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You know, with all the serious and depressing things that we talk about in this blog sometimes, it’s nice when something comes along that is capable of cheering us up. I’m sure that’s what you come here to see, isn’t it, my dears? Well, apart from all the news and tips about courier work, I mean.

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In today’s post, I’ve chosen to talk about something quite dear to my heart: food. As many of you know, I run a cafe, and as many of you also know that cafe is often frequented by bicycle couriers and fellows who have owner driver jobs. And let me tell you, dears, most times those people are absolutely starving!

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Well, I’m excited – after however many years of blogging for all you lovely dears, I am finally going to get to pry into your lives! I can’t wait for the gossip! *Giggle*

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You know, a thought struck me today. As I was thinking about subjects to give my opinion on for the blog, I realised that for all we talk about self-employed courier jobs and everything around them, we have never really discussed motivations, have we?

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Today I’m bringing you a slightly more reflexive post. You see, during the course of my day at the cafe, I serve a lot of people. And because I serve a lot of people, I obviously hear a lot of things. And one of the things I hear more often is customers complaining either about their owner driver jobs or about how people who have those kinds of jobs can’t do them properly.

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Today, I’m bringing you a bit of a "food for thought" type of post. See, my nephew Steven (who some of you may have heard of) came over for dinner the other night, and we ended up talking about owner driver jobs. Stevie isn’t getting as much work as he would like at the moment, unfortunately. That got me (and him) thinking about potential reasons why itis happening.

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Today we will be talking about career alternatives for people with self-employed courier jobs. You know, things they would be qualified or skilled for should their career go bottoms-up for some reason. While we did something similar a while back, it got such a huge response I thought it needed an update. This is not what my darlings think of this subject (although I do care what you think, you know that!), but rather a few ideas that old Gertie came up with herself.

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So, here we are as always...the post after the last one 

Now, if you recall, last time I asked you to share your most challenging moments working on self-employed courier jobs. After I had written and posted the request, I began to worry that the subject might be a little too personal to share openly with the other readers – I wouldn’t have blamed you if you didn’t want to tell me your most vulnerable memories of working your self-employed courier jobs!

I thought we would kick off this month in the best possible way and have ourselves one of our little reader interaction things. Those are always fun, right? So I set my mind to thinking, trying to figure out what we could talk about. Unfortunately for me and for you lot, inspiration just wasn’t high, and I couldn’t come up with anything, so I decided to turn on the TV. And what was the first thing I saw? Some poor dear who’s been involved in an accident. And then the reporters said he was an independent man-and-van operator. Suddenly I had the subject for my next post!

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This is turning out to be an excellent month for posts! After we had a very fun (but also very serious) reader interaction and a wild (but somehow also sensible) reader theory, this week we have an inspiring story from a reader, whose self-employed courier jobs helped her run a marathon!