Career --> Job --> Gig
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.
Back to the Future, it's the way the world worked for Centuries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
-PJ
Am I the only one who, having read only the headline, thought the article was about Steve Jobs and gigabytes?
Obama’s legacy.