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Business › Re: ......MOBIL 1 5w30 IS NOW FOR AVAILABLE.... by dru23(op): 9:18pm On Jan 22, 2020
Seunbukola187:
I need the oil ooo. The car is toyota corolla 2008
Sorry bro 5w30 will be available Feb ending.. But 08 Corolla oil filter made by Toyota for you at a discount prize of 1500 naira. Those 08 filters are hard to find in the market o .....
Business › Re: ......MOBIL 1 5w30 IS NOW FOR AVAILABLE.... by dru23(op): 8:51pm On Jan 22, 2020
Seunbukola187:
Good evening Mr dru23. Please do you still have the 5w30 pil available and oil filters? I need one ASAP please. I'll wait to hear from you. Thanks
Good evening bro. Am out of 5w30. But 5w20 full ground. And I have filter.. Can you tell me your car specification so I can know if the filter I have will match
Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 9:21am On Jan 21, 2020
Prince3:
E done do for una. I no ask for ur help. Better person, Mtcheew. Too much of everything.
I have nothing available for now bro ....
Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 9:37pm On Jan 20, 2020
1daboi:
dru23 abeg help my brother even though we dont agree sometimes. Thanks in advance
Just because we disagree, does not mean we can't do business if the business is right for both parties.

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 9:25pm On Jan 20, 2020
gunzANDroses:
Bros please call somebody else but certainly not coscharis. I listened to a radio show sometime in the past sponsored by fidelity bank, I think. The guy couldn't even explain how he grew his business. He just rambled from beginning of the show till the end.

He talked about his first business how he moved about carrying scale. He charged a certain amount of money to check your weight. But he just couldn't talk about how he transitioned from one stage to the other.

Go online and you could easily find stories of how Steve Jobs, Mack zuckerberg, Ray Croc(McDonalds) transitioned.

But since we are here talking about building from ground up, aunty radu the stage is open, oya collect mic.

What were your humble beginnings like?

Where my pop corn!? I trust you won't disappoint.
Well the point of my argument is successful people started from somewhere. Even Pablo Escobar started from somewhere, he didn't just wake up one night and became rich. But the man that my post was directed to ,just wants to be rich over nite with out putting in the work.. He wants to start from the top not the bottom. And even Gazzuzu started from somewhere, if you are not willing to do the work that others don't want to do. You are not ready to do business.
There was a friend of ours back in school. Any job he does whether nay security or retail any job that some of us didnt want to do . The guy will do it and do it, when he got a 9 to 5 job at the office . He applied those same wrk ethic and he became a manager.. He left that company to go to another company. And now he travels around the world. So if you can't handle menial job at early stage of life, how would u handle the big ones ..
Autos › Re: ASK GAZZUZZ by dru23(m): 5:58pm On Jan 20, 2020
mistamexzy:
Oga Gazzuzz, please can you recommend any Nigerian used car for 1m for Uber, My first pick was a 2008 Honda CRV, and Secondly 2003 Lexus ES300, I'm leaning towards the CRV because of the bad road challenges I might face. Can you please give me your opinion.
Oga gazzuz say make I lecture you.. My personal opinion say away from naija used cars.. At least 40% of them are abuse from bad engine to engine shorten oil.. It will become a money pit ...
But if you decide to go for naija used, have it in the back of your head that you are taking a big risk .And be ready to deal with the outcome of your choices ..
And apart from that those cars you mention are not good for uber.. Either focus on a civic 03 to 05 or the almighty Corolla.. But with your budget a Corolla is not visible. So with a little more money go for toks civic and you can get a good one between 1.3m naira to 1.5m naira.
Autos › Re: ASK GAZZUZZ by dru23(m): 5:51pm On Jan 20, 2020
GAZZUZZ:
Dru23 in your free time kindly lecture. Thanks
Ha .. You dey give me wrk be that o
Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m):
hefelove:
Abeg help your bodyguard too na he has been shouting he needs car too

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 11:42am On Jan 20, 2020
hefelove:
Sometimes dru23 go talk like person wey don hustle like mad carry pon pon for head before before he kan below, at times baba go talk like say dem born am with diamond spoon and he no even work at all like say he no know wetin dey happen for street, I go Kan begin dey wonder grin even mummy radautowork sef dey confuse sometimes sef, but he be like say baba don give Felicity car o this one way I no dey him Comment

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 11:36am On Jan 20, 2020
hefelove:
Sometimes dru23 go talk like person wey don hustle like mad carry pon pon for head before before he kan below, at times baba go talk like say dem born am with diamond spoon and he no even work at all like say he no know wetin dey happen for street, I go Kan begin dey wonder grin even mummy radautowork sef dey confuse sometimes sef, but he be like say baba don give Felicity car o this one way I no dey him Comment

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 10:47am On Jan 20, 2020
tunlapapa:
The bold is the main issue here. Why would someone be satisfied with minimum wage that has no future?

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 10:47am On Jan 20, 2020
lograr:
I hope you get a car quick so you will know what's up.

But dru abeg help this guy na.
Am trying to do so much with little time... I will see what I can do ....it is not easy at all, but it will be easy IJN
Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 10:44am On Jan 20, 2020
calabardick:
I'm so sorry about that, I use a windows phone, whatsapp shutdown on Windows phone on January 14, 2020
We can communicate on Telegram for now, as soon as I'm back I'll get a replacement.
Don't worry I wait till your whatapps comes back on . And worse comes to worse I will call u up ....
Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 10:40am On Jan 20, 2020
tunlapapa:
I never used to believe that there were trolls on the internet not until when I witnessed him.
He is so keen about protecting his investment by coming up with different monikers
. Audio Rich man that won't invest where he got his money.
The peanut he is getting from the USA that gets multiplied when he comes to Nigeria is what making him to feel he has arrived.

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 10:36am On Jan 20, 2020
Ogbunigwe2018:
Take it easy embarassed

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 12:32am On Jan 20, 2020
lograr:
It's very clear you don't do facts findings.
What part of ' I think is 40k naira a month ' you don't understand? . Seems to me you getting ' I think' and 'facts' .. All mix up ...
Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 12:03am On Jan 20, 2020
Gentlelife50:
In all everybody is right after all, we are here to share our experience.
Just that he's over hyping this Uber Job, just ask about the job he will tell you the job is very good that even his audio female drivers are doing well.
He have become Nairaland Uber consultant according to my man, funny enough I learnt he doesn't even know how to change gear.
grin

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 11:58pm On Jan 19, 2020
Gentlelife50:
My brother the thing tire me oooo, he wee jux be running mouth here up and down posting Yeye memes.

I laugh when they say save, no be person wey chop belle full, feed his sizable family go fit save.
Sorry I had to repeat this meme again.. It fits the
''yeye" narrative so perfectly....

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 11:55pm On Jan 19, 2020
DonJoeSneh:
Sorry ooo, no wonder you are still poor.

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 11:53pm On Jan 19, 2020
tunlapapa:
Don't mind that one that talks like he knows all. What he fails to understand is things are going his way doesn't means those driving are beneath him, as no condition is permanent. I was an employer of at least 12 staff but situation changed.
This work should be a survival job to a next phase not to be done as a career as you will end up USELESS few years to come. They keep saying that save, save, save, but they forgot you can only save when you have extra. That is why this job is good for the young with lesser responsibilities.
I don't know what his problem is by asking people not to drive if they are not ok with Uber.

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m):
northbird:
A lot of times, we do mental arithmetic based on exchange rate.

If $500 dollars is wat you get driving full time on uber in d states per week, then its a low end paid job.

Cos you are not different from guys who flip Burger at restaurants.

The national minimum wage is around 11.8 bucks per hour.

So typically over there too, the job sucks.

Any forward thinking person must always regard Driving on UBER as a "stop-gap" and not an end in itself.
You need to be objective when you talk. Uber is profitable to some drivers in some cities . That $500 is your take home is after tax. A friend of mine does it part time in my city. He makes roughly that amount part time after tax a week. But the cost of living in my state is very high . According to my friend he said he can make $26k a year doing it part time . He has been doing it for years now.
Now that same $500.00 a week after tax will go a long in other states that has low cost of living like Texas, Atlanta just to name a few. But the amount of hours you put in other cities to make $500.00 a week is another thing itself. Just like any job you do, you have to look at the cons and pros before embarking.. I meet a fellow of mine that we work together years in ago in a luxury hospitality industry.. When I saw see him I was surprise. And he said he left the place that we use to work before. And he does uber full time . I ask him how is the business he said it is good. He said he likes it and I than ask him of it was possible to make $2k a week. He said yes and he drives at least a 2007 model Toyota Prius .. When I saw the car I knew this guy knows what he is doing, he was a smart guy. So each situation is different and to each to his own ...
Since uber partners are responsible for paying their own taxes to the government. They can easily deduct a lot of expenses compare to the 9 to 5 guys.. So a person making $1k a week can easily take 70% of that money home each week after setting aside is tax .. Nobody is going to hold your hands in these life . You have to figure it out on your own accord
Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 7:24pm On Jan 19, 2020
Gentlelife50:
Expected as usual, and your little brain never told you their is always protests against ehailing apps everywhere. If so why?
If it's that favourable why are they protesting?
Why are you not telling them to quit?
Oga borrow yourself sense oooo, like someone mentioned the other time we always complain about the situation of the country.
So that means we all should be asked to leave and look for another country abi?

You always compare Uber drivers with government workers, are they truly better than these government workers?
They train their kids in school up to university level, some even build house and did other stuffs.
How many of them sleep outside like outcasts, as if they don't have house and families to go to?
They also have retirement plans in some cases and have access to loans, HMO s and the rest.
What does Uber driver have? Nothing, not even insurance of any sort.
If anything happen they will deny you and say you were not working on the app when it happened.
Besides their is kinda stable, Uber driver may not have a car to drive tomorrow what becomes his fate, u go just dey talk choo choo choo.
Na only get the thread, u sabi everything.
You guys even called people that liked angryigbomans comments fools and idiots as if that makes you better.
Mtchew

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 3:19pm On Jan 19, 2020
dckng16:
Mental hardwork and hard labour. Hard labour is what me and Oga Dru are emphasizing on.
My brother work na wrk whether hard labour or mental labour.. The most important thing is to make the best out of it ... People that work in the oil rig na hard labour and very d's dangerous job .. The pay is good and it will tell on your body .. But again the smart ones will do it for few years save money and move on to better things ...Some will use that job as a steeping stone to move on bigger things....

Funny enough I was on YouTube watching Bloomberg business segment... And Aliko Dangote was been interview.. The interviewer ask how he was able to set up the refinery project.. He said he started with importation of cement and importation he wanted to set up cement factory ... So with the money from importation he was able to build his own cement factory.. And he said from there he was able to set up the refinery.. Everything is done by stage and plan.

So if the Uber driver plans very well , he can save enough money and buy his own car . And before you know it he will save enough money buy more cars and employ people to drive for him .. There are many successful stories like that, take Chocharis for example no be menial job he was doing before he got to where he is today....

And at the early stage of Uber five years ago. There is an uber driver name Ogunvick and a guy called Romeo. Those guys started as drivers and before you know it they were managing cars for a lot partners they were going to the North buying Peugeot cars .. They manage cars for far back from the North. They will buy the cars from the North drive down to Lagos. They employed drivers manage them etc . At one time these guys had about at least 10 cars under them .. But due to only God knows the business fail due to some shady things among the two partners of the business.. One partner register the business and made the other partner think that he is also a co owner of the business.. Some crazy stuff was going on sha ....it was crazy...... So my point is whether na labour job or mental job you dey do. Na you know your own goal and plan.. Nobody go hold your hands o .. Another example, you will see some of these Igbo boyz selling parts. Some of them will start with a small shop selling parts. Some will even sleep inside shop, before you know it that boy has open up his own warehouse shipping containers of parts. So my brother am done for these topic ..no be mouth person fit they talk everything o .. If you know ,you know ....as we dey type and post up and down . Some uber drivers are making money and planning their week on how to make more money o
Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 2:49pm On Jan 19, 2020
northbird:
.

Civil service.

N what do they do in the civil service,

Have you been to any govt ministry before n watch the way they work.
Lol some of them don't even work at all . Samething in samething in some government jobs in Yankee.. Some get paid good money and their attitudes toward wrk make you want to slap the taste out their mouth... And the ones with low pay, will just continue working till they are ready for early retirement
Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 1:13pm On Jan 19, 2020
dckng16:
Oga dru calm down. That $2000 you heard isn't the real cash 0! you didn't factor in taxes and expenses. By time you do plus and minus the money can't be more than $500-$700 cash at hand.

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 1:12pm On Jan 19, 2020
dckng16:
yeah. But...
Maybe you should start robbing banks and doing 419 .. You want to walk before you can crawl ... Everybody wants to be a boss. But they don't have the guts to do it
Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 1:09pm On Jan 19, 2020
dckng16:
Oga dru calm down. That $2000 you heard isn't the real cash 0! you didn't factor in taxes and expenses. By time you do plus and minus the money can't be $500-$700 cash at hand.
Whether na real cash or not .. I don't make that in a week before taxes. But after tax and expenses it is still good money. But at the same time you are putting a lot of hours.
Seems you want me to hold your hands and explain to you. People making that type of money, have a strategy in place .. The smart ones will do it for few months or years and quit . And move on to better things, the smart ones will go to the auction buy a Camry for $2000 and use it to be Uber. The smart ones are avoiding buying expensive cars for the job . They understand the wear and tear that comes with the job... do you still want me to hold your hands and explain more ?
Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 12:52pm On Jan 19, 2020
Gentlelife50:
Why is Uber on number 1?
grin

They say it's they best job a man can get oo
But the funny thing is you still driving..... What is the Nigeria minimum wage now ? I think 40k naira a month .But am sure u make double that in a month doing Uber
Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 12:51pm On Jan 19, 2020
dckng16:
Nnwanne U re on point. Don't mind them. SOme people want to live all their lives in this world SLAVING and building another mans business. They are never thinking they could own companies.

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 12:47pm On Jan 19, 2020
dckng16:
Bros which kind strategy ? grin.
Strategy my brother .. If you can think outside the box ..keep in mind nobody is going to hold your hands and tell you how to make money o .. Few will be kind enough to show the road .. But that is where it will stop ,it is up to you to know what to do .. As people complain about Uber in naija ,so they are complaining in the USA. But the complainers on both sides are still driving and getting up in the morning driving...
Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m):
radautoworks:
Number 6 will REALLY piss some people off ;[/b]D

https://millennialmoneyman.com/driving-for-uber/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/uber-lyft-drivers-job-advice-car-2019-8

For the link below, yes it's in $ but if you factory in the cost of living I was quite surprised to see it is right on par with what you guys post kiss number 11 too una no go like am
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2017/04/23/11-things-to-know-before-becoming-an-uber-or-lyft-driver/
The fact of the matter is you can't be your own boss working for anybody. No matter how big or small the company is,this is reality I don't see any reason why anyone should be piss off for. To be your own boss you need to pay the cost. You need to start somewhere ,even criminals like Pablo Escobar started somewhere and grew to be something big. Yes he might be a bad example, but he started has a petty thief and move on to bigger things..

From my experience using Nigeria as an example. From the gateman, driver, maid, mechanic, sales girls etc all want to be bosses without putting in the work. but many don't have the discipline to do it.

I also mention that not every city in the USA that Uber is profitable for drivers. Some city are really bad ,but my city seems to be good . I have friends that do it and make money from it .. So it depends on how you approach it. A lot of college students do it and matches with their own schedule.. Also majority of people in the USA do Uber because of the flexibility it gives and they can have more time to focus on better things.. So in their own little way we can call them bosses. They dont have to punch in or out or work holidays. But if Uber can adjust their fares that will be more favorable to riders and drivers, I think that will be great. But if not , people wil continue driving. I was even told that you can make $2000 a week doing Uber. I was shock and didn't believe it . And I ask few of my friends doing it . And they said yes, but you have to put in that work ....
Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by dru23(m): 8:14am On Jan 19, 2020
mrjaydee:
Dru is that you with this moniker

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