Stay-At-Home Order, Lockdown, Motherhood & Gig Work

If you haven’t heard by now, there’s an Ontario-wide stay-at-home order.

This will be the third time since the pandemic started, that I’ve had no childcare and had to change how I balance being a mom and doing gig-work full-time.

I know I just talked about motherhood and gig work on Monday, but that was *BEFORE* I learned they were going to shut down schools, and I had childcare lined up for the foreseeable future.

Today, I’m going to discuss tips and tricks to help you get through the next few weeks of COVID-19 restrictions, especially if you’re in a region where they switched schools to online learning (I’m in Peel Region, where schools are closed until April 19, and all school-aged childcare has been shut down).

Sorry that I didn’t really explain the #DeclineNow movement. You can read about it in this Vice article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/3anwdy/organized-doordash-drivers-declinenow-strategy-is-driving-up-their-pay

Decline Now is a collective movement by DoorDash drivers to decline low-paying orders, forcing the algorithm to boost the payout for the next driver it’s offered to.

This actually works on other platforms, as well.

On Instacart, if a low-paying batch sits on the platform long enough, it will receive a peak boost. This is why we always tell new shoppers not to take low-paying orders.

This can work SOMETIMES on Cornershop. If a low-paying order keeps being sent to shoppers that are at a store closest to the customer, and those shoppers continue to decline that order, it may then be assigned to a shopper that’s at a different store branch that’s further away, driving the mileage pay up.

For this reason, I always tell gig workers not to accept low-paying offers — regardless of what gig they’re working on.

Full-Time Gig Work and Solo Parenting

Today, I’m going to talk about balancing full-time gig work and solo parenting.

If you take away anything from today’s video, make sure you’re setting realistic, achievable goals, and you are setting personal boundaries and aren’t compromising those boundaries. It will help you with your sanity in the long-run.

Father Murders 11-Year-Old Daughter?

For today’s Mystery Monday, we’re going to talk about 11-year-old Riya Rajkumar, who was murdered in Brampton by her father, Roopesh Rajkumar, on Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14, 2019), which was also her and her mother, Priya Ramdin’s, birthday.

Meet Archie and Serena! Two of the four paramedics that delivered my son, Charles ❤️

105645013_3030213790393590_7631900746470752282_o

We got to meet them today and it was pretty cool! (The other two were Laura and Leah but they couldn’t make it.) They were telling me that they don’t usually get to find out what happens to patients after a call so, it was cool for them, as well.

My youngest baby came so fast! Other moms warned me that each kid comes faster than the last one. I didn’t really believe it because my first two births took hours.

I have three kids.

My youngest baby came so fast! Other moms warned me that each kid comes faster than the last one. I didn’t really believe it because my first two births took hours.

I was ready to have a home birth (set up my home and everything) but I was running a food business at the time and it was the last business day before Thanksgiving. I didn’t want to let my customers down so, I went to work.

Continue reading “Meet Archie and Serena! Two of the four paramedics that delivered my son, Charles ❤️”

Website Powered by WordPress.com.

Up ↑