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In the last video, I attempted to make $500 in 16 hours delivering for DoorDash, Instacart, and Amazon Flex.

And I failed.

I was actually so close to hitting it.

And in the video, I said that if I didn't make my goal, I'd have to try again.

So that's exactly what this video is.

Here is attempt number two.

Today, we are running it back better than ever.

I'm feeling good.

I just got my first one.

It's Kroger.

I got so excited, I forgot to screenshot it, but you can see it on screen.

This Burger King was ready when I got in there, that's what's up.

Guys, it wouldn't be a morning shift without a Chick-fil-A order.

And all these small ones, they add up.

That they do.

But the big orders add up quicker.

Yes, dude, yes, let's go.

And yes, I'm aware that it says that I'm shopping for four different orders in my cart.

But when I actually looked at the order, I realized that three of those customers only ordered a couple of items.

So I shouldn't have any issues with organizing all the orders in my cart.

As it turned out, separating the orders in my cart was going to be the least of my issues with this batch.

Finding all of the items was easy.

See, I've shopped at this Kroger so often lately

that I pretty much have a sixth sense

and can smell the exact coordinates of a shitty Stouffer's meal from across the store.

This brings me back.

But once I finished shopping, my card kept declining at checkout.

My physical card wasn't working, but neither was my digital payment card.

Which meant that I had to call Instacart support.

Oh, dude, I hate...

I hate talking to support.

One eternity later.

I have to cancel this entire order.

Look at it.

I shopped the entire order.

That is 50 items that's in that cart.

There's no way I can have 500 today.

There's just no way because that's an hour for zero dollars.

A zero dollar hour...

I'm screwed.

How did this happen?

Well, my physical card had expired three days ago and I just didn't realize it.

But my digital card wasn't working either.

And after looking it up, apparently Kroger stopped supporting it at all locations effective October of 2025.

Because of this, I had no way to pay and no choice

but to give the cart to customer service and cancel the batch.

I've not been that bad about something related to gig work in a very long time.

I normally just let things fly off the shoulder, but that just made me mad.

And yes, I understand it's my own fault.

Frustrating nonetheless.

But I did just get this Whole Foods instant offer and I accepted it.

I think the tips could be really good because this is 37 packages.

That's a lot for Whole Foods.

I mean, that's gonna fill up my entire car.

Whether I wanted to accept it or not, this run was dead.

I was really bummed out about that batch, and it bothered me more than it should have, so I kind of half-assed the rest of my shift, and here's what sucks.

On attempt two, I worked 10 hours, and I still made $249.16.

If I would have completed that Instacart order, I would be at over $300 in 10 hours, which would put me right on pace to hit $500 in 16 hours.

This means it's very likely that if my card wasn't expired, this attempt would have been successful.

But it wasn't, so I tried again the next day.

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Today is the day.

It has to be the day we hit $500.

Okay, I don't want an attempt four, an attempt five, an attempt six.

Maybe that would be strategic content-wise, but I want to make it today.

I just did my first order.

It was a $7 Chick-fil-A super quick, and that's where we're at right now, is it $7?

So I'll meet you with my next.

Here's the second order of my shift.

It's noticeably slower ever since they threw on the peak pay, so I'm going to do some earn by time for a little bit.

But not for the whole day, don't worry.

As slow as it's been, I could use the shopping order.

It's not great, but I think it's the best I'm going to get right now.

It's not a bad order for nine in the morning. Where are the orders?

I'm waiting, where are they?

Okay, right as I set down the camera, I got two orders.

Amazon Flex, $40 for 51.4 miles or DoorDash, $8.65 plus for 2.7.

I'm taking the DoorDash.

This order was only hiding 25 cents, and so while it was still a good order, it wasn't the kind of order I need right now to hit 500.

This next one, however, was much better.

Here we go, first actual banger, 22 bucks.

I'm taking this.

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Shopping the order at Target was really easy, but after checkout, I noticed something really weird.

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Excuse me.

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I just paid for all this stuff.

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I have one of these security tags on here.

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Is this going to go off?

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Yeah.

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It will?

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Okay.

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Thank you so much.

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After avoiding potentially being arrested or worse, I grabbed the donut order, dropped both of them off, and now it was picking up.

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Another $20 Target stack.

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Okay, I see you.

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I'm cutting off the second part of this stack as we speak, and I just got this crazy Amazon Flex order.

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It's 40 bucks for two hours, but that's just base pay, and it's 30 packages, which makes me think the tips could be good.

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Fingers crossed, fingers crossed, I need a good payout right now.

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Just like I need this traffic to slow down.

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This is a whole car worth of groceries.

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This gotta be banging.

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Please tell me it was banging.

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It was banging.

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It took me just under two hours to pick up all three carts worth of groceries

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and deliver six orders all across my city, but it paid me over $70.

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But just like earlier, this momentum wouldn't last forever.

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Bro, what happened?

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These are all so bad and so far in between.

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I'm starting to think maybe it's just Saturdays are not as good as Fridays?

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Because the volume and order quality during the day so far has just been way worse than Friday.

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DUDE!

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Send me something worth taking right now.

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Or it's bad news, okay?

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I'm the tough guy here.

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Send me something good right now, or it's bad news.

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Okay, here's something, here's something.

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But I'm gonna need something better than this if I actually want to hit 500 today.

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This is like a teaser.

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This is an appetizer order, you know, just like a little taste of what's to come.

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Like this, this $28 target order.

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It's only eight items, nine miles.

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That's really good.

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And look at this guys, I'm getting stacked already.

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$11 for one extra mile for an extra three items.

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That makes this a 40, basically a $40 stack.

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All right, we are so back.

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Put the gif on screen with the button that says that was easy because that was easy.

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Well, I couldn't find the balloons.

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The balloons were hard to find, but rest assured we found them.

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We don't talk about that.

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Here was the part where I was going to say, I dropped off the first order and then the second.

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But if I hear myself say that one more time, I might end up going missing.

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So I asked ChatGPT to give me commentary on my next few orders.

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Ahem.

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I knocked out the first delivery, picked up another order right away, and before I knew it, the second drop off was done too.

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Bro, that's just the same thing, but it's f*ing longer.

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Here, we'll try this one.

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I dropped off the first order.

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The streets were watching.

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Then I dropped off the second, and the city knew my name.

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Bro, that is so stupid.

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All right guys, I just got my next order.

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It's a stack, it has a Kroger order on it.

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Guys, I'm not really feeling too good about this, okay?

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I'm at like a little over 209 hours.

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This isn't $30 an hour territory, which is where I need to be.

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I don't really think I've done anything wrong today.

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Maybe some minor mistakes, maybe I could be a little faster, but I'm taking the best of what I'm getting.

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But maybe my best just isn't good enough.

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That's a great message for all these kids, all the kids out there watching, all five of you, you know, maybe your best isn't good enough.

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Okay, that's a joke because listen, The real lesson is actually never give up.

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The real lesson is even if it takes six, maybe seven attempts, but as long as you actually get it done, then that's all that matters.

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See, that lesson was definitely for the kids, you know, I dropped a six, seven in there.

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Bro, I'm a grown man, by the way.

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The problem with this shift is that without Instacart, this challenge is almost impossible.

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DoorDash is good, but most of the time you're not averaging more than $25 an hour, which is just not good enough to hit $500 in one day.

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You might have a $30 hour here, a $40 hour here, but you're not averaging that for 16 hours straight.

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That's why Instacart is so helpful.

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Say you're doordashing and you're at $75 for three hours.

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It's good, but not $500 a day good.

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But say you get an Instacart like I did yesterday that was $53 for one hour.

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That single order brings my average from $25 an hour to $32 an hour.

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And the point I'm trying to make is if you get just two

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or three of these really high-paying orders for a short amount of time on either Amazon Flex or Instacart, it's actually pretty easy to hit 500.

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This is all to say, basically, DoorDash is not a $30 an hour app.

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So you do need some large orders from other apps to hit that goal.

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Guys, I see aisle 10, aisle 11.

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I'm not really familiar with aisle 352.

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it doesn't exist.

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This shift I just worked was an example of a decent shift, but with none of those really high paying orders to jump my hourly, I only made $286.49 in 11 hours.

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Which again, don't get me wrong, that's good, it's just not good enough to hit 500.

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Hitting 500 is insanely hard, I think I've attempted now at this point five or six times.

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Because after this shift that you just watched, I went again the next day without filming, and I made $250 in 10 hours.

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And then the day after that, I made about $180 in seven hours.

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Which I'm going to repeat one more time, are good numbers, just not 500 a day good.

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In the end, I'm not giving up.

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I think it's possible to do this without Spark.

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That was the whole point.

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I'll see like the cuck chair in the back.

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That was the whole point is that I am trying to make 500 without spark.

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I need my Instacart card.

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I need to pick a very busy day, most likely a Friday.

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And I need some luck.

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So this is not the end of the challenge.

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This is just the beginning.

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This is for you guys.

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Do you see it?

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You're gonna have to finish the other half.

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All right.

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See you guys soon.

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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節 B1 級別的口語課以影片“Why Is $500/Day So Difficult?”為素材。這段影片共有 206 個句子、2250 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 11:04。說話人語速較快，每分鐘約 203 個詞，會出現較多連讀和弱讀。 84% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
cart 名詞	/kɑɹt/	手推車 /手推車, 手拉車 /手拉車
stack 名詞	/stæk/	堆
checkout 名詞	/ˈt͡ʃɛkˌaʊt/	收款處 /收款處
aisle 名詞	/aɪ̯l/	走道, 過道 /過道
batch 名詞	/bæt͡ʃ/	批次, 批
bang 名詞	/ˈbæŋ/	轟 /轟, 砰
personalize 動詞	/ˈpɜː.sə.nə.laɪz/	個性化 /個性化
expire 動詞	/ɪkˈspaɪə(ɹ)/	失效
groceries 名詞	/ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/	雜貨 /雜貨, 買菜 /買菜
balloon 名詞	/bəˈlun/	氣球 /氣球
spark 名詞	/ˈspɑɹk/	火花
cancel 動詞	/ˈkæn.sl̩/	劃, 勾
appetizer 名詞	/ˈæpɪˌtaɪzə/	開胃菜 /開胃菜, 前菜
banger 名詞	/ˈbæŋ.ə/	神曲
customize 動詞	/ˈkʌs.tə.maɪ̯z/	定製, 定做

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
drop off 動詞		掉落, 落下
pick up 動詞		拾取, 撿 /撿
check out 動詞		退房
give up 動詞		投案, 自首
cut off 動詞	/ˌkʌt ˈɔf/ [ˌkɐɾ ˈɔf]	切下, 割下
end up 動詞		到達
fill up 動詞		裝滿 /裝滿
knock out 動詞		昏迷

值得反覆跟讀的句子

影片中簡短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常對話裡：

Yes, dude, yes, let's go.
I mean, that's gonna fill up my entire car.
Here's the second order of my shift.
I'm waiting, where are they?
I'm the tough guy here.

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	I've shopped · I've not been · you've never heard
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	was really bummed · wasn't expired · being arrested
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	packages, which makes · territory, which is · hour, which is

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 67 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 I'm, don't, you're。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: personalization /ˌpɝs(ə)nəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/, screenshot /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/, assure /əˈʃʊɹ/
長單詞——注意重音位置: personalization /ˌpɝs(ə)nəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/, personalize /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.laɪz/, appetizer /ˈæpɪˌtaɪzə/, manually /ˈmænj(u)əliː/, eternity /əˈtɜɹnəti/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: preview /ˈpɹiːvjuː/, inventory /ˈɪn.vən.tɹi/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: cart /kɑɹt/, stack /stæk/, checkout /ˈt͡ʃɛkˌaʊt/, batch /bæt͡ʃ/, personalize /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.laɪz/
/æ/ — 嘴張大，不要讀成 /e/: stack /stæk/, batch /bæt͡ʃ/, bang /ˈbæŋ/, cancel /ˈkæn.sl̩/, appetizer /ˈæpɪˌtaɪzə/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 cart, stack, checkout 這類單詞。

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