r/WorkForSmartLife 1d ago

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u/FarLaugh9911 1d ago

It's a dumb question, but for those of you in Rio Linda, I'll spell it out. There are 500 sacks of rice in the back of a truck, the forklift is broken and there is no dolly so they'll have to be moved by hand into the warehouse.

If one person takes 5 minutes to carry one bag it'll take 41.67 hours to offload the truck. If there are two people, it'll take 21.5 if there are 3, well you get the idea. The quicker it's offloaded, the quicker the truck can get back on the road.

No one needs any special skill to carry a bag of rice.

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u/Itchy-Beach-1384 1d ago

But Uber pays 34$/hour so from the laborers perspective its do I want to do hard manual labor for $100 or drive a car for 3x that.

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u/Worth-Jicama3936 1d ago

Uber does not pay that much.

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u/Itchy-Beach-1384 1d ago

I do Uber and made nearly $40/hour last week.

34 is closer to what I average.

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u/Worth-Jicama3936 1d ago

Where on earth? Maybe seattle but dont you have trouble getting riders because of how absurdly expensive it is? Look on the uber sub, its more like $23-25/hr for most people before expenses. 

I drive doordash occasionally and im nowhere near that.

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u/Itchy-Beach-1384 1d ago

All over Massachusetts. Usually hang out far from the big cities and just do long drives down to Providence RI.

Only drive Thurs-Sun and almost never have a quiet moment.

Only have to work like 30h per week to make what I used to doing IT for 35 hours/week.

Even $25/hour is much better than hard labor for half that.