{"id":4152,"date":"2018-03-24T17:36:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T22:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/missionwork\/?p=4152"},"modified":"2018-03-20T17:53:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T22:53:13","slug":"top-10-things-i-hate-about-being-the-poster-child-for-the-gig-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/missionwork\/2018\/03\/top-10-things-i-hate-about-being-the-poster-child-for-the-gig-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Things I Hate About Being the Poster Child for the Gig Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4158\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/436\/2018\/03\/5611560314_17ab31c1dd_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/p>\n<p>10. Doing my taxes.<\/p>\n<p>9. Lack of healthcare benefits obtainable from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/missionwork\/2017\/05\/government-support-saved\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">someplace other than the Marketplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>8. Lack of professional development funds. (I know, <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">#firstworldknowledgeworkerproblems<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>7. Taxes. Did I mention doing taxes?<\/p>\n<p>6. Answering the question \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/missionwork\/2015\/01\/gods-will-is-as-large-as-a-big-barn-door\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">What do you do<\/a>?\u201d (Someday I\u2019m going to say \u201cIs that short answer or multiple-choice?\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>5. Five different email signatures, one for each job.<\/p>\n<p>4. Google Calendar.<\/p>\n<p>3. Self-promotion.<\/p>\n<p>2. Productivity tools.<\/p>\n<p>1. Did I say taxes?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/moneyblognewz\/5611560314\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">MoneyBlogNewz at Flickr<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did I mention doing taxes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,147,64],"tags":[1524,1527,1311],"class_list":["post-4152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calling","category-faith-and-the-workplace","category-vocation-2","tag-adjunct","tag-contingent-labor","tag-gig-economy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Top 10 Things I Hate About Being the Poster Child for the Gig Economy<\/title>\n<meta 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