Saved by Sarah Owen
Young people are side-hustling their way out of the cost-of-living crisis
Young people don’t want to rent their time to corporations—they watched their parents and grandparents get burned during the Great Recession and again during the COVID pandemic. Why work within “the system” with capped upside when you can use your hustle and savvy to dictate your own fortune, and have equity upside?
Rex Woodbury • Everyone Is An Investor
I think there’s going to be a future where work is more project-based. The new American Dream for Gen Z is being able to work wherever we want, whenever we want. Now, Gen Z is the side hustle generation because from a young age we realized that we can hustle to make money online.
Connie Chan • Designing for, Marketing to, and Partnering with Gen Z
An article in Quartz said that ‘Millennials didn’t invent the second job, they just branded it.’11 People have always had multiple jobs, but the millennial generation, who are mostly told ‘You can be whatever you want to be!’ are freaked out by the hierarchy and the slow pace of the workplace and are using side-hustles to get ahead.
Emma Gannon • The Multi-Hyphen Method: The Sunday Times business bestseller
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