The Gig Economy | Patricia Romboletti | TEDxCentennialParkWomen

Great advice and presentation by Patricia!

Pat, you always hit it on the head...

Pat Rombelleti does a great job of telling it like it is! Today's employers don't play by the same rules any more, and it's up to us to understand how to play along.

Great information, emphasizing the importance of networking in our current environment.

Excellent presentation. Pat Romboletti is one of those coaches who listens to her charges and creates solutions for them. This video is an example of how she stays ahead of the noise in the market and brings valuable knowledge that executives and careerists can readily use.

Patricia Romboletti is an absolute gem who articulates a pragmatic approach to today’s workplace without any criticism, judgement, or sentimental longing for the “good old days.”

That is what happens when you have an unregulated economy, and unprotected workforce.

I've been in a gig economy for several years now and everything this woman says is true. I even created a website that teaches people how to get into the gig economy.

Every word counts :3

Wonderful lecture...very helpful..

What she's talking about is how the economy will crash and how it will not recover. Let's call it the end of capitalism and the return of feudalism. What's missing is the fact that the majority of these rapidly growing "Companies" go bankrupt.

what should I care if some old money sack loses his job

That was awesome and Scary and I'm going through it right now, 15 years in a spot where I was "The Guy" now I can't even find a part time job!

Go Vote for Andrew Yang. Universal Basic Income or a Freedom Dividend. Andrew Yang has been preaching about losing jobs to tech.

Wonderful speech. Anyway, not everyone can adapt and make change.

No CDs Stores or DVD stores, banks are closing branches. Self-serve checkouts

WTF?! Gig workers have no safety net. That's why we need UBI

Gig economy is the bliss for anti-utopian world.

the great pie in the sky

This is a strong argument for Universal Healthcare, limited UBI and education (and continuing education) investments for a transitioning society in a 21st century economy. We will need to be flexible to mitigate the shock of advancement.

How does a ginger manage if they have a health problem, when we have so many people who go bankrupt because of health care costs?

Message rings true, especially after 40

YEAH!! YEEEAAAAH!! Thanks lady! This is probably the only way I will ever be able to afford a house.

Get comfortable with the uncomfortable!

Outstanding presentation!! Great and actionable advice on (a) how to stay relevant in our professional careers, (b) how to navigate through our ever-changing/gig economic landscape, and (c) taking a pragmatic approach on how to disrupt ourselves while becoming nimble, flexible and keep moving. Thanks Patricia, for sharing your wisdom and professional coaching expertise.

Excellent! Thank you, I am now empowered to move on my project!!

Patricia Romboletti is the O’Brien of our age:
She will teach you that 2+2=5 and to truly love Big Brother.

Or maybe another option is mass worker strikes to force the billionaire class to stop exploiting workers and pay taxes instead of offshoring jobs and profits. Gig economy equals slavery. This Ted speaker is an apologist for exploitative modern capitalism. Boo!

I'm sorry but this gig economy way of life seems to be promoting underemployment, increase in working class poverty, no health insurance and corporates evading more and more tax without citizens having a safety net. This economy is going to ruin lives.

All because of technology we did not need and gave into too much. Humans gave into laziness and this is the payback

Great work!

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This is the race to the bottom. We need a more rigid labor law.

I'm 21, and my dad instilled a love of this kind of content in me, and maybe THE biggest thing I'm building my young budding career life around is the trades. Industries like construction, home damage repair, plumbing, electric, etc, are ALWAYS relevant, because people always need someplace to live, and that place always needs repairs. You can much more easily work for small and local businesses, make great wages, have a skill set you can take anywhere, AND lift the finger to being a cog in the working of those massive corporations listed in the video.
I just WISH more young people, especially the ones going to college, would grasp that opportunity instead of aiming for those top 500 companies.

The reason gig workers are agile and flexible is because it is a matter of life and death for them. They’re one lost “gig” away from losing their homes or not being able to provide care for a sick child. This is advice for those who work in management levels at dying corporations to find work at other, more “innovative” corporations, the businesses that make all their money finding more and more efficient ways to leverage human capital into quick profits, then transfer that risk to the public through an IPO, and inevitably crash and burn, keeping the profits for themselves and leaving all their workers in the cold. Yes, be flexible, because it’s only a matter of time before they’ll find a way to completely eliminate mid-level positions, and you’ll be just another gig serf, right along with all the rest of us.

This was so imformative......thank you

Presenter: Oh sorry !! got to move
Me: Oh i got to become a Gigger...
Who else is also thinking in my direction ?

Sales woman of Gig economy, which is another kind of serfdom! Tell us where the distribution of wealth among CEO, CFO, UFO ( :-))s, OH so important exploiters, and the struggling workers with high disciplinary penalties, no benefits and slim profit margins ( with Uber drivers, sometimes they lost money), then talks and promote this 21 century's biggest exploitation system!! TEDx is losing its halo by inviting this kind of guest speaker!! 2 thumbs down!

Don't know what's more disturbing, the clap at the end of the video or the bunch of dimwits in the comment section cheering this race to the bottom ideology. SMH

The dystopian hellscape we're headed towards, and why you should embrace it.

this lady needs to stop saying "gigger"

These young students of the gig economy quickly learn the life lesson; you don’t show up nor will their paycheck!

She just realizes this now? Where has she been, under a rock?

Patricia, maybe you should advise companies to stop asking interview candidates about their “skipping” companies on their resume

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Gigger lover!

"Disrupt....disrupt....disrupt" Check your Merriam-Webster, that word doesn't mean what you think it means.

Love the disrupt yourself message very inspiring.

The Gig economy is BS and is just a way for the capitalistic class to exploit people. No benefits. No health insurance. No vacation. This "disruption" is just a way to treat everyone as disposable. Just say no.

Excellent content! 👍