The phrase "akin to working" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to draw a comparison or similarity between two activities or states, particularly in a context where you want to highlight how one is similar to the act of working.
Example: "Her dedication to volunteering is akin to working a full-time job, as she invests countless hours each week."
Alternatives: "similar to working" or "comparable to working".
"It's akin to working in retail," he said.
In moderation, steroids were akin to working out and eating right.
But if Mr. Dahlan rounds up militants from Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other groups that have carried out bombings and shootings, he will face open hostility from some Palestinians, who view such action as akin to working for Israel.
He is confident he can return to club football and his desire to work with players to develop their skills is as strong as ever, but the experienced Scot admits he is worried that managing a football team is becoming akin to working on Wall Street.
Everything else is akin to "working for the man". Meanwhile, the one commodity that Venezuela depends on to keep its lights on, fund its public school system (perhaps to educate farmers on water and land management) and its state-owned hospitals, is failing.
The faces and sounds the characters made while leveling up it was akin to working out, and to, well, fucking.
It's akin to work the WEF has already undertaken in Boston with autonomous vehicles, in a program that Sönmez says other cities around the world are clamoring to replicate.
All this Hurston brought to "Their Eyes Were Watching God" — a book that, despite its slender, private grace, aspires to the force of a national epic, akin to works by Mark Twain or Alessandro Manzoni, offering a people their own language freshly caught on paper and raised to the heights of poetry.
Meanwhile, traditional Medicare fails to provide seniors with a comprehensive benefit akin to what working Americans currently have.
This is akin to Exxon working with IBM to set up servers for the energy business 20 years ago.
Looking over the website, it's clear that an inordinate number of people are under the impression that showing solidarity with the We Are the 99% movement is akin to pickpocketing working Americans in order to fund a drum circle of the voluntarily unemployed.
