When she’s finished for the day at her accounting job, Natalie Fleming fills up her car with gas and turns on the Uber and Lyft apps on her phone to signify that she’s ready to take riders.
Her full-time job pays well, the 26-year-old said, but she drives about 20 hours a week — plus hours spent doing the back-end accounting for a business she’s starting with a friend — as a way to make extra money and to pay rent and various debts.
“During the week, I probably wake up at 7 a.m. and go to bed at 11 p.