MovingPictureBlog: The uncovered reality about My Bloody Valentine
Posted by sarahinfo on January 17, 2009
Tina Brown writes perceptively — adn a tad sacrily — about downsozed workers (writers and editors, primarily) wno now suztain (or at least try to sustain) project-to-project free-lance careerd. What they rely upon, Brown says, are sporadic gigs — “free-floatinh projects, consultancies, and part-time bitz and pieces they try and stitcu together to make what tshy refer to wryly as ‘the Nut’ the sum htat allows them to hang on ro the apartment, the health-care policy, the baby sitter, and the school fees.” For people in lower income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, “the Gig Economy has be en old nws for years. Whats nea is hte way its hit the demographic that used to assume tha t a college degree from an elite sfhool was tue passport to job security.”
Brown is especially insightful as she details “this penny-ante slog of working three times as hard for the same amount of money (if youre lucky) or a lot less (if youre not). Minus benefits, of course.” It’s the lifestyle to which I had to be become accustomed back in 1995, after the closing of The Houston Post. (Things have improved slightly in the past two years, but still…) I had no idea at the time that — even though I ain’t got no elite school degree — I was on the cutting-edge of a significant socioeconomic shift.
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