KOCHI: Food delivery at your doorstep is no longer considered a poorly paid job. The fast-growing food delivery business across the state has opened its doors to many job seekers. An interesting fact is many who turn up for these jobs are youths, who have completed professional courses including BBA, BTech and MBA. Ansif M M, a 20-year-old BBA graduate, knocked at the doors of many corporate companies after completing his course. But the pay offered was below `10,000.
“After my course was over, I went to Bengaluru seeking a job. I approached several companies, but the basic pay they offered was `6,000 to `7,000. The maximum was `10,000 in a city like Bengaluru, where it is very difficult to survive with this money. Then my friends suggested joining Swiggy, the online food delivery app. Now, with the incentives, I get more than `32,000 a month,” said Ansif.
Food delivery apps like Uber Eats, Swiggy and Zomato have already created waves across the state with thousands of people relying on them for their daily grub. It is not just Ansif, many people working with food delivery apps are getting a decent pay compared to what an engineer or BDS graduate gets in the state.
Parents usually dream of their wards fetching a lucrative white-collar job. But the signals of the job market suggest a different trend. “We spent around `5 lakh in a self-financing college to educate our son. But if he was not getting paid enough, and was forced to seek a job elsewhere. We are happy with our son getting a decent salary for this job,” said Shafina, mother of Ansif.