I wondered if there was an appetite for a ridesharing drivers' community here.

No but now I'm hungry.

I stopped around last winter. It was always a part time thing for a little extra, but I got a raise so no longer important.

I tried it a couple years ago. Came to the conclusion that it wasn't profitable for me at that time, in that location.

I've thought about doing food delivery on my ebike for UberEats to make a little extra money, similar bullshit gig job structure.

If you're truly calculating expenses that include fuel and the wear and tear and maintenance of the extra miles, most people make little more than minimum wage or less.

Often less, because drivers spend unpaid time waiting for their next gig. And as contractors or "app based workers" they don't get employer-paid benefits such as health insurance and retirement contributions either.

Tbf the "waiting for gigs" thing isn't really accurate for the people that do it for their full-time job. A lot of them do both Uber and Lyft and will be actively declining gigs from one service while driving for the other. When you have a lot of positive reviews you get priority on rides, drivers in populated cities where people don't want to drive are making some pretty serious cash.

All that isn't to say that the lack of benefits and the like doesn't eat into that significantly. Just wanted to dispel the myth that there's nobody making a decent living off it.