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

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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--theyre increasingly scarce. Its 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 todays bottom line. Start mapping out your place in the gig economy today!

Reviews

"The Gig Economy part economic argument and part how-to guide." -The New Yorker
"Mulcahy knows how to spot a trend in work and make sense of it...gives students and readers a handle on what they need to do to shape a different kind of working life." --Ladders
"Anyone considering making the jump into the gig economy should read Mulcahy's book. It explains why it makes sense and details many of things you need to know." --Forbes
"The book provides a wealth of excellent how to advice on succeeding at independent work...well worth reading for anyone considering becoming an independent worker." --Small Business Lab
..".gives the reader an inroad to life-changing choices...sure to be popular with students and others at all stages of life and career who are ready to make a change." --Booklist
"Essential guidebook to navigating the gig economy...This highly recommended guide will have wide appeal" --Library Journal, starred review

Author Bio

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.