http://ift.tt/2tUIzHL I make around $90K a year for the first time in my life, and am able to save like $6K a month after my bills and gas expenses, and this is possible only with the help of Rideshare driving. My day job is paycheck to paycheck and comes to around $1100 after taxes (I even added extra $50 to be held for taxes from every paycheck just to prepare for IRS tax issues). The Lyft and Uber has the highest earnings over the weekend, but Monday thru Thursday I can usually push the evening driving to $100 or more after I get off my day job at 5pm. Friday can get up to $200 depending on factors, and Saturday can usually easily get to $200 or more because everyone is rested and ready to hit the bars and clubs.
I also throw in lots of Airport arrivals driving over the weekend. So by Sunday night I can usually pull in up to $1,000 if all conditions are great which they usually are. So I am at $36K now after last nights direct deposit from day job. I pay $200 a month with brother for rent so that also contributes to my fast saving. At this rate if I continue this the car will only keep getting high miles, but I will keep getting another car every 3 or 4 years, my Camry runs great and can probably go 400K or more miles since it is 2016. In a few years I may go way over 100K in savings.
I have been a workaholic like this for the last year and a half, it started out as a test to see what I can save if I literally had no life, and just went to home for sleep. It works! I can save a lot very fast, while still having plenty of breaks in between the driving and sitting at Starbucks waiting for pings. I also sometimes sit waiting at my sisters house where a Casino is nearby, and the Casino is far from where most Uber and Lyft drivers sit so I can easily get far rides. Another thing is that the ping that comes from Terminal 1 or Terminal 2 at airport will usually tell me how far away a person is going.
Terminal 2 has a tendency to see people going farther away west, while Terminal 1 just has people going to nearby downtown Minneapolis. With the bar crowd that gets let loose at 2am, it is better to only do Uber at 2am since a high surge far distance ride is more likely with Uber due to the fact that the people that live way far away from main city tend to use Uber since Lyft is more rare the farther away you go from Minneapolis. I have driven people for rides that cost over $150 at bar close times, and that is a beautiful finisher for the night. Anyways I can go on and on, but you get it. Please excuse any poor grammar or missing commas, I have been out of school for over a decade.
Here is what I had in January 2017 before I became good at saving and took the side rideshare job very serious. Only $5K in the account http://ift.tt/2uyxNoz So from January until now I got save over $36K and that is savings after my $6K vacation, I had paid vacation at my job so I was still receiving direct deposit. I am luckier than some of my friends, it is good to be in America.
Submitted July 07, 2017 at 11:19AM by ozzyxrp http://ift.tt/2uSsvmY
