Pretty personal stuff to put out there.

OP should cross-post this to r/TheExpanse

"Earned" is misleading where is the fuel costs and car insurance and payments how much does one actually take home

I'd like to see your viz! Can you share it?

What is this type of chart called?

Yeah, Kafka's one of the greats. Sometime during the summer, I decided to read The Castle. Then I thought that I should (re-)read all of his fiction. I'll probably need to re-read The Castle at some point though...

Happy that my visualization inspired you. I'd like to see what you can come up with!

I've seen most of the world. Seriously, I can't think of any place I haven't been that I would want to go. Life was super hard, but I always managed to travel.
The last 15 years nearly a million flight miles.

The collection of all info in one place is one part of the problem.

The other is that existing EMRs are receipts for insurance reimbursements, not true health documents. There's not going to be a standard way to code a previous abusive relationship.

A distributed ledger doesn't help with that, unfortunately the tail is wagging the dog and the centralized control lies with the insurance carriers rather than the providers. So the records fulfill their needs first and the patient's last.

I swear 20 years later we will pay $50000 for rent. And then we will start living in the office.

Amazing how little she spent on food and groceries combined.

Man, what a fucking life you’ve lived. Not sure if you’re well travelled, but maybe worth visiting some of the world’s historic sites.

The numbers are brutal, doing these types of jobs is not smart. Literally any other employment is a better option.

I can see some cases where the driver maybe have cognitive issues, or other things impeding their ability to work a regular job.

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If you take into account fuel, depreciation, repairs, your full hours worked. It's very bad.

They should, but people wouldn't pay it. And yea there seems to be no shortage of people willing to be paid peanuts like op here.

It's baffling why anyone does this. The one exception i see is on a bike for exercise and as a side gig, but if you have other income you'll get even more wrecked on taxes. Really, it'd just be for the few extra dollars and exercise.

Pepsi Cola: cries with regret

Visualized using: https://sankeymatic.com

Yeah, I’m with you. It just seems like a brutal job. Sure you may “be your own boss” (you’re not) - but after doing all the calcs, I don’t see how anyone doing these gig jobs made any money, let alone didn’t lose their shirts in gas, maintenance etc.

This sounds like what I do when I'm doing a keynote. I think to share the tool with a wider audience, I don't have that bandwidth. It's not a product or something I am selling, but something that I felt some people could use with their health care teams!

I just pictured a bunch of people running around like ants in terror and…I don’t really like what that did to me.

If this were a sci-fi series, your little game would unknowingly rain down stellar debris across millions of alternate universes, killing billions of unsuspecting alternate-us'es, obliterating our worlds, and we never know why...

I'd watch that.

No offense to OP, it's awesome you were able to work so many hours a day, but I do not think this would be worth it.

Delivery jobs like this basically trade automotive equity for quick cash. You may get $25 today, but you'll sell your car for $25 less (or spend an extra $25 in maintenance, or fuel) when the time comes.

I'm not sure how the math works out though, it may be better or worse than I expect.

Yea, these numbers are fucking appalling. Is this person in a developed nation? They must be right?

Like, this is absolutely fucking brutal. Even at his best, he said 20hr, dear god. Min wage is 15 in some places and is far less effort. And he has an average sub 10/hr for sure.

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I've stopped using these services, I always tipped 20% plus but the drivers were often brutal. I live on a street you cant turn left across, the app always accomadates for it. So many times these guys would ignore the app, couldnt turn left, and then just vanish. Uber is the same way, they often ignore the app, go by it, try to turn but do it on another road that doesn't get back to it, and they cancel.

I'm in vancouver, in the core of the city. Streets like this arent uncommon but I do find that 9/10 drivers i actually talk to travel in from the sub urbs to do this kinda work. Which means they are travelling to and from work for an hour plus.

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I had a guy working for me at 28/hr. He started doing uber, calls in sick the next day. Day after, im like what's up? He says, "I started uber and one ride from vancouver to chilliwack paid me 200!! So I'm quitting."

I told him that's all good, but he isnt getting that 200, that's what the guy paid. I tried to show him on the app, that he will still have to pay income tax, that was about a 160km trip, gas.

He was so happy though, said he was going to be rich. I wished him well, and off he went.

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It makes me wonder in general what people are thinking doing these jobs. The only way I see them working is if you're on a bike and you're also doing it as exercise and as a side job, although as a side job you'll get wrecked on taxes if you have any kind of decent job as well.

I don't see how the average driver/delivery person doesn't see how little they are earning.

LOL! Right! I mean, I was in pretty much a hell until I turned 40. But the last 10 years have been easier and each day gets even nicer. I think realizing that I wasn't a bunch of trauma but an actual survivor helped. Just seeing what we go through in a chart really helps, me at least, feel better about tough days.

Life is really hard. If I can help let me know. My phone number is literally on my website. My spouse is 31 so I really know how hard it can be when you're below 35 lately. Seriously, you're not alone.

I wish we could see people running and the after math.

Wow, the detail in this is truly impressive. Very well done!