A professional flatpack furniture assembler rakes in more than £35k a year after making it his full-time job. Mohammed Amin, 28, was working as a delivery driver and looking for opportunities to earn more money.
After buying himself a van, Mohammed started a side hustle completing odd jobs for people such as building and removing furniture. He saw a demand for furniture building from DIY-shy people - and is paid roughly £3k a month to put up sofas, tables, and desks which take him either a few minutes or a few hours each time.
Now 12 months on, Mohammed saw such a demand for professional furniture assembly, he has quit his job and is doing it full time - earning more than £35k. Mohammed Amin, a handyman, from Whitechapel, London, said: "You can be working for a company and build up their empire.
"Most jobs that require a man in a van I will take on and the odd other jobs I have been doing involve assembling and dissembling furniture. If people need help changing a room around I do a bit of that too. I thought: 'I can do this. I can make a lot of money.'
"It came to the point where I didn't want to work for anyone. I wanted to get out there and get the job done."
Mohammed worked as a delivery driver when he was urged to join Airtasker - a local services marketplace - in April 2022 after buying himself a van. He started off by completing the odd job in his spare time alongside his full-time role.
Four months into it, and after earning more than £12k, Mohammed quit his job to take his venture full-time in April 2022. Mohammed said: "I have done about 330 tasks for people since I started.
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"Most of my jobs are a man in a van job, I am very hands-on. I dissemble and reassemble furniture, if people need to move items, I take that on too. I quit my old job as I started to see that I can do more jobs and earn more doing what I do now compared to my old job."
In under a year, Mohammed has earned just over £35k and works around 30 hours a week. Mohammed was awarded as one of Airtasker’s Top Taskers in 2022 for his services on the app.
He said: "It depends, some jobs can take a few hours and some jobs can take 10 hours. The sorts of jobs that I go for are on the day jobs, ones that I can quickly complete. I start off with one job a day and go from there."
