Tbf the “waiting for gigs” thing isn’t really accurate for the people that do it for their full-time job. A lot of them do both Uber and Lyft and will be actively declining gigs from one service while driving for the other. When you have a lot of positive reviews you get priority on rides, drivers in populated cities where people don’t want to drive are making some pretty serious cash.
All that isn’t to say that the lack of benefits and the like doesn’t eat into that significantly. Just wanted to dispel the myth that there’s nobody making a decent living off it.
Tbf the “waiting for gigs” thing isn’t really accurate for the people that do it for their full-time job. A lot of them do both Uber and Lyft and will be actively declining gigs from one service while driving for the other. When you have a lot of positive reviews you get priority on rides, drivers in populated cities where people don’t want to drive are making some pretty serious cash.
All that isn’t to say that the lack of benefits and the like doesn’t eat into that significantly. Just wanted to dispel the myth that there’s nobody making a decent living off it.