Worldwide the number of people employed in gig work is on the rise. While there are many types of gig work, much of it is precarious and does not afford workers the security of more traditional work. COVID-19 saw rapid expansion of the gig economy especially in app-based gig-work such as food delivery. Gig work serves a variety of purposes for those who work in it. Migrants are over-represented in gig work and many remain in it for prolonged periods. Concerns have been raised about the influence of gig work on migrants’ original career development intentions about obtaining meaningful and sustainable forms of work post-migration. Little is known about how gig work intersects with the career development of migrants. This two-phased single exploratory case study, theoretically grounded in the Systems Theory Framework of career development and a southern perspective on migration, investigated the lived experiences of a female Australian undergraduate student who also worked in the gig economy prior to the epidemic and two years later. The findings revealed how the participant’s original intention of short-term engagement with gig work gradually transformed into running a business as a result of various systemic influences including change over time, social, and environmental-societal influences. The participant storied the impact of pandemic-induced changes on various domains of her life, her personal experience of the advantages and disadvantages of gig work, and her views on gig work before and after the pandemic. Although this research has limitations related to its small scale, it nonetheless demonstrates how experience near research can uncover intersections between gig work, migration, and career development.