I did my 1099 on my income last year, me and my wife file jointly and we already over 150k combined. Taxes from uber and shipt (her side gig) were not even noticed, cuz our day careers are solid already.
I work from home. Trust me, gas when ubering is paid for from tips. Maintenance is what oil changes? If the car ever has any major issue, im trading it in and repeating the procedure.
As long as it aint your daily whip you running up mileage in. You good.
Gas for a weekend doing uber is 1 fillup.
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Even if you did this shyt 40-50 hours a week full time, you would win.
The only people losing is the ones who fail at math, and don't have entrepreneur business sense. The ones who drive around all day chasing surge, dont understand how to manipulate the surge to work for them. Who drive between pickups and not sit and wait. (And now Uber offers chain pickups, so wait time is down)
Wish I could switch my work at home job hours to get more uber in. I really like driving around, listening to music and getting paid.
Only thing I see better is Amazon flex cuz then no people, just packages.