If you're looking for a remote job that doesn't require a lot of special skills and education, you might be in luck. Financial influencer Learn with Lukas broke down remote jobs that aren't glamorous but pay real money. These positions require no experience or degrees, making them accessible to almost anyone willing to do straightforward work from home. Here are five boring remote jobs you can do 24/7.
A viral Reddit post purportedly from an employee of a "major food delivery app" may actually be an AI-generated hoax, The Verge reports. The post itself, and an image of an employee ID card the poster, u/trowaway_whistleblow, shared with The Verge, where both flagged as being likely AI-generated when run through online AI detectors and AI assistants like Gemini and Claude.
Many current gig economy jobs are at risk of automation as AI usage expands, Tim Fung, founder and CEO of Airtasker, said in an interview with Business Insider. Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash are already making some deliveries using self-driving vehicles. Fung estimated that human ride-hailing drivers could be eliminated within three to five years. AI is also likely to replace many data science, coding, and engineering workers in the near term, Fung said.
For many workers, driving for Uber and Lyft or delivering restaurant orders for DoorDash is a side hustle - or, in some cases, a lifestyle. But faced with falling earnings and the rise of self-driving vehicles, some are having second thoughts about the job. Some gig workers have told Business Insider for years that a combination of base pay cuts and increased competition for gigs has made the work more challenging.
Many people don't know how an order can arrive at their home in just one day. In China, home deliveries are a craze. Everyone orders things all the time. The Asian giant has the largest online commerce market on the planet, with an average of 125 packages per person, per year. That's one order every three days. Companies compete fiercely. And the deliveries are handled by an army of motorcyclists on electric scooters, each with a metal box on the back.
What I didn't know was that the role would require me to assume multiple fabricated identities, and use pseudo profiles created by the company to engage in intimate and explicit conversations with lonely men and women,
What does it take to become the most successful AI surveillance company in 2025? If you're anything like Flock, the startup selling automatic license plate readers and facial recognition tech to cops, you don't really need much AI at all - just an army of sweatshop workers in the global south. Bombshell new reporting from 404 Media found that Flock, which has its cameras in thousands of US communities, has been outsourcing its AI to gig workers located in the Philippines.
Krista Pawloski remembers the single defining moment that shaped her opinion on the ethics of artificial intelligence. As an AI worker on Amazon Mechanical Turk a marketplace that allows companies to hire workers to perform tasks like entering data or matching an AI prompt with its output Pawloski spends her time moderating and assessing the quality of AI-generated text, images and videos, as well as some factchecking.
Finally, a descriptor that just might work. Finding terms to describe those of us who don't have kids is challenging. We're usually referred to as what we're not (non-moms, unparents, people without kids). Cumbersome, clunky, and not very respectful. Beginning with Major League Baseball in the mid-1970s, free agency gave professional athletes the flexibility to develop their careers after their contracts expired. The practice gradually spread to other professional sports and is now well-accepted by sports organizations and fans around the world.
Before graduation, she had already lined up an engineering job, but it required frequent moves around the country. I was happy for her, but I was tired of long-distance and wanted to settle down. I also knew that following her to her various job locations would make it hard for me to have my own career. However, I loved her, and that was more important.
"Most Dashers follow the rules of the road and do the right thing. However, we recognize community concerns about safe riding. In a city as dense and dynamic as New York, setting a lower speed limit for e-bikes is a smart and sensible step. That's why we are supportive of the city's new policy of a 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes," reads the company's blog post.
"Well, friends. I did it. I've now had my highest-income month of my life again." So begins a TikTok video by content creator Chelsea Langenstam detailing her "$56,244 income month" breakdown, along with deductibles, as a solopreneur. Langenstam then outlines her various income streams: budget templates, brand deals, referral fees. "I don't share to brag," she says in the video, currently sitting at over 100,000 views. "I share because I want to show you what's possible in real time."
It's a tech CEO's wet dream, but a labor economist's worst nightmare: to film some content for a TikTok reel, one San Francisco woman decided to hail a Waymo to complete her Doordash delivery. The TikTokker, real name unknown but who goes by the handle @dmpnzzz, posted the minute-long clip last Thursday. She doesn't say much about the finances of the experiment, but the clip does raise an interesting question: can you Doordash in a Waymo and still come out ahead?
Relying on one gig is like putting all your eggs in one very fragile basket. The most successful gig workers I know have multiple income streams flowing at once. Think about it this way: If you're driving for Uber, you're already in your car. Why not deliver food between rides? If you're freelance writing, why not offer social media management to the same clients? The key is finding gigs that complement each other instead of competing for your time.
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history,
While it's not unusual for young people to work multiple jobs through college and early in their career, Gen Zers are stacking jobs on top of jobs as a way to DIY their own careers. (One Gen Zer, Carissa Ferguson, says she's earned more than $144,0000 selling voiceovers, content creation, and copywriting on Fiverr's platform.) Of those surveyed, 67% said that multiple streams of income were essential for a sense of financial security.
There's a turnaround in the climax of this noctambulist Paris immigrant drama that suddenly charges the film's seemingly neutral title with meaning. Food courier protagonist, Souleymane, is hopefully in the process of altering his destiny, and this key scene is carried by fantastic acting from Abou Sangare: trembling violently as a lifetime's tension and struggle, as well as the daily grind of an app wage slave, comes pouring out.
Work camping is a lifestyle that combines working and camping. Work campers often trade labor for compensation, which can include a free or discounted campsite, utilities, and sometimes wages. We bought a house in Florida nine years ago and live there for six months in the winter. Our 42-foot Monaco Class A motor coach is our home for the other half of the year while we work camp. Since 2019, we've work camped in New Hampshire. I also do DoorDash in both places.
Sure, it's hard to live anywhere right now, but the disparity between the haves (who've been cannibalizing creative industries for decades) and have-nots (y'know, the creatives carrying the industry on their backs) has never been quite so wide. No one can sustain a job in their dream field anymore; no one can afford even the most modest lifestyle. As Aziz Ansari claims in the opening moments of his directorial debut, Good Fortune, the American Dream is no more.
Generative AI is moving from drafting emails to shaping labor markets. On platforms like Fiverr, Freelancer.com, and Upwork, millions of workers rely on hourly rates to compete for jobs. As AI increasingly influences pricing recommendations, business leaders face a critical question: Do large language models (LLMs) make these pricing decisions fairly? Or do they perpetuate the same biases and inequities that have long plagued human labor markets?
According to the 2025 National Association of Realtors' Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends Report, 43% of younger millennials carry a median student debt of $30,000 with around 29% of older millennials having a median debt of $35,000. That's on top of the average millennial's credit card debt of $6,691, per Experian. Retirement? Seventy-five is optimistic. The American dream we were promised is behind us, and millennials, also known
