Tim Fung has seen his share of odd jobs — really odd jobs. Indeed, the website he operates — Airtasker — specializes in them.
Airtasker, a site that’s well-known in Australia but relatively new to the U.S., invites clients to post job listings that say what they want done, what they want to pay, and then pick and choose among the freelance workers who offer to do the job.
While nothing in the site’s terms stipulate that the jobs need to be unique or different, most have something that’s not exactly standard, says Fung. After all, if you just wanted someone to clean your house, you’d probably hire a cleaning service, like Turno. If you wanted bookcase assembled, you might enlist someone from Taskrabbit.
Really odd jobs
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