Cargando…

“It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies

The Covid-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the labor market and given rise to the Great Resignation. Drawing on a mixed methods panel study of 199 precarious and gig-based workers, we analyze how a changing conception of free time during the Covid-19 pandemic led low-wage service workers to seek mor...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ravenelle, Alexandrea J., Kowalski, Ken Cai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9475368/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07308884221125246
_version_ 1784789898021044224
author Ravenelle, Alexandrea J.
Kowalski, Ken Cai
author_facet Ravenelle, Alexandrea J.
Kowalski, Ken Cai
author_sort Ravenelle, Alexandrea J.
collection PubMed
description The Covid-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the labor market and given rise to the Great Resignation. Drawing on a mixed methods panel study of 199 precarious and gig-based workers, we analyze how a changing conception of free time during the Covid-19 pandemic led low-wage service workers to seek more fulfilling careers. Whereas most workers initially perceived free time in terms of opportunity costs, they later reconceived this time as enabling an investment in personal growth, moving from “spending time” making money to “investing time” in themselves. This shift in temporal experience is expressed through the adoption of a “work passion” logic and “pandemic epiphanies” that motivated respondents to seek self-affirming and potentially more lucrative work opportunities.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-9475368
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2022
publisher SAGE Publications
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-94753682022-09-16 “It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies Ravenelle, Alexandrea J. Kowalski, Ken Cai Work Occup Original Research Article The Covid-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the labor market and given rise to the Great Resignation. Drawing on a mixed methods panel study of 199 precarious and gig-based workers, we analyze how a changing conception of free time during the Covid-19 pandemic led low-wage service workers to seek more fulfilling careers. Whereas most workers initially perceived free time in terms of opportunity costs, they later reconceived this time as enabling an investment in personal growth, moving from “spending time” making money to “investing time” in themselves. This shift in temporal experience is expressed through the adoption of a “work passion” logic and “pandemic epiphanies” that motivated respondents to seek self-affirming and potentially more lucrative work opportunities. SAGE Publications 2022-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9475368/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07308884221125246 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
spellingShingle Original Research Article
Ravenelle, Alexandrea J.
Kowalski, Ken Cai
“It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies
title “It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies
title_full “It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies
title_fullStr “It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies
title_full_unstemmed “It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies
title_short “It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies
title_sort “it’s not like chasing chanel:” spending time, investing in the self, and pandemic epiphanies
topic Original Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9475368/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07308884221125246
work_keys_str_mv AT ravenellealexandreaj itsnotlikechasingchanelspendingtimeinvestingintheselfandpandemicepiphanies
AT kowalskikencai itsnotlikechasingchanelspendingtimeinvestingintheselfandpandemicepiphanies