Free . Good evening. Tonight, youre going to meet some people who have crackled the code to making a living in this difficult economy. Weve always had handymen and handywomen, the people in the neighborhood willing to fix a sink or babysit a kid. Heres abcs Rebecca Jarvis. Reporter justin prim isnt just a bike messenger. Hes part of a new wave of selfemployed gogetters, capitalizing on something called the sharing economy. Online market places where you relate out things you own, hike your home, your car, or even random stuff lying around your house. But how about making money by renting out yourself . Cashing in on your own spare time by doing odd jobs. Im a task rabbit. Im a task rabbit fulltime. Reporter lea is the founder of task rabbits. Its an online portal that links thousands of people to clients that need an extra pair of hands. A hlittle extra time. Saving the day, one task at a time. Reporter dont half. Some of these people are earning six figures. I could argue the most valuable asset someone has is their time and their skills. Reporter when did you move into this space this weve been here now about three years. Reporter lea quit a cushy job at ibm six years ago to create task rabbit. I started the company in september of 2008 at a time when the stock market was crashing, people were getting laid off left and right and i thought, what did i just do . But it was a really great time to start a business like task rabbit, because we were helping people find new ways to work. I was one of the victims of the recession back in 2009 and got laid off. Reporter chris was working at macys, and wasnt really sure what to do. I had trouble with the job search until i took the reigns. Reporter chris turned to what we knew and what he knew would pay well. Something like this would be maybe 50 to 75 an hour. Reporter and his task rabbit experiment as a handyman turned into a fulltime gig. Initially you can make 50,000 a year. Now i have realized you can make six figures if you want. Reporter its attracting more and more americans. There are more 20,000 task rabbits out there in 20 cities. 10 of them using it as a fulltime job. There are critics, though. Task rabbit takes a flat 20 cut of all tasks, no matter how small, and some have accused the company of keeping wages low. There have been some confidences about the fact that maybe this is exploitive, because you have to make yourself the least expensive person to get the job. What we see is the consumers, the people that need the help are reviewing these bids and theyre not picking the lowest. Theyre looking at task rabbit profiles, their ratings, reviews. Reporter something we saw first hand trying to select a task rabbit to wash our car while we tracked down justin, the bike messenger. Jody seems really interested, even though shes 33 an hour, she seems really good. I say lets go for it. Nice to meet you. Reporter then exactly when we set the task, jody arrived. And off we went to try to meet up with task rabbit justin. There he is. Hey, justin. How are you . Doing well. How are you . Reporter how are the tasks going . Busy day all over town. A lot of thriveries. Reporter his next drop, flowers at a senior home. We have hundreds of different types of jobs posted on the site. Thank you. Reporter what do you think about the argument you should be able to do these things yourself . How lazy do you have to be to get somebody else to build your ikia turn your for you . It is not about laziness. I am a new mom. It is survival mode daily. Reporter so you are using your own service . I am using my own service now more than ever. Reporter hike working mom emily, trying to balance it all. A demanding job, two kids, a husband, dog and barbecue this weekend. I need to make two trips for me. And deliver to my apartment. That means being able to manage my life and have my kids. I have run out of hours in the day to get done what i need to get done. Ten years ago, there was probably a kid in your neighborhood that you would have come by and mow the lawn or wash your car. I think for a time, technology siloed us and it created these barriers. Everything went well. I think technology has finally got on the a point where its reconnecting neighborhoods. Reporter Rebecca Jarvis for nightline in san francisco. Coming up on nightline, dissatisfied with your profile pic . How far would you go to fix it . Meet the people going all the way to the plastic surgeon. With each day, there are possibilities for people struggling with bipolar depression. Ask your doctor about latuda, lurasidone hcl. In clinical studies, latuda has been shown to be effective for many people struggling with bipolar depression. Latuda is not for everyone. Call your doctor if you have unusual changes in mood, behaviors, or thoughts of suicide. 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I think that were going to go around the eyes and the temples, possibly a little bit in the hollows of my cheeks. Reporter all in a seemingly neverending quest to look better online. Im constantly untagging myself. Reporter she says a digital image is todays First Impression to the world, and you cant escape a bad picture. The social media of it all has put so much focus on how i look, and it just makes me really selfconscious. The only difference between me and every other person thats getting plastic person is im not denying it. Reporter shes had plenty of botox and breast implants. I dont remember what real boobs feel like anymore. I dont know anybody that has real ones anymore. Reporter and she always had a problem with her chin. She didnt hike the way it looked during skype chat. And on facebook. My darn chin just bugs the living daylights out of me in the photo. Reporter she decided on a chin implant. It sounds hike youre going to a pretty far extreme. To me, Plastic Surgery should be a lastditch effort, after youve worked out, after youve had good discipline in your diet and exercise. Reporter her doctor also suggests a nose job. When you do a chin, sometimes you have to do a little more to balance the face. Reporter how do you feel . Im getting really excited, starting to border ownn nervous. Ready to rock and roll. This is going to be her che cheekbo cheekbone. Reporter it is two hours of surgery on her face. You hook good. Yeah . Very good, very nice. Are you happy with everything . Im thrilled. I couldnt be happier. Reporter a month later hi. Hi. Welcome. Reporter wow. She thinks she is final hi camera ready. Here is the quintessential profile shot. Reporter which before you never would have put it on . My little chin would have been looking like a little turtle. Reporter she isnt the only one obsessed with her virtual self. People are honing in on every tiny flaw. I see so many people bringing in a picture of themselves, and they say, i was at this party and took this picture of myself and say do i look like that . Just because you have one bad picture of yourself and you run to a plastic Surgeons Office is insanity. Reporter it might sound crazy, but more and more people are doing exactly that. 33 of surgeons have seen an increase in patients getting Plastic Surgery for the sole purpose of looking better on social media. There are a bunch of people misinformed about what it does and think this is an art form. This is a way to make certain people happy by doing very subtle, subtle things. Reporter the nips and tucks might have been subtle, but the reaction to her going under the knife wasnt. 90 of the feedback ive gotten has been positive. Then theres the angry 10 . The angry 10 seems to think that i should have spent the money on therapy, that i should have gotten more work done, that i looked better before the surgery. Reporter but it doesnt bother her. The opposite, in fact. Of course i enjoy the attention. Who doesnt . I would be a liar if i said i didnt enjoy the attention. Reporter now shes even going back for more. Im not getting more procedures done for more attention. Im getting more procedures done because i want to maintain and prevent aging. Reporter whats your biggest fear about Plastic Surgery . That im going to end up looking like joslyn. Reporter that doesnt stop me . It trust my surgeon. Reporter shes a familiar face at her blaplastic Surgeon Office and since shes a family friend, she gets a discount for the fat grafting. It can cost up to 10,000. Very exciting. Plastic surgery is expensive if its done well. Something that you dont want to bargain shop for. Im very blessed because i work really hard. And what i spend on surgery is my business. Reporter after a short consultation, including computer renderings, her surgery begins. Were going to fill in her eyes over here. Reporter the procedure is intense. Triana is knocked out with general anaesthesia. A syringe is used to suck out the fat, which is then spun in a centrifuge to concentrate it. Injecting it into her face requires precision. There is no room for error. This is a very precise part of the surgery. Theres no leeway whatsoever. Reporter subjecting her body to all of this takes two hours. But for triana, its worth it if getting all this face work means looking better on face work. For nightline, im cecilia vega in los angeles. Up next on nightline, being photogenic is not this guys problem. His problem is that he is under arrest. The mug shot going viral tonight. [ male announcer ] this is the age of knowing what youre made of. Why let erectile dysfunction get in your way . Talk to your doctor about viagra. Ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. Do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain. It may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. 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It is the mugshot going viral. An alleged criminal stealing hearts all around the world. Jeremy meeks was arrested this week, locked up in stockton, california, accused of a host of gun and gang related crimes, including being a felon in possession of a firearm. In courtroom today, he didnt enter a plea. But the verdict is in. Its not just the mugshot. The man looks good in an orange jump suit, too. In a jailhouse interview, meeks on the inside seemed surprise about his new pop hearty on the outside. I appreciate that, but this is not me. Im not some king pen. Hes beautiful. A goodlooking guy. Reporter on the streets and online, quite a few are volunteering to rehabilitate this rebel. Hes absolutely adorable. Whatever he did he should be pardoned. I can see why girls are attracted to him. Hes got tattoos, hes got those eyes. Reporter his mugshot has more than 75,000 likes on the Stockton Police Department Facebook page. Its become the most liked photo ever. Ever in the history of the page. People leaving comments hike, i wish i was his victim. I want to be in his cell. And, please take me hostage. There are offers for hideouts. If you need a place to hide from the police, my door is always open. And offers for potential jobs, like model material. Hope someone finds this guy or that will be a crime. If orange is the new black, maybe jeremy meeks is the next cover male model. His face popping up all over the internet in fake ads. But if it seems hes too cute to be a criminal, police want to know that hes a convicted felon, i rested on some very serious gang and weapons charges. Also, haldys, in addition to the wrap sheet, hes a married man. For now, hes both off the market and off the streets. Our thanks to cecilia vega for that report. Tune in to gma tomorrow. As always, were online at abcnews. Com 247. For ynow, good night. [cheers and applause] yeah [indistinct chatter] yeah. [cheers and applause] hello, and welcome to millionaire. 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