Hey Jobcasers - looking for some advice. I've been thinking of driving for Lyft or Uber on the side. Anyone have recommendations for which one is better for drivers?

Uber is a good job. The catch with it is the expenses that come with driving in a city like Los Angeles, where we all know the cost of living can be outrageous. Insurance, both auto and health, that's paid by ourselves. Gas and food, also. No free maintenance, either. Not even discount vouchers for tires or brakes. In other words, no benefits

Use the help of a team of psychologists to figure out a way to make the passenger feel obligated to tip without ever making it obvious that that's the goal. Offer bonuses either for holidays or at least reward us for having 500 trips and maintaining a 4.8 rating. Just offer SOME inventive because the stride health insurance is kinda crap, along with most of their other "benefits." At least offer help with car insurance for God's sake. Drivers should also be categorized into groups like A-E based on how good they are. A drivers could get a little more off their trips and the newbies, E drivers, would have something to work towards. Upgrade the GPS and use top notch IT pros to do it. The GPS can sometimes cost you money because it's not as good as something like Waze. Only Waze doesn't give you your pickup point. Rather than that near pointless gas discount card, they should pay for half of A driver's tanks and maybe 1/5 of E driver's tanks. Offer a form of overtime. And pay the drivers more per trip unless it's during a surge time. Oh, and implement a way to input a round trip if a pax is just going up to the store for a drink and then back home. Or if they're wanting to go to the airport right after the store. I've done it once before but it shouldn't have been as complicated as it was. Maybe I'm just ignorant and never saw the easy way but those double trips that the pay doesn't tell you about before the ride starts can be a pain. And I'll throw one more thing in. If someone pukes in my car, sure uber will pay for it to be cleaned professionally. But if someone pukes and it's my first pickup, well then my night's over due to the vomit smell now. So not only should they pay for the cleanup but also check what you make a night on average and reimburse you at least 80% of that total you were expecting to make.

Uber is a great fun place to work you meet a lot of interesting people working for Uber the only real complaint I have for working for over right now is too many driver

People skills for instance, conversation and how to treat others in your car. Money management...

is not money at all, the city is to small. the fares are only $ 5 , 6 , 7 and you waste all day its badddddddddddddd

Making tips

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For those of us on here who have been out of work for a while and may even feel that we aren't getting hired possibly due to our age and maybe even length of time out of the "workforce", if you have any that offer services in your city or town , I would suggest that you get involved in gig economy work. Do things like Uber, lyft, Task rabbit, Instacart, Handy, etc.. there are so many "Gig economy" apps out there, you are bound to find one or more that you'd love to do. I do 7 of them and make a real nice living. But I've also been applying to full time jobs. I'm 43 years old and even though I feel younger than that and I'm a very hard worker and I can work circles around any of these young people nowadays, I don't get hired. I have great job experiences and excellent references, but I don't get hired. I do however get a lot of emails from employers who are interested in me saying that they are impressed my work experience. I'm sure there are those of you that are already doing things like uber or lyft to make a little extra money, but if you can do and manage more, it may show employers that you're serious about working. Maybe even do some volunteering. Help others and help your heart at the same time and you can add that to your resumé. :)

I'll just say that uber was not for me.