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I did Uber for about 3 months and let me tell you the experience.
Good:
The majority of the people I picked up were young professionals or college students. Always nice to see good looking people.
Work anytime I wanted to. I usually did it during "surge pricing" as this is when I was able to get the most money.
Had some extra cash
Picked up a ****** who said I was cute.
Bad:
During this time, I was renting out their phone. One day, they implemented a new move where they would be charging people with their phones $10week just for renting out their crappy iPhone 4. They finally realized that that was too much for the people and finally gave drivers the ability to use their own phone to do rides. But they never included Android users until just recently.
Fees - The fees were always so much. So, Uber gets 20% off of every ride. That's understandable but have you ever heard of the "safe driver fee"? Yeah, that's just Uber's way of getting $1 off of every ride as well. So you're really looking at Uber taking 25-30% off of the ride.
The only time a driver takes home $50k/year if they are doing it this everyday for 12 hours a day. It's not much for a PT driver who is just looking to take in extra cash. And yes city driving just absolutely kills your car and the gas mileage on your vehicle.
Good:
The majority of the people I picked up were young professionals or college students. Always nice to see good looking people.
Work anytime I wanted to. I usually did it during "surge pricing" as this is when I was able to get the most money.
Had some extra cash
Picked up a ****** who said I was cute.
Bad:
During this time, I was renting out their phone. One day, they implemented a new move where they would be charging people with their phones $10week just for renting out their crappy iPhone 4. They finally realized that that was too much for the people and finally gave drivers the ability to use their own phone to do rides. But they never included Android users until just recently.
Fees - The fees were always so much. So, Uber gets 20% off of every ride. That's understandable but have you ever heard of the "safe driver fee"? Yeah, that's just Uber's way of getting $1 off of every ride as well. So you're really looking at Uber taking 25-30% off of the ride.
The only time a driver takes home $50k/year if they are doing it this everyday for 12 hours a day. It's not much for a PT driver who is just looking to take in extra cash. And yes city driving just absolutely kills your car and the gas mileage on your vehicle.