A delivery driver at the restaurant counter may also be a student, musician, parent, programmer, artist, small-business owner or someone quietly financing the next stage of life one order at a time.
We want to collect those stories. Gig work is usually discussed through earnings, algorithms and working conditions—all important subjects—but the people doing it are often flattened into a single category called “drivers.” The flexibility of app work can sometimes create space for projects and ambitions that are invisible to the customer receiving dinner at the door.
This will not be a romantic argument that precarious work is secretly wonderful. The same flexibility can coexist with low pay, uncertainty and stress. We are interested in the more human question: what are drivers building around the work, and what role does delivery income play in getting them there?
We are looking for drivers with side businesses, creative projects, career transitions, education plans, community work or wonderfully improbable goals. The stranger the combination, the better—as long as it is real.
