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$50,000 per year for 70 hour per week works out to $28,571.43 if it were a standard 40-hour work week. Oh, and no benefits and you get to pay for gas and wear-and-tear on your car. So I guess if you're okay spending almost every waking hour working for peanuts and no health insurance, then sure.

Honestly it was more like 60 h a week and it's not so bad because that "includes commute", and also the schedule is really flexible (includes working around logging off for social events, for example). It was some of the least stressful years in my life, if for no other reason than I got to sleep in every day (not waking to an alarm ever).

Is that 50k after car depreciation, gas, and maintenance?

After gas and maintenance. Buy Honda.

I'm not calculating depreciation, but that's dumb, since I used the car I had (for about 4 years prior), and continued using it about 2 years after.

Would you mind telling us where you drove? I talked to an uber driver in Orlando who said he made a few hundred on a good night..

Sf. It's also very much about strategy.

I'd like to know the average, high and low as well as the median.