Singapore’s young workers cling to side hustles to survive the AI age: ‘it’s exhausting’

By day, Adele Lee juggles schedules and administrative work as a personal assistant to a senior director at a financial advisory firm.
Three evenings a week, the 32-year-old logs back on, this time to sell second-hand clothes through TikTok livestreams, fielding questions from viewers and packing orders herself after the broadcast ends.
The side hustle brings in about S$500 (US$390) a month, supplementing her monthly salary of almost S$4,000. The extra cash helps pay for her insurance premiums...