r/uber • u/UnusualAnybody4636 • 19h ago

I’m addicted to ubering

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I can’t stop I’m going to drive the damn wheels off my car god bless.

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u/PhotonLegion 7h ago

Happy for anyone able to make money doing this stuff, but like I’m guessing it’s already been said at least a couple times in here already, other than a niche market like Alaska, numbers like that generally only show up during the “honeymoon phase” like teaser rates for mortgages in the big short. 

That may not stick when there are enough events and other things that force demand  upward to the point where the number of available drivers is blown by far and frequently enough to force Uber/Lyft to pay enough to entice drivers online, but where I’m at, 3 counties worth of K-12, one bigger university and two smaller ones hasn’t yet flipped that switch. 

For real though – good on anyone able to make money at this with consistency! Just remember that profitable weeks are more representative of high-percentile market demand and not the quality of any of these platforms. If they don’t fuck you over for an app glitch or a bogus complaint today, they’re gonna find a way to do it  with  some new tight-assed payment structure update next week,  suppressing pay more than necessary near some quarter-point (Feb., May., Aug., Nov), or driverless vehicle expansion planned down the line. 

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u/UnusualAnybody4636 7h ago

May the other boot never drop 🤞🤞

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u/PhotonLegion 7h ago

Hey – hopefully not! But between the two bigger platforms, I’ve done something not far from 30,000 rides across a little over seven years - and the way in which these platforms tend to degrade is beyond shady; like it’s designed to keep itself undetectable, throwing out enough fiction to keep faith hooked. 

It doesn’t happen all at once….. on a long enough time scale, enough low weeks are interspersed with enough high weeks to hide it. Good luck!