Prospective employers, known as "Clients" (rather than "TaskPosters," which had earlier replaced "senders"), now choose from one of four broad categories: "Cleaning," "Handyman," "Personal Assistance," and "Moving Help".
Because security was tight, the EPO was smuggled to the Postal Service team by a personal assistant and handyman for Armstrong, the report said.
But for the ninety per cent of TaskRabbit gigs that fall into those four main categories, one personal assistant or handyman is, from the employer's perspective, usually as good as the next.
Users go to Redbeacon and search for real world service providers (housekeepers, plumbers, handyman, personal trainers, etc).
You're filling the role of mother, nurse, chef, teacher, maid, handyman and personal shopper -- all day, every day.
Indeed, Young himself says he was "serving as butler, personal shopper and all-around handyman for the entire family".
In a book that Mr. Young wrote about his time with Mr. Edwards, he described his role as "butler, personal shopper and all-around handyman for the entire family".
A new group of technology start-ups is building online platforms to facilitate offline transactions in this new informal economy: renting out your spare bedroom (Airbnb ) or Volkswagen (RelayRides ); hawking yourself as a handyman (TaskRabbit ) or personal chef (Kitchit ); selling custom-made furniture (Etsy ); or transcribing someone's interview tapes (oDesk ).
It's made up of Dog walkers, personal trainers, itinerant web designers, handymen, you name it.
Founded by Erdem Kiciman and his former roommate at MIT, Kale McNaney, OpenChime launched in 2010 to enable consumers to receive valid quotes on practically any local service, from local business owners, like handymen, house cleaners, personal trainers and so on.
