Byron J Siegal

The Rideshare Diaries (eBook, ePUB)

Riders Share Their Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

I didn't start driving for Uber because I wanted to write a book. Still, counting up till January 6, 2023, I've clocked 18,002 Uber trips, starting back in October of 2019. Along the way, I started talking to passengers. Many come in preoccupied with their phones or on a phone call-setting up a date, ordering tickets, calling Mom. If a passenger is free to talk, I ask questions. Where are they going? What do they do for work? How does their job work? If in biotech, what drugs are they working on? If an electrical engineer working on a NASA experiment, what part do they play in getting it into orbit?

I asked lots of questions and started to get questions answered. Patterns emerged about how passengers ran their lives. How they were actively successful in their fields and living successful lives. From the fifty-four interviews I conducted, I studied the turning points in passengers' lives. How did they deal with those anxiety-filled, sometimes dark, sometimes light, sometimes terrifying moments that made them who they are? I learned what passengers hold to be important. I created this book to tell their stories, to tell the arc of their lives, and to learn from them the keys to their success. This book has thirty stories out of the fifty-four interviews I conducted. Maybe there will be a book two! These stories inspire me. I hope they will inspire you too.

I've organized the book around the concepts that my passengers' stories manifest: how to be successful, how to be happy, how to know what you should be when you grow up, how we can save the planet, and how riders extend a helping hand.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Byron Jay Siegal
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798990449817
• Artikelnr.: 70635277

Autorenporträt

Byron Siegal grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts. He attended Clark University and received a bachelor's degree in 1971. He obtained an MBA from the University of Hartford in 1974. In 1978 he started with Ethan Allen furniture as a district manager for upstate New York and Canada. He was there until he decided to go to law school. He graduated number two in the class from Vermont Law School in 1984 and moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire to open a law practice. He practiced law in New Hampshire and Maine until 2006. During the time of his law practice he developed a jazz camp for adults which ran for thirty-five years. Participants came from all over the world. Along the way Byron became a flight instructor, CFII and a large part of his life has been flying for enjoyment. In 2017 Byron moved to Boston for medical reasons to be closer to the site of his clinical trial. That's when he started driving for Uber. Two months after the Uber beginning, the idea for a book percolated when he seemed to meet collaterally related people. In one two-day period he met four venture capitalists that invest only in biotech companies. One venture capitalist had invested in a biotech company developing a DNA strand to inject into the ears of genetically deaf people. A month later he ran into a researcher worked on drugs for deaf people. She knew the company working on a DNA strand, Akkuos. It was after these meetings that he decided to write a book.