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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope you're still around. Update us on post-pandemic life and if you'll be doing the Tesla Ubers.[/quote]
Still around, still grinding.  Grossing $40/hr is my floor nowadays, and ~12 hours/35 rides a week is my limit. Still hustling DoorDash too on either a Friday, Sunday, or rainy weekday evening.  Other than the March-June break last year, I’ve been at it pretty consistently whenever I have the time and just passed 2,100 uber/lyft rides driven during the pandemic since July 4th, 2020.

The demand has consistently been there the whole time, meanwhile my competition to snag rides has been non-existent.  Been driving lyft a lot more than uber lately, mostly due to figuring out quite a few lyft tricks and strategies over the past year to keep the rides extremely short. (See first pic below…the laziness of some Washingtonians will never cease to astound me.) I haven’t left the triangle of Tenleytown/Nats Park/Clarendon during a shift in over a year, and that’s exactly my intention.

Zero interest in renting any car to drive uber.  Renting a car from your “boss” in order to earn money is the 21st century’s company store.  I can make $40/hr not because I’m good at this, but rather it’s because I’m willing to drive those late-nite weekend hours when earnings this high are possible.  If you rent a car for ~$300/wk then it’s in your best interest to work as much as possible. But the earnings are going to thin out quickly to ~$20-25/hr over a full-time workweek. Take home $450 in 10 hours of work as a car-owner, or take home $900 in 40-50 hours as a car-renter…which would you choose? Driving uber/lyft is the ultimate gig…come out and hustle when it’s busy, get paid, go home.  If you treat rideshare like a full-time job, uber&lyft are gonna take full advantage and work you over.

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