Amrit – Mount Roskill
“I last felt proud when I was helping the old lady by the McDonalds Britomart, because I saw that no one was helping her to cross the road.
She was having a lot of stuff so I parked my car and helped her out, and she was really happy and she praised me.
When I have time I’d prefer to help, you know, but when I am busy sometimes you have to continue doing your work, because I’m an Uber driver so I can’t stop my car everywhere to help. But when I have time and I don’t have any customer I prefer to do that.
I’m from India. I was a chef before but I left India as a bakery manager, I’m doing Uber part-time. I love doing Uber, and being 6 years in Auckland, I pretty much want to settle down over here.
There are, like everything else, pros and cons. Auckland is clean – you have more opportunity to grow over here and if I compare with India yes you have less social life; you can only socialize with the people on the weekends because most of the time people are busy.
This is the con over here, but everything else is a positive in Auckland; clean environment, nice people, friendly staff, and more opportunity for the growth. If you’re hard working, you can touch the sky.
It’s quite welcoming. Lots of people are coming every day. With Uber, I am interacting with people every day; all people are welcoming, it’s nice.
When I’m going for my break, and I am near the new McDonalds or something, if I saw someone, you know, needs food, I prefer to buy it for them. That’s what I tend to. I even tell my wife to do this, because I think that sharing food is the kind of thing that will work, and the people get happy and they will praise you for these things. I don’t prefer giving the cash to anyone maybe they’re just buying drugs or alcohol with it. If they’re hungry, yeah I prefer to buy them the food.”
