This is a series of articles intended to help people that assemble flat-pack furniture professionally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There will be articles intended to help speed your assembly tasks. Tools, techniques, customer handling, and even special situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of you may be working independently or through a service such as Task Rabbit, Fiverr, Takl, Thumbtack, etc. In any case, your income depends on how efficiently you can get in, get the job done, and get out with a satisfied customer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I always try to optimize the things I do. Especially the repetitive things. When I started putting together flat-pack furniture for Task Rabbit, I tried to find information online to help me improve my speed and quality. I found very little help. And what I did find was so rudimentary that it was useless to me. So I forged on and tried to develop my own tips and tricks to improve my overall efficiency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now I want to share these bits of (hopefully useful) wisdom with my community of fellow flat-pack assemblers. Unlike some in the community that only want to brag about how fast they can assemble a such-and-such with no proof, I will put my time and energy into helping others optimize their income. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just a little bit about me. I’m an elderly (60+) male with a computer engineering background. I currently work a series of side-hustles, as they are called. I bounce around from job to job, sometimes working three different jobs, for different platforms, in one day. I do this for two reasons: One, I’m trying to optimize my income so I’m always looking for a new or best side-hustle and, two, I get bored doing the same thing all the time. I’m currently doing computer consulting under my own consulting company prosoft.guru<\/a>, furniture assembly for Task Rabbit<\/a>, and Lime<\/a> electric scooter charging at night. I could (and will) write at length about all these jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of these jobs, frankly the furniture assembly job pays the best per hour. But it’s also the hardest on my body. After a long (6+ hour) assembly job, I usually must take the next day off to recover!<\/p>\n\n\n\n These are links to related companies and websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reddit \/r\/taskrabbit<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n I understand that there are at least two Facebook groups for Task Rabbit contractors that might touch on ready-to-assemble furniture but I do not use Facebook out of privacy concerns. If someone wants to send me a link I will post it here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are dozens, if not hundreds of manufacturers of knock-down furniture. Here are just a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a series of articles intended to help people that assemble flat-pack furniture professionally. There will be articles intended[…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[28,29,24,26,27,33,31,48,25,34,30,32,40,35,36,39,37,38],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flat-pack-assembly","tag-assemble","tag-assembly","tag-flat","tag-flat-pack","tag-furniture","tag-ikea","tag-job","tag-knock-down","tag-pack","tag-speed","tag-task","tag-task-rabbit","tag-techniques","tag-tip","tag-tips","tag-tools","tag-trick","tag-tricks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/gohts.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2018-12-31-11.55.57b.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG9Xq-2r","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gohts.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gohts.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gohts.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gohts.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gohts.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/gohts.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"http:\/\/gohts.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gohts.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gohts.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gohts.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gohts.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Related Websites<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Flat-pack Assembly Related Forums<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Flat-Pack Manufacturers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n