How much of your life do you outsource? Do you work for an online outsourcer?

For many of us it started with fresh produce deliveries. Now there are even more online ways to outsource work to others. There's the task and errand service TaskRabbit, a marketplace of all kinds of temporary work. For those who think big, there's Amazon's Mechanical Turk, an online marketplace for "human intelligence tasks."

Have you outsourced work or personal tasks? Have you ever been hired to do someone else's work or personal tasks? Would you do it again?

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What work or personal tasks have you outsourced? Or, what tasks have you ever been hired to do by someone else?

How did you hire, or get hired, for outsourcing tasks?

What was your experience? What unexpected issues did the experience raise? Would you do it again?
Why or why not? Did it make you think about the future of work in a new way?

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