• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I really liked being a pizza delivery driver pre-GPS. It did require some skill, but you learned quickly about how things work:

    • Is it a complex of some sort (e.g., trailer park, apartment, condo)? Look for a unit map.
    • Evens on one side of the street, odds on the other
    • You learn all of those weird roads that have the same name in two disconnected parts of town

    It was easily the best “shitty job” I’ve ever had.

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      2 hours ago

      Apartments and multi tenant buildings in my country have numbers in a pattern, 1001 bottom first floor first to the left, 1002 next…1101 next floor same etc etc

      Finding the right apartment even without a name of the owner becomes a breeze.

      Do you think the postal and delivery workers have learnt this? …nope…

      Pizza delivery though? No issues at all

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      3 hours ago

      Same. I loved the independence of it. But it didn’t pay enough to cover the repair bills it generated.