Chris DiBitetto, 39

Chris DiBitetto spent a lot of the first three years of his commercial real estate career in the car. Not necessarily driving to check out properties with clients, but, as an Uber driver, shuttling people around Washington, D.C.

DiBitetto was an entry-level brokerage assistant for Colliers, and the first three years or so, he says, were a major financial struggle. He would cold-call for clients by day, sometimes using a phone book. Around 5 p.m., off came the tie and into his Volkswagen CC sedan DiBitetto went, armed with his Uber app and ready to take passengers all over the nation’s capital. 

Photo by Mark Wemple