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To be able to stay relevant in the job market, so that if you ever want to switch jobs you can easily - you now have to, after working 8 hours at your workplace, also work 8 more on side projects, which there is no guarantee of working.Īt work you might be working on only tech, or product, or marketing.įor side projects, you have to come up with an idea, develop it, market it, and pray there are users who like it. To be able to knit some sweaters and sell, you need to go and dance on TikTok and hope enough creepy people find it sexy and hit like and share. Like look at the world around for a second and honestly ask yourself if we really are not in an episode of Black Mirror. Their normal (by last decade's standards) lifestyle is now deprecated. The day-and-night horns of hustle culture blaring makes us all think that is normal, and that leaves those without the privilege to hustle quite high and dry. The reality is the median got shifted up. So yeah, it is easy to showcase a coupe of poster kids of hustle culture, who got a little successful with their YouTube live streams and positivity rants on Insta reels, and never had any financial/social burden to look back upon and proclaim that independent work is on the rise There's someone responsible for a 2 year old kid.Įasy to blame that on bad life decisions. Here I am advertising side projects and staying up at night to build your own Tinder clone to get ahead in life. After a couple of times, he told me that he needs to go pick his wife (who is also working), and back home there is a 2 yr old kid. Sounded pretty normal to me.īut whenever my 5-8pm classes would stretch a little longer, he'd ask to be excused early and leave. He wanted to break into big tech or product companies. A few years of work-ex, in a govt of India department working on IT support. (You can include me in that).Ģ years back, in my webdev classroom program, a young guy joined. Let's go back to another track of things - the hustle culture.Įveryone's saying 'make side projects', 'open an YouTube channel', 'build in open'. Second, they are closing the loop on the consumer end of it via shop.app. They are a $300B dollar company first of all. Shopify, to be very honest, isn't any flagbearer of small business. Just because you don't want to sell on Amazon, you now have to sell on Facebook (Instagram).Īlso everyone says how you can open up your own cute little store with Shopify This starts to break apart the initial core argument that we are taking back control from big tech. Go to D2C subreddits, forums, telegram groups, discord servers or clubhouse rooms and try to find out what it takes to be D2C and a smol maker.Įveryone invariably says - make an insta account, make catchy reels, get distribution. Making small crafts/utility/food products, selling to people.Ī lot of people are shouting from the roofs that D2C is bringing the power back to small makers, mom & pop business, and is a radical/liberal takeback from BigTech. Reality is, it is becoming a way of life, and that is making surviving in the modern world an increasingly uphill battle. Here's what I want to break it down at - it is sexy because some people you have come to like are constantly hammering that thought down your head. Seems doing all this is both sexy + essential to survive Side hustles, personal growth, financial adviceĬreator economy, social media, YT/Insta growth Remote work, freelancing, independent work Today if you look around people are making a lot of noise about a few things The gig economy workers appeared to be even less well prepared than average workers.(Might as well add a dystopian prophecy trigger warning) 'We have a retirement crisis in the US - no one is saving enough for retirement.

'When we surveyed gig economy workers, we found that almost 40% of them felt unprepared to save enough to maintain their lifestyle during their retirement,' Jon Stein, founder and CEO of Betterment, said in an interview. The aim is to help independent workers prepare for retirement and maximize their earnings.

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Betterment said on Friday it's offering Steady users a year of free financial advisory and investment management services. That's where a new partnership between robo-advisor Betterment and Steady, a startup that helps gig employees find new shifts and short-term employment, comes in. While these workers benefit from a greater degree of autonomy and flexibility than employees in more traditional jobs, many suffer from an irregular income which makes financial planning difficult. More than a third of US workers participate in the gig economy, according to a recent report from Gallup, and that number is only expected to grow. The emergence of companies like Uber, Lyft, and Instacart has brought about the rise of the gig economy - short term workers who do everything from drive taxis to shop for your groceries.

Gigeconomy fuck yeah