Hi everyone I'm planning to come from Auckland New Zealand to Melbourne next month to work Uber or ola or DiDi whatever is good. Auckland recently is getting very slow and Uber or Ola pay $1.30 per km. Its hard to make money in New Zealand as the petrol $2.22 & diesel $1.61. Any advice before I come and join the club ?
Coming from New Zealand Auckland
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with the 'summary' you can gross 75K p.a. working only 4 days a week, 50 weeks p.a.
Even the guru himself couldn't achive that. lol
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Thank you sound like I'm going to be Rich ??
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Trust me you are not going to be rich, you might make a living at best but definitely not rich.
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Im aware of that nothing is new. ?
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You could probably do quite well and at least save for a couple of years like most people do while they work on something else.
Plenty of people started driving taxi, ubers etc for 2-3 years that moved onto full time salary jobs.
Only thing is you probably have to drive a lot of hours. Not a lot of people especially on here are actual drivers. "Spends more time online then driving."
You got to aim to make $2000 gross per week which gets significantly reduced after living expenses & gst if you were hiring a vehicle with unlimited KM for under $250 per week which would be a fixed cost. If you can't see yourself grinding that hard then it probably best to just stay put in NZ.
Only way rideshare really works is when someone leverages their life and time working 110 hours weeks for a short period of time 1-2 years to build enough of a nest egg to do something else or split that hour with study. Going into it expecting it to be a career will only end in tears after deactivation. Zero job security and it all over with 1 report from a passenger.
Hay mate
Better open some Fussh'N'Chupps shop, there's more money in it, too many kababi'habibs, not many, nek'minits.
Even start some Hangi business, but no, I'm sure you're not Maori.
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Usually people coming to Australia are from 3rd world countries and got absolutely no other option but to do immigrant work or drive until they get themselves on their feet and move onto better things.
A first I've seen someone from NZ moving to Australia to work in a bottom salary job that equivalent to a 13 year old working in maccas. "Same Pay." Island hopping. I'm confused if I should laugh or cry. But if you are running away from something or responsibilities in NZ then I guess go for it but the grass isn't greener here
May actually be a nightmare.
Golden days of easy money in rideshare has gone now it the soul crushing grind of hundreds of hours of driving per month to look forward to :thumbup:
A first I've seen someone from NZ moving to Australia to work in a bottom salary job that equivalent to a 13 year old working in maccas. "Same Pay." Island hopping. I'm confused if I should laugh or cry. But if you are running away from something or responsibilities in NZ then I guess go for it but the grass isn't greener here
May actually be a nightmare.Golden days of easy money in rideshare has gone now it the soul crushing grind of hundreds of hours of driving per month to look forward to :thumbup:
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changing 1st world countries just so you can drive a cab for 'slightly better rates'.... you're right @Immoralized, sad to see people selling themselves so short :frown:Usually people coming to Australia are from 3rd world countries and got absolutely no other option but to do immigrant work or drive until they get themselves on their feet and move onto better things.
A first I've seen someone from NZ moving to Australia to work in a bottom salary job that equivalent to a 13 year old working in maccas. "Same Pay." Island hopping. I'm confused if I should laugh or cry. But if you are running away from something or responsibilities in NZ then I guess go for it but the grass isn't greener here
Golden days of easy money in rideshare has gone now it the soul crushing grind of hundreds of hours of driving per month to look forward to :thumbup:
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Just 2 words mate. Lost Potential.
One doesn't move countries to drive Uber unless they are coming from a 3rd world country making two bucks an hour.
Pick up roots from NZ to OZ to drive a hundred hours per week. What the world coming to
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one name Franklin Hatchett... live in NZ look him, find out about him, buy him a coffee, chase him around grocery store etc. just sit down with the guy for 15 min, way way more valuable than wasting time and money moving to Australia fighting for scraps with thousands of desperate 3rd world immigrant driversJust 2 words mate. Lost Potential.
One doesn't move countries to drive Uber unless they are coming from a 3rd world country making two bucks an hour.
Pick up roots from NZ to OZ to drive a hundred hours per week. What the world coming to
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Thousands? Maybe in 2014 :redface: It tens of thousands of 3rd world immigrant drivers!
Overcrowded and completely saturated market space.
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and i know you would not change 1st world countries just because you get to do a 3d world job for a few cents more and get a little bit more business your way
comfort zones, laziness and desperation - never knew these things can lead to a better quality of life, sad to see it happen though
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This isn't the norm. It an anonymity. I can't say I ever leased out a vehicle to someone coming from the UK, France or even America looking to drive rideshare in Oz :roflmao: Reason why I find it so amusing.
If he does move from NZ to OZ to drive for rideshare his just taking another person job with less opportunity then he does growing up in a good country and stealing dollars out of people that actually needs it.
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understand you fully, just feel concerned and sad for that ant living in a good place who cant figure out a way to make a living without going to another similar country and do slave labour... time to think things through a bit perhaps, self reflection etc.
i mean most ants doing rideshare here come from war zones and severely impoverished far away places best to be forgotten... i think you would agree NZ hardly qualifies as such spot lol
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Reminds me of that guy in my earlier years working in gold mining where he was already a multi millionaire from chartering his boat out and that business is still been run in NZ but he travels all the way to WA to work in the mines because he was bored.
I told him every-time I saw him since we were doing opposite shifts to break a leg and on the 3rd time I said that on the last hour of his shift a high pressure hose broke off and shattered his thigh bone and crippled him. He got medic-vac out of there by the royal flying doctors and spent 2 months in hospital and would never return to mining again.
I wasn't been malicious or anything and it might of just been a coincident. The guy back in NZ and back to his boat chartering business needless to say.
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Dunno, those cuzzy bros ha got some wild stories about Sth Auckland .
Still reckon the OP should go join his comrade citizens in WA and make some real money. Drivings driving, don't matter if it's trucks or taxis, defo a transferable skill.
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poor buggar should have tried Myanmar instead , lovely tropical place with low living cost still dream of retiring there some day
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13 year old earns more at maccas than uber driver.Usually people coming to Australia are from 3rd world countries and got absolutely no other option but to do immigrant work or drive until they get themselves on their feet and move onto better things.
A first I've seen someone from NZ moving to Australia to work in a bottom salary job that equivalent to a 13 year old working in maccas. "Same Pay." Island hopping. I'm confused if I should laugh or cry. But if you are running away from something or responsibilities in NZ then I guess go for it but the grass isn't greener here
Golden days of easy money in rideshare has gone now it the soul crushing grind of hundreds of hours of driving per month to look forward to :thumbup:
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That correct. Hour for hour. 13 year old has no expense while they work except for the bus/train ticket. They are unlikely to pay any tax either falling under 18k earnings and wouldn't be working FT because of school.13 year old earns more at maccas than uber driver.
Compared to the driver that probably earning at best 40 cents per Km after tax if they do enough driving to pay tax, gst and expenses.
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I don't think you will find too many 13 year olds working at Maccas. Not in Australia anyway.13 year old earns more at maccas than uber driver.
Perhaps you are thinking of the McMumbai Maccas sweatshop where they sell McCurry.
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