Instacart should be considered a last resort by anyone actually thinking about this. To start with, the whole way they distribute work is a complete shitshow (

Instacart should be considered a last resort by anyone actually thinking about this. To start with, the whole way they distribute work is a complete shitshow (first come, first serve after jobs are posted at a preset time-- so in many markets, you have to login at exactly the right minute or all the worthwhile jobs get scooped up, yes literally within one minute). Also the pay is crap, and you sometimes end up with orders of multiple cases of bottled water that are very difficult & time consuming to wrangle, and you'll get paid the same as if they bought the equivalent dollar amount worth of breakfast cereal. Customers frequently don't tip. I found Uber & Lyft to be a far, far easier job for probably twice as much pay. Of course, right now I'm doing none of it. Fortunately my S.O. finally found a decent job and is able to work from home.