SOC 371 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Glass Ceiling, Tupperware, Lyft
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The new side job for actors and artists in los angeles: jacob bernstein. This is hollywood"s new creative underclass, where being a driver for hire has replaced waiting on tables as the preferred side job for the city"s underemployed actors and artists. Over the last two years, droves of them have gone to work for ride-sharing services like. Uber and lyft because of their flexible hours and, until recently, decent pay. But the days of actors moonlighting as uber drivers may be numbered. Two years ago, drivers for uber and lyft could hope to make as much as an hour, according to interviews with more than a dozen los angeles-based drivers. Today, with a glut of uber and lyft cars on the road, those drivers say that their average fares have dropped from. . 40 per mile in december 2013 to sh. 90 per mile for most trips after uber"s most recent rate reduction this month.
