There’s a quote from Spencer Harrison, associate professor in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, in this recent article from The Boston Globe that talks about the personal psyches of gig workers and some of the hardships they may face.
He says that although gig workers face financial anxieties, the bigger issue can be an existential one. “Because we spend so much of our lives at work, work is a place where we find out who we are and craft our identities,” he says. “When we’re moving from one thing to the next, some people might sense a difficulty cobbling together ‘Who am I?’ ”
At National Gig we believe that workers choose the gig lifestyle rather than having it thrust upon them. Their personalities are entrepreneurial in nature and their works space does not dictate who they are; they dictate their work environment because they know who they are.
Of course, entertaining journalism aims to show the extremes of what is going on in a new economy trend, but we believe the gigger of today can find personal and economic enjoyment in their pursuits because they are doing it for themselves rather than an entity that employs them as a at-will cog.
For the complete article, click Gig – boston globe.
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