![]() Yet after several months of pulling 30- to 40-hour weeks, and sometimes 60 or even 70, she found herself in the red, not only with the owner of her new Toyota but with her landlord as well. ![]() So she leased a car and signed up with UberX. “You’ll make plenty of money and have plenty to pay him and pay your bills,” Cantrell thought. The company had advertised that drivers could earn an annual full-time income of $90,000. Uber offered “freedom and flexibility,” she had heard. ![]() It seemed promising: She didn’t own a car but had a license and the willingness to learn the road. Through Facebook, she found out about someone subleasing cars to prospective drivers for Uber, the smartphone-based ride service. Jennifer Cantrell, 34, partway through a master’s degree in social work, had depleted her savings and needed a new plan. HOUSTON - One hundred job applications and still nothing. Editor’s note: This is the second story in a four-part series, reported and published with the Houston Chronicle, which examines the impact of Uber, the app-based ride-hailing service, on America’s fourth-largest city.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |