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Working jobs where either you drive people around or deliver food is just not worth it anymore. I work Uber Eats delivery as a side job and even if I only deliver near where I live it is to expensive. I am sure there are other people who also have given up on doing this.
Working jobs where either you drive people around or deliver food is just not worth it anymore. I work Uber Eats delivery as a side job and even if I only deliver near where I live it is to expensive. I am sure there are other people who also have given up on doing this.
You are right. The gas price is so high now, and it keeps increasing every few few days.
Yes, and besides the gas and the low pay, there's wear and tear on your car, the need to pay self-employment taxes, and, in the case of ride-sharing, the ever-present risk of having strangers in your car.
There were articles out years ago where firms would deep dive into the real cost of being an Uber driver and even back then, with gas prices 30-50% lower, it wasn't worth it. The only way I think it could work is if you somehow fell bass ackwards into a free Prius and drove that thing into the ground delivering people and/or food. Still probably wouldn't make much of a salary.
If they have trouble retaining employees, then Uber/Lyft/Doordash will pass the increased costs on to the customer.
That's what my company does, and they take such opportunities to bang the client with an even bigger hidden markup. Corporate fun...
Agreed. There will always be desperate people who will do a job that makes little sense financially if they get a quick payout. They don't have the luxury of thinking about the eventual wear and tear on their cars or what will happen come tax time when they can be pulling in a couple/few hundred a week while being able to work when they want to.
Agreed. There will always be desperate people who will do a job that makes little sense financially if they get a quick payout. They don't have the luxury of thinking about the eventual wear and tear on their cars or what will happen come tax time when they can be pulling in a couple/few hundred a week while being able to work when they want to.
I believe there will always be people who do that work because now that people have discovered the service there will always be those willing to pay the price for it. What I disagree with is that it's going to fall to 'desperate' people to do that work.
I have dealt with doordash drivers for several years now. At one point they probably made up 1/3 to 1/2 of the customers coming through our doors. Many of them werethose desperate people who relied on it as their only source of income. However when gas started going up so much a lot of those people stopped doing doordash, they simply can't afford to put that kind of gas into their cars any more. What I'm seeing now is the doordashers that are left are people who only use it to supplement another, larger source of income, retirees, people doordashing as a second job, etc.
There were articles out years ago where firms would deep dive into the real cost of being an Uber driver and even back then, with gas prices 30-50% lower, it wasn't worth it. The only way I think it could work is if you somehow fell bass ackwards into a free Prius and drove that thing into the ground delivering people and/or food. Still probably wouldn't make much of a salary.
I live in a small town of about 8,000 people. They just started doing uber eats etc. And people claim they make good money. But $15 an hour is a good job here with the very low cost of living. And the town is about 3 miles by 3 miles so all the deliveries are pretty close by.
But I think if you want to do a delivery job work for Amazon. At least its their vehicles and its not a gig job.
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