The members of the overemployed community know that what they're doing is frowned on by corporate leaders. But that doesn't mean they think what they are doing is amoral. "I never could mentally comprehend why it was so taboo for me to work two salaried positions," said the Ohio-based technology worker. "There's plenty of people I've known in my personal life who have worked at Walmart from 4 a.m. to 2 p.m., and then gone and worked another job." The financial professional similarly said he started working multiple jobs because he doesn't trust that working as hard as he can at a single job will be "rewarded with more pay," just "more work." By taking on more jobs, he can do more work but also "get paid for it," he said.

AI Architect – Responsible for working out where AI can help a business, measuring performance and--crucially-- "sustaining the AI model over time." Lack of architects "is a big reason why companies cannot successfully sustain AI initiatives," KMPG notes. AI Product Manager – Liaises between teams, making sure ideas can be implemented, especially at scale. Works closely with architects, and with human resources departments to make sure humans and machines can all work effectively. Data Scientist – Manages the huge amounts of available data and designs algorithms to make it meaningful.

A passenger uses his biometric passport at an automated ePassport gate equiped with a facial recognition system at the British border of the Eurostar at the gare du Nord in Paris on February 17, 2017. The 227,000 jobs added to the payroll in January marked the 76th straight month of expansion. The headline number is impressive. But if you dig a little deeper, you'll find these jobs "aren't what they used to be." Since 2000, the creation of full-time positions has slowed significantly.

Amazon.com said today it would create more than 100,000 full-time jobs in the US over the next 18 months. Seattle-based Amazon said it plans to increase its full-time US-based workforce to more than 280,000 by the middle of 2018 from 180,000 in 2016. "These jobs are not just in our Seattle headquarters or in Silicon Valley - they're in our customer service network, fulfillment centers and other facilities in local communities throughout the country," CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement. Amazon had about 230,800 full-time and part-time employees as of December 31, 2015. The move comes with Amazon expanding from its origins as an online retailer to a diversified tech company offering streaming video and music, cloud computing, and home automation through its artificial intelligence program Alexa.

On Friday the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its November jobs report, announcing that the unemployment rate had dropped to 4.6%, the lowest it's been since August 2007. According to this measure, the U.S. economy is at or very close to full employment. The White House touted the news, highlighting that U.S. businesses created 178,000 jobs in November and 15.6 million since early 2010. To some, the economy is returning to its pre-recession strength. To others, the unemployment rate is a poor gauge of economic health.

Work means everything to us Americans. For centuries – since, say, 1650 – we've believed that it builds character (punctuality, initiative, honesty, self-discipline, and so forth). We've also believed that the market in labour, where we go to find work, has been relatively efficient in allocating opportunities and incomes. And we've believed that, even if it sucks, a job gives meaning, purpose and structure to our everyday lives – at any rate, we're pretty sure that it gets us out of bed, pays the bills, makes us feel responsible, and keeps us away from daytime TV. These beliefs are no longer plausible. In fact, they've become ridiculous, because there's not enough work to go around, and what there is of it won't pay the bills – unless of course you've landed a job as a drug dealer or a Wall Street banker, becoming a gangster either way.

We have a crisis of work. The secure, well-paid jobs of the past -- many of them in manufacturing -- are disappearing. What is replacing them is insecurity and uncertainty. The "gig economy", where people are paid performance by performance -- or piece by piece. "Piecework", we used to call it.

Andrew Heikkila is a tech enthusiast and writer from Boise, Idaho. A recent Pew report found that a majority of Americans believe that most human jobs could be automated by 2065. With tech giants like Google and Chrysler collaborating to produce autonomous passenger vehicles, as well as new tech firms like Otto positioning themselves to revolutionize the commercial transportation industry, many are already discussing how we'll handle history's first slew of "driverless" experiences. It's no wonder, then, that talk about technological unemployment is becoming increasingly popular, with many commercial drivers beginning to question whether or not they'll still have jobs in the coming years. While the concept of a world filled with autonomous workers is relatively new to us, digital disruption obviously isn't, and we've consistently overcome technological unemployment in the past.