Any you guys do Uber as a side gig?

[LastManStandingParticipant 638]

I want to make a few extra bucks to fund some purchases. I feel like driving might suit me better than other s~~~ty part-time gigs.

[KeymasterKeymaster]

LastManStanding wrote:

Uber as a side gig? I want to make a few extra bucks to fund some purchase

Having two irons in the fire is certainly more than sensible. I didn’t drive on the side, but I tended bar for years when I was only employed with 9 month contracts. Never content to do just “one thing”.

As a part-time Uber driver, you can write off part of your car and auto expenses too(!). So even a few extra hours a week can make a difference there.

There is ONE little caveat to working TOO hard though.

With the extra job(s), I found myself having to compensate. I would eat out more, not have time for laundry so I would send my shirts out, take more cabs because I was running late etc. Before I realized it, I found myself working a second job just to support having a second job!! And that’s just hamster spinning, so you want to be conscious about some kind of balance.

I.E if you spend a lot of time sitting at you current job, you don’t want to be +4 hours sitting on your ass in a car either. Things like that.

There’s “working hard”, and there’s working SMART.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[PuniShredderParticipant 2268]

I’ll tell you from experience at this point, there’s very little money in it. Go here are read posts.

http://uberpeople.net/

Be professional be polite but always have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

[LastManStandingParticipant 638]

thanks for all the replies fellas. Yeah… I don’t think it is worth the wear & tear on your vehicle as well. I guess I will have to keep mulling over ideas.

I really want to do some more investing and start saving for some purchases. I just want to do a side gig for like 6 months and use that extra money for that fund.

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