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DD delivering for ubereats/deliveroo

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Halfwaytonowhere · 05/12/2025 16:31

My DD is 19, currently in her second year of uni. She has a moped her dad bought her as she wanted one just for getting around the city. She has decided to take up delivering on ubereats/deliveroo as a way to make some extra money. She had a part time job in her first year of uni at a restaurant but she found having to work specific shifts got in the way of her studies/social life.
We didn’t want her to take out a student loan as the debt is unnecessary and we can cover her course fees and living costs. We do give her extra money for food and make sure to cover any big expenses, but she wants more money.

The idea of her out on a moped late at night walking up to random people’s doors makes me extremely nervous, I just don’t view it as safe!

AIBU to think this is a bad idea and she should look into other options?

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Dita73 · 05/12/2025 16:34

She sounds great! You’ve raised an independent woman. I understand your anxiety but I’m sure she’s sensible and will avoid putting herself in potentially dangerous situations

fedupposter · 05/12/2025 16:34

You’re very generously paying for £27k worth of education. For a lot of young people they would assume they had a free ride in life or ask for more money. Your daughter clearly has a great work ethic and rather than asking for more money has taken initiative to make it, which is a testament to your great parenting.

Would she consider doing agency healthcare work instead? That’s very flexible. I had two jobs simultaneously as a student and the hours were never that rigid tbh.

Spirallingdownwards · 05/12/2025 16:40

It will bode well for internship and graduate job applications that she has had paid employment. My DS did it aged 16 on his bike. The good thing about is as a student job is that she picks her own hours and therefore can fit it around her studies and social life without being obligated to fixed hours/days each week. Also she will get used to which hours are busier and therefore more lucrative. She is probably as safe doing this than working in a bar or club or even retail these days.

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Halfwaytonowhere · 05/12/2025 16:41

fedupposter · 05/12/2025 16:34

You’re very generously paying for £27k worth of education. For a lot of young people they would assume they had a free ride in life or ask for more money. Your daughter clearly has a great work ethic and rather than asking for more money has taken initiative to make it, which is a testament to your great parenting.

Would she consider doing agency healthcare work instead? That’s very flexible. I had two jobs simultaneously as a student and the hours were never that rigid tbh.

I will suggest this to her, I’m not familiar with the line of work but I think she is looking for something she can just pop out and do for a couple of hours when she is free, rather than having rigid commitments, she is on a sports team at uni so found the rigid commitments too much last year as her week to week availability differed.

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JudgeBread · 05/12/2025 16:42

I did it for a while when I was unemployed and strapped for cash, she'll be fine, vast majority of people ordering in a uni city will be fellow students.

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Halfwaytonowhere · 05/12/2025 16:43

Spirallingdownwards · 05/12/2025 16:40

It will bode well for internship and graduate job applications that she has had paid employment. My DS did it aged 16 on his bike. The good thing about is as a student job is that she picks her own hours and therefore can fit it around her studies and social life without being obligated to fixed hours/days each week. Also she will get used to which hours are busier and therefore more lucrative. She is probably as safe doing this than working in a bar or club or even retail these days.

Edited

She has been working since 16, first in a cafe at home through A-levels, then a restaurant last year. In the summer she did some sports coaching and now she’s looking for something flexible I think.
It just makes me so bloody nervous, you never know who will be opening the door and I just want her to be safe!

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Halfwaytonowhere · 05/12/2025 16:44

JudgeBread · 05/12/2025 16:42

I did it for a while when I was unemployed and strapped for cash, she'll be fine, vast majority of people ordering in a uni city will be fellow students.

It’s not really a uni city, she goes to a London uni so I imagine it will be a real mix of people.

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Beserkering · 05/12/2025 16:44

Sorry but it sounds OK to me, and a credit to her work ethic.

Yeah there are no doubt some risks but there are risks in everything.

MsAlignment · 05/12/2025 16:47

I think you need to separate

what you think

from

what she should do.

It’s highly unfortunate that she did not take out the student loan and whatever maintenance she might have been entitled to, with a parental contribution topping that up. As it is, it seems you feel you’re in charge of how she conducts herself, and the decisions she makes as a student. Young people will of course, ask for advice. And parents will, of course, worry and urge the course of action they feel is preferable. But a parent controlling a students’ life - because the parent is paying for everything - entirely negates the point of degree level education.

Try to remember that.

OldJohn · 05/12/2025 16:50

I delivered meals for a local take away when I was at Uni. It was a good way to earn a reasonable amount of money in one evening. I never felt unsafe and delivered to some fairly rough areas.

PigeonsandSquirrels · 05/12/2025 16:57

She will be fine. She’s not going into the houses.

Squishedpassenger · 05/12/2025 16:58

Id be more worried about the roads.

Lurkingandlearning · 05/12/2025 17:08

I use Uber Eats and can track the delivery person go to the restaurant, collect my food and follow them from there to my house. Once I have taken my order they enter something on a handset, I guess telling Uber the delivery is complete. That must mean Uber know where they are and are safe for the duration of each delivery. Does that put your mind at rest a bit?

Greggsit · 05/12/2025 17:15

It makes a change from all the threads complaining about immigrant men doing those jobs!

RealOliveTraybake · 05/12/2025 17:20

Make absolutely sure she has the correct insurance - business isn't enough, it has to be specific food delivery insurance.

Also, as a full motorcycle license holder, the standard that the CBT trains you to is shocking. Further training is definitely required, whether she knows it or not.

Adelle79360 · 05/12/2025 17:25

What are the options you think she should look into OP?

I think given how you’ve described the flexibility she wants it’s a good idea. As others have said, she clearly has a good work ethic. It would be worse if she decided she was going to take the student loan to get extra money - that isn’t a savvy move at all. Let her give it a go, and keep in touch with her about how it’s going to check she feels safe, it suits her etc. That way she knows she can tell you if it’s not.

Samjhgf · 05/12/2025 17:32

She'll probably get robbed for the moped. We know what London's like.

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