A MAN who quit his job as a delivery driver now rakes in £35,000 a year through his genius side hustle.
Mohammed Amin, 28, now puts up flatpack furniture for a living – a year after he started doing odd handyman jobs to make some extra cash.
He saw a demand for furniture building from DIY-shy people so joined Airtasker – a local services marketplace app – in April 2022 after buying himself a van.
Just four months later, he quit his full-time job and committed to his side hustle full-time.
Mohammed was even awarded as one of Airtasker’s Top Taskers in 2022 for his services on the app.
He earns an eye-watering £3k a month putting up sofas, tables, and desks – which only takes him a few minutes or hours at a time.
Mohammed, a handyman from Whitechapel, East London, said: “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.”
He added: “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.”
In under a year, Mohammed has earned just over £35k and works around 30 hours a week.
Mohammed said: “I have done about 330 tasks for people since I started.
“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.”
It comes as HMRC is hitting lower-paid self employed workers with hefty fines for late tax returns — even when they earn too little to pay it.
Around 400,000 people on less than £13,000 were wrongly chased and received a minimum £100 penalty for not filing a tax return on time.
So make sure you know the rules around paying tax if you’re self employed.
When you’re self-employed, you’re responsible for paying tax and National Insurance on your income.
Stay on top of all your records to work out how much you need to pay.
HMRC explains if you are self-employed, you may need to pay Income Tax and National Insurance through Self Assessment. You’ll need to fill in a tax return every year.
You must also fill in a tax return if you earned more than either:
