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Your Uber Driver Probably Has Another Job
Workers in the gig economy are usually also working outside the gig economy.
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What is the defining characteristic of gig-economy workers? Probably that driving for Lyft or assembling Ikea furniture via Handy or selling knitted leprechaun outfits for babies on Etsy isn’t the main thing they do or the main way they make money.