It’s time to learn and adapt, I’ve worked long enough in my car while in Dallas to start to adjust how I do things. Out with the 24 hour rolling schedule and in with a schedule that actually allows me to go to bed as the sun sets every night at the same time, and awake at the same time every morning.
The 24 hour rolling schedule
The 24 hour rolling schedule, a complete failure, not on paper, but in my ability to execute it. When I first came out earlier this year to work in Dallas I adhered to what I called a 24 hour rolling schedule, and absolutely brute of a schedule that took my soul, my main source of income currently is Uber eats, Uber only allows me to work 12 consecutive hours before being forced into a mandatory 6 hour break, after the 6 hours of offline time has passed, I was eligible to work another 12 hours. This resulted in me, working 12 hours, and after my shift sleeping in a nearby parking lot, only to awake 5 hours later, head on over to anytime fitness for a shower sometimes a brief workout before hopping into the next 12 hour shift. I call it a rolling schedule because the time I woke up and went to sleep was never the same, even if one was to adhere to the schedule perfectly, it would begin to drift, meaning you could kick the schedule off by going to bed at a reasonable time, say 11pm but the next day when you would sleep it could be the middle of the afternoon, now adjust for any little pause throughout the day, going offline for half an hour to eat and relax for example and it becomes a completely unpredictable affair. Going to sleep and waking up at all hours of the day was complete hell for me, I was always dead tired, and would often lean my seat back to briefly close my eyes only to wake up 5 hours later, still on the clock for my rental car at the tune of roughly $50 a day.
On paper the 24 hour schedule works great, allowing me to work 15-17 hours a day, with Uber paying me on the low average of $13 an hour so around $220 a day. However due to my own weakness I was not able to make this schedule work, and I wound up making myself even more exhausted then normal which led to rather frequent events where I would pull over and pass out for hours at a time, or just completely lose a grasp of the passage of time, and sit for what would accumulate into hours of being zoned out. Cognitive thinking was nearly all but impossible during these weeks, so not only was I failing to work even a fraction of the time I had planned, I had also made myself a lot more dumb, and prone to bad decision making, such as ordering a three course meal from Taco Bell at 2am, eating the meal and then passing out for 5 unplanned hours. No bueno. Something had to change.
A new schedule
The 24 hour rolling schedule was a way of maximizing my entire day of working Uber, to work as many hours in the day as Uber would allow me, however this schedule suffered from a time drift that saw me sleeping and waking at every hour of the day, incredible exhaustion, complete loss of critical thinking skills, that led to bad habits such as blowing my money on fast food or going offline when I should not have been and wasting time while on the clock for my rental.
Two sources of income, technically 3
I’ve started doing Walmart Spark while on the road, in this way I can have a schedule where I go to sleep and awake the same time every single day. Technically I have three sources of income now, the first being Uber, then Walmart Spark ( grocery delivery with personal car) and finally my Onlyfans. My current schedule will look like this;
- 9pm-2am Sleep
- 3am-5am Gym+Shower
- 6am-8am Uber (3 hours)
- 9am-11am Walmart Spark (3 hours)
- 12pm-8pm Uber ( 9 hours)
15 hour work days, 17 hours on off days from the gym. Uber in the morning until Spark comes online, then spark and finishing the day off with Uber for a complete Uber shift each day ( 12 hours)
Walmart Spark pays similar to Uber, around $13-$15 an hour, however the work is more sporadic, so between orders or waiting for my first Walmart order, I’ll take advantage of that time to either eat or engage in direct sales for my Onlyfans. As far as onlyfans goes, when constructing a financial forecast for the future, I do not even figure Onlyfans into the equation, all proceeds from onlyfans goes directly into my savings… ideally, though when straddling the red line this has yet to happen.
Saving my way to wealth
Yeah right, currently the name Isaac and saving money are not compatible, especially out on the road, with the constant allure of “cheap” fast food as an alternative my canned food weighing on my fatigues sugar starved brain. The idea is that between Uber and Spark I should be able to earn around $200 a day, of which if I was to actually save my money, I should be able to save around $50-$100 a day.
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