Cognitive flexibility

Cognitive flexibility will help you with this issue by forming an awareness about other available alternatives and increasing willingness to be flexible about them. This will enable you to adapt to different situations and reinforce your sense of self-efficacy (Martin & Rubin, 1995).

One important flexibility you may need is related to your own self-view. As your work characteristic is volatile, you need to adjust your self-perception and define your current work identity in light of the future happening (Obodaru, 2012). You may need to show "identity flexibility" by envisioning yourself in different work roles in the future, and by doing so, you can move between various work contracts without feeling insecure or inauthentic (Caza et al., 2018).

Construal-level ambidexterity

Sometimes, you may need to think about the "means" to do an activity and be more pragmatic, detailed, and logistical, while sometimes you need to focus on the purpose of that activity and be more idealistic, broad and goal-based. The first is known as lower construal level, and the later as higher construal level (Liberman & Trope, 1998; Kivetz & Tyler, 2007; Pennington & Roese, 2003; Reyt & Wiesenfeld, 2014). The ability to shift between construal levels, construal-level ambidexterity, allows you to switch your perspective toward the same experience. As a result, despite the pressure of multiple, short-term gigs that ask for a lower construal level, you would be able to step back and zoom out to get a broader picture of what you are doing. This, in the end, would help you experience daily stressors and setbacks less significantly, find a positive meaning in your job and feel a psychological coherence between different roles you have to accept. This will facilitate switching from short-term contract-based goals to a broader and more long-term career plan.

Learning agility

As a gig worker, you need to learn new skills very fast. Moreover, you need the ability to redeploy your old skill in a new work context or using your lesson-learned in one project several times. Learning agility will promote these abilities as it encourages you for experimentation, reflection, and learning in and across situations.