At the $1.25 a mile rates last summer, with some nice surges in Hollywood on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, I used to pull in $1,800 to $2,100 per week, working 100+hours on Uber X. Although the money sounds good, a pace like that for 12 months a year is not sustainable, even if you have the stamina to do it like I did. But I only did it for 5 months, until the big uBer **** on New Years Eve. The problem is that you need to make enough money to for pay bills, expenses, taxes, food, sex, and whatever else, and still make enough money to pay cash for another nice car. Because after 12 months a 3,000 miles a week, your car is pretty much done, or at least close to it. Okay, so maybe 16 months. But the thing is, you are going to need a new car after 120,000 miles or so. That is arguable, of course. But the other problem is that 100+ hours a week 52 weeks a year only gets you enough money to pay for everything BUT a new car. So then what?