Every day Google sends me notifications from Uber Drivers quitting with rage posts.
Meanwhile I’m really enjoying my Uber Driver experience. It’s a job and there are some very trash days, but overall I find most days worth the effort. Despite what you may read online, in Montreal, Uber has enough money coming to make it worth driving people around.
Maybe food delivery is not the flex, I haven’t done that in awhile, but I am an advocate for the driver experience.
Especially now that I’m in the middle of an Uber Quest.
Uber Driver is like doing escort quests in real life
You receive the notification that someone needs to be rescued (picked up).
You then work your way towards the important delegate needing relocation (your Uber passenger). You’ve been given the secret mission of relocating them to a safehouse (wherever they are actually going). You must navigate the mean streets of your city battling monsters (traffic) to get this delegate there alive and proper. Then you receive your just reward for your service, and if you do it well, a little extra.
That’s how I feel when I drive people around.
The GPS reminds me of all the maps in video games and the GPS line is just getting me to the next checkpoint.
Only it’s real and I’m getting real money.
Turns out those video games did help me with my real life after all.
You get paid for every trip you do in real time
Uber has this fancy virtual bank I use where my money gets deposited immediately.
Let’s say the trip paid me 7.23$. I can then take out my little Uber Mastercard (or use my Google Wallet thing) and then buy a coffee with that same money I just made. As the total goes up, I can go straight to an ATM and pull that money out.
High key the virtual bank’s superfluous but it does create dopamine hits. You aren’t waiting for pay to come. This is money that you can spend now.
Trip by trip the amount goes up until you transfer it out.
In my Montreal market, that number can pay my rent on a single weekend, after gas, if I hustle it properly.
Quests gamify this even further
Uber’s on my mind because for the first time since New Year’s I got a Quest.
Quests (this isn’t me being extra, it’s what they are called) are a reward system. If you do X number of trips within a certain timeframe, you will receive a bonus. If I was not busy this weekend, and had all the time in the world to do 100 trips, I would have made a sizable bonus.
They provided a few tiers and I chose 40 trips, with a lil extra if I hit 50 trips.
This needs to be accomplished between 4 AM Friday (Today) and 4 AM Monday.
I feel like I need to be out there hustling even more. There’s another counter, with more dopamine/money waiting for me. I hate how exciting Uber makes this.
Trust me if you were driving too, you’d feel it.
I pray the day doesn’t come where my market starts to be too trash to drive in.
Live Long and Prosper Everyone
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