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AT FIRST, I thought I’d pay someone. What can’t money solve? Mattress coolers, tile paint, cord organisers, vacuums that drive themselves round your lounge sucking up your cat’s fur. 

I spent an afternoon looking through the kinds of things people were asking for on Airtasker. The internet means you can have pretty much anything done for you, quickly and cheaply. Someone to change LED lights. No virtual assistants… IRL please. IRL means In Real Life – much used in Airtasker ads. People can do lots of things remotely now. But it doesn’t work for some kinds of jobs not to be there IRL. Money for taking gilded mirror inherited from ex-mother-in-law. Bad vibes. PUO. Pick Up Only.

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Nicola Redhouse

Nicola Redhouse is the author of Unlike the Heart: A Memoir of Brain and Mind (UQP). Her writing has been published in The Guardian,...

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