Kyle runs a side hustle out of his van, brings in up to $US9,700 a month: I only have to work three weeks out of the year [Video]

When Kyle Stockford went a few months without selling a painting, he decided to pick up a side hustle.

It was 2021, and Stockford was a full-time abstract artist making colourful collages. Without sales, he needed another way to subsidise his living — so he turned to his brother, who’d been doing people’s yard work and helping assemble Ikea furniture through gig site Taskrabbit, a US site similar to AirTasker.

Stockford signed up to do similar gigs, making ”$US16 to $US18 an hour ($A24-$A27),” he says.

But the real money was in helping people move: The 29-year-old now charges as much as $US98 ($A142) per hour on Taskrabbit to load up his Chevy Express van with other people’s belongings and transport them across the Boston area.

College move-in season is his busiest time of year: Stockford’s side hustle brought in $US9740 ($A14,104) in August 2023 revenue alone, according to documents …