u/GopherFawkes

I started doing Uber as a side hustle and was making such good money doing it, I decided to leave a decent 9-5 job to do uber full time because I was sick having to answer to someone and being forced to work on their schedule plus I was making more an hour doing uber, However my dumb self didn't factor in 401k, healthcare, etc. this was in my mid 20's. Now I am in my mid 30s, broke, single, and have no social life because this job has turned into a lifestyle because that is the only way to make a living doing this profession anymore.

I used to laugh at my friends who complained about their daily 9-5 grind and tried to encourage them to do uber instead, now they all have families and showing off their first home purchases on social media and are far better off because they were smart enough not to listen to my naive short sighted advice. On top of that Just about everyone I pick up now depresses me even more, they are either having good time with their partner/friends or clearly wealthy business travel folks all whom remind me how far down the totem pole I am in society because of my dumb decision almost a decade ago.

So how do I leave this lifestyle, like I am legit scared to job search and try to get back into normal society because I have been out of it so long, it just seems foreign to me now. Like also what skillset do I have to offer, no one takes uber driver or any gig job seriously so I might as well have been unemployed this entire time. I am sure I can get minimum wage job if I tried but that doesn't pay the bills and I doubt will lead me back to a happy life.

I need a job with healthcare, retirement savings, that will pay the bills, and most importantly give me the time and opportunity to work on me to try to integrate back into society so I don't die alone and sad, because right now any social interaction outside of uber is very foreign to me, but before I can work on that, I need to make sure I am financially secure. I have already wasted the prime of my life on this dumb gig, but I am hoping to not waste my entire life on it.

any advice? thanks in advance

So Egypt stripped stripped citizenship from 3 individuals, setting aside the fact I am not a fan of a country having the ability to just strip someone's citizenship away, outside an extreme extraordinary reason where they are an enemy/risk to the state...for 1 of the individuals they cited a "Citizens must obtain approval from the Interior Ministry before acquiring another nationality while retaining their Egyptian citizenship."

Is this really a thing? I am a naturalized US citizen and I definitely never seeked "permission" from Egypt to obtain my U.S. citizenship. I don't travel back and forth much, but I've never had issues, including coming to Egypt just this past March where I also obtained my first Egyptian I.D. in order for my family to take care of administrative paperwork post the death of my father. All without issue.

There are millions of Egyptians with Dual citizenships, there is no way they all got Egyptian government permission. Right? Or am I just naive and I am in risk of losing my Egyptian nationality?