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You have asked this and it has been answered. You just don't agree with the answer.

Are you going to be the one that sits on this forum and decides what is whining and what is not?

Oh wait a minute, this ain't your forum!

So in effect you're the oxymoron that's whining.
I haven’t seen any answer except "it makes you feel better. "
If you’re not going to do something to make things better then don’t whine. Or do you just expect someone else to make it better for you?

you need to look up oxymoron too. Your incorrect use of words belies your ignorance.
 

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I'm not in the business, but paid all my bills when Uber first launched in Charlotte, NC.. I graduated and bought a trucking company and some software stuff and never looked back... Oh... I drove for Yellow Cab before Uber...

Translation: I paid all my bills off Uber when Uber was way harder to net off of, and all while in a very bad suburban-rural market...


Most angry people here either can't net/profit or think you're supposed to net a middle class living outside of a tourist trap... Then, if you know what you're talking about the boring grind info is too boring and ignored for fake hype and anger by desperate f-ups coming in to gig work as a last-resort...... If you're here for anything more than infrequent insights from active workers in your market then you're wasting your time... They can't describe grinding to make a 'nut' cause they can't/don't....
 

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I haven’t seen any answer except "it makes you feel better. "
If you’re not going to do something to make things better then don’t whine. Or do you just expect someone else to make it better for you?

you need to look up oxymoron too. Your incorrect use of words belies your ignorance.

So you're still whining?
 

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This is the only forum I know where the people in the business demean others for being in the business. “Ants will do the work”. What does that mean? That people who are almost as stupid as you will do the work? Seriously, I think the whole driving labor force has PTSD.
I mean this is the only job I think where you can get paid below minimum wage and it's still legal so the sentiment is correct
 

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Ants booked time (active hours) is nearly 100% of off-book time (in-active)

Ant example will do all trips, No cherry-Pick
An Ant will do a $3 to $6 trip
4 to 6 miles to pickup
4 to 6 miles to dropoff
totals miles 8 to 12
an ant will do this trip even if it takes 20+ mins
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i will do a $4.80 to $6 trip if - example
fare needs to = more than miles
0.1 to 3 miles to pickup
0.1 to 3 miles to dropoff
totals miles 0.2 to 6
if it takes 10 mins or less to do (15 mins max if a slow day or hour(s) of a good day)

MY booked time (active hours) is a lot less than my off-book time (in-active)
LYFT AND UBER
$60 per hour active time
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This ant did $540 last Friday night. Super ant lol.
 

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does anybody care if nobody in this dumb forum believes them or not?
To be brutally honest, I will find more Thrills going outside watching the grass grow than to see his actual screenshots
 

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That's the way I play poker too.
I will sit and fold hole cards for HOURS.
I have sat and paid blinds all the way to the end, because I never got a good enough hand to play. It's called getting "blinded out" and some at the table thought I was crazy ... but, they're not the first.
I sat and folded one time so many times that another player asked me "you gonna play cards or be a puzzy?" I told him I was playing poker, and he could play all the cards he wanted. He was out of the tourney long before I was.
There are three major 'skills' sets in poker - that are directly transferrable to life in general.
Skill, luck, and patience.

Patience is the hardest to master.
Don't play a bad hand just because you're bored of folding.
Wait for a decent hand.
You are the rideshare companies primary target for driving. A Gambler. Which is exactly how they treat drivers, like gamblers.

i don’t know about other drivers, but I just want to be paid fairly for the work that I do and to not have my opportunities throttled at $30/hr. But that’s what you get when you are looking for leads like a poker hand. Because you have revealed your personality to them through your patterns of behavior, they KNOW you are a gambler and will treat you accordingly.

please stop treating this work as gambling. Gambling is for chumps. Make it a place to discuss fair wages, certainly. But get the gambling mindset out of here. I am a professional expecting fait pay for my services, not a gambler looking to get lucky.
 

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lease stop treating this work as gambling. Gambling is for chumps. Make it a place to discuss fair wages, certainly. But get the gambling mindset out of here. I am a professional expecting fait pay for my services, not a gambler looking to get lucky.
You looking to get lucky?
On Uber?

What you'll get is chased by a jealous boyfriend (or if you're in SF angry girlfriend or sis-gender partner).
You'll get a child support payment, or a nasty dose of the clap.
And that's not much of a gamble .. pretty much a sure thing.
Snake-eyes over and over.

ANY way, my point is that I am patient.
I would sit and fold I mean ignore pings until I get one that I like.
 
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