TaskRabbit...

TaskRabbit...  Reader and friend Simon M. passed this along.  TaskRabbit is a web site that matches up people who need something done (shopping, cleaning, fixing something, etc.) with people who want to earn some money by doing such things.  It's an interesting concept, putting on the web something we used to see in the newspaper's classified ads.  When I was in my late teens, I found several short-term jobs that way – people or companies needing help for some job (usually far) too small to hire a permanent employee for.  Most of these were terrible jobs that paid poorly, but still, I was willing to do it.  Also it occurs to me that this is one way to work around the minimum wage law, as this service arranges jobs for an agreed price...