The gig economy is everywhere now and it makes me glad I'm not young and trying to build a career again as there is no job security for the youth of today. I'm a contractor now but with the cushions of years of experience as an employee and the money from that financial stability to live each year on last year's income until the dividends can be taken. I'm hired for specific projects and seem to have found most work in a sector in which I had a permanent role some years ago, so experience of the sector must be useful.
In contrast my daughter is struggling to make her way in the technical side of media where it is almost all gig economy and no security, even at the biggest players in the British media. For her, even renting a flat is not feasible, with no guarantee of income beyond the few months of a contract and pay only a little above minimum wage, so she is unable to build up that essential basic financial stability and she has to spend about three hours a day in her old car driving to and from work from my home.  
I really don't envy the younger generation. At her age I had a secure job and a mortgage on my own home. Many of today's twenty and thirty somethings will never experience that.