A day in the life of a QSP

I just started. I have worked just 8 days total, and have only had 10 calls total in 8 days. Let's use today as an example.

I live in Montrose, Michigan. It a suburb of two nearby cities - Flint and Saginaw. The job listing was on Saginaw's Craigslist. Saginaw is about a half hour away. Unfortunately, the parts location isn't in Saginaw, it's even a little farther north - 45 miles north of Montrose, to be exact.

So, I wake up and have one call, in Sebewaing. I drive 45 miles to Freeland to my parts location. I then drive the 43 miles East to Sebewaing. It takes me a little over an hour, but then I have to run Dell diagnostics and that burns ~15 minutes of my time. Well, no more calls so it's end of the day, and back home. 56 miles South and West from Sebewaing to Montrose.

Total mileage travelled: 144 miles.

Qualxserv covers: 8 miles.

That sound fair to anybody? At ~25mpg and $3.25/gallon coming out of my pocket, that's $18.72 I spent in gas today alone.

$32 + $3.36 (qxs-covered gas) - taxes (which are probably going to just negate the mileage) = $32....

$32 - $18.72 I spent on gas today = $13.28. For four hours of work (2.5 hours driving, 1.5 hours labor).

So, today I made $3.32 per hour. Do you know many people who can live on 13 bucks a day?