Odd jobs are as old as time. There have always been folks hiring people to perform tasks they don’t have the time or skills to do themselves. The gig app TaskRabbit makes it easier than ever for ...

TaskRabbit offers the chance to pick up moving jobs, cleaning jobs and all sorts of temporary piecework, with opportunities available in more than 70 major metro areas worldwide. The average pay for a ...

Ask me about the most binge-worthy show on Netflix or the best holiday shopping spots, and I’m all in. But when it comes to home repairs or turning a stack of Ikea parts into a fully functional desk, ...

If you know your way around the toolbox, you’ve seen many platforms promising to turn your skills into a viable side hustle. Two of the most popular of these sites are Taskrabbit and Handy. Both ...

Marisa Risden spent nine years in public service as a 9-1-1 dispatcher before she realized that she wanted to do something that allowed her the flexibility create her own schedule and work on her own ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Leah Busque has set herself a task as difficult as any of the morning-after clean-ups, del­iveries to ...