_{I submitted my first job a couple days ago, Sunday night. I had to spend $27 out of pocket, so I really want to make sure I get paid. Anyway, after I submitted the job, I can’t find details on it anywhere in the app. It’s as if I never did it. What is the process now? How do I know how long it takes to get reviewed/paid? I’m totallly at a loss.}

If I take a job that says the completion date is April 2, 10pm to 6am, does that mean I can do it between 10pm on April 1 until 6am on April 3? Or does it mean that I can’t start it until 10pm April 2 and have to finish by 6am April 3? I wish these things were clarified in the shop instructions... the time period clearly straddles two days.

Thanks for the replies. The job did get approved. :) I’m ok with waiting a bit for payment now that I know it’s going through.

Thanks, I’ll try contacting and post back with the answer. I thought maybe this was something I was supposed to know or would be obvious to a more experienced worker. Guess not!

(Above, where I asked, “does that mean I can do it between 10pm on April 1 until 6am on April 3?”, I meant April 2 instead of April 3.)

There’s not an edit button here, is there? Too bad, because I could have really used one above in my correction of my first post, which was also incorrect. Anyway, the answer in this case was that if the shop date says April 2, 10pm to 6am, it can be performed between 10pm April 2 and 6am April 3. It would be nice to see such things clarified in shop instructions to save uncertainty and the need to contact schedulers.

Well, this is pretty discouraging. I started out really liking this app and doing jobs for various clients. But no new clients are really showing up now. And since you usually have to wait a certain amount of time before doing repeat jobs for the same clients, I now have no work at all to do. I called one client to ask about the time period, and they informed me that I can do their jobs only once every six months. Another one says in their jobs that you must wait at least 3 months. This makes it really tough to earn any money. It would be OK if new clients regularly showed up. But that is not happening in my area. I checked the app every day and see no new clients that I can do any work for—this has been going on for over a month now with no fresh work for me. Does this happen to other people too? Is there anything I can do about it, or should I just delete the app and forget about it?

Judging by the dead silence here too... delete app and forget it. There are still no fresh clients, too.

I do not live in a metropolitan area. There are not “thousands” or hundreds or even dozens of shops anywhere near me. At the moment, there are all of 6 jobs within 25 miles. It’s almost always the same very small number of the same clients with jobs near me, and most of them will allow the same person to do a particular job for them only once every several months. So for the most part, I actually cannot keep working with clients I’ve previously done jobs for because of the limitations they impose.

I rarely go “on the road.” When I do, it’s usually on vacation with family, and as I’m sure makes sense, I’m not going to ditch relatives or drag them along while I do random little jobs.

Yeah, I can find a small number of new jobs if I expand the search radius to 100 miles, but they don’t pay enough to make it worth driving for 45 minutes+ one way and racking up tons of miles on my car. I did take a job 30 miles away that I had misgivings about, and I literally lost money doing it (had to buy things, and the “pay” didn’t even cover that expense not to mention mileage, gas, 2 1/2 hours of my time, and self-employment tax).

The few clients who appear on the job search list for me now are the same ones who appeared on it when I made my original post months ago. So yeah, I remain discouraged.