Tonmorow I head out in a rental car down to Dallas Texas, the nearest large city to me where working Uber full time makes some sense! Per the usual, I’ll be living in the car, working a rolling 24 hour schedule, this means, 12 hours work, followed immediately by 5 and a half hours of sleep, 30 minute shower and another 12 hours of Uber, repeat until the end of the rental contract. As far as food, I stocked up on canned food from my fathers house, I throw a packet of water in the backseat, buy 3 cases of monster energy before my trip throw em in the trunk and I’m good to go! I sleep in the front seat, fully clothed sometimes I remove my shoes and socks, lay the seat back, for these days I may rely on melontonin, however, my last outing I suffered from sleeping through my alarm by two hours sometimes while doesed up on melontonin, if I can sleep without it, I’ll forgoe it.

A secured credit card for me is what makes this whole rental thing possible for me, as I have a very low credit score.

Currently I run an Open Sky secured credit card, that I was able to put $1,300 on. Because of my low credit I am barred from renting cars unless I use a credit card. The reason is this, when you rent a car, you pay for the agreed duration, so say $1,000 for 3 weeks, the rental company will place a hold on the amount agreed to be paid, when a debit card is involved the money can only be held for up to 15 days, so if one is renting for three weeks they will see the $1,000 return to their bank account as rental company’s are not allowed by law to hold the money for any longer. The fear is the person with bad credit who may have bad impulses when it comes to soending, will just spend the $1,000 and on the day of returning the car no longer have the $1,000 that was agreed upon. I have to rather embarrassingly admit I’ve done this exact same thing, back in 2021 I was renting a car for the first time, to get the best deal I rented for an entire month. I was not aware that after 15 days my rental money would pop up in my account, back then I was a fiend with my spending, so I spent it all not knowing it was my rental money, I hardly even noticed the mysterious increase in my bank account as I was too busy working and blowing my money, I was super depressed ok?😅 Anyway, when paying with a credit card, the rental company can place their hold indeffinenently, until the day of turning the car in, in this way, for me, they only trust me with a credit card. Sourcing a credit card was a nightmare for me, I had tried secured credit cards before, the highest credit limit I thought I could get was just $300, that’ll get me a rental car for a day at a hugely inflated price, as when renting cars, the longer durations typically bring the overall daily price down.

The Open Sky secured credit card, allows me to use my own money as credit, the credit limit of $1,300 is my own money. There is a major unforeseen drawback to the card however, and that is time between transferring my money from my bank account to the card, and then the time it takes for my credit line to become available to me after paying the bill, all this can take a week or more. This caught me in the open last week, as I had made a few payments on the card, including the rental car, so instead of staying on the road and updating my rental contract for another week, I had to return home and wait for my credit limit to replinish.

I’m fairly new to renting with Enterprise, I’m looking at $297 a week ( taxes included) + $300 refundable security deposit each time. My gas will be around $50 a day + $100 assuming I not only drive to Dallas but also return after my week rental instead of staying in Dallas and continuing my rental. I’m looking at around $750 expense for this week, not counting my refundable $300 security deposit. I expect to average at the worst, $150 a day, so around $1,050 a week with a potential profit of $300. I’m aiming for anywhere between $200-$500 profit while out on the road this week.

So what’s the plan? Well, being out of the game for a year and half has seen Uber fare decrease and prices increase a bit, the rentals are a bit expensive. My current plan, is to work around 4 or 5 weeks, no gym mind you ( maybe ) , and attempt to buy either a new or used car, my absolute ideal car is a Tesla, is that going to happen? Probably not, I may work in Southern California, and run the ( ROÍ) of renting a Tesla and then using it to do passenger Uber, if that works well I may not buy a car. Buying a used car will allow me to do less Uber, and instead focus on myself, 5 hours a day to business development let’s call it. Whether that’s education, paying for mentorship either here in USA, or overseas, or just working on whatever I got going now, which is currently my Onlyfans. Speaking of my Onlyfans, it’s just about completely dead, Onlyfans is a monster that require a ton of attention, like any business model really. My employee Darlene, from the philipines, has not been working for me for now 3 weeks, due to me trying to save all my money. However, I think I have worked out a plan, to I incentivize her to work on the marketing of my Onlyfans while I am driving Uber. Marketing for onlyfans, is very mundane, time consuming, in the least around 5 hours of work, I would rather just pay someone to handle these mundane tasks while I focus on other aspects of the biz. Historically I’ve been paying Darlene $5 a day, not even the best for the Philipines, I would like to pay her $15-$20 a day when I get my ahit together and money saved, which for her is a full time salary, really good money, would allow her to save up for college. So my plan is this, when I go out for Uber this week, Darlene will be fully in charge of marketing for my Onlyfans, I will pay her directly with the onlyfans, the first $300 my onlyfans makes is hers, after $300 we will negotiate a fixed percentage that benifits her while not draining my finances in a bad way. In this way we are both incentivized, she is incentivized to do a good job marketing to make more money, and I am incentivized to deliver or fulfill, so I actually make money and it not all go to her, the more to me, the better obviously. I like these kinds of incentives and psychology’s, as they force the best out of ourselves and our team. In the future I will have no problem breaking my hypothetical business into 100 small pieces and give them to the best on my team and sit back and watch while they take my company to a billion dollars driven by the incentive of owning more.

So, what’s the long term goal? My long term goal is to save $10, $20, or even $30,000, before I start breaking over every cent into my self development, from meeting wealthy people, to getting professional mental help not only in just the sense of correcting faults, but also paying people to help rewire my brain to be more efficient, so I can make better decisions more consistently. I plan on traveling the country, possibly the world, hopefully meet a partner along the way who’s values align closely to mine, but helps to push and bring out the best in me that I otherwise may not be able to access for the benefit of us both. I’m not at all opposed to setting up shop in a third world country, perhaps a construction business to start. I’m also not opposed to employed life, as long as I can potentially make around $500 a day, the only real route to this, seems to be high ticket sales, something I’m considering, as you can make similar money to what a business would produce, without all the downsides of running your own business.

Speed is king

Speed is king this time around, I’ve learned lessons from my last week working out here. I wasted a lot of time, between spending an extra 10 minutes under the hot shower, to ordering panda expresss for myself ( only once I swear) to driving a little too rapido and ironically missing my exits, spending an extra 10 minutes just getting turned around, to walking/ driving a little slow when looking for my customers adress in the apartment complex. Smooth is fast, as they say, I will move faster where I need to, and smoother where I need to.

X