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    The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, Taking More Time Off, and Financing the Life You Want
    The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, Taking More Time Off, and Financing the Life You Want
    The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, Taking More Time Off, and Financing the Life You Want
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    The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, Taking More Time Off, and Financing the Life You Want

    Written by Diane Mulcahy

    Narrated by Marguerite Gavin

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    From Uber to the presidential debates, the gig economy has been dominating the headlines…and for good reason. Today, more than a third of Americans are working in the gig economy-mixing together short-term jobs, contract work, and freelance assignments. For those who've figured out the formula, life has never been better!

    The Gig Economy is your guide to this uncertain but ultimately rewarding world. Succeeding in it starts with shifting gears to recognize that only you control your future. Next is leveraging your skills, knowledge, and network to create your own career trajectory-one immune to the whims of an employer.

    Packed with research, exercises, and anecdotes, this eye-opening book supplies strategies-ranging from the professional to the personal-to help you:

    Construct a life based on your priorities and vision of success • Cultivate connections without networking • Create your own security • Take more time off • Build flexibility into your financial life • Face your fears by reducing risk • Prepare for the future • And much more

    Layoffs… recessions…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 actually want.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateDec 1, 2016
    ISBN9781469005683
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    Diane Mulcahy

    DIANE MULCAHY is a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation and an Adjunct Lecturer at Babson College, where she teaches "Entrepreneurship and the Gig Economy," a popular MBA course that Forbes.com named one of the top ten most innovative business school classes in the country. Her work in venture capital and entrepreneurship has been featured on NPR and in the Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, Fortune, Forbes, The New Yorker, The Economist, and other national media.

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    • 4/5
      the future of Jobs!! the gig economy opened a lot of doors for me!!
    • 3/5
      Great introduction to what the gig economy is about. I expected more but that more will come from the world as it matures this economh of gig workers...
      Overall a good read and definitely life changing perspectives..
      Would love to read the phase 2 of this book as the Gig Economy evolves
    • 5/5
      Very good look into a not so distant future

      The Gig Economy was a very enjoyable read. It fit exactly with what I believe is true about the way the world of work is changing. Full time jobs are not as secure as they used to be, and for good reason too.

      It embraces this change, and shares what we can do as individuals to survive and thrive in a changing economy.

      This is exactly the type of book any worker in today's economy should pick up and read. You may not agree with everything within, but the writing is on the wall that things are indeed changing. Do you want to be left behind?