The Gig Worker’s Nest Egg: a Guide for Making it Golden

Orin Hargraves
6 min readFeb 8, 2021

First, the bona fides: I left my last full-time salaried job in 1990, at the age of 36, with the goal of never having a boss other than myself again. That was 30 years ago. Today I am mostly retired. My home is a paid-off, comfortable condo in an urban-proximate zip code. I live on Social Security, a small pension from an earlier period of employment, and a small stream of monthly income from…

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