Re:Maybe the Gig Economy Isn’t Reshaping Work After All
by danschumann on Friday June 08, 2018 @03:42PM
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People(most people) like to do the same thing every day. Even me, I'm a programmer and have different tasks, but I get most of my work through one client. I would hate to be chasing down new clients all the time.
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Re:Maybe the Gig Economy Isn’t Reshaping Work After All
by adamredwoods on Friday June 08, 2018 @04:11PM
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When I was freelancing, most of my projects were about 2-3 weeks in length. I had to find new work while trying to complete work. Difficult clients did not help that situation at all, nor intense deadlines. So truthfully, too much time would lapse between gigs, and running the numbers showed me that freelancing was earning around minimum wage, but I was working many more hours.
My best situation was when I had a client that was acting as a project manager and would feed me lots of work when I needed it.
Re:Maybe the Gig Economy Isn’t Reshaping Work After All
by anyfoo on Friday June 08, 2018 @03:54PM
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Is that true, do most people like doing the same thing every day? It certainly is not true for me.
EDIT: A few repliers clarified that it's probably about the stable and reliable income, and not about the nature of the work that's done every day. I can agree with that!
Re:Maybe the Gig Economy Isn’t Reshaping Work After All
by volkk on Friday June 08, 2018 @03:58PM
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i think OP meant more along the lines of: people like stability and ones with families can't rely on an inconsistent income that the freelance world generally provides. not actually doing the exact same thing everyday
Re:Maybe the Gig Economy Isn’t Reshaping Work After All
by sotojuan on Friday June 08, 2018 @04:38PM
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A lot of people would love the stability and predictability of a regular 9-5 office job. I think that's what they meant.
Re:Maybe the Gig Economy Isn’t Reshaping Work After All
by maxxxxx on Friday June 08, 2018 @04:19PM
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I guess it would be better to say that most people like having a stable and reliable income.
Re:Maybe the Gig Economy Isn’t Reshaping Work After All
by amorphid on Friday June 08, 2018 @04:13PM
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I'd guess everyone is different. A pastry chef might see every tasty creation as a new opportunity to bring joy & happiness into the world. For me, cooking is a chore, and every pastry I have to make after the first is no longer something new.
Re:Maybe the Gig Economy Isn’t Reshaping Work After All
by gaius on Friday June 08, 2018 @05:29PM
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Is that true, do most people like doing the same thing every day? It certainly is not true for me
It depends how broadly you define “same thing”. I think many if not most of us would happily focus on programming every day.
Re:Maybe the Gig Economy Isn’t Reshaping Work After All
by __s on Friday June 08, 2018 @04:43PM
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I wish I could drop my development job for a data entry job. Inventory counting was a really fun job
Re:Maybe the Gig Economy Isn’t Reshaping Work After All
by oldgeezr on Friday June 08, 2018 @04:37PM
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Working on new projects every couple of weeks would be fun.
Learning a new set of APIs, version control strategies, team members, platform peculiarities, build systems, bug reporting and issue tracking software, groupware... fuck that. I could sort of do it when I was in my early 30s but not now.
Re:Maybe the Gig Economy Isn’t Reshaping Work After All
by throwaway2048 on Friday June 08, 2018 @04:24PM
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Pretty sure most people doing "gig economy" crap arent doing it because they wanna do different tasks, and arent leaving it because they wanna do the same thing each day.