Description
‘Gigsters – Any Age or Ability Employees, Experts and Entrepreneurs’
Are you aware that you can use your skills, knowledge, networks and technology to attract aligned gigs?
Do you understand that your values, strengths and context can help you make better work choices in the future?
Are you willing to learn specific gigster competencies, super powers and money mastery skills to live a more aligned life?
Now is the time to re-think and re-design your future and embrace the concept of becoming a gigster, regardless of your age or ability.
After all, life is like a box of projects – and you can co-create the ones you get, as an employee, an expert or an entrepreneur.
Gigsters shows you how you can be your own kind of multi-dimensional peculiar, starting today!
This book is for you if you are considering:
- freelance, fractional or contingent work
- a side hustle, new career, special hobby
- self-employment, becoming a solopreneur
- sole practitioner, consultant or independent contractor
- developing a startup business, passive income, asset development model
- becoming a founder of a social enterprise or a world revolution
- reinventing the way you work both today and tomorrow
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Chapter Outline
Contents
Reviews
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Your Values
1.1 Purpose versus Values
1.2 You need a Network!
1.3 Technology and Congruence
2 Your Strengths
3 Your Context
4 Global and Enterprise Context Issues
4.1 Policy Changes
4.2 Unintended Consequences of Disruption
5 Future Influences and Variables
6 Gigster Competencies
7 Gigster Super Powers
8 Gigster Life
9 Gigster Goal Setting
10 Gigster Money Mastery
10.1 Financial Management
10.2 Gigster Income Streams
10.3 Starting Out As A Gigster
10.5 Budgeting
10.6 Alternative Funding Models
11 Gigster Ages and Stages
11.1 Gigsters under the age of 30
11.2 Gigsters aged 30 to 50
11.3 Gigsters aged over 50
12 Gigster Types
12.1 Gigster Variables
12.2 Gigster Types
12.3 Gigster Explanations
12.3.1 Employee – Working Warrior
12.3.2 Employee – Principled Pragmatic
12.3.3 Employee – Tenacious Temporary
12.3.4 Employee – Intuitive Intrapreneur
12.3.5 Expert – Suave Specialist
12.3.6 Expert – Master Magician
12.3.7 Expert – Fabulous Freelancer
12.3.8 Expert – Nimble Nomad
12.3.9 Entrepreneur – Unashamedly Unemployable
12.3.10 Entrepreneur – Conscious Crusader
12.3.11 Entrepreneur – Serial Starter
12.3.12 Entrepreneur – Side Shuffler
12.4 Gigster Types Over Time
13 Gigster Technology Apps
13.1 Gig Technology Requirements Analysis
13.2 Gigster Technology App Warnings
13.3 Gigster Technology Apps for your journey
14 Gigster Efficiencies
15 Gigster Challenges
16 Gigster Support
17 Gigster Success Measurement
17.1 Gigster Success Assessment
17.2 Gigster Success Actions
17.3 Gigster Success Sign Posts
18 Gigster Actions and Alignment
18.1 The 10 Gigster Commandments
19 Gigster Case Study – Sue Ellson
20 Gigster Examples
20.1 Working Warrior
20.2 Principled Pragmatic
20.3 Tenacious Temporary
20.4 Intuitive Intrapreneur
20.5 Suave Specialist
20.6 Master Magician
20.7 Fabulous Freelancer
20.8 Nimble Nomad
20.9 Unashamedly Unemployable
20.10 Conscious Crusader
20.11 Serial Starter
20.12 Side Shuffler
Gigster Activity Items
Bonuses
Index
Hyperlinks
Names of people quoted in the book
Author
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1. From 12.2 Gigster Types Chart
2. From 17.1 Gigster Success Assessment
3. From 17.2 Gigster Success Actions List
4. List of all 35 Activities
5. Challenge List Sample