{"id":5837,"date":"2024-07-08T13:59:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T13:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/08\/laid-off-from-a-nearly-six-figure-job-this-61-year-old-is-driving-for-delivery-apps-i-dont-get-a-day-off\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T13:59:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T13:59:26","slug":"laid-off-from-a-nearly-six-figure-job-this-61-year-old-is-driving-for-delivery-apps-i-dont-get-a-day-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/08\/laid-off-from-a-nearly-six-figure-job-this-61-year-old-is-driving-for-delivery-apps-i-dont-get-a-day-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Laid off from a nearly six-figure job, this 61-year-old is driving for delivery apps: \u2018I don\u2019t get a day off\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><em>This is part of NBC News\u2019 Checkbook Chronicles, a series of profiles highlighting the financial realities of everyday Americans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Becky Melvin can usually be found on her phone \u2014\u00a0but not for the reasons many other Americans are.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Melvin, 61, of the Jacksonville, Florida, area, was laid off from a nearly six-figure public relations job in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2019. Since the start of the pandemic, she has worked seven days a week picking up and dropping off orders on delivery apps \u2014 typically for 12-hour stretches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIf I don\u2019t carry my phone with me to the bathroom, I might miss an order,\u201d she said. \u201cOr while I\u2019m doing laundry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Primary source of income:<\/strong> Shuttling orders on Shipt and Instacart, earning about $50,000 before taxes last year. She expects that to rise to about $75,000 annually if she makes it through the hiring process for a 911 dispatcher role she\u2019s pursuing. Before she lost her PR job, Melvin said, she made close to $100,000 annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Living situation:<\/strong> A three-bedroom, two-bathroom home, which she owns, with monthly homeownership costs totaling about $2,900.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Economic outlook:<\/strong> Melvin said her life could be worse but isn\u2019t great right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI sound like I\u2019m doing OK, but I have all these things hanging over me. If any of them go at one time, it\u2019s like a domino effect,\u201d she said. \u201cDon\u2019t think I have it easy because I\u2019m not on food stamps.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part of NBC News\u2019 Checkbook Chronicles, a series of profiles highlighting the financial realities of everyday Americans. Becky Melvin can usually be found on her phone \u2014\u00a0but not for the reasons many other Americans are. Melvin, 61, of the Jacksonville, Florida, area, was laid off from a nearly six-figure public relations job in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}