This is one reason some have called for a third category of worker:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/07/uber-economy-re...

Germany has one already: http://www.npr.org/2015/06/26/417675866/service-jobs-like-ub...

Of course, this would be much less of an issue if we had a guaranteed income, or even a lesser version of it for being between jobs; something like unemployment insurance, but only for people in this new category (which would have much less stringent requirements.) A universal health care system would also lessen their burden; ACA / Freelancer Union rates are still bananas expensive.

If we accepted that modern workers that flit from job to job and project to project are here to stay and gave them a real safety net without all the nasty ideological baggage, we could come closer to achieving the dream of the fluid, frictionless, task-oriented labor force that some economists have thought we should have for decades. Instead we have the Precariat.