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> what else is there to do? If things are tight enough, you spend all that useless "free time" hunting for more work. You feel you can't afford to just enjoy

> what else is there to do? If things are tight enough, you spend all that useless "free time" hunting for more work. You feel you can't afford to just enjoy the time. More gigs. More waiting for an Uber request. More time polishing your resume, or your profile on Fiverr. Or improving your "Github is the new resume" look. Then it's not really free time. It's a job, but you're not paid every hour you're working on it. It can even resemble socialising, because in some lines of work you have to keep socialising for people to think of you when they have a gig.

JAlexoid 6y ago
> More waiting for an Uber request. Presuming there's an Uber and you have a driver's license(they're not free you know) and a car. >More gigs. You are aware that gig economy is just about 5 years old, right? And you have to be in a high demand area to do it. There were coders for hire sites for a long time, but that paid complete crap.
- jlokier 6y ago
  > Presuming there's an Uber and you have a driver's license(they're not free you know) and a car. Uber is just to illustrate. It's just an example. If you're in the wrong area, or the wrong time for that matter, then it's something else. Either way you're (and were) spending that "free" time looking for jobs, quick jobs, whatever jobs. They used to call it pounding the streets or getting on your bike. Even going door to door. When I was young I did it myself, literally going from door to door asking if they had any work. > There were coders for hire sites for a long time, but that paid complete crap That's why I mentioned Fiverr, as an example, which is a version of the coders-for-low-pay thing generalised to other kinds of work.
  - JAlexoid 6y ago
    > When I was young I did it myself, literally going from door to door asking if they had any work. This depends very much on the location and the community around you. Looking for odd jobs around you yields no results in a poverty depressed area.

JAlexoid 6y ago

> More waiting for an Uber request. Presuming there's an Uber and you have a driver's license(they're not free you know) and a car. >More gigs. You are aware that gig economy is just about 5 years old, right? And you have to be in a high demand area to do it. There were coders for hire sites for a long time, but that paid complete crap.

jlokier 6y ago
> Presuming there's an Uber and you have a driver's license(they're not free you know) and a car. Uber is just to illustrate. It's just an example. If you're in the wrong area, or the wrong time for that matter, then it's something else. Either way you're (and were) spending that "free" time looking for jobs, quick jobs, whatever jobs. They used to call it pounding the streets or getting on your bike. Even going door to door. When I was young I did it myself, literally going from door to door asking if they had any work. > There were coders for hire sites for a long time, but that paid complete crap That's why I mentioned Fiverr, as an example, which is a version of the coders-for-low-pay thing generalised to other kinds of work.
- JAlexoid 6y ago
  > When I was young I did it myself, literally going from door to door asking if they had any work. This depends very much on the location and the community around you. Looking for odd jobs around you yields no results in a poverty depressed area.