I talked to another of the company's drivers early one morning, and tried to recruit him to drive for the owner-operator that I was driving for. She's a careerist, and has driven for the cab company for 30+ years.
This fellow sighed, and said, "You meet some drivers, and you know that they know that this is the best way for them to support themselves. The rest of us are just doing this for the time being, until we're able to do what we really want to do."
He was a carpenter, and much preferred working with his hands to driving for the taxi company. But the Phoenix housing market didn't need his services as a carpenter at the time.
I had to give up the taxi driving gig last fall, when something more important came up... This is one of the things that I'm going to write about in the future.
And while the Arizona legislature half-neutered the so-called "ride-sharing" companies, it wasn't enough to keep their brand of economic cancer from metastasizing to affect us too.
I talked to another of the company's drivers early one morning, and tried to recruit him to drive for the owner-operator that I was driving for. She's a careerist, and has driven for the cab company for 30+ years.
This fellow sighed, and said, "You meet some drivers, and you know that they know that this is the best way for them to support themselves. The rest of us are just doing this for the time being, until we're able to do what we really want to do."
He was a carpenter, and much preferred working with his hands to driving for the taxi company. But the Phoenix housing market didn't need his services as a carpenter at the time.
I had to give up the taxi driving gig last fall, when something more important came up... This is one of the things that I'm going to write about in the future.
And while the Arizona legislature half-neutered the so-called "ride-sharing" companies, it wasn't enough to keep their brand of economic cancer from metastasizing to affect us too.
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