Cynthia De Acha didn’t know that she could buy fresh New England lobsters in Silicon Valley, but thanks to a recent delivery to a Google executive, she’s becoming aware of all kinds of previously hidden corners of the San Francisco Bay Area.

De Acha, 40, does an occasional odd job through TaskRabbit, a San Francisco-based online services website. Users of the site can post jobs, and “rabbits” such as De Acha bid on them.

“It’s such an amazing thing to have things to be able to do during the day and then you fit them to your schedule,” said De Acha, who is looking for a full-time job and sometimes uses tasks to network. “As a rabbit, you’re able to bid on things that you want to do and places you want to go to.”

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