{"id":455446,"date":"2026-03-03T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455446\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:22:10","slug":"teen-quits-nine-to-five-after-spiderman-stunt-sparks-thriving-side-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455446\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen quits nine-to-five after Spiderman stunt sparks thriving side gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As Dr Matthew Cole, assistant professor of technology, work and employment at the University of Sussex, said Frindall is among a new generation who are turning to side hustles due to the cost of living crisis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If people earned higher wages and things cost less, they wouldn&#8217;t be working as much&#8221;, he told the BBC. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to him, this was partly because real wages had not recovered since the 2008 global financial crisis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he added there also are not as &#8220;many decent jobs&#8221; with stable contracts and career paths as in the past. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Side hustles are a coping mechanism,&#8221; said Cole, adding that many people were not working extra &#8220;out of passion&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Dr Matthew Cole, assistant professor of technology, work and employment at the University of Sussex, said Frindall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-455446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}