#taskrabbit works

[aplodowski2]

Anyone need help making life easier?

Need help with a task? Hire me on TaskRabbit and get $10 off your first task. Check out my skills: https://tr.co/andrew-p--151

[ragnarokhound]

hey wife. happy (late) valentine’s day!

Here’s a new crack jaytim scenario: Tim moves into a new apartment but can’t be bothered to build his bed frame. He hires a task rabbit and Jason shows up. Cue meet cute/dirty dirty sex/both/etc

Could also have an epilogue where jason hires a taskrabbit to kill the joker. It is Gotham, after all!

hello my love U_U it's been far too long - happy valentines to you too! <333

Oh my god. I hadn't heard of task rabbit before now. I'm delighted by this, it's so 'plumber comes to clean my pipes ;)))'. 'Task rabbit comes to build my bed, then [redacted] me until I [redacted] all over [redacted]'.

Tim's working from home, he's got this huge project that he's crunching for, but he's also just moved and hasn't had the time to unpack or anything. Handyman Jason gets booked by this well-off shut in, experiences a full 'bitch, you live like this?' moment that has Tim flushing in embarrassment but also indignation. 'Come on man i JUST MOVED'.

For extra goofs and a cuter, slower burn, their first meet cute is more a meet ugly. Tim tries to hire a different task rabbit handyman to come in for the bookshelf he can't figure out (he's got another deadline), then for the bathroom sink when it's suddenly fucked (no idea what to do, he could figure it out but at what cost), and then for the fucking hOLe iN thE CEiLiNG thAt oPEnS UP (they said it was an old building but COME ON) - but it's ALWAYS JASON. EVERY TIME.

By the third time, Tim is resigned to always getting laughed at behind his back by him, esp because Jason is good at everything so fuck it. FUCK IT. Meanwhile, Jason is thinking 'i can fix him' 'and also his apartment' every time he comes over. I like to think that the first time they kiss, Tim has called for help doing a two-man job - but not through the service. Jason gave him his personal number ;)

[beanarie]

I never wanted water once

Additional Tags:

Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Breaking Up & Making Up, Angst with a Happy Ending, Group TherapyImplied/Referenced Child Abuse, past parent death, Tommy Kinard Loves Evan "Buck" Buckley, Emotionally Hurt Tommy Kinard, Episode Fix-It: s08e06 Confessions (9-1-1 TV), Fix-It

Published: 2024-11-30

Words: 3,366

Chapters: 1/1

Summary:

Two weeks after leaving Evan, Tommy mentally checks out while grocery shopping and finds himself with the ingredients for keto-friendly focaccia. The dough feels wrong. The smell is off. It seems like all he's doing is building an abomination. But he drowns the whole thing in olive oil infused with thyme and tries a sliver. It's not bad. He doesn't want it and doesn't want to inflict it on his team, who don't have any dietary restrictions apart from one vegetarian.

He pays someone from Taskrabbit to deliver it to the 118 along with a couple of stromboli stuffed with pepperoni and salty cheese. He gets the tasker to write the labels, not trusting his ability to anonymize his own handwriting.

[copperbadge]

[ID: A poster ad in the Chicago subway for Taskrabbit; it reads "You're never gonna hang that up; never gonna take that down" followed by "Mounting & More" and the Taskrabbit text logo.]

For a subway ad there's...a lot going on there.

I again don't have photos of the work I did this morning so I thought I'd share that ad; funny to get rickrolled waiting for my train. I've been working on sorting bins to go to storage again, and honestly I expected this to take all week but I think I've got most of it completed. I still have a bin I need to sort through but that one is likely not to go to storage anyway; it's what I call my "trauma box" because originally it was a box of stuff from my last job, which I forgot existed for six months after leaving the job (somewhat traumatically). Realistically it's now just a massive bin of odds-and-ends I don't know what to do with, but most of them need to either be donated, thrown out, or stashed somewhere in the condo. There's also a full bin of paperwork I need to sift through -- old grad school notes, scrapbooks I need to digitize, and a collection of Marvel Comics trading cards I should probably take to a card store and see if I can sell.

Still, this morning I packed up my camping gear and grill bag, pulled down the bag of summer clothes I packed up earlier, and emptied out one of the two "sort through" boxes so now they're all in one box. I cleared out the other "under bed" storage box (the new plastic ones should arrive this week!) and set aside some more clothes to donate and put another few loads into the laundry to wash.

Probably for the best I topped up my account with the laundry room last month...

I'm pleased I kind of got back to "limit by podcast" levels of work -- I listened to the latest Criminal episode, "The Reverend", and I was just starting to feel a little scattered and overwhelmed as it ended, so I stopped for the day. I'll still need to change over the laundry and fold it and figure out what to do with some of it, but at least that's all I have left to do, and I don't have to worry about finding more.

[theambitiouswoman]

Hi, do you have advice for someone who's been a burnout for their entire adult life?

In school I did well in most classes, and was lucky to just about get into a law course in uni which I was interested in and excited about. But I ended up dropping out a few months in because of SA.

I've been dealing with trauma and depression, I developed an ED at one point too which I've recovered from.

In the last year and a half I've been in a better place, however I have no education or work experience despite almost being 25. Last year I tried to do an office skills course but got overwhelmed going back to school after years of being out of it and dropped out. The only work experience I have is the work experience I did as a part of this course which was just 2-3 weeks of working as a receptionist in a local office. I've been trying to look for jobs, but even specifically looking for ones where no experience is needed isn't helping. Even McDonald's asked me for a reference (I don't even have any friends who can lie for me because I drifted apart from my friends after falling into depression). It feels so disheartening when even the most menial of entry level jobs don't want me. Hell even an unpaid volunteer post turned me down.

I feel like I've already ruined my life even though I'm not even 25 yet. Especially because the girls I was friends with in school mostly have degrees and even the ones that don't have qualifications and jobs.

First, I’m really sorry you’ve been feeling this way. The fact that you’re still trying means you haven’t ruined anything—you’re just on a different timeline. At 25, your story is still being written. Forget timelines. Just focus on one small step at a time—you’re not as stuck as you feel.

You’ve overcome trauma, depression, and an ED. That’s huge. Comparing yourself to others makes you feel "behind," but life isn’t linear. Some struggle early and find their way later. Most important is to be honest with yourself and do things that make you feel good instead of focusing on societal standards.

What you can do next:

Get References without work experience. Volunteer informally (help at a small business, babysit, tutor, assist a friend).

Get work without traditional applications. Show up in person at local cafes, retail stores, or offices instead of just applying online. Target small businesses that don’t have strict hiring processes.

You can also focus on learning or bettering your skills. Take short, free courses (Google Certificates, Coursera, Udemy). Try gig work (Upwork, TaskRabbit, Rev) or sell things online. Look for temp or internship roles to build experience fast.

I don't know what interests you have in terms of career goals so it is hard for me to say. But all I will say is that in every space, there are many ways you can create your career and thrive that is not just the "traditional" route.

[hanhonymous]

Strongberry's first episode of "Sweetheart Service" is delightfully lighthearted, setting up my most beloved of tropes: fake dating. Easygoing Yooha (Kim Hunseo) needs money and works multiple gigs via a Strawberry (Strongberry??) app that is similar to Taskrabbit. Whether it's unclogging a toilet or posing as a nude art model, no job is beneath him.

He takes the job of pretending to be a fake boyfriend to a woman to blow up her blind date with the deliciously bespectacled tech bro Minwoo (Lee Jaehyeop), who can't be bothered to make a good impression either. We learn later that of course he's the eldest grandson of a wealthy muck-a-muck and thus has the burden of marrying in order to carry on yadda-yadda patriarchal bloodline garbage.

Before Minwoo hits upon the idea of hiring his own fake boyfriend to hold off his family, however, he decides to drink away his sorrows at a local watering hole run by dishy bartender Taeha (Jung Myeongcheol). As one does when full of alcohol and faced with a guy in a waistcoat wiping down a bar with forearms exposed, Minwoo asks for advice: Is marriage or dating worth it?

What follows is a the exchange that I hope will be an ongoing theme, which is using cocktails as metaphor.

Taeha:

"Drinks like water or soda are simple. You just drink them as they are -- no need to mix -- clean and efficient. But cocktails are different. Different ingredients mix and blend. Sometimes they clash, creating a story in each sip.

"I think dating and marriage are similar. When people who don't seem to match collide, mix and blend, they create a unique flavor just for them.

"Sometimes it's too bitter, sometimes too sweet. But when you find the perfect combination, you can't forget the taste."

The drink he's mixing is a grapefruit cocktail known as Salty Dog -- which also happens to be the title of the episode.

What I really appreciate about this is that when it comes to BL as a genre, I think sometimes overly saccharine storytelling -- with TikTok-worthy fanedit moments -- tries to pass as romance. But the stories that acknowledge the imperfections in both people and still results in a relationship are the ones that resonate with me the most. As I've grown older, my literal palate has also changed; now I have a taste for bitter (Fernet!)

Sometimes I don't need a metaphor to be belabored. Make it simple, straightforward and tasty.

건배!!

[sesamestreep]

it really is SO fucking annoying how people will tell you “just look for easy side hustles to make money while you look for a full time job” and you’ll search ‘work from home jobs’ and ‘easy ways to make money fast’ or whatever and every single list that tells you “get on this app and tutor people in English! No experience required!” or “work as a transcriptionist and set your own schedule!” or “drive for the latest delivery app and be your own boss!” and you go to apply for these things and every single website is like SORRY :((( WE’RE NOT ACCEPTING NEW APPLICATIONS AT THE MOMENT :(((( WE GOT TOO MANY :(((( and it’s like yeah, of course you did!! Eggs are $100 dollars EACH. Everyone who’s employed full time is doing “side hustles”, let alone everyone dealing with the endless slog of unemployment! Of course!! You can’t even be mad! They’re trying to ensure even in the smallest way that their independent contractors still make money (so they can take 20% of course). Like, yeah, there’s opportunities to make money everywhere but no one is making any goddamn money. So What’s the point??? The gig economy has ALWAYS been a scam but I fear we’ve reached the absolute bottom of the barrel here. There’s no real opportunity left for anyone. But no, I haven’t tried TaskRabbit. I guess I’ll try TaskRabbit.

[bitchesgetriches]

Hi Bitches!

I humbly ask some advice. I graduated college 4 months ago, and I've been living with my parents and looking for a job ever since. I don't have the best relationship with them, and my job search has been making me crazier.

I applied to jobs that are related to my degree (environmental science) through LinkedIn and government websites, I signed up for three different temp agencies, I've tried signing up for Taskrabbit/Instacart/etc but apparently there's too many people already doing that in my area, I've handed out resumes in person, I've browsed Craigslist for gigs, I've tried getting into clinical trials and focus groups, the only thing that consistently gets me money is doing surveys online and that's about a dollar a day if I'm lucky.

I feel like I've exhausted all my options and I'm not sure what else I can do. I've also got some personal stuff going on, and I just feel like I'm at the bottom of a pit. I don't want to burn through my savings, but with gas to look for jobs and get out of the house to keep my sanity, I feel like it's being whittled down to nothing.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! Thank you Bitches <3

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[aroaceineveryplace]

Name: Rabbit

Type: Web Series

Summary: An antisocial criminal bounces around Los Angeles doing jobs too embarrassing or dangerous for Taskrabbit. As he makes moral compromise, Rabbit must ask himself if he's really connecting with his clients, or just doing their dirty work.

Aspec Rep: Canonically asexual main character

[sterek-ao3feed]

A Handyman’s Touch

Read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/61604149

by Anonymous

Single dad Derek Hale struggles with an empty nest and a house full of stubborn repairs. Enter Stiles Stilinski, a TaskRabbit handyman with charm to spare and a knack for fixing more than just broken appliances. As Stiles transforms Derek's house into a functional home again, their banter and shared moments ignite a spark Derek didn’t realize he was missing. What starts with routers and bookcases soon evolves into something deeper, leading Derek to discover that sometimes, a little help is exactly what you need to rebuild—your house and your heart.

Words: 7036, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Derek Hale, Stiles Stilinski, Eli Hale (Teen Wolf)

Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski

Additional Tags: Domestic Fluff, Slow Burn, Single Parent Derek Hale, Handyman Stiles Stilinski, Empty Nest Syndrome, taskrabbit, Brooding Derek Hale, light humor, Banter, Sexual Tension, Happy Ending, First Kiss, Found Family, Implied/Referenced Sex, Wholesome Repair Montage, Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Pining, Stiles Stilinski is a Little Shit, Derek Hale Learns to Live Again

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61604149

[cesium-sheep]

like. my actual limitations for work are as follows:

no more than 1/2 day/wk at someone else's desk, commute must be consistently independently accessible for me

up to 12 hr/wk at my own desk, possibly more if they are task based instead of fixed schedule hours

recurring (not applying to a new one-off every week, so no taskrabbit etc)

no sales, no live remote customer service, no survey grinding, no coding (in person customer service might be fine)

no unqualified unsupervised tasks (eg being the only person who "knows" payroll software at the company when I've never used it before)

double digit hourly rate (so no mturk or transcribeme even if my accounts were still active)

these are very sensible limits given my current condition, which is still pretty disabling. I am not just being picky or talking myself out of things that would work well for me. I just have a very narrow affordance width.

[not100gays]

I don't really know how taskrabbit works, I don't super care

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[make-money-2023]

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1. Convert your passion into money

A tool to help support the creator economy and the gig economy, Festi is an easy, fast and free way to earn money. Using Festi’s payment platform, creators can charge for online classes from anywhere at any time. “For example, if you are a fitness instructor and realize you have an hour to work out at the end of the day (or the next morning), you can post a pop-up workout (in person or on Zoom) and charge people to join you,” says founder Rita Ting-Hopper. Two of the top users are Bolivian sisters Jaz and Gabriela, who post high-intensity dance fitness classes. “With Festi, you can turn any idea into a business by posting your offer in literally minutes,” says Ting-Hopper. “There is no need to create a website, figure out a payment system or chase down Venmos to get paid.”

2. Make music

Have some musical talent? Check out Songfinch, which makes it possible for anyone to earn money by writing and producing music. Founded in 2016, Songfinch is backed by big industry names including The Weeknd, Quincy Jones and Doja Cat. Here’s how it works: People can order a personalized one-of-a-kind song from a Songfinch artist, from birthday jingles to holiday tunes to anniversary odes. The songwriters work on their own timeline and retain the full rights to everything they create. Some Songfinch artists have been able to earn up to $80,000 in one year.

3. Become a virtual assistant

As a virtual assistant, you can offer administrative, technical or creative services to clients from the comfort of your own home. And guess what—it pays well. You can find virtual assistant job opportunities through websites like Flexjobs, 24/7 Virtual Assistants and Fancy Hands.

4. Write a book

Whether you’re burning to pen the next great American novel or just have an idea for an e-book that will teach someone how to do something, it’s easier to write a book than you think. Gone are the days of agents and book publishers. These days, self-publishing has become simple and profitable, thanks to sites like Barnes & Noble Press (a free service that lets you sell print or ebooks to millions of readers), Blurb (which helps you create, print and sell professional-quality photo books) and Lulu (a print-on-demand platform with free tools to help create, publish and sell your story).

5. Offer freelance services

Writing, editing, graphic design, coding, digital marketing, admin work—whatever skill you have, the options are endless when it comes to freelancing. But how to get the word out there? You can easily offer services to clients around the world via a number of websites that allow users to enjoy the freedom and flexibility of finding freelance work from anywhere across the globe to grow your brand—and your dreams. Some of the best online talent solutions for connecting businesses with freelancers include Fiverr, Upwork, Freelancer and Working Not Working.

6. Market your skills

Or perhaps your skills are more hands-on, from handyman work to cleaning to moving to home remodeling to something as simple as waiting in line. TaskRabbit is a platform that connects people with skilled professionals who can complete various tasks, while Airtasker is a company that acts as a marketplace for services providers. Unlike the traditional gig economy, Airtasker uses a flex economy model, with its “Taskers” working wherever and whenever they want and determining how much they want to get paid.

7. Share your internet bandwidth

Here’s an interesting way to earn passive income: Honeygain, an app that allows you to make money online by sharing your Internet connection. How does it work? Install the application and make sure that it’s running in the background; the app will do the work for you. The shared connection is used for various business cases, including ad verification, price comparison and brand protection. According to Honeygain, the company takes privacy seriously and uses various encryption technologies to ensure that the data being transmitted through the platform is safe and protected. Users can increase their earnings by adding more devices and connecting them to different IP addresses, adding referrals, opening a “lucky pot” every day and participating in social media contests.

[violsva]

OC-tober Day 10: In a different time period

Long weekend over, back to thinking about fictional characters at work. Original setting is spring-summer 1920, so here's a modern AU.

Tom is an actor, and also on a bunch of TaskRabbit type apps. He has a sizable TikTok following who he would like to think are there for the Shakespeare (they aren't 💪). Also he has one hell of a Grindr history.

(Alternatively Tom could be a teacher, which is what he would like to do in the original, but teaching in Ontario right now is such hell that I don't want to do that to him. ...So instead he's in the gig economy. Look, late capitalism just sucks for everyone.)

Tom probably actually met Josie first in this AU, when she was his makeup artist for something. She also does some grey-hat hacking of the kind security professionals call "social engineering" because that's the closest they can come to admitting people skills are useful.

Verry dropped out of college when her first girlfriend broke up with her. She works in retail hell (probably in the Eaton Centre), goes to a lot of protests, and picks fights with TЕRFs on social media.

Fred, on the other hand, hasn't allowed himself to use any form of social media since 2017. He's much happier this way. I think his family do know where he is but he's blocked all their numbers.

Tom and Verry are probably roommates, which means they may get along less well than they do in the original because Verry doesn't respond well to passive-aggressiveness. It also means she knows more about his slutting around (affectionate). Josie's in a semi-legal sublet/rooming house. Fred owns a condo because he's a privileged so-and-so.

[mariacallous]

Berenize, a 26-year-old child care worker in Long Beach, Calif., has struggled to find good work over the last few years. Berenize is highly qualified, trusted, and has always received positive feedback from families. But since the pandemic, she has not been able to find a job with consistent hours that keeps her close enough to home, where she is the primary caregiver for her two disabled siblings, and that lets her continue studying to become a nurse. 

Labor Day should remind us that many of the workers, like Berenize, who make our lives possible still work in the shadows, insecure when it comes to income and basic protections that all workers deserve. 

Berenize is a gig worker. She seeks what most workers desire: work that offers a flexible schedule, is suited to her talents and interests, and lets her tend to the other parts of her life. She also needs fair pay, benefits, protections against harassment and other threats, and the ability to speak up and be heard when problems arise. In short, she needs flexible work that is also quality work—what many with professional jobs enjoy. 

Berenize and hundreds of workers like her are partners with the Workers Lab in an innovative effort to make this kind of gig work a reality. Set to launch with government, business, and local community leaders in Chicago, Portland, Ore., and Oakland, Calif. this month, this effort will test at scale the nation’s first public tech platform for good gig work, which was initially piloted in Long Beach. 

The platform gives local leaders the ability to match gig workers with tailored work opportunities, and gives gig workers the ability to control who they gig for, when, and for how much—all while ensuring they have critical rights, benefits, and protections. Our initial pilot demonstrated higher hourly wages and worker satisfaction. It’s an example of how worker-centered innovation and experimentation can help us figure out how to make gig work good—and thereby make the economy more fair and inclusive for everyone. 

Gig work, defined as any income-earning activity outside of long-term, direct-hire employment relationships, is not new. It has existed as long as work has existed. We know that the proliferation of app-based work through companies such as Uber, TaskRabbit, and others has made gig work a household phrase. But gig workers remain largely excluded from the systems originally designed, early in the 20th century, to protect primarily white, male workers in traditional employment arrangements. 

Surveys confirm that across a range of age, gender, racial, ethnic, and other differences, a growing share of U.S. workers are seeking out forms of work that offer them some level of agency over their time. As the number of gig workers increases, so does our responsibility to ensure that they receive the same types of rights, protections, and benefits enjoyed by other workers. But with so many contested issues and competing interests related to money, power, politics, and the law when it comes to how gig workers should be classified—especially at the state level, where most labor policy gets made—it’s getting harder to see how that responsibility will get met, if at all. 

For example, current debates in Minneapolis, Washington, and Massachusetts, all coming after long and expensive battles in California, reflect an entrenched tug-of-war between business and labor interests that has made lasting and meaningful reforms very difficult to achieve. 

We believe a blueprint for good gig work—one that addresses public policy and business practices and that’s informed and designed by gig workers themselves—could be what moves the conversation forward, toward fair solutions. 

That’s why last year, the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative and the Workers Lab launched the Gig Worker Learning Project to learn more about gig work in partnership with workers themselves. It’s a participatory research project, meaning gig workers are active participants not only in sharing their stories, but also in shaping the questions, process, and analysis. As we organize conversations with a diverse group of gig workers across backgrounds, geographies, and industries to better understand their challenges, as well as their ideas about how to make gig work good work, a few themes are emerging. 

One is that many gig workers find meaning and take pride in their work. They just want it to be better-quality work than it is now, to be able to rely on their income, and to work in safe conditions. And they have many promising, and sometimes surprising, ideas about how to get there—which we will be sharing soon. Once we bring workers back together to help us analyze the data they helped generate, we plan to launch the largest-ever worker-centered survey of gig workers in the U.S., which will quantify our findings on a much larger scale. The findings will inform the blueprint and catalyze even richer conversations between workers about solutions. 

Our early learning from and with workers already offers some ideas about what principles should inform a blueprint for good gig work, and what that blueprint could include. The blueprint should empower workers to both inform public policy and shape evolving business models and practices. It should start with workers’ lived experiences and voices and address the needs of customers and businesses in communities all across the country. 

As to scope, based on our conversations with gig workers and a review of the competing policy proposals out there, the blueprint would need to address at least three things: preserving workers’ agency over their time while guarding against exploitation; ensuring basic protections suited to the wide-ranging nature of gigs and where the work gets done (much of it outdoors); and establishing and funding core benefits that attach to all forms of work. Those benefits could potentially build on our current foundation of Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment insurance, in which workers, employers, and government share risks and costs in the interest of workers’ basic economic security and well-being. 

A variety of sources offer promising ideas about how to better support workers outside of standard employment. A recent report from the United Kingdom suggests how to empower gig workers with modern regulations, for example, and the ongoing advocacy and legislative effort to create a national Domestic Workers Bill of Rights shows how we can make sure domestic workers, who don’t have federal labor protections, still have time-off policies and workplace protections. 

But what’s most clear is that gig workers themselves can help decisionmakers in government, business, and consumer advocacy get to the best, fairest, and most sustainable solutions. As of now, there is no shared solutions strategy driven by a broad range of gig workers, and creating the infrastructure for that is a tall order, largely because gig work is often solitary and physically dispersed. A given group of gig workers may perform a similar task, but they typically aren’t working in the same place—another challenge described by many participating in our research. 

Gig workers like Berenize, and others with very different backgrounds, understand these challenges better than any of us, which is why we must follow their lead on the path to solutions. We’re calling on those who believe in dignity for workers to join us on this journey—to think differently, perhaps more creatively, about what work looks like in the U.S. economy now and invest in gig workers and what they are telling us they want, which is to make work better, more modern, and inclusive.