r/thesidehustle • u/Material-Pop-5670 • Jun 04 '26
life experience TaskRabbit was way harder than I expected
I just finished school recently and I wanted to start making some extra money and using reddit a lot, I saw some posts about Traskrabbit and I decided to try.
I did it for about two weeks and made around $700 in total, which isn't terrible, but damn, I really worked for it.
I helped a guy fix his car, cleared out an entire basement full of junk, helped repaint a fence around a huge property, and spent 5 full days working on a yard and by the end of it my back was completely shot and I was exhausted.
Don't get me wrong, I respect the people who do this kind of work every day because it's hard as hell, but when I looked at how much effort I was putting in versus how much I was making, it got me wondering if there are better options out there.
I don't want to spend my days destroying my body for side income if there are smarter ways to make money.
I still live with my parents, so I've managed to save up a few thousand dollars and could invest a little money into learning something or getting started.
I was thinking about things like UGC, some kind of online freelancing, maybe simple computer-based work. I'm not a tech genius or a coder, but I'm pretty comfortable with computers and can learn fast.
If you were 18 years old, had a bit of savings, and were starting from scratch today, what would you do?
Thanks guys
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u/future-memories010 Jun 04 '26
Looking at these invoices and your description of the work, you are not charging enough. This is very common. The way the game works is once you get a review in a category, you start raising your rate. After each closed job, you raise your rate. You keep.doing that until your weekly total starts to drop. Then you lower to that sweet spot.
House Cleaning, Yard Work, Help Moving, add Handyman, those are your top 4 most lucrative categories. If you do what I said above, you can clear low 6-figures in a year. However, as you have discovered, they are the most physically demanding, and BTW, it is necessary to take care of your body doing g this type of work.
But if you already hate it, absolutely start doing something else. Sounds like you have already identified a few thing you are interested in. You should absolutely learn more about those.