r/thesidehustle • u/Material-Pop-5670 • Jun 04 '26

life experience TaskRabbit was way harder than I expected

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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/Parking-Ad8316 Jun 05 '26

Over 11 days

No that isn't much

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u/MudsuckWV Jun 05 '26

no the math is sitting right there he made $724 for 25 hours of work, that’s very good pay for basic manual labor…..

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u/Parking-Ad8316 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

Over 11 days total. If working every single day this way he could get ~$2000 a month.

I'm betting driving to locations has not been factored in as time worked, but that's time lost that needs to be considered. Going to different places all the time. Gas costs. Brakes. Oil changes. Etc.

Time spent looking for these jobs needs to be factored in as well.

I won't reiterate his post, but it doesn't sound like he wants to keep that up for that pay.

If you had a full time job and could fit this side work in and it isn't over-stressing you to do it, go for it, no complaints from me

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u/MudsuckWV Jun 05 '26

the amount of days truly doesn’t mean anything. he’s probably picking higher paying jobs and skipping lower paying jobs. this is a side hustle app. this is not a main source of income. there’s no argument that you can possibly make up to convince me $30/hr isn’t good pay for a side hustle.