| Comment | Private hire taxi driver. Started with one of the local firms and have since moved over to Uber.
Yeah, I enjoy it, but like most jobs there will be days where you hate it.
The best thing for me? I enjoy the flexibility. I have no schedules or rotas to keep. I can decide each day whether I'm going to go to work or not. I can decide each shift when I want to call it and go home. I can decide when I get my breaks and how long for. I can fuck off to McDonalds whenever I like. My work-life balance is pretty sweet in this line of work.
The worst things I have to deal with are belligerent drunks and belligerent morning commuters (I'm not entirely sure which of the two is worse).
Something nobody thinks about? I guess I would say that most people don't think about how clatty and filthy a lot of people are. I've have to clean up after selfish arseholes who give zero thought to the fact that someone else needs to sit there after them or that this isn't a fucking FirstBus, it's my actual car! Picking up used tissues, empty crisp packets, bitten off fingernails, random bits of paper, empty coffee cups. Every so often it comes time to clean out the magazine pocket on the back of the front seats... That's always a scary adventure. |
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