Episode 308: 15 Gig Economy Jobs To Fund Your Dream Business (FS308)

The Fizzle Show

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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What are these new opportunities that are available to people in 2019? How can you find the right gig for your needs or skills? How can entrepreneurs cleverly utilize these opportunities to help them along their own journey?

That’s right, today we are unpacking the exciting new world that is opening up for anybody interested, introducing the gig economy! This might be Uber or Lyft, Airbnb or Upwork, there are new services and platforms every day that you could be using to make a little extra money and boost your hustle.

In this episode, our focus is finding the right gig for your skills and needs in order to stay afloat while you keep your entrepreneurial dreams alive. There are many ways to skin this cat but the simplest might be to just use these gigs as a means to a financial end in the interim with your own business.

We talk about why these gigs are usually so much better than a day-job you hate, potential drawbacks of this marketplace, the paradox of the gig economy and more!

For this and a bunch of other great stuff, be sure to join us on the Fizzle Show today!

Key Points From This Episode:

• A new kind of opportunity. [0:06:50.2]
• Considering options other than a dead-end job. [0:09:35.8]
• The perceived negative sides of the gig economy. [0:13:18.3]
• Freedom from testing and relieving the burden and pressure. [0:15:47.5]
• Some driving and vehicle gigs besides the obvious ones. [0:20:35.1]
• Staying open to ideas and niches within this job market. [0:28:56.6]
• Omni, storage, innovation in rental space and the last wave of ownership. [0:39:15.8]
• Airbnb, legalities and the evolving world of home rental. [0:41:50.6]
• Walking dogs with Rover! [0:46:38.4]
• TaskRabbit, Poshmark and everything in between. [0:49:10.2]
• Feastly and the network for freelance chefs. [0:55:01.7]
• The tech niche surrounding Upwork. [0:58:49.2]
• Our picks for overlapping and useful usage of skills. [1:04:22.2]

• And much more!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Fizzle show.
0:23.6	Bow, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. It sounds like I'm just going bam, bam, bam, bam. It's really my party horn. That's a party horn because, hell, man, if you're going to sit and listen to some business stuff, it might as well be fun, right?
0:41.4	If I just, we'll make it a little entertain because sometimes doing your business is like pulling out your own teeth you know when you get that wisdom tooth and you're just like oh man my
0:46.4	teeth are getting a little crowded in here i should make some room pull out that wisdom tooth
0:50.8	sometimes building a business can feel like that because you don't have
0:54.2	enough money to make payroll this month or you don't know what you're going to do to get your next
0:57.9	client or the mortgage is due literally tomorrow and you're like up crap creek without a paddle,
1:05.5	right? There's a lot of things that can happen in business in the shadow side there's also a lot that can happen
1:11.7	in the light side where you get that freedom you get that autonomy you get the ability to
1:17.5	step into your own kind of lifestyle the way that you want it to be you get to spend your days doing
1:25.1	things you care about, right?
1:31.5	Serving and solving a problem that you think is important.
1:34.6	And you get, like, its own energy comes from that, right?
1:35.9	You get motivated from that.
1:39.1	You wake up in the morning and it kind of pops off the pillow a little bit more, right?
1:42.1	This is the light side of entrepreneurship.
1:45.2	This is why we get into it.
1:48.7	The shadow side is what we meet when we get there.
1:50.0	Right?
1:52.1	And it can feel like you're a crappy entrepreneur.
1:54.1	That's what this show is for.
1:55.5	You're not a crappy entrepreneur.
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