I have been travelling and in the central part of the us for the last few weeks . It's been hectic and insightful.
I am especially interested in the way people work part time or are hourly workers in an ever increasing liquid workforce in the US.
Uber technology interaction with it's driver's is enabling these concepts more and more.
While travelling back to the airport in an Uber I started chatting up with the driver . ( In fact because the drivers are rated by the riders they are incentivized to have a discussion or do small chat with their passengers to build a connect with the Uber brand).
But coming up to the financial part of the discussion ... The driver had a full time job as part of a distribution center with a retailer .. so was already working 40 hr weeks ... And still did another 15 to 20 hrs a week on Uber.
He was going to get some work done on a Saturday and he just switched on his Uber connection and soon had a job open for him ( me going to the airport ).
So imagine this.. he is doing some private work and then gets available to spend a few hrs supporting some work in a location which is not his standard location ! Amazing .
He earned around 100-150$ a week with Uber .. so around 400-600$ a month.. a nice piece of back work in an asset which already he has. It's a private car ( so no need of a commercial licence for his car unlike India ) ..so very interesting.
The additional 400$ is great for him to get his food stuff or some entertainment money for the month .
It's great stuff. Great for working professional and good to sweat assets.
It's simplefinancialsense
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