When you cannot find a job in Canada, someone will always tell you the same thing.

Get a car. Do Uber Eats. Do DoorDash. Easy money while you wait for the right opportunity.

I watched a friend follow that advice from back home. He had been job hunting for eight months, nothing was landing, and the pressure was building. So he did what made sense on paper. He took a loan in India, got the money transferred, bought a car, and started delivering.

What nobody told him was that the delivery market in Canada is not what it was three or four years ago. Every city has thousands of drivers on the app at the same time. Surge pricing is rare. The base pay per order is low. After fuel, after insurance, after maintenance, after the app takes its cut, working full time in this market will earn you part time money unless you are consistently getting good tips, which you cannot count on.

He was not lazy. He was working. He was just working inside a saturated system that nobody warned him about.