Sentences with phrase «gig work in»

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Brad probably could have got a steady gig with great pay working in the sciences after completing his master's degree.

«Anyone who works in music will tell you that it's hard to get a gig, and to turn down gigs is silly,» says Hamilton, who was then ready to fully focus on her fund.

The gig turned out so well, in fact, that my friend - turned - consultant has done the same thing again and again with the other clients he has been working with.

When I interviewed Karoli Hindriks, founder of Jobbatical, a site that helps professionals find gigs working for startups abroad, about why American marketers and techies were so interested in these gigs, she had this to say: «I love Airbnb not only because it is often cheaper than hotels, but because you're experiencing a culture.

«Writing pieces for free / trade got my foot in the door and gave me a great working portfolio,» says Laura Viviana, copywriter, «which helped land my first agency gig.»

Today, they earn money through their blog, as well as through remote gigs that they can work from their London flat or from the beach in Thailand: Sargent does leadership training and coaches private clients based on her expertise from her work as a business psychologist, and Farrugia takes on part - time social media management jobs.

Founded in 2010, Contently is a platform that helps journalists share their work and search for gigs and helps content marketing companies find talent.

People who go into the work force expecting to find a 1950s - style General Motors will miss out on the more entrepreneurial opportunities that exist in the so - called gig economy, says Bastian Lehmann, founder of Postmates, a startup that delivers meals in 40 markets.

«There will be a subset of users who will be very seriously working full time in the on - demand economy, but the majority will still treat it as a part - time gig,» predicts Zhou.

It's a word that, here, does not so much connote an actual small - business owner as a feeling — an image of the young worker in the 21st - century gig economy who DJs on the weekends and, while almost certainly doing underpaid and entirely precarious labour, has earned the right to work from her local coffee shop in the slouchy drop - shoulder crewneck of her choice.

To build your nest egg, consider working in your present job a little longer or take on a consulting gig to throw off extra income.

Despite the trend towards increased workplace flexibility in the form of perks like unlimited PTO, working from home and staggered hours to cut down on commute time, more Millennials are job hopping or leaving behind the security of full - time employment to join the gig economy.

The TUC said those employed in the gig economy are also likely to earn significantly less than their counterparts, meaning they are more likely to depend on in - work benefits, including tax credits and housing benefit.

Sure, there are ways to supplement this, such as keeping your corporate gig while you're in the early startup or pre-revenue phase, but at some point you're going to have to take a leap off the income cliff and work for free.

But the turnover at these companies can be quite high; an estimated one in six participants is new, and more than half of gig economy works leave their jobs within a year, according to a November 2016 report from JPMorgan Chase & Co..

Though geared at the Canadian market, the Facebook connection, now in its fourth year, lead to international work, including a gig doing mobile strategy consulting and prototypes for American Express.

In Washington, we are fighting to ensure that gig work is good work.

Nomad Health, a startup that's set up a platform for a new generation of doctors and nurses to pursue gig work that meets their own needs, has raised $ 12 million in a Series B funding round led by Polaris Panthers, the company announced Tuesday.

With more people working remotely than ever before, and an uptick in gig - type occupations, coworking spaces have emerged as a popular and cost - effective option for businesses and the part - time, full - time and contract workers they employ.

Becoming conversant in code, it turns out, has been one of the best parts of the gig: working with engineers and web developers and seeing how good software happens.

In 2009 and 2010, as jobs in the U.S. grew increasingly scarce, applications from aspiring teachers — younger people who saw little opportunity to land a full - time gig at home, as well as professionals from other fields who wanted to switch careers and work abroad — poured iIn 2009 and 2010, as jobs in the U.S. grew increasingly scarce, applications from aspiring teachers — younger people who saw little opportunity to land a full - time gig at home, as well as professionals from other fields who wanted to switch careers and work abroad — poured iin the U.S. grew increasingly scarce, applications from aspiring teachers — younger people who saw little opportunity to land a full - time gig at home, as well as professionals from other fields who wanted to switch careers and work abroad — poured inin.

Gig work, whether in preference to corporate jobs or because full time work is lacking, is absorbing an ever - growing portion of the labor force.

Brie Reynolds, the director of online content for FlexJobs, says «side jobs» are defined as anything part time, including freelance, temporary, short - or long - term, work - from - home, or in - person flexible gigs.

If you put $ 200 a month into an IRA over a full 10 years while continuing to work the side - gig, then you'd have over $ 40,000 — your $ 24,000 in contributions, plus more than $ 16,000 in earnings.

Stuck between rigid 20th Century employment classifications and the more complex realities of modern work, many gig employers have found themselves facing «former employees» in court that they never hired, fired, met, or even worked with in a traditional capacity.

Next Avenue's Gig Economy: Better for Boomers Than Millennials covers the growing trend of retirement age Americans choosing to work in the gig econoGig Economy: Better for Boomers Than Millennials covers the growing trend of retirement age Americans choosing to work in the gig econogig economy.

In months where individuals worked for a gig labor platform, they earned 15 percent of their income through gig work.

Some see the so - called sharing economy as being responsible for the advent of a «gig economy», in which people make ends meet by arranging freelance work over the Internet rather than working in traditional full - time jobs (either voluntarily, or because no other work is available).

The growing number of gig economy workers in this country may have the freedom to work whenever they want, and sometimes from wherever they want, but when it comes to buying a home, all of that freedom has its price.

Aspect's Jennifer Fonstad and The Muse's Kathryn Minshew provide perspective on the «future of work» in this piece in The New Yorker on the Gig...

This sort of loosening, combined with the reduction in risk resulting from a better safety net and basic income, plus the possibility of building working capital through gigs, could lead to an explosion in creativity and entrepreneurial activity

It could be that they move to gig - style jobs, but retain benefits or that people in gig jobs lose hours and tasks, but retain working status.

This book is a must read for those concerned about how technology is disrupting the way we work and eroding the social safety net, and how policy makers should respond to ensure that the growing number of workers in the «gig» economy earn adequate benefits.

The author of Thriving in the Gig Economy is an independent work pioneer and founder of a consulting firm - M Squared Consulting - that relies heavily on independent consultants to staff their projects.

I haven't worked on apprenticeship projects much in the last few years, but one of my current gigs has got me thinking about the area again.

As the ideals of the gig economy spread and more people across a wider breadth of sectors can adopt a flexible working life, niche spaces are serving the needs of the increasing number of industries that want to work in coworking spaces.

From gig jobs through to talent wars, Linda carefully works though what is happening to the world of work and the way that it will affect our lives and organizations.Linda has also been published in many other publications including the Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper.

They're a little more free - spirited than most professionals, thriving off the energy that comes from finding a new gig and working on various projects for various companies.The workspace of a freelancer should be just as creative, spontaneous, and dynamic as he or she is, which makes coworking and freelancing a match made in heaven.

I have fortunately gotten offers to work at a startup and in several different contexts similar to my previous position — and these are things I would potentially enjoy, yes, but to waste the potential equity that «personal brand», dirty as it may sound, creates for me (or anyone else) to leverage into client work that pays well and speaking gigs that open up other opportunities — would be a true «lighting on fire» of that which I had done to build that before quitting.

She sat down with MightyRecruiter to discuss the changes she's witnessed in the flex work scene, how the gig economy has changed work expectations, and how she would convince an employer to dip a toe into the flexible labor force.

As any journalist will tell you, work in media doesn't always pay the bills, and Larry King's first gig in radio was no exception.

Hale and his wife met in New York City, when Hale was a struggling actor doing «every job under the sun of temp work» until he started landing a few commercial gigs, including the famous Volkswagen ad where he danced to «Mr. Roboto.»

«I like to think that my experience in all aspects of the restaurant business, from management, working the kitchen, catering gigs, everything, helps the team.

I worked in the medical field for over 10 years and after learning that I was Gluten Intolerant, working for GIG seemed to be the perfect fit for me.

Gluten - Free Food Service Certification (GFFS) is a program of the Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG) designed to work with all types of food services to establish best practices in the production of gluten - free meals.

Sandy D'Elosua: Considering one in 100 people have celiac disease, guests have been requesting a gluten - free option for about two years, so we worked with GIG, the Gluten Intolerance Group, to help find a solution.

He's still on the lookout for a GM gig, possibly with the Mariners or Brewers, but in the meantime, he's going to work with his old team to help them prepare for the offseason.

can make working in the gig economy truly rewarding.

So important to just have a little pitstop once in a while though as it's bloody hard work this parenting gig!

I've dabbled in quite a few side gigs and have found the ones that work for me.