Bicycle courier Bob, who has taken on hundreds of self employed courier jobs in the past few years, says delivering parcels and documents can be considered as one of those one mans poison, another mans food kind of thingsif it works for you, it can be deeply fulfilling. He is taut and lean and covers around 80 miles on a good day, five days a week. And he has earned a lifetimes worth of stories to tell.
Camaraderie
Delivery workers and the role they play are bound with world historythey have always been sent out to make sure vital messages are delivered to the right person. In the olden days, this was done on horseback. When the bicycle was invented in the 19th century, enterprising bicycle owners took on self employed courier jobs to make ends meet and to service a burgeoning industrial system. Bob admits he isnt very much aware of all the historyhe just knows that out there on the street, delivery workers operate with a sense of brotherhoodyou can depend on a fellow worker to watch your back or to give you helpful directions. There is a strong sense of camaraderie among them: you can expect them to lend each other a hand when one suffers a flat tyre or loses direction (although the latter may be rare). They may not be working in an office, but this bond that surpasses the fact of which company one works for seems enough to compensate for the perils of working outdoors.
Answering the Call of Nature
Fulfilling the obligations of self employed courier jobs may be a bit tricky when you start considering that couriers are humans, too, with well-functioning bodies and with physical needs to be met. For example, how do they manage to answer the call of nature when they are in the middle of a delivery? Bob says there are always pit stops along the wayfriendly hotels, bars, pubs, fast-food establishments. The days meals are carefully planned, as well: in Bobs case, he eats a hearty breakfast to jumpstart his day and caps it off with another big dinner at sundownhe avoids eating during the day to avoid becoming slow. And his body seems to have adapted to his lifestylehe rarely feels hungry while on a delivery errand, only needing to quench his thirst several times throughout the day.
Risks and Rewards
self employed courier jobs are not without the risks, of course. For one, there is the matter of healthcare benefits or insurancethey either do not have any coverage, or trying to get it can be trying. Insurance companies normally avoid them as they are exposed daily to the possibility of a road mishap, but that does not mean they are absolutely outsiders to the system: in London, for example, there is a special kind of insurance that caters specifically to delivery workers. And the rewards? Spending time in the outdoors, of course. And if youre good, the possibility of earning much more than the average pen pusher.
Camaraderie
Delivery workers and the role they play are bound with world historythey have always been sent out to make sure vital messages are delivered to the right person. In the olden days, this was done on horseback. When the bicycle was invented in the 19th century, enterprising bicycle owners took on self employed courier jobs to make ends meet and to service a burgeoning industrial system. Bob admits he isnt very much aware of all the historyhe just knows that out there on the street, delivery workers operate with a sense of brotherhoodyou can depend on a fellow worker to watch your back or to give you helpful directions. There is a strong sense of camaraderie among them: you can expect them to lend each other a hand when one suffers a flat tyre or loses direction (although the latter may be rare). They may not be working in an office, but this bond that surpasses the fact of which company one works for seems enough to compensate for the perils of working outdoors.
Answering the Call of Nature
Fulfilling the obligations of self employed courier jobs may be a bit tricky when you start considering that couriers are humans, too, with well-functioning bodies and with physical needs to be met. For example, how do they manage to answer the call of nature when they are in the middle of a delivery? Bob says there are always pit stops along the wayfriendly hotels, bars, pubs, fast-food establishments. The days meals are carefully planned, as well: in Bobs case, he eats a hearty breakfast to jumpstart his day and caps it off with another big dinner at sundownhe avoids eating during the day to avoid becoming slow. And his body seems to have adapted to his lifestylehe rarely feels hungry while on a delivery errand, only needing to quench his thirst several times throughout the day.
Risks and Rewards
self employed courier jobs are not without the risks, of course. For one, there is the matter of healthcare benefits or insurancethey either do not have any coverage, or trying to get it can be trying. Insurance companies normally avoid them as they are exposed daily to the possibility of a road mishap, but that does not mean they are absolutely outsiders to the system: in London, for example, there is a special kind of insurance that caters specifically to delivery workers. And the rewards? Spending time in the outdoors, of course. And if youre good, the possibility of earning much more than the average pen pusher.