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izzou:
Let me even help you a little. Vulcanising, Bus conductors, Danfo drivers all fulfill the conditions to your questions... But it seems we just want to get emotional and miss the point from the beginning

The challenge was to channel our energy to alternate models that will be better than driving. What is wrong with that? Or is uber driving the "best job" on earth? Aren't there 1001 jobs that are far more better than this?

I don't know why we all are acting so defensively as if someone touched a nerve.

I have a friend (not on nairaland) that I introduced to uber driving. Recently, he told me he's stopping this December. I asked why. He told me he needs to pursue his career in Procurement and whatever... That the driving isn't giving him time to chase that dream. This is a man with kids that is using it to survive, and doing well probably. What is wrong with his decision?

Stop being emotional sir. The people you're arguing with are drivers too. They won't talk down on something that they used to keep body and soul

lin3r2:
@Kodred while I understand your frustration, I am of the opinion that you didn't get to read @nitigriti's apology on this matter that you are beginning to make a mountain of. Please I beg you in the name of Jesus to just let this go. It won't make you any less of the man that you are. It is OK to see opinions differently but more mature to understand that opinions will always differ relatively to different people and no amount of arguments can shifts the other's viewpoint.
So, please kindly let it go.
Thanks in anticipation of your cooperation

mrjaydee:
Good morning fellas, concering the issues above let us just move ahead. We all see things from different angles. We shouldnt derail the thread.

Tojahh I'm with you for the hangout.
Nitigriti I used to write summaries too till I stopped, abeg I'm willing to learn from you if you can shed more light to me.

Also, are working this morning? Cos Uber is yet to resolve the fare issues, I still have about 3400naira pending in the air. What's the way forward?

nitigriti:
Go to sleep. Next time don't talk about things you don't know.

Motherfucker.

nitigriti:
Just so kodred will be clear I'm not lying.

nitigriti:
Let me just burst your bubble there.

I'm the one doing $650 a month writing book summaries on the side. I was describing myself.

I don't need to prove it; you can choose to believe, or not.

nitigriti:
You are very wrong my dear.
I'm not trying to brag, but I'm COO of the company I work for. All the perks are there. The salary is good.
Let me just leave it there.

I am fulfilled in my present job.

nitigriti:
You've been warned. Very simple.

nitigriti:
It's okay for us to have a difference of opinion. What's not okay is us shading or insulting one another. If you take me down that path, you won't like the clapback.

nitigriti:
So you are the person that will teach me to be humble?

When you've bagged pure water in a factory (120 bags an hour), sold gala in traffic, sold apples in traffic, worked as a Danfo bus conductor ... all as a graduate, then come back here and teach me to be humble.

And yes, all of the above were my hustles in the past. I have no chips on my shoulders.

izzou:
I think you guys are not understanding nitigriti

What he's saying is you can't build a career from uber. Uber should be an hustle to make ends meet, and then move on..

The guy you people are quoting had a job before he joined uber. If he wants to apply for another job, can he put uber driving on his cv?

ndubuis:
Guy, as a matter of fact, there are CEOs that do Uber outside of Nigeria. People do it for different reasons regardless of their status. You know what? I have a job and do Uber because my job gives me so much time that has been begging to be utilised. I found a way out of boredom doing this and it also puts good money in my pocket. My salary where I work has never been touched for over a year now. By the grace of God, my house would have been completed by next year because my uber hustle is helping save big bucks. So, when you say rise above the level where I will stop worrying about uber", I just don't understand what you mean. Uber makes things happen for me, therefore I get worried when that part of me is being threatened. You got a job and quit uber, some have better jobs and still do uber. That's the difference.

nitigriti:
Thank you so much.
There's a book I'm reading — It talks about the way Billionaires think. An example is that they think in the long term. They ask, where is this commitment [business] taking me to in 5 years?10 years?
If it doesn't make sense in the long term, they don't do it in the short term.

Guys, being an e-hailing driver is not a job. No one builds a career as an e-hailing driver. I did it for 2 years, but I can't place it in my CV. See e-hailing as a means to an end, not as an end in itself.

You guys can rise above the level where you will start worrying about Ocar or Uber or Bolt.

northbird:
yes, you are right, though somtyms I don't lyk ubers style,

why wud u send me 3km to pick a rider n eventually rider is just going around 3-4km too or just around d street laden wt traffic.

Most of dese apps think only about deir profits n riders( taxify is guilty of this)

Why am I using your app to drive in d first place? Ofcousr, to make 'Profit'.

Sending me all the way to pick someone, I get to d place, rider headed to ICM Ikeja, just across d street, end trip, #375, waited 20mins , no gbagaun. Or sending me to dose those rejected areas n not trying to find a way for me to com out with @ least a trip.

you know how cumbersome ICM is, you HV to park n go n sort deir parking shit @ n all.
Driving in traffic.
I wait in traffic for ONE good hour, engine firing on all Four cylinders , AC in collaboration, stereo in the background too. And all I get in return is #450 !

For one good hour of deploying resources.

This game is a stopgap.....Seriously.

izzou:
The last time I drove on Taxify..... If you set a destination, after some minutes, maybe 15 minutes, the app either tells you to go offline or set the destination again, or cancel it. So how can you accumulate hours doing nothing?

And secondly, like I said, even if he isn't driving, he's awake to keep setting destinations. At least, he isn't sleeping

And did you see he did 439 trips last month? An average of 14 trips daily for 30 days?

Okay oh

izzou:
How?

Can you make it very easy to explain? I know 15 hours online doesn't mean 15 hours of driving.

But then it means 15 hours of being awake. So Abeg help me explain

ofime123:
is this earning good in USA.

pope191:
Boss pray for Grace, I've never been scared like tonight, what I read yesterday won't leave my head... I had to leave lekki ard 6 and decide to come down to surulere. I check the map,ceko bridge seem to b better compare to 3MB with 20 mins less, that was how I took ozumba road, only to get stuck on eko bridge for an hour plus. Imagine the kind of tot of knowing I'll b going through that place, had to turn back at mariner and use 3MB.

izzou:
Which single guy?

15 hours for 30 days consecutively?

It sounds to good to be true

solid3:
I think Abuja guys gist more on Whatsapp and I normally see them around white House Wuse ii around 11 - 1pm gisting with may Toyota Corolla parked on the road.

mrjaydee:
True, the road is terrible. But I find way around am. Thanks bro.

Pope that information is confidential. But if we jam we go drink surely.

Coming back to Lagos tomorrow. Make I go scout for Oven.

Freshprince91:
2 oxygen sensors, complete fuel pump, radiator hose and serviced transmission engine with Mercron LV oil.
Chief, I tap into your offline blessings this month.
I'm really trying to get up as well, the little money i made before the car troubles started was spent on putting it back to shape, i have nothing put by at the moment.


Local man has been stucked in traffic from Sandfill down to Osborne road heading towards Gbagada, i might just slide house.
Today seems okay from a Lazy man standard. Been out since 6am.

solid3:
Is this thread only for Lagos guys cos I don't see Abuja guys here. Or are they too busy making money?

Freshprince91:
Morning elders, i took a destination trip from my crib to Awolowo road this morning and i got 2 requests to Apapa and Ebute metta, heard those places are dreadful. Make una advise me because i don't want to embark on a journey of no return or wey i no go get return trips for hours.

BAZ001:
Earnings flying up and down.
Hmmm... memories ...
gone are d days of Fa#rh#n and later Je#u#son20#0
Dru go dey support them like partners.

deedee44:
If the deal is good then HP is better. HP keeps driver on his toes, not everybody has a saving culture.

adsmaster:
Guys things are taking a twist.
The new car I got that got bashed on the day I collected it for the previous driver(the day I was suppose to go for uber and taxify inspection)
These was on Friday, so on Saturday went to panel beater, Monday sprayed it then took it to the office today because the fleet manager asked me to come. He said the owner of the car wants to see the car because of the recent accident complains.i went the guy didn't show up only for the driver I took the car from to call back and said they want to give out for higher purchase 1.5M to be paid for in a year.

That's N31,250 per week the car has not be driven up to a year they bought the car early these year my guy was the first person to drive it, not accidented car, the car is in great shape when he took it.. Even now it is just the two front tire, and the driver side tire hub.

Guys is it a good deal? Naija use 1.5Mto be paid for in a year

peeps4u:
Seems the drivers won.

fasa199:
Have you ever taken only 5k home for been online from 5am to 10pm

Luck plays into this earnings sometimes. 15k net daily is achievable but rare. Shikena

Y1nka:
Lol, chairman sir, u don’t calculate base on luck, but rather on what can be achieved averagely by anyone , repeatedly. But thanks for the contribution though.



@oga nitigri , you are a real BOSS sir, Shasha is where my family home is, but sadly haven’t been there in a while. Which we could welcome u when coming next on a red carpet sir!