Am going to keep it short. Am 26 currently been working for uber and lyft. I got admitted into Arizona State University last year. My entrance exams included mathematics. I have always struggled with mathematics all my life and the most i can do is basic number sets and operations and that’s it. Please don’t bother recommending any way to improve because trust me i have tried. My mom is a teacher and a counselor and my dad was a teacher as well. All my siblings are well educated in math and they have tried and i have deleted my YouTube, Facebook, gym membership etc. to focus and nothing has changed and even fell in love with it but every time i would fall asleep during math’s class. Please please please please, if anyone has a good career advice or any solution to bypass this and get into a career that is rewarding and deserves my handwork, i will appreciate it. I’ve had no zeal to move on with life anymore because of am very ambitious, good person and hardworking. I wanted to plead to my fellow humans for help and that’s all i have before i make my next decision!
I’ll try and keep it short too, but I’m kinda bad at that.
Uber is a great move honestly. I’ve worked like 30 jobs in my life, lots of different jobs from farm work to food service to warehouses, design, consulting, writing code, ran little businesses. Out of all that stuff, which was amazing, being an Uber driver was one of the best jobs I ever had. If I had a car right now I’d consider doing it full time.
It’s amazing for providing cognitive surplus. All I have to do is drive, follow the blue line, and the jobs gets done. No anxiety about performance. But I enjoy talking to people.
Do you? I may have unwittingly made a wrong assumption let me know if I did.
Yeah Uber is low-status. And it gets old. Anything gets old and becomes a grind at least sometimes.
But it provides that cognitive surplus. You just drive around, follow the blue line, obey the traffic laws, all day. Then you get home and your mind has its capacity for decisions and creativity. You didn’t spend it all at work.
I’m gonna make a whole separate comment about my other point, but:
TL;DR: Uber is a great job, this coming from an adhd guy who’s worked like 40 jobs: boss is an egoless robot, daily social skills/conversation practice, job is dead easy leaving you cognitive surplus for your real work. And you get to listen to music all day, find out what you like