruiting, with higher incomes than previous part-time jobs and more free time. The hard work of delivering takeaways, can a girl eat well? She had asked herself, but after two days she had adapted well. "I have a very good sense of direction, the road is very accurate, the area of Guoding Road, the name of the road has not been remembered, but it is not easy to get lost with the navigation." She proudly told reporters that 28 orders were delivered on the second day of employment, a performance that is not easy in the new hands. Of course, leaving the comfort zone is not easy, and the complicated road conditions in Shanghai have made her suffer a lot. "There is no non-motorized road on Handan Road in Wujiaochang, but I did not pay attention to the navigation, and I was directly stopped by the traffic police and fined 50 yuan, which is equivalent to seven or eight single white runs." Although she is very depressed, she also pays more attention to traffic rules when running orders.
Unlike full-time riders, Li Lin's online order time is only 7:00 to 14:00, and then 4 hours of orders at dinner, and the rest of the time needs to be left for online classes. Now she can run about 30 orders a day, with about 200 yuan in hand, "this money is not much, but the living expenses for me to study are enough." ”
This year, under the call of "non-essential not leaving Shanghai", Shanghai adheres to many riders like Li Lin, and the reasons for staying in Shanghai are not the same, "the newly renovated house wants to stay for the New Year", "I want to earn more overtime pay during the holidays", "I am embarrassed to go home if I did not make money this year", and so on. Ma Panpan, a rider from his hometown in Henan, decided to stay in Shanghai for the Chinese New Year this year, and since the outbreak of the epidemic the year before, he has spent every Spring Festival in Shanghai, "At least seven or eight thousand more can be earned during the Spring Festival." I'll take a week or two off after the holiday and go home to see. ”
The reporter learned that takeaway riders can enjoy running order subsidies before Chinese New Year's Eve, during the Spring Festival and after the festival, and the platform also provides additional year-end running single awards for left-behind employees, and riders can choose whether to participate in running single activities according to their own time conditions. In order to reduce crowd gatherings, Ele.me distributed "one-person food" Chinese New Year's Eve meals or New Year gift boxes in 21 cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, Wuhan and Zhengzhou, in addition, the relevant trade unions in Shanghai also gave special gift packages and free physical examinations to some takeaway riders, and organized New Year activities such as writing Spring Festival leagues and painting tiger statues.
In addition to the goal of getting a certificate this year, Li Lin also plans to open a new journey in life, "Takeaway riders are only a stage of making a living, and I want to open a yoga studio in the future." It turned out that during her visit to Shanghai, she found that Shanghai had a strong yoga atmosphere, and because of her interest, she enrolled in a five-week yoga training class in November last year.
"I've been in Shanghai for two years, and I feel that Shanghai is big, there are many opportunities, and it is very inclusive. No matter how high or low your education is, how much you earn, you can find a way out of life. Li Lin told reporters that after the end of this year's studies, consider joining the yoga studio to learn and operate, so as to lay a good foundation for the future career.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Li Ye Text Editor: Zha Rui Title Image Source: Visual China Photo Editor: Zhu Xuan
Source: Author: Charry