The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.
While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.
I've never liked the idea of working for other people.
I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.
That's a tough question; I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.
The powers that technology and independent contracting give to workers enables them to take greater control of their careers to preserve work-life balance.
I only can talk about myself and my experience. Honestly, working on your own terms is difficult for a newcomer but not impossible. I am an example of that.
I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.
I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.
I don't want to be in an office. That's not my thing.
I started working in London, and I've been free-lance ever since.
Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.
My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.
I never felt like the nine to five mentality is for me.
More and more people are getting turned out of their corporations and laid off. As more people leave that behind, they're tapping into their own skill sets and talents and doing something for themselves.
I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I'm just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know.
Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.
I need to work outside government, on my own.
My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.
The only person who would employ me without a degree was myself.
