The Gig Economy

I've had this account set up for a few months now, and I woke up today feeling creative. So lets see what the hypes about with vocal.

I've been involved in the gig economy since 2015 starting with Postmates. Twenty years of age at the time, I was hungry for some money. I was transferring schools, so I had a window of opportunity to make some pocket change before I left home for a new school. I can't entirely recall my time delivering with Postmates, but I remember putting miles on my new brand new Kia Forte all through out Los Angeles. Before I left to go to school in Oregon.

Little did I know there were other companies that offered delivery services such as Instacart, and Doordash, but they were not to popular as Postmates at the time. Today I am still heavily involved in those delivery services minus Doordash and Postmates. The downfall of those services, the markets are different all over the states. I came across a youtuber who apparently brought in 100k working full time insane right..

Back when I was twenty years old the idea of driving around picking up and dropping off food to strangers seemed like the most absolute fun thing to do. Little ole me had no idea of how I could leverage that side hustle at the time to become what I am today a independent contractor/ sole proprietor and Youtuber.

You see, as I started my youtube channel, I did some research and discovered other Youtubers in this same space I joined, I realized that I could generate another source of income, create my personal brand, and be some sort of public image per say. But what separates me from everyone else? I feel like a lot of people ask themselves that question.

The answer for me was to just start! Start with something original or do a challenge.

And that is exactly what I did the hand stand t-shirt challenge. My results from that video inspired me to continue to create some engaging content, or just a platform for me to express myself.

Let me get back on topic the gig economy did not present itself to me until Easter day of last year. My mom needed something from the store, and brought up Instacart. Long story short, here I am today still store running and making videos about it to this day. I even wrote about Instacarts business structure for a communications class I was in.

I hopped on board at the right time with the pandemic, and the state of the world. Does that make me a capitalist?

Either way I found joy in helping people who actually needed the service. I've made over hundreds close to thousands of deliveries maybe, and can not seem to step away because it is such a fun hobby. I don't look at it as a job until someone asks me what I do for a living. Unlimited shopping in any city, and you get paid. Sign me up!

Being apart of the gig economy has made me realize that trading your time for money is one of the most important things that the wealthy have down. Make their money workout for them, to fund the things they want to do in life. For myself I am choosing a life of financial freedom.

To get to that financial freedom you have to have capital of course, so why does it matter how one chooses to pursue the capital unless it is unethically or morally wrong. I guess the point that I am making is that I am not thinking like a worker, I am thinking like a boss on the backend to ensure I am making ends meet to fund the life that I want which is financial freedom.

One may argue that, oh thats insane you'll never achieve financial freedom that way, your destroying your car, this and that or that and this. Well my friend I say that you are caught up on the wrong end of this game of life. There is a transformation of wealth happening before our very eyes, and I'm on the mission to help those who desire to make a change in their life.