Trip distance: 36.79kmEarnings: 1724.25 LKRIt was another Saturday. The first two hires for the day was just taking me around my residential area itself. I expected this to be a regular, or even possibly more boring, day.The fourth hire for the day directed me to pick someone from a new hotel that came up in Colombo. The name indicated someone ...
The week had been quite good so far. I had kind of figured out how the drive patterns work and what time of the day and what places in the city have reasonably profitable customers. When I got this booking from one of those areas somewhat quite early in to the night, I thought this was going to be just ...
(The term "junior" is used by graduates and undergraduates to refer to someone in a academic batch below/behind them.)It was a bit of a rainy day. I had decided to turn on my Uber app as usually on days like this, the price of an Uber ride goes up. This is called surge pricing. Some customers have later asked me ...
It was quite a rainy morning. We were going through the monsoon season, so this wasn't much of a surprise. I decided to start my day early.My first customer happened to be someone who was travelling to the domestic airport nearby. This was bit of a surprise because while it was technically a civilian airport as well, hardly anyone travels ...
The day before my first day as an Uber driver, I received an email and an in-app notification that my Uber account is active. My original plan was to start the new job on Friday or Saturday, but ever since I got the notification, the need to test it out was the only thing in my mind."Well, I will check ...
"And what would you do after you retire?"This was the question asked from me most often when I told people I wanted to retire early."I don't know, I could run an Uber." was my response.While I was never serious when I gave that answer, I think I always had it at the back of my mind that this was something ...