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It depends on the kind of worker. For someone that relies on Uber or the like as a main source of income, it's not pretty. But if you're a stay-at-home spouse and you spend a fair portion of the day running errands, doing a little Uber work on the side can help offset your costs, especially if you're one of those strange people that actually enjoy driving.

[rconti]

I had an Uber driver on the SF Peninsula who works a day job just a few hundred feet from where I live (which is, I suppose, why he got the dispatch). He drove us to SFO.

Turns out, he lives in BFE (Tracy) and works 7-4. His commute in to work is fast (okay, as fast as a, what, 70 mile drive can be) because it's off-hours. Then he drives for Uber for a few hours after work, getting PAID to sit in traffic.

Then he drives home when there's no traffic! And as a bonus, sometimes he gets paid to drive someone to the East Bay or somewhere that gets him a bit closer to home, 'on the clock' so to speak.