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IMO, there is a reason these delivery / driver services have extremely high turnover. While the hourly seems decent, you lose your ass in car maintenance, gas,

IMO, there is a reason these delivery / driver services have extremely high turnover. While the hourly seems decent, you lose your ass in car maintenance, gas, and insurance. The wear and tear you put on a car driving around town all day doing short trips is quite high. That cost can often not show up for months, until it comes time for something like an early brake job. Then half your month's pay is just gone with a $1200 bill. I suppose that you can just put off that oil change and transmission service a bit longer in order to help pay for the brakes.

sokoloff 6y ago
If you’re the hustling type, learn to do your own brake replacement. That’s usually under $200 in parts for pads and rotors for front or rear and it’s an easy 90-180 minute task requiring maybe a $100 tool kit and $50 in jack stands. I budget 60-90 minutes and rarely run over, but I have a fast pump jack and air tools though I did them for years with hand tools and the jack that came with the car. Though it seems daunting to go work on your brakes, I think it’s actually one of the easiest and highest RoI jobs you can do on your car. Saving $1000 (tax-free) is like working an extra 2 weeks in half an afternoon. Then, consider if you could be doing the same for your friends for $500 (you buy the parts), so you win and they win. (This could be a direct option for your call center friend of course.) Offer not valid during COVID but I’ve offered people to come to my driveway and they change their brakes while I watch and guide as needed. It’s puzzling but I’ve seen only about 1/4 of people keep doing it after I show them how, how easy, and how fast it is.