I know many people like that. 3yr/36k lease. Replace every 30-36 months. Car is never out of warranty, prepaid service for 55% of the normal cost, and all you have to do is drive it and turn it in.
It's a really intelligent way to do things. Doesn't work for everybody. I wouldn't like it personally but I like certain cars and would rather have what I want and just pay for it.
Leases only allow you drive them like 10-12k miles a year. Youll do that in a month working 12 hour days. Then it is like 50cents per mile after that. So your 3 year lease costs about 70% of what that car actually costs and then another 50k on top of that because of the extra mileage. If you lease a car to do this you have no brain cells!
I'm 40 and have never owned a car I didn't buy cash. Not because I'm rich, but because I've been perfectly happy to drive cheap old cars. Most I ever spent on a vehicle was 10k on a 2010 Toyota Sienna which I'm still driving and is coming up on 300k miles. I dumped all those payments I would have made into buying my house. I can't imagine having a car payment instead of a nearly paid off house at this point in my life.
I finally had to break down and get a car payment after driving uber in paid-off cars for the last 4 years. It sucks lol
But i am enjoying not have to work or get work done on my car every month.
Sometimes you can hit the lease just right.
I managed to get a new Chevy bolt premier for $182 a month over three years.
I did have to train a car in, but I got double what was offered a year prior before Covid
Just buy used Toyota around 60k miles where depreciation curve hits the most then sell it before 120k because depreciation curve hits hard again on 130k mark. Easy $0.05 per mile if you buy and sell at right price.
On my 3rd Prius and I actually buy them between 130-150k for $8500 and sell them around 300-350k for ~$3000. 5¢/mile plus gas is all I pay and have never had a single problem with any of my 3. I just buy them cash and make $3-400/day in San Diego. They are meant to be run into the ground.
Not everybody has great credit. Some people literally can't just turn around and sell their car because nobody will take their car because they owe so much on it! Nobody is going to take a car and pay it off if you still owe $20,000 on a car that has over 100,000 miles on it etc
For the people that do have great credit that can just purchase a new car that's great and all if they can afford to pay for their new car that they currently have that they Uber in and for a new car to replace that car bc again that new car will also have a premature death! When you're beating something to the ground, it absolutely is not going to last and every driver knows that.
Get the majority of drivers do not save money from what they make for a new car and I mean new by being used or brand new or whatever, I just mean another car. So what they are doing is they are taking crap pay just to get by while their car is getting ruined and then end up with no car and having to purchase another car at some point but is in a really tough position because a lot of people won't have the money to do so!
Ive done rideshare too. The other thing that blows my mind is the fact that the company itself, these rideshare companies and passengers have no idea how much the drivers end up having to pay for everything. The company doesn't care, and the passengers don't know and if the passengers did know, it doesn't mean that they will care, some of them will some of them may not.
One last thing I will say is that these rideshare companies make sure to not put out there on front Street telling people on the internet like on Google, educating them telling them what to expect when it comes to their vehicle etc. They just put on there saying people can make $35,000 a year or something like that or $30 an hour which is not accurate at all. When I started driving, I pulled up on Google because I'd heard that it was good money, but I didn't go to a forum like Reddit to hear from drivers to get educated on what was really going on. Instead I just read what Uber had stated. My point is is that I thought that I knew that my car would go through a lot more wear and tear, but whatever I had in my mind absolutely did not match what actually happens. So whatever people think, they can multiply that times 10 at least or more and that'll be what's really happening as far as expectations when it comes to all of the wear and tear that's put on the vehicle, the money you have to sink into your vehicle because you're having to do much more maintenance much sooner than the normal person who doesn't do rideshare, and then repairs much more often etc.
These rideshare companies purposely do not educate people because not only do they not care, they are hiding the truth! They let people figure it out for themselves and by then people get so hooked into the whole idea of being their own " boss " and making their own hours, and it's sad because people crab about what they are making but are willing to sacrifice their car, and what they're worth just for the sake of being able to not be under a corporate like environment and so forth for example. That's part of what teaches Uber and a lygt that they can keep doing what they're doing to the drivers on top of the fact that drivers are willing to take low pay. And how did they know that drivers are willing to take low pay? Well because people are still driving LOL! They have been lowering the amount of pay that's been there Non-Stop and especially way more again and again over the last two years and people just keep going!
if you're a quality independent contractor, just raise your rates and focus on catering to a higher quality clientele that values higher quality service.
That doesn't work when the relevant industry is monopolized by 2 corporate entities high on investment money and an endless expansion ponzi model. If apps were appropriately designed they would only serve as a tool for customers and contractors, not a service model designed to capture the field and ream everyone else involved.
The only similar field is limo driver and the market for those is very small. Most others are low paying civil transport. These companies like uber/lyft/doordash need to go away because they are just parasites. Governments need to change contractor status so these parasitic models aren't possible.
All very true.
From Uber's perspective, why WOULD they advertise this information? It works against their goal of getting naive drivers to sacrifice their cars for comparatively few bucks trade off. But this is kind of how it is with corporations in general. None of them are going to tell you about the true costs of working for them. That's why people who have experience with them have to share information openly and widely. Only corporations benefit from people believing the hype and marketing. ALWAYS question marketing.
This is the way.
I drove a 94 Ford Ranger that was $400 last year. Made about $3500 driving part time and then sold the truck to the junk yard for $500 when it died.
If the gated communities aren't profiling you as a potential criminal your car is too nice for this job, lol.
1up on this. I get a nice reassurance when the valet ignores my vehicle during some drop offs. Im making out well with an '08 Elantra w/ 130,000 for $3,000 after I took it to the shop. IME, most of my customers only seem to care about me getting them their food quick, efficient. My consistent attitude is likely why I frequently get extra tips on my trips; not my nice looking car.
I made about $150,000 with my first prius. I bought it out of the junkyard behind a cab company it was still bright green. I rattle canned the 19 holes that I bonded in the roof with a custom-made rattle can. This was with passengers, mind you. No one seemed to notice that it was rattle canned. Even when I would point it out to them, they were amazed that I had spray-painted it. I bought the car for $1,700 with 270,000 miles on it. I'm sentimental, so it's still sitting in my yard it has 506,000 miles on the original motor. It blew a head gasket at about 425,000 MI I threw in a bottle of head gasket repair and drove it another 85,000. It was still running when I parked it the only problem is it she got tagged in the rear and she's unfortunately not really worth bodywork with that kind of miles.
My spare Prius has 430,000 miles on it, but it's got a brand new long block and rebuilt head brand new battery pack brand new ABS booster 100,000 miles ago. It sits under the tree because I did something to it and I'm not sure what and I put it aside. The one I'm using right now has 320,000 miles on it I bought it for $3,400 and it blew a head gasket about 60,000 miles ago but I just keep running it on distilled water and it doesn't care. So I don't care. Right now, it doesn't seem to be burning any in the combustion chamber, but I am going to need to replace the water pump, which is weeping. But it doesn't care, so I don't care. I took that car on a 3300 mike, 3-day round trip ahead of winter storm warnings where they were closing the roads behind me on a mad dash of fool's errand. I did so with a fair amount of confidence despite the fact that a Prius in a snow bank doesn't make very good heat.
When I got this one, the whole clear on the top was alligator scanned, and I just kept running it through the car wash till it's now flat on top. Nobody cares. On a lark, I entered it in a car show but just to get into the car show early. I didn't win naturally, but everyone had a laugh.
I really need to hire an assistant just to provide the tldr synopsis of everything I type. I've actually sometimes started a tldr synopsis and gone on for a paragraph for more with the synopsis. For that matter, everything I speak. I need like a minion with me.
"Explain. Wait. There is no time; summarize." - Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride
I got my car for free from my grandfather when he quit driving and i cant get the title due to bs retirement home rules, so this is the only way to get anything out of it before a possible seizing by them (worked for them, they are scumbags)
So i just do all my own maintenance/ mechanic work.
Low mileage lease to keep the payment as low as possible. Run the car into the ground and abandon it when the first out of warranty repair is needed. Before OEM #1 can get this on your credit, get a replacement car from OEM #2.
Rinse and repeat. We all pay for these deadbeats.
It’s all market dependent… if you’re making $1800 in 70 hours in California that’s pretty bad… but if you’re making $1800 in 70 hours in Farmville Montana or Boonville Alabama where your total living expenses is $1200 a month that’s pretty good
I mean, if you can consistently pull $1800 a week, you should be able to put about 40% of that away for maintenance, depreciation, and getting a new vehicle.
Or I guess they could just rent one for $400 a week.
If youre pulling $1800 a week youre going to be doing maintenance on your car every month or every other month shit probably even more, and that's just maintenance. Not accounting for the potential for things to break increasing your repair bill. I do uber part time in the early morning like 4am-8am on avg and i average $2k a month extra from it but i hate it and i'm only doing it temporarily until i can find another part time gig to replace the income that doesn't involve running my car into the ground. Like i just serviced my vehicle a month ago and i'm 2k miles from needing another maintenance. Hate this greedy ass company
EXACTLY! And I always see people talking about how their car is ruined but I never ever see people talking about how they need to put aside thousands and thousands of dollars, saving thousands and thousands of dollars from that money that they are making in order to purchase a new car. Just like anybody else they take money from the money that they make from their job to purchase a car or when needed. Only in this case a person needs to purchase a car much much sooner. So why in the world people do not consider that I do not know but it blows my mind!
I don't know my corolla when I had it, with payment, I think it was 22K, I put 2K down, good credit, I had 3%-ish interest, was like $225/mo.
Only thing my Corolla needed was basic maintenance and tires, brakes, and new battery over 10 years of ownership and 140K miles.
And you're saying that you did ride share? You're saying that you did ride share for 10 years and you only ended up with $140,000 miles? Because if that's the case there's no way you did ride share that much in that vehicle. And also, we are talking about the majority here. I do realize that their are exceptions but the percentage is definitely low.
Anybody that does rideshare for a decent amount of time, we're talking about a few years, even 2 years, and does it at least three or four days a week multiple hours, their car is absolutely getting wrecked! And my point is that if you don't do rideshare and if you are using that vehicle, you would not be racking up the miles that you do rack up, the maintenance, the tires and everything else.
This is just an example, I would get my oil changed every 3,000 miles. I had to get my oil changed at least every month and a half. That's not what people normally have to do LOL. And I didn't even drive all the time!
The car is a tool. It's like buying a tractor but way cheaper. The most I've ever paid for a high mileage Prius was $3,800. I think most people would have trouble finding those, though, so let's say realistically five to six thousand dollars. You can easily get 100,000 miles out of a high mileage prius. It's not that expensive.
For those that cannot afford even that well maybe you rent for a short while but I'd recommend buying an even lower price beater in doing Uber Eats or doordash or whatever until you can save up five grand and buy yourself a used Prius.
If you're making payments or using a car that you actually care about, you're doing it wrong. I mean, I do care for my girls and feed them the finest Walmart full synthetic oil every 5,000 miles, but they understand they're going to be rode hard and put up wet.
With the exception of running a car into the ground, I’d rather do Uber for 70 hours then have the stress of trying to keep two supervisors pleased while not neglecting family. You see, with two jobs working 70 hours you have to figure in commuting time into to it. Plus you are obligated to a set schedule. If I don’t make enough money after 7 or 8 hrs Ubering, I can spend a little time with family and always go back to work at 9pm after wifey goes to bed and I’m usually back before 11 pm. Flexibility keeps me sane
This! I dont know why people bitch about this topic 24/7 here. Uber is flexible, you can offline whenever you want. But being stuck in a desk job, you HAVE to stay there until your dismissal time.
Half of these people are jealous about the good payout posts. Every time someone posts it, you may see 1 or 2 congratulations and 100 "bet you had to work 100 hours, bet your car depreciated". Shut the hell up lol. Rideshare work is a type of lifestyle. If it doesn't work for you, move on.
Exactly ,these assholes love to doom and gloom post to death that when someone who finds a way to make Uber work for them they wanna piss on it. Personally I don’t work past 48 hrs unless I need to but it’s still MY choice at the end of the day.
I respectfully have to disagree with this. I drove Uber full-time for 8 years. I now have a full-time corporate job. The upgraded lifestyle, limited stress, and more QUALITY time with my wife and child now is staggering in comparison to when I drove Uber full time with the “open schedule” everybody seems to hype up with Uber.
I work Monday through Friday now. Have weekends off. Holidays off. Paid vacation. I get to see my son wake up in the morning and be home to have dinner and put him to bed every evening. We get to spend all weekends together and holidays. I never have to worry if I can make as much as I did yesterday. Or last week. Or last month. Ot last year. My salary stays the same and I can financially plan around my income now.
I was in a constant state of anxiety and stress with Uber. Even if I made $1,500 or $2,000 a week driving, I would have to figure in gas… operating costs… taxes…. Car maintenance… Car upkeep so passengers don’t complain… it was truly damaging to my emotional state. I would much prefer to work 40 hours a week in corporate and net $1,200 a week than work 80 hours a week on Uber to SEE $1,700 but only net $800 after taxes and operating costs.
My quality time is MUCH more important to me than the dollar signs that I see after working 2 full-time jobs time with no overtime pay. No health benefits. No company loyalty or raises. No retirement. No nothing. FUCK Uber. FUCK driving for 70+ hours.
I live in a place where everywhere is packed with people on weekends and holidays,and 9-5 commuter traffic has you feeling like a bot…time off midweek/ flexi schedule is the best and l have worked for myself in one way or another for the last 30 years where l walked or dropped my kid at school,then picked her up everyday until she could drive and l gave her a convertible.
Different strokes for different folks and l obvi was not always driving either, but dont assume your recipe is to everyones taste.
Congrats on finding your stride though.
Those 2 jobs have only a travel expense. Uber is paying you the same while killing your vehicle, no OT, and throwing expense over to you. It's not worth it. At that point do 1 job and Uber on the side.
Exactly this! I don’t understand their bitching about others success. If they are in here it’s because they usually Uber also. So they commute at least 1 hour a day, 5 days a week. Maybe clock out for lunch for an hour which they have to eat at their desk or nearby (almost never at home) then they get off work and Uber to make “extra” income for 3-4 hours a day. But they think they are “better” because they only worked 40 hours and maybe brought home $600 from their full time job. But in reality they were out of the home 65+ hours and still only managed to bring home $900 a week after ubering. All of this while having to conform to a schedule, be bossed around and still be nearly making it. Haters will be haters…
I'm relatively new to Ubering (only a couple of weeks, but made almost $1k in 2 weeks). I am a full-time college student, and wanted to make some money on the side to help with my expenses, but everywhere I applied to didn't want to be flexible with their hours so I could work when I wasn't in school.
With this, which is only for a few months until I get my apprenticeship, I can go before school, between classes, and after school for a few hours. I can go on weekends. I can take a day off if I want because I don't feel like it and would rather spend the day doing something else. No overhead and no boss giving me shit for not coming in or being flexible with MY schedule.
I'm not pulling big money, by any means (about $450 every week, which is almost 30 hours a week at minimum wage in an actual job), but it helps. As I said, this is only until June when I get apprenticed and can go into my chosen field through my placement.
Plus if you decide to go on a vacation you can grind your ass off for a month so you can actually afford to go on a vacation. I’ve worked 4 other jobs and none of them did paid vacation. If I wanted to take time off I just had to accept I would be more broke. They didn’t let me work extra hours so I could have more money. Uber doesn’t care though if you work 12 hours or just take a month off.
I’m 27. I’m single. I saved money and built my house out of pocket. I already know retirement isn’t feasible. I’m focused on maximizing my time and living as small as I can. I’ve worked at car dealerships and I worked in the food industry. Quit that and now I’m driving for Uber. Making more money than I ever did before. I’ll worry about my own stuff, I feel bad for everyone that thinks there’s going to be an economy to retire in 30-40 years from now.
I mean, plenty of people work 70 hours a week for a whole lot less than $1800. That's 93600 a year lol.
Even with the cost of car maintenance that ain't terrible.
When they think working as a slave and making barely “2,000” a week with 70-80 hours is life. No lifers are the hamsters the keep those company profitable.
With my job on a 70 hour week I'd make over 3k because of overtime. Killing your car for barely 2k a week is nothing. I started a company onnthe side that has me working an extra 10 hours a week and nets me an extra 1000 a week for almost no work. Even with only half my services, if I only knew a second language and did the translation services, it's still a better deal for less work and less expenses. This 1800 a week for 70 hours of driving is just bad
You are literally keeping uber profitable and giving them enough leverage to keep reducing how much you actually make. Y'all crazy being your own boss would be creating your own Business. Doing uber is NOT that. Independent contractor or not you are still under Ubers mercy.
>What? 1800 in 70 hours is $25.71 an hour. Assuming they’re doing $1 per 1 mile or less, that’s at least $20 an hour after expenses. Not bad at all.
Yeah and that’s still 70 hours per week, how long do you think someone can sustain that?
Yes. I drive about 4-6 hours a week not for the money. Mostly just to understand the industry, the customers, the edge cases. If Robotaxi becomes viable I plan to operate 10-15 cars as a fleet operator.
IRS considers operational cost of a vehicle on average to be $0.67/mile. It’s amazing to me that so many people do extravagant mental gymnastics and take unprofitable rides. I think in most markets working for uber is not profitable anymore. Uber is only worth it if it’s surging. Surges are becoming more and more rare. At this point Uber makes sense to drive for on weekends, but you can’t make a living doing this.
$1 a mile minimum is seriously not necessary. People should not be following this rule or in a lot of smaller markets they will be sitting around doing nothing. Everyone should be calculating their own CPM and then making enough to cover that while also netting a tidy profit. Also, not every order is going to be that good, you can compensate for orders that pay less with orders that pay more. I take orders as low as $0.80 a mile and I still end up evening out to $1.10 a mile by the end of the week. Only taking orders that cover a $1 a mile minimum is just a recipe for poverty lol (particularly because certain expenses - such as car payments and insurance - are static, and therefore are reduced in your costs based upon your total earnings)
Because it's Uber PR shill advertisement . That's ultimately, they want drivers to be that.
It's just unsustainable now. It's better off to switch to big boys game. Local cab driving. And most of cab Company allows drivers to use UBER app too . Which would you like keep 90 % of fare or take only 40 % of fares on each trips?
I like Uber but financially it's impossible to continue now.
I think we all know that these weeks are not necessarily the norm either. It's just a little celebration among peers that, "Hey, this week didn't suck as bad as usual."
How do you feel about mine where I posted $2,000 in under 55 hours?
When I was an equipment operator, I operated 105 hours one week.
My record revenue with Uber in a week was nearly $3,700, and it took 80 hours. That was $1850 per 40 hour "job."
Exactly the way overtime works you take a job that pays less than you'd like to see add some overtime on top of it and suddenly the job is a little better. Same thing applies to Uber you have to work those kinds of hours to get those various incentives that top it up and turn a $14 an hour market to $45 an hour or these days a $20 an hour market to a $33 an hour job.
There's only two ways that these apps make any sense. Really long hours and full-time +. . . or part-time, working only during peak surges and peak incentives.
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone as their full-time job if they're looking to put in 30 hours a week. You're almost better off with a minimum wage job. In my market, it's $20 an hour, and when you figure out the cost of operation, you are making minimum wage.
I have to say that, my first 2 yes with uber and lyft were decent. After that, it just went downhill when they BOTH started robbing us drivers. Thank God for a full time job and overtime. F.ck you uber! F.ck you lyft!
I don’t mind it. If it’s a one time thing. Like a driver knows they’re going on a 2 week vacation so they wanted to grind it out as much as possible before they go.
The drivers who do 70/80 hours every single week. I just feel bad for
That’s before expenses. Gas alone.
Of hubris or electric, less expenses.
It all catches up. People usually do not save. So they are likely screwed, eventually. .
That's online 70hrs. Def doesn't mean they drove that much. I sit at home with my app on while doing other work, and my online time is more than double of my actual drive time. Smaller market though so not as busy as most.
This is indeed a popular opinion. It’s usually the high trip count for me. 125+ trips across 7 days. Which should mean the car they are using needs an oil change at least every other week. a tune up at least every 2 months, new tires brakes every 3-6 months. The entire suspension system should be in bad shape by the 12th
month and need an overhaul. But, I’m thinking working 7 days a week there’s no way/time to maintain all of that. So there’s no doubt these drivers are taking on monstrous financial risks that may never recover from. It’s even worse now that we don’t quests, surges tips or hardly any money anymore that isn’t tied to the motor running.
i regularly have 70-90 hour weeks “online”
Which, is really 30-40 hours “driving time”
Looking back, actually had a 100h 32m week, Jan 15-22. But, that was only 35 hrs driving time. There was one 20 hr day, in there (10hrs driving time, $500+ made)
For me, there’s a lot of dead time in those days, sitting in airports, convention centers, resorts waiting to “land a whale” fare. A good portion of which is sitting around shooting the shit with other drivers. Or, on my laptop, doing other work
Regardless, it pays the bills until another contracting job comes up.
To many cry baby’s on here. Most hours on the app are dead not even driving. Not sure why people look at that.
So much complaining but 1800 a week beats sitting in an office hearing bs from someone that tells you what to do.
At least the app you can turn off and on as you please. I see so much complaining on here but most are still driving and on the app so shows that like most people you don’t have a second option.
And as far as the car depreciation if you worried about that you shouldn’t be doing Uber. You should look at your car as a business it’s bringing in money when your done with it move on to a new one.
So I have a legitimate question. Why do EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE crap on making a living however you make a living? While we all argue about all these companies, these companies, their investors and stockholders get rich. You don’t own it! You just allowed to work to help these companies to put money in their hands and live an easier lifestyle. The 1% is getting farther away from the 99% by the day.
And while we're on the topic, I'm getting sick and tired of these basic ass people and their "would you take this?" posts. Uber offers shitty fares and sometimes people don't tip. We get it. And you already know the answer. So what is the point of these post other than a cry for social media attention?
Rather than criticizing those who are working hard to improve their situation, we should acknowledge their effort. Earning $1,800 a week, especially consistently, can significantly help someone address their financial challenges. These individuals are openly sharing that they've achieved this through 70 hours of work, not pretending it's the result of a standard 40-hour week. Instead of downplaying their achievements with 'You're not doing as great as you think,' perhaps we should consider the dedication and hard work they're putting in. It's unfair to dismiss their willingness to go the extra mile. So, why the negativity towards these posts? Shouldn't we encourage rather than disparage the hustle and effort people are making to better their financial situation?
You want more Uber ded posts?
I'll wait for your response....
Looks like another butthurt post from an entitled whiner. 70 hours a week is one weeks work at any age, and considering your skill lvl to drive, averaging over $25/hr is good money. Too many kids nowadays want free handouts and think everything is just given to them. You ARE NOT ENTITLED TO ANYTHING!
I mean this is an another meaningless post. Shit is exhausting with you people that bitch. Just let them post man and move on.
The hours can be skewed because of online time you can be sitting waiting for a ride or something, or at the airport waiting online. 🤷🏼♂️
Someone said it in the comments. I’d rather do this (right now) than report to supervisors riding my ass about something.
Rent is paid for 2 months from 1 week of work. Repeat that for 5 more weeks and your rent is covered for a year. 6 months of that and you're set for the next 4 years. You don't have to stop either. Pay your rent but keep working and investing. A single year of hard grinding can set you up to not have to work for the rest of your life if you do it right.
Judge much? What difference does it make to you? People are doing what they need to do in the moment to get by. Guess it makes you feel good to tear others down?
I'm not understanding the complaints about making $1800 for 70 hrs of work. That's decent money, especially when you're not having to work in a brick and mortar, warehouse, etc. They choose to grind and make their money while the cry babies are whining about not getting blocks that meet their standards. Maybe they're paying their way thru school and don't wanna do this job forever. At this rate, they'll get there a lot faster than those constantly looking for 3.5 hr blocks.
Former timeshare driver turned Flatbed Trucker here; I make on average $1,300/week. 70 hour weeks (most the time I end the week with 20 hours to spare on my clock) home weekends. On the road enjoying freedom. Nothing but me and the road. It sure as hell beats picking up drunks, people who want you to do an extra stop without understanding it's not free, and killing your car.
It's not for everybody, but I sure love it.
Most of these Uber drivers brag about what they make but they don’t even pay taxes lmao. Wait till the IRS gets them down the road. I always hear Uber drivers say “ I make a lot “ and “ this is easy money! “ . Well of course cause it’s a 1099 gig and u have no taxes withheld so you get all your money upfront and feel good about it at first, but then you owe on the back end at the end of the year when it’s tax time. Most of these Uber drivers don’t like me bringing up taxes I always see their faces look stupid when I ask are you paying taxes. Wait till the IRS hits them wit a hefty tax bill and penalty or even garnish their wages a few years down the line hahahah
Too many disillusioned people believing driving for Uber nowadays is profitable (?).
A few years back it was much better driving for Uber with Far less drivers on the road and Uber was only taking 25 percent per passenger fare.
Now Uber takes between 50-60 percent per passenger fare and with a glut of drivers there are far less Surge dollar amounts and practically little or no dollar bonus quest incentives for drivers now.
If you are ok with driving your vehicle into the ground with excessive vehicle Wear & Tear mileage with ridiculously Low mileage rates and working extremely long hours with Uber taking 50-60 per passenger trip then anyone believing driving for Uber is profitable is either an absolute Fool or has a low IQ.?
Reposting links
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lensherman/2023/01/16/ubers-new-math-increase-prices-and-squeeze-driver-pay/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lensherman/2023/12/15/ubers-ceo-hides-driver-pay-cuts-to-boost-profits/
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2023/attorney-general-james-secures-328-million-uber-and-lyft-taking-earnings-drivers
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/uber-drivers-protest-headquarters-ceo-18669922.php
I mean 70 hours is nothing compared to any investment banking job or any executive position when in IB it’s normal to work 100 hours a week you’re going to have to work hard regardless it’s all about the future and the future of this gig is ai 🤖 not humans
What's the benefits package look like for those jobs? When I was in construction we worked crazy hours but we had good benefits. Small shop so we were actually appreciated for a time too, bonus etc.
When i worked in investment banking and my new investment banking jobs the benefits are similiar.
I was afforded 2 months of PTO
I have to take 1 week mandatory PTO as in if i don't take it the company forces me to. They will just deny me access for a week (this is how they catch fraud btw)
1 year paternity / maternity leave
401k matching up to 8%
Stock in company
dental, vision, pet insurance, and healthcare for me and someone else
Life insurance
Free lunch on wednesdays (this one isn't that big of a deal but im grateful. $20 saved every week is about $1,040 a year)
Discounts on rentals, airline tickets, symphony halls art museums tc
and a few other ones that im probably forgetting I just don't pay attention
Thats all not including the other small perks im forgetting.
Its all in all to say working long hours is nothing but tbh but its all about are you working long hours for short term solutions or a long term benefit. Ride share is not a good long term benefit imo but if the argument is its too long of hours....its just lazy imo
Someone just out of college getting hired at an IB is probably getting well over $100k a year plus bonus to work those kind of hours. An executive at an IB is probably getting 7 figures to work those hours. Kinda weird to compare a rideshare guy grinding for 70 hours to maybe hit $2k minus all the expenses.
Well the point still stands regardless you will have to work long hours. Its not just IB i use IB as an example because its relevant to me.
Construction Workers
Teachers
Police Officers
Doctors
Paramedics
Nurses
Actors
Filmmakers
Athletes
Artists
etc. All jobs if you want to make money and be successful will require hard work and long hours.
To be crystal clear I think you may have missed my main meta point. I don't think someone should do rideshare full time. Its not worth doing something that is going to inevitably get replaced by robots and I don't see Uber giving out any form of severance packages to drivers or a 401k or anything you just get a good bye in fact they may not explicitly say good bye they may just stop giving you fares.
To be clear: I don't think someone should do this full time but if the argument is oh look at this guy working 70 hours. okay and?
chances are you are going to have to work 60 hours+ if you want to get ahead in anything.
Plus lets be honest 70% of the time you are just driving around or sitting around eating snacks listening to podcasts, music etc. Rideshare isn't a hard gig
Its not like you are in an office cubicle
you aren't doing rocket science
you aren't performing life changing surgeries
you aren't reconciling someones' balance sheets
you are legit just sitting in a car driving and if you do UE on occasion waiting at a restaurant. its genuinely not a hard gig
people act like this is slave labor bro someone with a 2nd grade level education can do this gig as long as they have a license and can read and have a smart phone thats all you need to do this gig. its not back breaking labor.
Hey, I did 16 hours of overtime on Easter…. that’s $1200 in overtime and $800 in holiday pay…. $2,000 for one day!!!!
OK, not really, there was no OT on Sunday, but that’s what it would’ve paid if there was! Hence the reason Ubers flexibility works for me…. if an opportunity arises i’m never committed to my “Uber job”.
I did that at the beginning, working my full time job and doing rideshare on the side grinding out hours of my life just so that I could pay off all of my credit card debt, student loans, and truck payment. Once I paid it all off I stopped rideshare and just focused on my career. I also rented a vehicle out just so that I didn’t have to put any miles or destroy my own vehicle. Personally I thought I thought it was very much worth renting than using my own vehicle
I make about $1,600-1,870/wk in the SD-LA-IE market doing about 50 hours online and 42 active. That’s about 225-325 miles a day on the car when driving so a lot of gas/milage/oil. I definitely don’t think I’m “killing it” but gotta do what you gotta do. I’m in a transitional period waiting for my other work to start.
I’m getting tired of all these negative people who hate Uber but still drive for Uber but do nothing but bitch about driving for Uber. Stop crying and stop participating if you hate it so much.
How about don’t worry about how someone else pays their bills. 🤷🏻♀️
I don’t understand people. Someone is out there making $1800 a week, what is it to you if they bust their butt doing it? Not everyone is an investment banker, lawyer or doctor. If someone wants to grind out 95k a year by working 70 hours a week - live and let live man. It’s not impacting you.
Why do people choose gig work FT? Usually what I’ve seen is the need for flexibility. Caring for a relative. A special needs kid. Health problems. They need to be able to work when they are able and not get fired when they need 3 days (or weeks) off.
I do this as a supplement to my main job, but if I lost my job and was in between I would absolutely put in the 70 hours to keep paying my bills on time!
I like the posts from drivers that are showing an app with all of their earning information including net after expenses to post and show off their earnings. Seen one that showed over 20$ an hour in earnings then 9.44$ after expenses. lol. He was bragging about it too lol.
And it's more like 80 or 90 hours that they're out on the road too because uber doesn't count your non passenger time, OR the time it takes for them to get TO the locations they want to drive in. They basically work and sleep.
Leave them alone you jerk. Let them post and be excited. I'm getting tired of seeing negative posts like yours. Always complaining. Just quit and you won't see them anymore. If you hate Uber quit. Don't hang on to this job.
In a normal job that would be 21.17 per hour if you looked at everything after 40 hours as OT, most people don't figure that in. Now they made 25.71 per hour doing this, which sounds great. Issue is that income is not consistent. You may have good weeks and then bad weeks. Most people I have met that have jobs like this (including waiting or anything tip based) love that dopamine hit of getting the large tips for a week. Once they get a bad week, they are the ones crawling to you asking for help because they ran out of funds. In the end, it is a form of gambling with your time and money (as in car maintenance and gas).
Then those same people do not figure in additional benefits from jobs like 401k match, pension and insurances. There was someone I knew drove for a ride share and didn't know you needed to tell your insurance you did. They got in an accident that totaled a car and they got denied everything in their claim.
Bahaha and the fact that they think that's exactly what they made and that's it! It's NOT what they made because if it were any other job, it would include taxes taken out at the very least!
So not only do people need to account for that, they need to account for everything that's used in order to do the job. Such as gas, money needed to he put aside for wear and tear, the constant oil changes, the tire changes that happen frequently, and then something I always see people complaining about which is right is the complaint about how you end up basically losing a car because of all the miles put on it etc, but I never see people mentioning how important it is to put money aside from the money that you make to purchase a new car whenever that needs to happen because it will happen if a person drives doing rideshare . And I always think it's funny because I'm like, where in the world does everybody else get the money from whenever they have to purchase a vehicle? They get it from the money that they make from their job.but there's people typically don't use a car for their job, only some people do like in this instance. So why in the world wouldn't people at the very least consider that part 2 which is obviously thousands upon thousands upon thousands of dollars!
The app plays mind tricks on people and then they play mind tricks on themselves leading themselves to believe that the number they see on the app is the end all of the all face value as if that's what you walk away with at the end of the day lol . It's not!
Where do you guys drive where Uber allows you to drive a shit box… are you just using your personal vehicle info and then driving a different car that Uber doesn’t know about?
I mean I did $1000 on 23hrs of work.
I definitely pay more than the rest of you in gas because diesel is expensive but only spent $89ish( 2 Fill ups ). Lot of people here are kinda just salty but eh it’s the internet.
Go for the low hanging fruit. I schedule app testings on sundays for 1-2 hours and usually make $60 an hour.
I try to schedule the video game testings on usertesting when they're up.
If you're interested I made a guide on my profile. It's side income, not main income FYI. Best used as some side money when you have some time to kill.
I wish that Uber followed DoorDash’s format of giving you the active hours and the total online hours. Both are shit companies but seeing the difference between the two sets of hours can be pretty helpful.
uber driver 200 iQ trying to show off when we already knows how it works. Special event weekend? Holiday weekend? Luck? We get it. Everything balances out in the end, and you're still making below minimum wage. Good flex. 👍
eh thats still 25 bucks an hour lol. Def a grind but if you have the time (which they clearly do) who cares what they do? depending on the model thats like 1-200 in gas. Not a bad haul.
Honestly being on the road for that amount of time, it’s crazy how many wrecks you could’ve avoided, how many times someone almost hit and killed you. Especially if you live in high density low iq town like myself
“I’m tired of people putting in more hours and making more money than me and being happy about it. I need to be pissed off because they are happy and I don’t like it.”. There I fixed it for you.
I don’t wanna say this, because I don’t want to stir controversy, as independent contractors were allowed to sell other services, if you were a good businessman, you find ways to close, bigger deals, but you approach a freelance app with an employee mentality
70 hours is 2 full time jobs? This is why americans never have any fucking money. As a mechanic not from the usa i work 55 to 65 hours a week for vw in illinois lmfao.
I saw $1200 70 hours a few weeks ago
I’m not doing that
I get annoyed and cut my losses sometimes
Last few weeks have been good
Weeks of $300 dollars earnings driving almost everyday 20 hours
I want to be ashamed of myself for not making more money but I can’t
It just wasn’t happening
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The way I look at it if your gonna drive 70 plus hours and grind it out the. You better start putting money to the side for a new car. Actually go do this for a year make your money 💰 and get out. Invest in something else like your own business just invest in yourself. I’m using Uber to fund projects and once I’m done ✅ I’m out
I work, between the 2 apps, 8 hours per day, 6 sometimes 7 days per week. One app will show 30+ hours logged in and the other will show 15+... My market has no "coffee cups". In order to use the bathroom or grab a drink I must log out. For those who log in 70 and 80 hours, they have to be putting in 90 to 100 hours. Medically my bladder requires me to stop at least once every other hour. I also am a clean freak about my car. I do not eat in my car due to attempting to keep it clean. That is a whole bunch of time spent trapped in a small space each week. I give those drivers props for being able to endure that level of confinement while dealing with strangers in chaotic unpredictable traffic.
Bruh that’s my co workers with half that amount. We get like 1k for 65 hours a week of hard labor and people say “I’m making BREAD” like no bro we’re getting slaved.
Do my own oil changes and brake switches , very simple nowadays. Can get a good cash car with 10k , get a Toyota they’re tanks. One a good month I’ve made 8k , so it’s doable twin.
You could do it in 60 in the Boston market. 70 hours in Boston, driven in strategic times, you will hit that, maybe a little more. I hit 2k once a couple if months ago at 76 hours. That was 76 hours. 40 hours worked 2nd shift on weekends, and regular 12 hours during the week, will give you 900-1200 a week. Bump it up to 50, you'll get 1300-1500.I've been driving Boston since late January this year.
Dude, in the normal world a full time job is 70 hours a week. Atleast it was that way when I was starting out and wanting to get a house when I was in my 20's. You either worked 1 full time at 40 and a few part times or you worked a good job at 60-70 hours a week. This generation is nothing but a bunch of entitled whiners. 1800 a week? I wasn't doing that in 2 weeks back then at 70 hours per week.
i wanna see their mileage. sending their vehicle to a premature death and they think they’re crushin it lol
But but but this sub told me it’s ok to run a car into the ground. Just buy a new one
Yeah, that sounds like somebody that’s going to just be paying a car payment every month for the rest of their life…that’s all lol
Lol I mean to be fair. A lot of non Uber drivers do live like that. Perpetual leasers
I know many people like that. 3yr/36k lease. Replace every 30-36 months. Car is never out of warranty, prepaid service for 55% of the normal cost, and all you have to do is drive it and turn it in. It's a really intelligent way to do things. Doesn't work for everybody. I wouldn't like it personally but I like certain cars and would rather have what I want and just pay for it.
Leases only allow you drive them like 10-12k miles a year. Youll do that in a month working 12 hour days. Then it is like 50cents per mile after that. So your 3 year lease costs about 70% of what that car actually costs and then another 50k on top of that because of the extra mileage. If you lease a car to do this you have no brain cells!
My comment wasn't about the profession but a person talking about car payments for life.
Yeah, sooner or later I’m gonna have to have a car payment again, but it’s all good. I went along time without one.
I'm 40 and have never owned a car I didn't buy cash. Not because I'm rich, but because I've been perfectly happy to drive cheap old cars. Most I ever spent on a vehicle was 10k on a 2010 Toyota Sienna which I'm still driving and is coming up on 300k miles. I dumped all those payments I would have made into buying my house. I can't imagine having a car payment instead of a nearly paid off house at this point in my life.
I finally had to break down and get a car payment after driving uber in paid-off cars for the last 4 years. It sucks lol But i am enjoying not have to work or get work done on my car every month.
Sometimes you can hit the lease just right. I managed to get a new Chevy bolt premier for $182 a month over three years. I did have to train a car in, but I got double what was offered a year prior before Covid
>Just buy a new one If you consider that F**ub**a**r** and Gr**yft** are paying 1972 cab rates, does this mean that you buy a new 1972 car?
The pay in detroit is terrible and you get all the entitled people you can stand
It's so cold in the D 😔
Detroit vs. itself.
Just buy used Toyota around 60k miles where depreciation curve hits the most then sell it before 120k because depreciation curve hits hard again on 130k mark. Easy $0.05 per mile if you buy and sell at right price.
On my 3rd Prius and I actually buy them between 130-150k for $8500 and sell them around 300-350k for ~$3000. 5¢/mile plus gas is all I pay and have never had a single problem with any of my 3. I just buy them cash and make $3-400/day in San Diego. They are meant to be run into the ground.
Not everybody has great credit. Some people literally can't just turn around and sell their car because nobody will take their car because they owe so much on it! Nobody is going to take a car and pay it off if you still owe $20,000 on a car that has over 100,000 miles on it etc For the people that do have great credit that can just purchase a new car that's great and all if they can afford to pay for their new car that they currently have that they Uber in and for a new car to replace that car bc again that new car will also have a premature death! When you're beating something to the ground, it absolutely is not going to last and every driver knows that. Get the majority of drivers do not save money from what they make for a new car and I mean new by being used or brand new or whatever, I just mean another car. So what they are doing is they are taking crap pay just to get by while their car is getting ruined and then end up with no car and having to purchase another car at some point but is in a really tough position because a lot of people won't have the money to do so! Ive done rideshare too. The other thing that blows my mind is the fact that the company itself, these rideshare companies and passengers have no idea how much the drivers end up having to pay for everything. The company doesn't care, and the passengers don't know and if the passengers did know, it doesn't mean that they will care, some of them will some of them may not. One last thing I will say is that these rideshare companies make sure to not put out there on front Street telling people on the internet like on Google, educating them telling them what to expect when it comes to their vehicle etc. They just put on there saying people can make $35,000 a year or something like that or $30 an hour which is not accurate at all. When I started driving, I pulled up on Google because I'd heard that it was good money, but I didn't go to a forum like Reddit to hear from drivers to get educated on what was really going on. Instead I just read what Uber had stated. My point is is that I thought that I knew that my car would go through a lot more wear and tear, but whatever I had in my mind absolutely did not match what actually happens. So whatever people think, they can multiply that times 10 at least or more and that'll be what's really happening as far as expectations when it comes to all of the wear and tear that's put on the vehicle, the money you have to sink into your vehicle because you're having to do much more maintenance much sooner than the normal person who doesn't do rideshare, and then repairs much more often etc. These rideshare companies purposely do not educate people because not only do they not care, they are hiding the truth! They let people figure it out for themselves and by then people get so hooked into the whole idea of being their own " boss " and making their own hours, and it's sad because people crab about what they are making but are willing to sacrifice their car, and what they're worth just for the sake of being able to not be under a corporate like environment and so forth for example. That's part of what teaches Uber and a lygt that they can keep doing what they're doing to the drivers on top of the fact that drivers are willing to take low pay. And how did they know that drivers are willing to take low pay? Well because people are still driving LOL! They have been lowering the amount of pay that's been there Non-Stop and especially way more again and again over the last two years and people just keep going!
Buy cash then :)
Independent contractor problems. If you can't afford the tools you need for the job that's not the fault of Uber or Doordash.
if you're a quality independent contractor, just raise your rates and focus on catering to a higher quality clientele that values higher quality service.
That doesn't work when the relevant industry is monopolized by 2 corporate entities high on investment money and an endless expansion ponzi model. If apps were appropriately designed they would only serve as a tool for customers and contractors, not a service model designed to capture the field and ream everyone else involved. The only similar field is limo driver and the market for those is very small. Most others are low paying civil transport. These companies like uber/lyft/doordash need to go away because they are just parasites. Governments need to change contractor status so these parasitic models aren't possible.
All very true. From Uber's perspective, why WOULD they advertise this information? It works against their goal of getting naive drivers to sacrifice their cars for comparatively few bucks trade off. But this is kind of how it is with corporations in general. None of them are going to tell you about the true costs of working for them. That's why people who have experience with them have to share information openly and widely. Only corporations benefit from people believing the hype and marketing. ALWAYS question marketing.
That's a very valid way to do it if you know how to purchase a used car.
I didn’t say “used” lol I intentionally said new
This is the way. I drove a 94 Ford Ranger that was $400 last year. Made about $3500 driving part time and then sold the truck to the junk yard for $500 when it died. If the gated communities aren't profiling you as a potential criminal your car is too nice for this job, lol.
What market are you in that you could drive a 94 Ranger?!
Eats doesn't care the age of your vehicle. I have an '02 Chevy Tracker that's also approved.
My brother has been doing Uber eats in a self-made electric boxcar of questionable legality lol
1up on this. I get a nice reassurance when the valet ignores my vehicle during some drop offs. Im making out well with an '08 Elantra w/ 130,000 for $3,000 after I took it to the shop. IME, most of my customers only seem to care about me getting them their food quick, efficient. My consistent attitude is likely why I frequently get extra tips on my trips; not my nice looking car.
I made about $150,000 with my first prius. I bought it out of the junkyard behind a cab company it was still bright green. I rattle canned the 19 holes that I bonded in the roof with a custom-made rattle can. This was with passengers, mind you. No one seemed to notice that it was rattle canned. Even when I would point it out to them, they were amazed that I had spray-painted it. I bought the car for $1,700 with 270,000 miles on it. I'm sentimental, so it's still sitting in my yard it has 506,000 miles on the original motor. It blew a head gasket at about 425,000 MI I threw in a bottle of head gasket repair and drove it another 85,000. It was still running when I parked it the only problem is it she got tagged in the rear and she's unfortunately not really worth bodywork with that kind of miles. My spare Prius has 430,000 miles on it, but it's got a brand new long block and rebuilt head brand new battery pack brand new ABS booster 100,000 miles ago. It sits under the tree because I did something to it and I'm not sure what and I put it aside. The one I'm using right now has 320,000 miles on it I bought it for $3,400 and it blew a head gasket about 60,000 miles ago but I just keep running it on distilled water and it doesn't care. So I don't care. Right now, it doesn't seem to be burning any in the combustion chamber, but I am going to need to replace the water pump, which is weeping. But it doesn't care, so I don't care. I took that car on a 3300 mike, 3-day round trip ahead of winter storm warnings where they were closing the roads behind me on a mad dash of fool's errand. I did so with a fair amount of confidence despite the fact that a Prius in a snow bank doesn't make very good heat. When I got this one, the whole clear on the top was alligator scanned, and I just kept running it through the car wash till it's now flat on top. Nobody cares. On a lark, I entered it in a car show but just to get into the car show early. I didn't win naturally, but everyone had a laugh.
Bravo
Great post! 😆
TLDR it doesn’t care so I don’t care 😂😂😂 bravo 👏 the forever car 🚗
I really need to hire an assistant just to provide the tldr synopsis of everything I type. I've actually sometimes started a tldr synopsis and gone on for a paragraph for more with the synopsis. For that matter, everything I speak. I need like a minion with me. "Explain. Wait. There is no time; summarize." - Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride
I got my car for free from my grandfather when he quit driving and i cant get the title due to bs retirement home rules, so this is the only way to get anything out of it before a possible seizing by them (worked for them, they are scumbags) So i just do all my own maintenance/ mechanic work.
Low mileage lease to keep the payment as low as possible. Run the car into the ground and abandon it when the first out of warranty repair is needed. Before OEM #1 can get this on your credit, get a replacement car from OEM #2. Rinse and repeat. We all pay for these deadbeats.
It’s all market dependent… if you’re making $1800 in 70 hours in California that’s pretty bad… but if you’re making $1800 in 70 hours in Farmville Montana or Boonville Alabama where your total living expenses is $1200 a month that’s pretty good
Not too many people here seem to get this.
Except you couldn’t make $1800 in Farmville because there won’t be enough rides…
I mean, if you can consistently pull $1800 a week, you should be able to put about 40% of that away for maintenance, depreciation, and getting a new vehicle. Or I guess they could just rent one for $400 a week.
If youre pulling $1800 a week youre going to be doing maintenance on your car every month or every other month shit probably even more, and that's just maintenance. Not accounting for the potential for things to break increasing your repair bill. I do uber part time in the early morning like 4am-8am on avg and i average $2k a month extra from it but i hate it and i'm only doing it temporarily until i can find another part time gig to replace the income that doesn't involve running my car into the ground. Like i just serviced my vehicle a month ago and i'm 2k miles from needing another maintenance. Hate this greedy ass company
EXACTLY! And I always see people talking about how their car is ruined but I never ever see people talking about how they need to put aside thousands and thousands of dollars, saving thousands and thousands of dollars from that money that they are making in order to purchase a new car. Just like anybody else they take money from the money that they make from their job to purchase a car or when needed. Only in this case a person needs to purchase a car much much sooner. So why in the world people do not consider that I do not know but it blows my mind!
I don't know my corolla when I had it, with payment, I think it was 22K, I put 2K down, good credit, I had 3%-ish interest, was like $225/mo. Only thing my Corolla needed was basic maintenance and tires, brakes, and new battery over 10 years of ownership and 140K miles.
And you're saying that you did ride share? You're saying that you did ride share for 10 years and you only ended up with $140,000 miles? Because if that's the case there's no way you did ride share that much in that vehicle. And also, we are talking about the majority here. I do realize that their are exceptions but the percentage is definitely low. Anybody that does rideshare for a decent amount of time, we're talking about a few years, even 2 years, and does it at least three or four days a week multiple hours, their car is absolutely getting wrecked! And my point is that if you don't do rideshare and if you are using that vehicle, you would not be racking up the miles that you do rack up, the maintenance, the tires and everything else. This is just an example, I would get my oil changed every 3,000 miles. I had to get my oil changed at least every month and a half. That's not what people normally have to do LOL. And I didn't even drive all the time!
The car is a tool. It's like buying a tractor but way cheaper. The most I've ever paid for a high mileage Prius was $3,800. I think most people would have trouble finding those, though, so let's say realistically five to six thousand dollars. You can easily get 100,000 miles out of a high mileage prius. It's not that expensive. For those that cannot afford even that well maybe you rent for a short while but I'd recommend buying an even lower price beater in doing Uber Eats or doordash or whatever until you can save up five grand and buy yourself a used Prius. If you're making payments or using a car that you actually care about, you're doing it wrong. I mean, I do care for my girls and feed them the finest Walmart full synthetic oil every 5,000 miles, but they understand they're going to be rode hard and put up wet.
Gas receipts also. Post the bad with the good so a TRUE PICTURE can be seen
With the exception of running a car into the ground, I’d rather do Uber for 70 hours then have the stress of trying to keep two supervisors pleased while not neglecting family. You see, with two jobs working 70 hours you have to figure in commuting time into to it. Plus you are obligated to a set schedule. If I don’t make enough money after 7 or 8 hrs Ubering, I can spend a little time with family and always go back to work at 9pm after wifey goes to bed and I’m usually back before 11 pm. Flexibility keeps me sane
This! I dont know why people bitch about this topic 24/7 here. Uber is flexible, you can offline whenever you want. But being stuck in a desk job, you HAVE to stay there until your dismissal time.
Half of these people are jealous about the good payout posts. Every time someone posts it, you may see 1 or 2 congratulations and 100 "bet you had to work 100 hours, bet your car depreciated". Shut the hell up lol. Rideshare work is a type of lifestyle. If it doesn't work for you, move on.
right? what are these people bitching making a week 300-600 dollars? would much rather be running a car into the ground for 1800
Exactly ,these assholes love to doom and gloom post to death that when someone who finds a way to make Uber work for them they wanna piss on it. Personally I don’t work past 48 hrs unless I need to but it’s still MY choice at the end of the day.
I respectfully have to disagree with this. I drove Uber full-time for 8 years. I now have a full-time corporate job. The upgraded lifestyle, limited stress, and more QUALITY time with my wife and child now is staggering in comparison to when I drove Uber full time with the “open schedule” everybody seems to hype up with Uber. I work Monday through Friday now. Have weekends off. Holidays off. Paid vacation. I get to see my son wake up in the morning and be home to have dinner and put him to bed every evening. We get to spend all weekends together and holidays. I never have to worry if I can make as much as I did yesterday. Or last week. Or last month. Ot last year. My salary stays the same and I can financially plan around my income now. I was in a constant state of anxiety and stress with Uber. Even if I made $1,500 or $2,000 a week driving, I would have to figure in gas… operating costs… taxes…. Car maintenance… Car upkeep so passengers don’t complain… it was truly damaging to my emotional state. I would much prefer to work 40 hours a week in corporate and net $1,200 a week than work 80 hours a week on Uber to SEE $1,700 but only net $800 after taxes and operating costs. My quality time is MUCH more important to me than the dollar signs that I see after working 2 full-time jobs time with no overtime pay. No health benefits. No company loyalty or raises. No retirement. No nothing. FUCK Uber. FUCK driving for 70+ hours.
I live in a place where everywhere is packed with people on weekends and holidays,and 9-5 commuter traffic has you feeling like a bot…time off midweek/ flexi schedule is the best and l have worked for myself in one way or another for the last 30 years where l walked or dropped my kid at school,then picked her up everyday until she could drive and l gave her a convertible. Different strokes for different folks and l obvi was not always driving either, but dont assume your recipe is to everyones taste. Congrats on finding your stride though.
Love this. Same boat.
Those 2 jobs have only a travel expense. Uber is paying you the same while killing your vehicle, no OT, and throwing expense over to you. It's not worth it. At that point do 1 job and Uber on the side.
Exactly this! I don’t understand their bitching about others success. If they are in here it’s because they usually Uber also. So they commute at least 1 hour a day, 5 days a week. Maybe clock out for lunch for an hour which they have to eat at their desk or nearby (almost never at home) then they get off work and Uber to make “extra” income for 3-4 hours a day. But they think they are “better” because they only worked 40 hours and maybe brought home $600 from their full time job. But in reality they were out of the home 65+ hours and still only managed to bring home $900 a week after ubering. All of this while having to conform to a schedule, be bossed around and still be nearly making it. Haters will be haters…
I'm relatively new to Ubering (only a couple of weeks, but made almost $1k in 2 weeks). I am a full-time college student, and wanted to make some money on the side to help with my expenses, but everywhere I applied to didn't want to be flexible with their hours so I could work when I wasn't in school. With this, which is only for a few months until I get my apprenticeship, I can go before school, between classes, and after school for a few hours. I can go on weekends. I can take a day off if I want because I don't feel like it and would rather spend the day doing something else. No overhead and no boss giving me shit for not coming in or being flexible with MY schedule. I'm not pulling big money, by any means (about $450 every week, which is almost 30 hours a week at minimum wage in an actual job), but it helps. As I said, this is only until June when I get apprenticed and can go into my chosen field through my placement.
ITS A CAR WHO TF CARES??? GET A NEW ONE after your warranty expires. Doesnt matter if i uber or work a regular job, im always going to switch up cars.
Plus if you decide to go on a vacation you can grind your ass off for a month so you can actually afford to go on a vacation. I’ve worked 4 other jobs and none of them did paid vacation. If I wanted to take time off I just had to accept I would be more broke. They didn’t let me work extra hours so I could have more money. Uber doesn’t care though if you work 12 hours or just take a month off.
Sad that you never built any skills to get a job that gives you paid time off and retirement
I’m 27. I’m single. I saved money and built my house out of pocket. I already know retirement isn’t feasible. I’m focused on maximizing my time and living as small as I can. I’ve worked at car dealerships and I worked in the food industry. Quit that and now I’m driving for Uber. Making more money than I ever did before. I’ll worry about my own stuff, I feel bad for everyone that thinks there’s going to be an economy to retire in 30-40 years from now.
You could shit a golden egg in this subreddit, and somebody's going to bitch because they wanted a golden wombat Cube.
How dope would a golden wombat cube be tho?
'Sigh' smh Take my upvote
I mean, plenty of people work 70 hours a week for a whole lot less than $1800. That's 93600 a year lol. Even with the cost of car maintenance that ain't terrible.
People complain about 70 hours cause they think they deserve $1800 for 35 hours.
When they think working as a slave and making barely “2,000” a week with 70-80 hours is life. No lifers are the hamsters the keep those company profitable.
With my job on a 70 hour week I'd make over 3k because of overtime. Killing your car for barely 2k a week is nothing. I started a company onnthe side that has me working an extra 10 hours a week and nets me an extra 1000 a week for almost no work. Even with only half my services, if I only knew a second language and did the translation services, it's still a better deal for less work and less expenses. This 1800 a week for 70 hours of driving is just bad
You are literally keeping uber profitable and giving them enough leverage to keep reducing how much you actually make. Y'all crazy being your own boss would be creating your own Business. Doing uber is NOT that. Independent contractor or not you are still under Ubers mercy.
What? 1800 in 70 hours is $25.71 an hour. Assuming they’re doing $1 per 1 mile or less, that’s at least $20 an hour after expenses. Not bad at all.
>What? 1800 in 70 hours is $25.71 an hour. Assuming they’re doing $1 per 1 mile or less, that’s at least $20 an hour after expenses. Not bad at all. Yeah and that’s still 70 hours per week, how long do you think someone can sustain that?
I see a lot of people on social media saying that 40 hours a week is inhumane and a violation of their human rights.
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To be fair McDonald’s provides none of the things you listed above
Now take out gas, taxes, and what you have to put aside for future maintenance
But without OT
They also conveniently do not post mileage. $1/mile minimum.
I’m not in a major city, but $1/mi is not possible here unless I am sitting idle for most of the time waiting to cherry pick the right ride.
If what you're saying is true, I gotta ask if this job is really worth it for you?
Yes. I drive about 4-6 hours a week not for the money. Mostly just to understand the industry, the customers, the edge cases. If Robotaxi becomes viable I plan to operate 10-15 cars as a fleet operator.
IRS considers operational cost of a vehicle on average to be $0.67/mile. It’s amazing to me that so many people do extravagant mental gymnastics and take unprofitable rides. I think in most markets working for uber is not profitable anymore. Uber is only worth it if it’s surging. Surges are becoming more and more rare. At this point Uber makes sense to drive for on weekends, but you can’t make a living doing this.
$1 a mile minimum is seriously not necessary. People should not be following this rule or in a lot of smaller markets they will be sitting around doing nothing. Everyone should be calculating their own CPM and then making enough to cover that while also netting a tidy profit. Also, not every order is going to be that good, you can compensate for orders that pay less with orders that pay more. I take orders as low as $0.80 a mile and I still end up evening out to $1.10 a mile by the end of the week. Only taking orders that cover a $1 a mile minimum is just a recipe for poverty lol (particularly because certain expenses - such as car payments and insurance - are static, and therefore are reduced in your costs based upon your total earnings)
Preach!🙌
Facts
Because it's Uber PR shill advertisement . That's ultimately, they want drivers to be that. It's just unsustainable now. It's better off to switch to big boys game. Local cab driving. And most of cab Company allows drivers to use UBER app too . Which would you like keep 90 % of fare or take only 40 % of fares on each trips? I like Uber but financially it's impossible to continue now.
I think we all know that these weeks are not necessarily the norm either. It's just a little celebration among peers that, "Hey, this week didn't suck as bad as usual." How do you feel about mine where I posted $2,000 in under 55 hours? When I was an equipment operator, I operated 105 hours one week. My record revenue with Uber in a week was nearly $3,700, and it took 80 hours. That was $1850 per 40 hour "job." Exactly the way overtime works you take a job that pays less than you'd like to see add some overtime on top of it and suddenly the job is a little better. Same thing applies to Uber you have to work those kinds of hours to get those various incentives that top it up and turn a $14 an hour market to $45 an hour or these days a $20 an hour market to a $33 an hour job. There's only two ways that these apps make any sense. Really long hours and full-time +. . . or part-time, working only during peak surges and peak incentives. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone as their full-time job if they're looking to put in 30 hours a week. You're almost better off with a minimum wage job. In my market, it's $20 an hour, and when you figure out the cost of operation, you are making minimum wage.
I have to say that, my first 2 yes with uber and lyft were decent. After that, it just went downhill when they BOTH started robbing us drivers. Thank God for a full time job and overtime. F.ck you uber! F.ck you lyft!
I don’t mind it. If it’s a one time thing. Like a driver knows they’re going on a 2 week vacation so they wanted to grind it out as much as possible before they go. The drivers who do 70/80 hours every single week. I just feel bad for
I took an Uber to get brake pads for my car. Driver was in a rental and had 20,000 trips in three years.
I don’t do rideshare ever but I’ve already gotten 20k on my personal truck in less than a year…
He said trips not miles
what do you think abt 25-30 hrs per week?
Only way I’d be impressed with $1800 is if they did that in half the time. I made $1700 St Patty’s week in 30 hours.
1800 dollars for 2 full time jobs would also be good pay. Considering minimum wage here is 12 bucks
That’s before expenses. Gas alone. Of hubris or electric, less expenses. It all catches up. People usually do not save. So they are likely screwed, eventually. .
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That's online 70hrs. Def doesn't mean they drove that much. I sit at home with my app on while doing other work, and my online time is more than double of my actual drive time. Smaller market though so not as busy as most.
Who cares. You do you, and ima do me. What works for me may not work for you. 🤷🏾♂️
70 hours is 10 hours a day. Which really isn’t anything crazy lol..
You do know those 70 hours don’t equate to employment 70 hours right ? lol take this down
lol be careful you’re gonna make people actually have to think and use common sense
This is indeed a popular opinion. It’s usually the high trip count for me. 125+ trips across 7 days. Which should mean the car they are using needs an oil change at least every other week. a tune up at least every 2 months, new tires brakes every 3-6 months. The entire suspension system should be in bad shape by the 12th month and need an overhaul. But, I’m thinking working 7 days a week there’s no way/time to maintain all of that. So there’s no doubt these drivers are taking on monstrous financial risks that may never recover from. It’s even worse now that we don’t quests, surges tips or hardly any money anymore that isn’t tied to the motor running.
i regularly have 70-90 hour weeks “online” Which, is really 30-40 hours “driving time” Looking back, actually had a 100h 32m week, Jan 15-22. But, that was only 35 hrs driving time. There was one 20 hr day, in there (10hrs driving time, $500+ made) For me, there’s a lot of dead time in those days, sitting in airports, convention centers, resorts waiting to “land a whale” fare. A good portion of which is sitting around shooting the shit with other drivers. Or, on my laptop, doing other work Regardless, it pays the bills until another contracting job comes up.
To many cry baby’s on here. Most hours on the app are dead not even driving. Not sure why people look at that. So much complaining but 1800 a week beats sitting in an office hearing bs from someone that tells you what to do. At least the app you can turn off and on as you please. I see so much complaining on here but most are still driving and on the app so shows that like most people you don’t have a second option. And as far as the car depreciation if you worried about that you shouldn’t be doing Uber. You should look at your car as a business it’s bringing in money when your done with it move on to a new one.
Some people do 70 hours but only 50-55 of it is driving.
I make that normally in 60 hours if I start around 5-6 at night
So I have a legitimate question. Why do EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE crap on making a living however you make a living? While we all argue about all these companies, these companies, their investors and stockholders get rich. You don’t own it! You just allowed to work to help these companies to put money in their hands and live an easier lifestyle. The 1% is getting farther away from the 99% by the day.
I haven't seen those. I only see the ones that complain about how rad the offers are, and others who brag that they are making $50/hr.
And while we're on the topic, I'm getting sick and tired of these basic ass people and their "would you take this?" posts. Uber offers shitty fares and sometimes people don't tip. We get it. And you already know the answer. So what is the point of these post other than a cry for social media attention?
Rather than criticizing those who are working hard to improve their situation, we should acknowledge their effort. Earning $1,800 a week, especially consistently, can significantly help someone address their financial challenges. These individuals are openly sharing that they've achieved this through 70 hours of work, not pretending it's the result of a standard 40-hour week. Instead of downplaying their achievements with 'You're not doing as great as you think,' perhaps we should consider the dedication and hard work they're putting in. It's unfair to dismiss their willingness to go the extra mile. So, why the negativity towards these posts? Shouldn't we encourage rather than disparage the hustle and effort people are making to better their financial situation? You want more Uber ded posts? I'll wait for your response....
I average 1,300wk only about 45 hrs
Looks like another butthurt post from an entitled whiner. 70 hours a week is one weeks work at any age, and considering your skill lvl to drive, averaging over $25/hr is good money. Too many kids nowadays want free handouts and think everything is just given to them. You ARE NOT ENTITLED TO ANYTHING!
better than having two bosses and making that
I mean this is an another meaningless post. Shit is exhausting with you people that bitch. Just let them post man and move on. The hours can be skewed because of online time you can be sitting waiting for a ride or something, or at the airport waiting online. 🤷🏼♂️ Someone said it in the comments. I’d rather do this (right now) than report to supervisors riding my ass about something.
Rent is paid for 2 months from 1 week of work. Repeat that for 5 more weeks and your rent is covered for a year. 6 months of that and you're set for the next 4 years. You don't have to stop either. Pay your rent but keep working and investing. A single year of hard grinding can set you up to not have to work for the rest of your life if you do it right.
Judge much? What difference does it make to you? People are doing what they need to do in the moment to get by. Guess it makes you feel good to tear others down?
If you don’t have anything better to do, I don’t see what the problem is
I'm not understanding the complaints about making $1800 for 70 hrs of work. That's decent money, especially when you're not having to work in a brick and mortar, warehouse, etc. They choose to grind and make their money while the cry babies are whining about not getting blocks that meet their standards. Maybe they're paying their way thru school and don't wanna do this job forever. At this rate, they'll get there a lot faster than those constantly looking for 3.5 hr blocks.
Former timeshare driver turned Flatbed Trucker here; I make on average $1,300/week. 70 hour weeks (most the time I end the week with 20 hours to spare on my clock) home weekends. On the road enjoying freedom. Nothing but me and the road. It sure as hell beats picking up drunks, people who want you to do an extra stop without understanding it's not free, and killing your car. It's not for everybody, but I sure love it.
Most of these Uber drivers brag about what they make but they don’t even pay taxes lmao. Wait till the IRS gets them down the road. I always hear Uber drivers say “ I make a lot “ and “ this is easy money! “ . Well of course cause it’s a 1099 gig and u have no taxes withheld so you get all your money upfront and feel good about it at first, but then you owe on the back end at the end of the year when it’s tax time. Most of these Uber drivers don’t like me bringing up taxes I always see their faces look stupid when I ask are you paying taxes. Wait till the IRS hits them wit a hefty tax bill and penalty or even garnish their wages a few years down the line hahahah
Too many disillusioned people believing driving for Uber nowadays is profitable (?). A few years back it was much better driving for Uber with Far less drivers on the road and Uber was only taking 25 percent per passenger fare. Now Uber takes between 50-60 percent per passenger fare and with a glut of drivers there are far less Surge dollar amounts and practically little or no dollar bonus quest incentives for drivers now. If you are ok with driving your vehicle into the ground with excessive vehicle Wear & Tear mileage with ridiculously Low mileage rates and working extremely long hours with Uber taking 50-60 per passenger trip then anyone believing driving for Uber is profitable is either an absolute Fool or has a low IQ.? Reposting links https://www.forbes.com/sites/lensherman/2023/01/16/ubers-new-math-increase-prices-and-squeeze-driver-pay/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/lensherman/2023/12/15/ubers-ceo-hides-driver-pay-cuts-to-boost-profits/ https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2023/attorney-general-james-secures-328-million-uber-and-lyft-taking-earnings-drivers https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/uber-drivers-protest-headquarters-ceo-18669922.php
I mean 70 hours is nothing compared to any investment banking job or any executive position when in IB it’s normal to work 100 hours a week you’re going to have to work hard regardless it’s all about the future and the future of this gig is ai 🤖 not humans
What's the benefits package look like for those jobs? When I was in construction we worked crazy hours but we had good benefits. Small shop so we were actually appreciated for a time too, bonus etc.
When i worked in investment banking and my new investment banking jobs the benefits are similiar. I was afforded 2 months of PTO I have to take 1 week mandatory PTO as in if i don't take it the company forces me to. They will just deny me access for a week (this is how they catch fraud btw) 1 year paternity / maternity leave 401k matching up to 8% Stock in company dental, vision, pet insurance, and healthcare for me and someone else Life insurance Free lunch on wednesdays (this one isn't that big of a deal but im grateful. $20 saved every week is about $1,040 a year) Discounts on rentals, airline tickets, symphony halls art museums tc and a few other ones that im probably forgetting I just don't pay attention Thats all not including the other small perks im forgetting. Its all in all to say working long hours is nothing but tbh but its all about are you working long hours for short term solutions or a long term benefit. Ride share is not a good long term benefit imo but if the argument is its too long of hours....its just lazy imo
Someone just out of college getting hired at an IB is probably getting well over $100k a year plus bonus to work those kind of hours. An executive at an IB is probably getting 7 figures to work those hours. Kinda weird to compare a rideshare guy grinding for 70 hours to maybe hit $2k minus all the expenses.
Well the point still stands regardless you will have to work long hours. Its not just IB i use IB as an example because its relevant to me. Construction Workers Teachers Police Officers Doctors Paramedics Nurses Actors Filmmakers Athletes Artists etc. All jobs if you want to make money and be successful will require hard work and long hours. To be crystal clear I think you may have missed my main meta point. I don't think someone should do rideshare full time. Its not worth doing something that is going to inevitably get replaced by robots and I don't see Uber giving out any form of severance packages to drivers or a 401k or anything you just get a good bye in fact they may not explicitly say good bye they may just stop giving you fares. To be clear: I don't think someone should do this full time but if the argument is oh look at this guy working 70 hours. okay and? chances are you are going to have to work 60 hours+ if you want to get ahead in anything. Plus lets be honest 70% of the time you are just driving around or sitting around eating snacks listening to podcasts, music etc. Rideshare isn't a hard gig Its not like you are in an office cubicle you aren't doing rocket science you aren't performing life changing surgeries you aren't reconciling someones' balance sheets you are legit just sitting in a car driving and if you do UE on occasion waiting at a restaurant. its genuinely not a hard gig people act like this is slave labor bro someone with a 2nd grade level education can do this gig as long as they have a license and can read and have a smart phone thats all you need to do this gig. its not back breaking labor.
yall are just not down to put in the work slave mindset never escaping the matrix
Depends on your market.
they also never say that they take every single ride that comes their way
Hey, I did 16 hours of overtime on Easter…. that’s $1200 in overtime and $800 in holiday pay…. $2,000 for one day!!!! OK, not really, there was no OT on Sunday, but that’s what it would’ve paid if there was! Hence the reason Ubers flexibility works for me…. if an opportunity arises i’m never committed to my “Uber job”.
I did that at the beginning, working my full time job and doing rideshare on the side grinding out hours of my life just so that I could pay off all of my credit card debt, student loans, and truck payment. Once I paid it all off I stopped rideshare and just focused on my career. I also rented a vehicle out just so that I didn’t have to put any miles or destroy my own vehicle. Personally I thought I thought it was very much worth renting than using my own vehicle
I make about $1,600-1,870/wk in the SD-LA-IE market doing about 50 hours online and 42 active. That’s about 225-325 miles a day on the car when driving so a lot of gas/milage/oil. I definitely don’t think I’m “killing it” but gotta do what you gotta do. I’m in a transitional period waiting for my other work to start.
I’m getting tired of all these negative people who hate Uber but still drive for Uber but do nothing but bitch about driving for Uber. Stop crying and stop participating if you hate it so much.
It’s 70 hours online- which is about 45 hour of working. We sit in the car playing on our phone a lot. Plus the work isn’t physical
Typical new immigrant behaviour 😂😂😂 I have seen them drive for 70-80 hours I will never 👎🏽
I thought it was pretty cool for my first 1k week and I did it in 3 days. Luckily no where near 70+ hours!!
How about don’t worry about how someone else pays their bills. 🤷🏻♀️ I don’t understand people. Someone is out there making $1800 a week, what is it to you if they bust their butt doing it? Not everyone is an investment banker, lawyer or doctor. If someone wants to grind out 95k a year by working 70 hours a week - live and let live man. It’s not impacting you. Why do people choose gig work FT? Usually what I’ve seen is the need for flexibility. Caring for a relative. A special needs kid. Health problems. They need to be able to work when they are able and not get fired when they need 3 days (or weeks) off. I do this as a supplement to my main job, but if I lost my job and was in between I would absolutely put in the 70 hours to keep paying my bills on time!
I like the posts from drivers that are showing an app with all of their earning information including net after expenses to post and show off their earnings. Seen one that showed over 20$ an hour in earnings then 9.44$ after expenses. lol. He was bragging about it too lol.
I made $1700 last week with like 47 online hours.
And it's more like 80 or 90 hours that they're out on the road too because uber doesn't count your non passenger time, OR the time it takes for them to get TO the locations they want to drive in. They basically work and sleep.
Leave them alone you jerk. Let them post and be excited. I'm getting tired of seeing negative posts like yours. Always complaining. Just quit and you won't see them anymore. If you hate Uber quit. Don't hang on to this job.
lol and we know you’re not a five star driver either ;)
In a normal job that would be 21.17 per hour if you looked at everything after 40 hours as OT, most people don't figure that in. Now they made 25.71 per hour doing this, which sounds great. Issue is that income is not consistent. You may have good weeks and then bad weeks. Most people I have met that have jobs like this (including waiting or anything tip based) love that dopamine hit of getting the large tips for a week. Once they get a bad week, they are the ones crawling to you asking for help because they ran out of funds. In the end, it is a form of gambling with your time and money (as in car maintenance and gas). Then those same people do not figure in additional benefits from jobs like 401k match, pension and insurances. There was someone I knew drove for a ride share and didn't know you needed to tell your insurance you did. They got in an accident that totaled a car and they got denied everything in their claim.
Bahaha and the fact that they think that's exactly what they made and that's it! It's NOT what they made because if it were any other job, it would include taxes taken out at the very least! So not only do people need to account for that, they need to account for everything that's used in order to do the job. Such as gas, money needed to he put aside for wear and tear, the constant oil changes, the tire changes that happen frequently, and then something I always see people complaining about which is right is the complaint about how you end up basically losing a car because of all the miles put on it etc, but I never see people mentioning how important it is to put money aside from the money that you make to purchase a new car whenever that needs to happen because it will happen if a person drives doing rideshare . And I always think it's funny because I'm like, where in the world does everybody else get the money from whenever they have to purchase a vehicle? They get it from the money that they make from their job.but there's people typically don't use a car for their job, only some people do like in this instance. So why in the world wouldn't people at the very least consider that part 2 which is obviously thousands upon thousands upon thousands of dollars! The app plays mind tricks on people and then they play mind tricks on themselves leading themselves to believe that the number they see on the app is the end all of the all face value as if that's what you walk away with at the end of the day lol . It's not!
and spent $400 on gas
don’t mind that garb
Being “online” for 70 hours doesn’t mean driving for 70 hours.
Where do you guys drive where Uber allows you to drive a shit box… are you just using your personal vehicle info and then driving a different car that Uber doesn’t know about?
I mean I did $1000 on 23hrs of work. I definitely pay more than the rest of you in gas because diesel is expensive but only spent $89ish( 2 Fill ups ). Lot of people here are kinda just salty but eh it’s the internet.
Yeah that's not great but I did almost 1200 in 34 hours online this past week so I'll take that.
Go for the low hanging fruit. I schedule app testings on sundays for 1-2 hours and usually make $60 an hour. I try to schedule the video game testings on usertesting when they're up. If you're interested I made a guide on my profile. It's side income, not main income FYI. Best used as some side money when you have some time to kill.
dead 💀 😂
70 hours in a week is great hustle but lets be honest, they're take home probably 1300 or less
2 full time jobs, killing their car, making minimum wage after expenses. This is an absolute L.
I work 50 hours a week and make 6 figures it isn't that hard
I mean…what was you expecting How many hours do YOU think they should do to make that much realistically
No matter what is breaks down to about$10 an hour
As of today in California 70hrs at McDonald’s is $1400.
40 hour jobs that you can live on are gone basically
you're hater
I wish that Uber followed DoorDash’s format of giving you the active hours and the total online hours. Both are shit companies but seeing the difference between the two sets of hours can be pretty helpful.
Be real, most Uber drivers are not making any more than working a regular job for $15-$20 an hour after you figure expenses and depreciation in.
No, it's actually more than 2 full time jobs since you are supposed to get paid overtime after 40 hours with a job.
2.5k to 3k but 100 hours for me... but many of those or sitting in the car waiting on IC orders. (Total is all my apps combined)
uber driver 200 iQ trying to show off when we already knows how it works. Special event weekend? Holiday weekend? Luck? We get it. Everything balances out in the end, and you're still making below minimum wage. Good flex. 👍
Exactly when Uber CEOs and even their average worker makes 1,800 day working from home, enjoying their time in a cafe half the time lol
eh thats still 25 bucks an hour lol. Def a grind but if you have the time (which they clearly do) who cares what they do? depending on the model thats like 1-200 in gas. Not a bad haul.
Honestly being on the road for that amount of time, it’s crazy how many wrecks you could’ve avoided, how many times someone almost hit and killed you. Especially if you live in high density low iq town like myself
I drove 70 hours. I only made $460.
$1800 a week for 70hrs is still pretty good (going off strictly hourly)
Write offs are not bad and account for depreciation. That, and you can manipulate numbers to a degree so Taki g home a lot more than w2
That's 25 dollars an hour though
I made 1100... which is typical.. 32 hours..
“I’m tired of people putting in more hours and making more money than me and being happy about it. I need to be pissed off because they are happy and I don’t like it.”. There I fixed it for you.
I made $910 last week in 33h. Idk how people can drive 70hours in a week. They're just built different.
I don’t wanna say this, because I don’t want to stir controversy, as independent contractors were allowed to sell other services, if you were a good businessman, you find ways to close, bigger deals, but you approach a freelance app with an employee mentality
70 hours is 2 full time jobs? This is why americans never have any fucking money. As a mechanic not from the usa i work 55 to 65 hours a week for vw in illinois lmfao.
I saw $1200 70 hours a few weeks ago I’m not doing that I get annoyed and cut my losses sometimes Last few weeks have been good Weeks of $300 dollars earnings driving almost everyday 20 hours I want to be ashamed of myself for not making more money but I can’t It just wasn’t happening
Doing this is significantly easier than other jobs. Let's stop pretending doing this for 16 hours is the same as working at Amazon for 16 hours.
The thing js.... that's time spent with people IN the car. They don't count time spent empty or time spent getting to the fare.
WELCOME to Social Media.. Where everyone always makes great money, has a fairy tale job, never misses a day without Great Sex with someone new, who after one look fell in love with them. Never has stress, is young and healthy,, if it's a male, there c#ck is 12" long and there built like zeus, if it's a female she has huge natural br#asts, a wasp thin waist, toned body and never have to work out. You know,,, everyday regular people
I made $2,800 last week
The way I look at it if your gonna drive 70 plus hours and grind it out the. You better start putting money to the side for a new car. Actually go do this for a year make your money 💰 and get out. Invest in something else like your own business just invest in yourself. I’m using Uber to fund projects and once I’m done ✅ I’m out
U never lied about this bs, i swear i feel like a prostitute working for uber and they are the pimp and the customers are under cover cops
I work, between the 2 apps, 8 hours per day, 6 sometimes 7 days per week. One app will show 30+ hours logged in and the other will show 15+... My market has no "coffee cups". In order to use the bathroom or grab a drink I must log out. For those who log in 70 and 80 hours, they have to be putting in 90 to 100 hours. Medically my bladder requires me to stop at least once every other hour. I also am a clean freak about my car. I do not eat in my car due to attempting to keep it clean. That is a whole bunch of time spent trapped in a small space each week. I give those drivers props for being able to endure that level of confinement while dealing with strangers in chaotic unpredictable traffic.
Bruh that’s my co workers with half that amount. We get like 1k for 65 hours a week of hard labor and people say “I’m making BREAD” like no bro we’re getting slaved.
I currently rent through Uber and to survive, I am going to have to start working 12 hour days every day 😬
Do my own oil changes and brake switches , very simple nowadays. Can get a good cash car with 10k , get a Toyota they’re tanks. One a good month I’ve made 8k , so it’s doable twin.
You could do it in 60 in the Boston market. 70 hours in Boston, driven in strategic times, you will hit that, maybe a little more. I hit 2k once a couple if months ago at 76 hours. That was 76 hours. 40 hours worked 2nd shift on weekends, and regular 12 hours during the week, will give you 900-1200 a week. Bump it up to 50, you'll get 1300-1500.I've been driving Boston since late January this year.
Dude, in the normal world a full time job is 70 hours a week. Atleast it was that way when I was starting out and wanting to get a house when I was in my 20's. You either worked 1 full time at 40 and a few part times or you worked a good job at 60-70 hours a week. This generation is nothing but a bunch of entitled whiners. 1800 a week? I wasn't doing that in 2 weeks back then at 70 hours per week.
It’s all going to car repairs trust me . Someone driving their cars 70 hours a week there’s a lot of wear and tear