I drive grab on a part-time basis and I’m a student.

Here is the breakdown:

Breakdown:

Monday – Friday: 7-8am (sporadically as it depends on how tired I am), 6-11pm

Saturday – Sunday: 2pm-3am

Total gross fares per week: $1100-1200

Commision to Grab: – $240

Incentive from Grab: $230

Car Rental, Season Parking (school & home), Petrol: $320 + $50 + $200

Total take home after accounting for everything: $620

Counting the hours put in, I’m effectively taking home $11-$15 per hour.

Currently studying in uni and doing this to feed my daily needs.

It can get really tiring at times when you have to drive after school and sacrifice your social plans. Usually your weekends with family are also burned. Renting a car also means that you feel guilty on days that you don’t drive. Its a $40-60 deficit for everyday you don’t drive. And every time your car is idling, that’s money down the drain. Well, you do get the car for personal use but honestly for me, theres no need for that as public transport suffice. I’m just doing this for the money.

They say that the main perks of doing private hiring is the flexibility, but that’s hardly true anymore because of how you get incentives to drive during peak hours. Grab has been cutting down on it’s incentive, the rate is almost half of what it was last month. We’re talking about $200+ lesser every week. But you just gotta live with it and make do with whatever you can get until the drivers reach their limit and do something collectively as a community.

All in all, there’s still money to be made. Even more so if you’re a full timer. If you go full out, 8k a month is not out of reach. But how sustainable is it to drive 12-14 hours every single day? Realistically, a disciplined full-timer who dedicates 8-10 hours with 1 rest day can aim for about 3-5k every month.

Hi, I(16) had a gf(15) Our relationship was perfect.

I 21 F have been with my husband 21 M for 3 years. We recently got married. I’m currently 28 weeks pregnant.

Yesterday I was laying on the bean bag watching him play video games like I do most nights. I ended up getting upset by the way he was acting because he had been consistently being more cold and rude the last few days.

He noticed this after his match finished and asked “whats wrong now??” I was about to tell him what was wrong but I could tell by his tone he was already annoyed at me and was already being hostile. So I decided to just keep my feelings to myself.

He kept insisting I had an attitude and to tell him what my problem was, but I simply didn’t have the energy to argue with him. I couldn’t handle things turning into something bigger than they already were. So I kept saying I was fine I didn’t wanna talk about it. He looked away from me and mumbled something along the lines of “I’m so sick of this shit” with that we didn’t talk again and I fell asleep on the bean bag.

When I woke up hours later I was in the dark alone and he had gone to bed. Note: he never does this. We always go to bed together. Which hurt my feelings. But here’s why it actually mattered. I mentioned I’m 28 weeks pregnant. Well, it’s gotten considerably harder for me to stand up from low places. The bean bag is very low to the ground. He is very aware of this. He has to help me get up off the bean bag anytime I want to get up to go pee or we go to bed.

When I woke up I was very tired so I started to get up. I quickly realized I couldn’t stand up on my own and i instinctively grabbed onto the gaming chair to pull myself up. When I did this the chair flipped over and I fell onto my back onto the floor. It hurt like hell and I could barely move without extreme pain.

The sound of my falling woke him up and he came running and started asking me what happened. How did this happen, so on. I was in shock. My hormones took over as I started crying and honestly I blamed him for it. He left me knowing I couldn’t get up safely alone in the dark over something so petty. So I just yelled “f you” he started belittling me calling me a child and saying I was stupid.

I told him I was going to call my mother to come get me and he took my phone from me. He refused to give it back. I sat on the floor crying in pain, yelling for him to give me my phone for about 15 mins while he insulted me and yelled at me.

Finally, I decided to try to pull myself back up onto the bean bag to find some kind of relief. But this was very painful. (Noticeably) He leaned down and started to try to grab onto me and pull me up. At this point I was so done and disappointed with him and I repeatedly yelled do not touch me. Do not touch me. He continued. I kept trying to push his hands off me but he started being forceful. So I did too. I started pushing his fingers back to get them off my body and make him let go off me and when I did this he slapped me across the face..

I was in complete shock. I froze. He has never done this before. And I was honestly so heartbroken by this. I held my face and cried as it stung. He started saying “I barely touched you.” I ignored him. He continued to belittle me and I once again told him give me my phone. He refused. Finally he gave it to me because he said “She’s not gonna come pick you up at 4am” and wanted me to be proven wrong. But she did come, and went off on him and helped me up. I was going to go with her, but I couldn’t because she and my family have the flu and it’s dangerous for my baby if I were to get sick. So..I’ve been stuck here with him.

The only thing he’s done so far is write me an apology letter. But I honestly can’t get past this. Idk what to do anymore. I can’t afford a divorce lawyer and he provides for us financially. I’m stuck.

I hate that I am annoyed with happy couples.

In fact I strongly dislike them. I know its because of jealousy and because it’s something I envy but it doesn’t stop me from feeling this way.

This evening I was at a dinner with multiple couples for a friends birthday. The only other people not married were me and my gay friend.

Long story short, there was lots of complimenting couples and romantic stories, and me sitting there thinking in my head…I wish I was loved like that or that someone thought I was special or that they knew I was the one for.

Instead I threw I pity party for myself, in my head, about how I’m a divorced failure and how no one will ever truly love me for me.

I hate myself for feeling this way along with hating myself in general.

Netizen’s comments

At least you have a friend who invited you to their birthday party <3 A lot of people don’t even have that.

My (29F) mum (50) has been ‘seeing’ this guy D for a couple months.

She lives with my older sister while she works. I found out about my mum and D through my sister even though my mum had told her not to say anything about them to any of us siblings (there’s 5 of us).

I have never met D and only know little about him from what my sister tells me. A few weeks ago I went to town for a girl’s night with my friends I invited my mum along since I hadn’t seen her in a while and wanted to catch up while I was there.

By this time my sister had told my mum that I knew about D so I specifically told my mum it was a girl’s night we were not bringing partners. She was super excited and was like yep definitely just girls. So we go to our first cocktail bar and we’re having a good time singing karaoke and I notice this guy hanging out by my mum but walking away when I would come back to the table and one of my friends even mention like “hey I think that guy is flirting with your mum’ and we have a laugh and carry on then we go to the next bar and 15mins later that same guy is there with my mum again so mum and I are in the bathroom together at one point and I’m like ‘hey, is that D?’

And she was like yeah I told him where we were.

I was like mum it’s a girl’s night!! We didn’t argue or anything she just giggled and walked back out to him and I carried on karokeing with my friends and mum. I was getting drunk and having a good time and didn’t think it a good time for introductions with D so we didn’t meet that night.

Anyway fast forward 2 weeks to last night and I rang mum to ask if she could make some food for Christmas (I’m hosting Christmas this year so all my siblings families and mum are coming and all though I will be providing the whole main courses I have asked each family to bring a dessert) anyway I call her up and she says oh yeah D and I will bring a steam pudding.

I was like hold on a second D is not coming. She asked why and I said well I know very little about him considering you’re keeping him a secret from us this whole time and the only thing I do know about him is that he crashed our girl’s night.

I just don’t think Christmas is the time to meet this guy you’ve been seeing for only 2 months. Maybe you guys could host a BBQ in the new year and we’ll come to that and meet him. She then said she wouldn’t come to Christmas cause he’s not invited and I’m an A-hole cause now she’s missing out on Christmas with her kids and grandkids because I won’t let him come too.

I am in love with two women and I want to marry both of them.

Now please before you judge me for possibly cheating on both of them well it’s kinda complicated. So it all started when I met my first girlfriend let’s call her Cay (name changed for privacy purposes)

we dated for close to 2 years on and off before she completely blocked me out of nowhere

after she blocked me, I waited for her to respond. days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months and almost 8 months went, and during that time I started dating my second girlfriend let’s call her Mel (her name also changed) and honestly I was happy to finally found love again after my heart got shattered pretty much when Cay blocked me.

While I was dating Mel (5+ months since I started dating Mel) suddenly one day I got a ping on my social media there was a message from Cay.

she proceed by saying sorry that she blocked me out of nowhere then she told me why she blocked me. I got to know her family was not happy with me dating her so she had to block me.

Well I had mixed emotions when I finally did receive a message from Cay. Since now I was dating Mel I politely told her that I am dating someone else now.

She accepted the fact that I have found love again and we can’t be together. But I guess faith had other plans for me.

Months following this conversation my life took a bit of a turmoil in regards to my relationship with Mel we started arguing a lot mainly because I wanted to settle down with her and she was not ready for that.

Honestly I watited for 1 year + just to give her time to think but to my dismay she was still not ready to get settle down with me.

I finally told Mel that I need a break it’s not working out. A month after I broke up with Mel I felt like texting Cay asking what she is up to.

She was excited to see my message she quickly replied to my message she also confessed that she tried dating some people but she always had deep feelings for me so those other relationships never really worked out for her so she asked me to rekindle our relationship.

As I had the same feelings towards Cay and I recently broke off with Mel I had no reason not to get back with Cay I was honestly happy knowing that Cay still had deep feelings for me we started dating again.

Between June and August I got a text from Mel asking how I am I told her as usual that I am fine also told her that I really wanted to settle down with her.

She told me she wasn’t ready and still isn’t ready to settle down with anyone. I respected her decisions and ended that conversation there.

While I got back with Cay I was frequently getting texts from Mel as well even though she wasn’t ready to settle down she told me she loved me and she wanted us to get back together, although I should have said no since I was with Cay, but I said yes instead since I too had feelings for Mel.

and from then point on I am dating both Mel and Cay.

Well I honestly love both of them and I never had the courage to tell them about this mainly because I always thought this would break their heart.

Now years later I have gotten so further in the relationship with both of them that I feel like marrying both of them.

I know this means telling them about me dating both of them but I am willing to take this risk before I regret not taking it.

I understand that It might lead to them breaking up with me but I still feel like now it’s time they should know.

Is it even allowed for the supervisor to put me on a 7 work days shift when I am only supposed to do a 6 work days shift?

Basically I am new to the job, and the supervisor put me on a 7 days work week from Thursday to Wednesday with the following Thursday being my off.

I did asked my supervisor and he said that the first week (Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun) is considered a week hence i only did 4 work days then Mon, Tues, Weds is considered the second week.

But I am working 7 days straight shouldn’t I get my off within that 7 days? (there is no OT pay oso)

Netizens’ comments

1. Your supervisor is allowed to do so. It is also possible you might even get a monday off, then sunday off in the next week, making you work 12 days in a row.
2. Ya the logic is not wrong

1 day a week off, surely will hv times work 7 days or more then off

1 week is from mon to sunday, not calculating 7 days from whichever day you start

as long as from mon to sunday, 1 day off, is it legal and correct

sometimes they need manpower may schedule longer consecutive workdays, 1 time i worked for 2 weeks straight lol, but the following week will compensate the 2 original off days, meaning 3 off the 3rd week. They will discuss w u first, if really cannot then say no.

if you dont like the schedule, find a 5 day work job or another job, there are alot of jobs now.