freelancing

Meeting clients is more about freelancing, and some of the meetup groups are useful for networking there.

Resume-wise he can just not put the position on there, it's easily explained away by a break traveling/freelancing etc.

Have used exactly this feature in a freelancing gig to help contain data entry/formula copying errors.

Contracting in a UK sense is really very different from consulting or freelancing.

There's a release process, but I really doubt they would grant approval for freelancing for Gigster on the side.

Older people are more likely to have a spouse with insurance or to already be freelancing/contracting and used to providing their own insurance.

I have a very good salary as a developer in the midwest and do some freelancing on the side.

Also, freelancing sites do have a lot of low quality jobs, but if you spend some time digging around you can find decent jobs; e.g.

In the past I've found that good jobs come through contacts and I was hoping that through freelancing I'd meet people.

So I don't see a corporate gig as more secure than contracting or freelancing.

Stay away from oDesk and online freelancing in general.

I can make products and I do freelancing, but I want something which belongs to me, let it be small, but my own.

This account also posts the Freelancing and "Who wants to be hired" submissions.

There is no need for suspecting "...that as years go by the salaries will go lower as the gig-economy becomes standard." There is empirical evidence today anywhere you care to analyze freelancing results.

The monthly "Who Is Hiring?" submissions here on HN are posted automatically on the first by the "whoishiring" user, along with related freelancing submissions.