# Door Dashers - ever take a working vacation?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-dashers-ever-take-a-working-vacation/964914>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 23, 2022, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-dashers-ever-take-a-working-vacation/964914 "2022-05-23T02:23:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-dashers-ever-take-a-working-vacation/964914/1 "2022-05-23T02:23:31Z")

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I’ve been delivering for 5 months, about 15-20 hours a week and working at 7-11 a couple of days. I’ve left 7-11 and now drive 25 or so hours a week, and I was thinking about taking a road trip from southwest VA down to Nashville and Memphis, visit some historical music sites. If I drove for 4 hours or so a day once I got there that could pay for my hotel if I stay at a Motel 6 or something similar. Oh BTW I also drive Lyft.

Only complication for me is that I have a cat, and if I were to board him that would be expensive, and I don’t really want to do that anyway. He has been in a carrier before, when I moved from Jersey, 9 hours. He didn’t like it but wasn’t really freaked out. He now sleeps in his carrier every day, and I thought maybe I could carry him out to my car and just sit there for a while, then drive around the block a few times, gradually increasing the time and distance. You can easily train a dog to look forward to a drive, not sure about cats.

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-dashers-ever-take-a-working-vacation/964914/2 "2022-05-23T03:07:59Z")

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I don’t do Door Dash, but I know someone who used to, and one weekend, she and her then-boyfriend went to an adjoining state, in part for a getaway but also because his brother had some extra work they could do - and oh, BTW, hey, Door Dash operates here, so why don’t we do it for a couple hours? It earned enough money to pay for their dinner that night, at least.