Thriving In The Gig Economy

Author : Adam Sinicki
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1484240901
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thriving in the Gig Economy written by Adam Sinicki and published by Apress. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take an in-depth look into the gig economy to see how tech professionals and entrepreneurs can earn a living as freelancers and contractors. Build your own business. The pros and cons of the lifestyle and what to expect from it are discussed. In this book, author Adam Sinicki explains the impact of the gig economy and the forces that led to it as it relates to technology and working online. You will understand how to make a living supplying tech skills on a "per gig" basis. Practical instructions, advice, and tips are provided on goal setting, lifestyle design, and selecting the types of work and contracts that further your goals and support the things you value as you transition from a 9-5 job. What You'll Learn Know the types of work that a tech freelancer can offer: coding, SEO, web development, 3D modeling, and more Find and manage clientsNegotiate pay and contractsStay productive without a managerDiscover useful tools, websites, and apps to build your business and ensure a steady income Who This Book Is For Entrepreneurs who are already a part of the gig economy and want to learn more about their options, tech professionals looking to transition to purely freelancing/contracting, companies interested in learning more about this change in the jobs market, technologists interested in exploring how the Internet is shaping the way people live and work, and professionals interested in lifestyle design or becoming "digital nomads"

Author : Marion McGovern
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1632659093
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thriving in the Gig Economy written by Marion McGovern and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last five years, the world of work has changed dramatically. Thanks to technology companies like Uber, TaskRabbit, and Instacart, the new "gig economy" seems to constantly be in the news. But most of the media focus is on the low end of the skill spectrum; little attention is being paid to the best-in-class professionals who have chosen an independent path. New digital talent platforms are developing at a rapid clip with a wide variety of business models, many catering to very precise, high-value skill sets. Thriving in the Gig Economy is an actionable guidebook outlining ways to maneuver in this new world to create a path that optimizes success. You will learn: The differences between the gig economy and the sharing and on-demand economies. The best ways to work with digital talent platforms and traditional consulting intermediaries. Commonsense logistics around digital branding, contracts, and employment issues. The tools and services to enhance your practice. The growth in this marketplace is exponential, and Thriving in the Gig Economy is one way for you to take advantage of all its potential.

Author : Ketaki Karnik
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9388302575
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets for Thriving in the Gig Zone written by Ketaki Karnik and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is gig-ing? Will your job be gig-ed out? How do you succeed in the gig world? You think that gig-ing is the future of work? Wrong! The gig era is already here. The gig economy is, arguably, the biggest disrupter of organisational models. Driven by digitisation, remote working, and platform economies, it is transforming the traditional system of employment. More jobs are now being assigned to individual independent contractors. Covid-19 has exponentially accelerated this momentum. Gig is no longer the future; it is now. Whether by choice or perforce, you either are a gig-er or will turn into one very soon. While companies are scrambling to adapt, the impact is most severe at the individual level. Rules of a full-time job do not apply any longer. You will have to reinvent yourself. Thriving in the gig world is not merely about getting your skill set right. It requires mastering four complementary dimensions—Gig Attitude, Gig Lifestyle, Gig Personality, and Gig Functional Skills. Secrets for Thriving in the Gig Zone offers practical hacks to win in this booming world. Based on the author’s first-hand experiences, this book lays out actionable secrets. Peppered with real-life examples, quotes from other gig-ers, and ready-to-use templates for self-evaluation, this book will steer you to success.

Author : Olga Mizrahi
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1626344949
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gig Is Up written by Olga Mizrahi and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Win in a world of increasing choice by becoming the clear, unique fit. The gig economy is made up of project-based, or on-demand services, that can be provided by anyone. The common denominator in the gig economy is technology, so our modern online-lives provide the perfect marketplace for the ever-diversifying opportunities in the gig economy. By some estimates, 2020 will see half of all workers involved in the gig economy. Are we ready for this seismic shift in our work lives? ​Freelancers need to clearly answer “Why choose you?” so that they stand out in the new economy. Because all workers in the gig economy need to bluntly pose this question to themselves, The Gig Is Up is designed to answer this one key point head-on, giving readers innovative tools like Unique Value Proposition to confidently step up. The Gig Is Up offers the best boots-on-the-ground methods for success, by evolving the reader’s perspective and process. Many books on the gig economy focus on letting people live out their dreams, instead of looking at the realities of what it truly takes to win in a world of increasing choice. People need to understand how to compete and how to put the best version of themselves up front and center. The goal in competing today is to not only be chosen, but to move toward becoming the only choice, over and over again

Author : Diane Mulcahy
Publisher : AMACOM
ISBN 13 : 0814437346
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gig Economy written by Diane Mulcahy and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, most Americans are working in the gig economy--mixing together short-term jobs, contract work, and freelance assignments. Learn how to embrace the independent and self-sufficient world of freelance! The Gig Economy is your guide to this uncertain but ultimately rewarding world. Packed with research, exercises, and anecdotes, this eye-opening book supplies strategies--ranging from the professional to the personal--to help you leverage your skills, knowledge, and network to create your own career trajectory. In this book, you will learn how to: Construct a life based on your priorities and vision of success Cultivate connections without networking Create your own security Build flexibility into your financial life Face your fears by reducing risk Corporate jobs are not only unstable--they’re increasingly scarce. It’s time to take charge of your own career and lead the life you want, one immune to the impulsive whims of an employer looking only at today’s bottom line. Start mapping out your place in the gig economy today!

Author : Everest Media
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1669348695
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Adam Sinicki's Thriving in the Gig Economy written by Everest Media and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-02-28T17:32:00Z with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Working gigs online can generate a little side income, or you can completely change your lifestyle and remove the shackles of 9-to-5 office work. You can become a digital nomad and travel the world while working online, or you can elevate your own rising star and design your dream job. The Web can make it happen. #2 The gig economy refers to the plethora of short-term work and contracts. This is driven by companies that hire staff for individual projects and pay them on a per-job or hourly basis rather than offering them a full-term employment contract. #3 The freelancing option in the tech industry is a great way to make money. However, it’s not for everyone, so it’s important to understand the pros and cons of the job before deciding to take it on. #4 There are limits to this flexibility, of course. If you continually shirk on your deadlines, people will stop working with you. And if your contract requires you to be online during certain hours, you can’t pack in early without telling anyone.

Author : Alexandrea J. Ravenelle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520971892
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hustle and Gig written by Alexandrea J. Ravenelle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choose your hours, choose your work, be your own boss, control your own income. Welcome to the sharing economy, a nebulous collection of online platforms and apps that promise to transcend capitalism. Supporters argue that the gig economy will reverse economic inequality, enhance worker rights, and bring entrepreneurship to the masses. But does it? In Hustle and Gig, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle shares the personal stories of nearly eighty predominantly millennial workers from Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit, and Kitchensurfing. Their stories underline the volatility of working in the gig economy: the autonomy these young workers expected has been usurped by the need to maintain algorithm-approved acceptance and response rates. The sharing economy upends generations of workplace protections such as worker safety; workplace protections around discrimination and sexual harassment; the right to unionize; and the right to redress for injuries. Discerning three types of gig economy workers—Success Stories, who have used the gig economy to create the life they want; Strugglers, who can’t make ends meet; and Strivers, who have stable jobs and use the sharing economy for extra cash—Ravenelle examines the costs, benefits, and societal impact of this new economic movement. Poignant and evocative, Hustle and Gig exposes how the gig economy is the millennial’s version of minimum-wage precarious work.

Author : Thomas Oppong
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0749483563
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working in the Gig Economy written by Thomas Oppong and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST: Business Book Awards 2019 - Start-Up Inspiration Category There are new flexible and independent working opportunities available in the gig economy for those brave enough to seize them. It is estimated that the number people involved with the gig economy will double in the next four years. New generation workers are realising that they can break the chains of corporate work and go at it alone. With flexible working hours, fluid work arrangements and technology that they can leverage to their advantage, people are creating purposeful careers that fit in with their lives, not the other way around. Working in the Gig Economy is the ultimate guide to successfully navigating the new flexible world of work. This is a book that will allow you to really examine the possibilities of freelance and flexible working. Is it really for you? Do you have what it takes to stay motivated, get clients to hire you and achieve that long-yearned for work-life balance? Thomas Oppong is an expert in entrepreneurship and the gig economy. With this book, he takes readers through the main pitfalls of working for themselves, including how to stay productive, how to manage your professional network, build a personal brand and crucially how to keep the work coming and get paid on time. Working in the Gig Economy is the essential guide to having a successful and fulfilling career in the gig economy.

Author : Adam Davidson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385353537
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Passion Economy written by Adam Davidson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant creator of NPR's Planet Money podcast and award-winning New Yorker staff writer explains our current economy: laying out its internal logic and revealing the transformative hope it offers for millions of people to thrive as they never have before. Contrary to what you may have heard, the middle class is not dying and robots are not stealing our jobs. In fact, writes Adam Davidson—one of our leading public voices on economic issues—the twenty-first-century economic paradigm offers new ways of making money, fresh paths toward professional fulfillment, and unprecedented opportunities for curious, ambitious individuals to combine the things they love with their careers. Drawing on the stories of average people doing exactly this—an accountant overturning his industry, a sweatshop owner's daughter fighting for better working conditions, an Amish craftsman meeting the technological needs of Amish farmers—as well as the latest academic research, Davidson shows us how the twentieth-century economy of scale has given way in this century to an economy of passion. He makes clear, too, that though the adjustment has brought measures of dislocation, confusion, and even panic, these are most often the result of a lack of understanding. The Passion Economy delineates the ground rules of the new economy, and armed with these, we begin to see how we can succeed in it according to its own terms—intimacy, insight, attention, automation, and, of course, passion. An indispensable road map and a refreshingly optimistic take on our economic future.

Author : RONALD WOOTEN
Publisher : RONALD WOOTEN
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gig Economy written by RONALD WOOTEN and published by RONALD WOOTEN. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Gig Economy: Navigating the Future of Work" is an insightful exploration of the evolving landscape of employment, where traditional full-time roles are increasingly being supplemented or replaced by short-term, freelance, or independent contract work. This comprehensive book delves into the drivers behind the gig economy, its impact on workers, businesses, and society, and the challenges and opportunities it presents. Through real-world examples and practical insights, readers gain a deeper understanding of how to navigate this shifting paradigm, whether as gig workers seeking flexibility and autonomy, businesses adapting to new workforce models, or policymakers grappling with regulatory frameworks. Whether you're a freelancer, entrepreneur, HR professional, or policymaker, this book provides valuable perspectives and strategies for thriving in the gig economy and shaping the future of work.