Tamara Altman is a 40-something, graduate-school educated, former corporate-world Director turned odd-job doer and wanderer. After earning her B.A. from UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. from UCLA and working at handfuls of corporations and academic institutions that brought little satisfaction and much stress, she decided to veer away from this "traditional" path. Thus began her journey into the world of on-demand work. Tamara engaged in a wide variety of tasks that soon allowed her to quit her corporate job and to derive her sole source of income from this on-demand work. As part of her life shift, Tamara also hit the road and used the sharing economy to live somewhere new every month. Over the course of a year, she lived in 20 different Airbnbs across the U.S. and Canada, spending her time doing the on-demand work, living like a local, and playing tourist/adventurer.
