It also doesn’t take long – I watched the videos and took the quizzes during a bus ride to work. I thought most of the questions were pretty common sense. The questions mainly have to do with how to put on a leash properly and how to walk a dog correctly. Once I got through that step, I had to answer a few questions, watch a few training videos, and take a few quizzes related to walking dogs. Wag moved me on to the next step a day or two later. I gave them some email addresses and Wag sent my recommenders a form to fill out. When I initially signed up, Wag asked me to have a few friends give me a recommendation before I could proceed. Like with a lot of these gig economy apps, signing up to be a Wag Walker doesn’t take much time. It’s not a lot of work to take care of a second dog if you’re already taking care of one dog anyway.ĭog walking on the other hand – that’s a whole different thing that I thought would be fun to try out. I’ve been taking part in this pet revolution by starting up my own dog sitting business using Rover. For people like me who already own a dog, dog sitting makes a lot of sense. I didn’t realize it, but the pet industry is gigantic – worth $44 billion in the US alone. It makes sense that pets are the next frontier. Home sharing with Airbnb and ridesharing with Uber has already become pretty commonplace. If someone needs their dog walked, they can open up the Wag app, order a dog walker, and someone will show up at their house to walk their dog. So what is Wag? The easiest way to describe it is like an Uber for dog walking. He lives out on the East Coast, so he tends to get these apps before they make their way over to me in the Midwest.
Like a lot of these types of apps, I first learned about the Wag app from my brother, who signed up for it back when it first launched. The latest gig that I’ve been trying out is working as an on-demand dog walker with an app called Wag.
It’s opened up a whole new world for experimenters like me. These gig economy apps, on the other hand, allow you to do just that. Unfortunately, with the way jobs work, you can’t just sign up and go do a job randomly just to see what it’s like. I’m sure you’ve had times where you thought it’d be fun to do a certain type of job for a day (I know I’ve always thought it’d be interesting to be a postman for a day). One of the reasons I like the gig economy is because it lets me try out weird jobs that I might not otherwise get to do in a normal setting.
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