You don’t need to be a multi-national to sell products and services to any part of the globe. This economy favors entrepreneurship and peer to peer services. This is similar to the kind of stuff you used to do as a summer student to try to improve your daily life for the rest of the academic year, hoping that one day you’ll find a real job with a fixed monthly salary that allows you to pay the rent, buy food and some well-deserved holidays. The English word “gig” was, until a few years ago, primarily used for musicians. https://www.fieldengineer.com/blogs/gig-economy-helps-telecom-workforce-discover-high-paying-field-engineer-jobs