If the pay is good I'd do it. I know what you mean, though, it is low-status. But, well, it's nice to have money.

The summer before I started grad school I did some housecleaning, because it was my own schedule and it paid cash, better than getting some crap retail job, though it was hard work. The irony is I also had a part time programming job which paid a lot more but there weren't too many hours. It's weird to be a programmer moonlighting as a house cleaner. So I didn't tell anyone.