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Is being a gig worker worth all the cons mentioned? or do you still find being a traditional employee more appealing?
If you have less needs, and some savings to manage your needs when you are out of work (assuming, you'll get work after little break), then you will do fine as gig worker I suppose.
If you have a family to maintain, traditional jobs are comparatively more stable, and they come with perks (i.e, insurance and savings).
i guess the right answer is if you are just living by yourself and you are sustaining yourself only then being a gig worker is quite the ideal situation i always see a lot of young people being gig workers nowadays and they are often living alone
they should still take care of their insurance and other things even if no company will do it for them
Gig workers trend was best in last few years but now they are earning low as market is saturated and everyone has to face big competition in that . When there is more competition, you have very less chances to to be successful in next few years. Always research of individual matters a lot and he should learn more things about any skills and how to deal with clients and always try jew thing and new idea and if you will try backward things then you could lose your Respect in the market and always learn from the behavior of people.People are doing well in Gig field but they are the person who gave 5 to 6 years to that field and now they have network and people are doing work and they are getting benefit from that.
When you are just that new into freelancing or being a complete noob then the primary target that you would be needing up to do is to get some gig for you to have that portfolio building. Trying out to apply for some full time position is never been that simple yet the competition is really high and if you dont have that enough qualities or be able to hit up the criteria, then you would be having that hard time for you to be able to get hired and thats why there are those people that had been long time been applying but still ending up on being still unemployed just because they havent been hired. This is why on the moment that you have been able to get some gig then be thankful at least because you didnt know on how many people that been thriving out to get some gig for them to be added up on their portfolio on which they would be added up into their experience and that would be an advantageous thing but still not a guranteed thing for you to get hired on next but at least you can show off something.
Getting some work online is never been easy as it looks on which just like been said that you would be still needing up that exact skills on what these employers been looking for.
In my case, i tend to go switch with remote work but since i've been a worker for corporate work for how many years but due to some common reason like traffic and having that toxic workmates then you would be wanting to switch up with remote work on which of course it will be that totally different when you do deal up with real physical work but just like been said there would be that soo much difference on which of course it will be not for all. Why? not all does want this kind of set up and also even if you wanted to but still not all will be able to get it because just like been said that it all matters whether you do have that certain skills or not. The best thing about on getting some freelance work is that the amount of possible salary that you can get or earn is having that multiple folds in compared on what you do get when you are that sticking with your day job. So it will be just that depending or situational on which it will be basing up on whether you would be landed up a job online or you would be that sticking into those traditional ways.