Millennials Are Abandoning Their Careers for Online Odd Jobs
When the market fell off the Covid Cliff, millennials were left reaching for anything (and everything)
It’s Tuesday morning at 9:20 in the foggy mountains of Lynden, Washington, and Adrianna Richardson plops down into a beanbag chair in her living room to answer emails.
However, the emails she receives seem to have her confused with multiple people. One person needs a logo for their online business. An insurance company in Texas needs a set of Facebook ads written. A mobile game development company wants a set of voice lines for a character in their game.
“I certainly didn’t mean to start out this way” Adrianna tells me over Zoom, laughing. “I just threw a bunch of irons in the fire and a bunch of them turned into something.”
When the market saw a stomach-lurching drop on March 23, 2020, sometimes called the “Covid Cliff,” the economic ripples and following layoffs left Adrianna, like many millennials and new college grads, reaching for anything.
When all else fails, turn to working online
“I had just graduated in December of 2019 with a degree in economics.” Adrianna is 24 now and sparkles with creative energy. The wall…
