# Start Lyft Work. Any advice?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-lyft-work-any-advice/973968>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 29, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-lyft-work-any-advice/973968 "2022-10-29T16:03:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2022, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-lyft-work-any-advice/973968/21 "2022-12-24T00:40:12Z")

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A surprising article on how small a percent of customer payments go to the driver, only 52% for this driver over the course of a week:

> **[I drove for Lyft for a week and learned its business model is broken](https://www.fullstackeconomics.com/p/i-drove-for-lyft-for-a-week-and-learned)**
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> Lyft charged one of my passengers $59. I got $16.52.

Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor: how is the Instacart job doing?

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-lyft-work-any-advice/973968/22 "2022-12-25T13:49:10Z")

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Never done instacart.  
I’ve driven a little for Uber Eats.

uber has way better software than Lyft.

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