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1 posted on 01/12/2016 11:19:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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Progress in America:

Career --> Job --> Gig

2 posted on 01/12/2016 11:23:38 AM PST by Paladin2
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Every paid job I’ve ever had has been a ‘gig’. I don’t see what’s wrong with non-traditional work being available for people who want it. Some of us prefer it.


3 posted on 01/12/2016 11:23:56 AM PST by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Goodbye Jobs, Hello 'Gigs': How One Word Sums Up A New Economic Reality

Back to the Future, it's the way the world worked for Centuries.

4 posted on 01/12/2016 11:24:40 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind
Welcome to the new normal of the Obama economy
5 posted on 01/12/2016 11:24:53 AM PST by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Miller)
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That was the era when the “real job” — permanent, well-paid and with benefits — was enjoying its moment in the American sun, thanks to the New Deal programs, strong unions and the postwar boom. So to turn away from that security and comfort in search of something more meaningful seemed a daring and romantic gesture. When you read Kerouac now, it still does.

Gosh, this guy really drank the Commie Kool Aid.


6 posted on 01/12/2016 11:26:36 AM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yep. This is the wave of the future. Some of us do it now, from low-paying MTurk tasks to higher-paying-but-temporary “per diem” jobs. If none of those are available, then search the trash heaps for scrap metal to sell. Welcome to the New America.


8 posted on 01/12/2016 11:33:51 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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I wouldn’t mind living in a really nice RV traveling from gig to gig so to speak. But try to live without a permanent address, government doesn’t like that very much. They have a hard time taxing moving targets.


9 posted on 01/12/2016 11:36:32 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Rising wages and falling unemployment used to be desirable things that government and industry promoted. The term for this situation was prosperity. An archaic term for sure.

All that has changed because rising wages and falling unemployment is now consider a crises by the Establishment and its only solution it to flood the US labor market with culturally incompatible wage slaves from really awful places, most of them hate America.

10 posted on 01/12/2016 11:41:52 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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[...] part-time brakeman for the Southern Pacific railroad in San Jose [...]

Would it be even only theoretically possible for a person without any particular qualifications or experience - i.e., without a pocket full of training certificates, etc. - to just "walk in" from the street and get a gig as a part-time brakeman for the Southern Pacific in California today?

Anyone have an idea?

Regards,

14 posted on 01/12/2016 12:02:00 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: SeekAndFind

All fine and good until the millennial gigsters want to retire. Then not only will they want their college debts paid for they’ll also want their retirement (having no social security or pension or 401k) paid for.


18 posted on 01/12/2016 12:48:47 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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How many ObamaGigs does it take to pay for one's ObamaCare mandate?

-PJ

19 posted on 01/12/2016 12:51:59 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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Am I the only one who, having read only the headline, thought the article was about Steve Jobs and gigabytes?


20 posted on 01/12/2016 12:54:38 PM PST by The people have spoken
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Obama’s legacy.


21 posted on 01/12/2016 1:04:56 PM PST by Darren McCarty (Cruz in 2016 - No Trump. No Jeb.)
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