"Earn More Without Working: A Composite Career Creates an Independent Life, No Compromise in Life, and Freer Working Hours" Recommended Preface: Welcome to join the ranks of composite workers and o...
If you usually care about current affairs and pay attention to changes in global workplace trends, you must have heard of “Freelance Worker”, “Slash” and “gig economy” are some of the fashionable terms, right? If you like reading books like me, maybe you are familiar with the following books?
From the 2016 “The End of Employment: Your Future Does Not Belong to Any Company (opens in a new tab)”, 2017’s “Slash Youth: New Global Career Trends, Welcome to a More Valuable Multi-career Life (opens in a new tab)”, to 2018’s “The gig economy is coming: a head-breaking MBA innovation course, teaching you to bravely challenge a multi-faceted life with multiple incomes and multiple job identities (opens in a new tab)》⋯⋯With the publication of these books, it not only reveals that the era of the end of employment has arrived, but also foretells that various types of work will soon appear in our daily lives in different forms.
The rise of “Gig Economy” is regarded as a work type in the 21st century and even in the future. Tetsushi Takimoto, a consultant from Japan’s McKinsey & Company, even encourages everyone to strive to become cross-field professionals. This means that in addition to having professional knowledge and experience, we must also develop cross-domain knowledge and experience so that we can survive in this changing era and come up with various solutions that satisfy the owners.
Recently, I am very happy to learn that Times Publishing has introduced a new generation of British workers Emma Gannon (opens in a new tab) (Emma Gannon) wrote the book “Earn more without working: A compound career creates an independent life, no compromise in life, and free working hours (opens in a new tab)”. When I quickly finished reading this book, I was surprised to find that the author tried to answer the following two common questions in the workplace:
- The first question is, many jobs in the world are changing. How do we respond and keep up?
- The second question is, we may have the ability to make money when and where we want, on our own terms. But where to start?
This female writer is quite young, having just turned thirty this summer. After leaving her job in the media, she turned to the Internet in 2016. Not only did she set up her own website, she also served as a blogger and podcaster, and even contacted her employer through Twitter. Today, she has not only developed a number of side businesses, but her podcast has more than four million listeners, which can be said to be a fruitful success.
Reading this book made me feel very intimate and somewhat familiar. I think maybe it’s because the author’s experience is somewhat similar to my own? We are both from media backgrounds, but we also have the online identity of bloggers. Of course, based on our multi-faceted career development experience, we can naturally become hybrid workers and take into account the quality of life and flexible working hours through a flexible working style.
Looking back on my own work experience, I actually transformed into a corporate consultant, professional lecturer and columnist after leaving the 9-to-6 media job. At the same time, I used my favorite way to run my blog “Content Hacker” and the online community “Vista Book Club (opens in a new tab)”.
Along the way, many friends have asked me, why did I leave my job in the Internet industry or media in the first place? Did it hit the ceiling? Not really. After reading this book, I suddenly realized that maybe I, like the author of this book (opens in a new tab), just want to get back the lost time and freedom! Another important point is that I want to define my own success model and do not want to be limited by traditional career development or values.
In this weird and ever-changing digital era, if you also want to take back the autonomy of your life, or even just want to be an ordinary and mediocre office worker, I am happy to recommend to you “Earn More Without Working (opens in a new tab)》This is a good book. Of course, I welcome you to join the ranks of hybrid workers!
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Further reading
- “The 13 Atomic Habits of the Slash Tribe: Establish Correct Habits and Change Your Future Life” Recommended Preface: Master a happy life, starting from cross-border development
- Reading experience of “The Era of Resumption of Business is Coming”: From π-shaped people, slash youth to the gig economy
- “Self-created Thinking: Life is an Eternal Beta, New Work in a Changing World” Recommended Preface: The secret to success is to keep starting over
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Vista Cheng speaks and runs workshops on AI workflows, writing and content systems for companies, schools and public agencies.
