If the new American Dream is defined by “creative expression, online influence and extreme optionality” over linear moves up the corporate ladder, then LinkedIn is enough to make any Millennial or Gen Z jobseeker cringe.
Brianne Kimmel • Not Found
We tend to buy into the dominant narrative which says that we’re all going to go to school, and grow up, and go to college, and work summer jobs, and then get a real job, start saving for retirement, work until we’re 60 or 65, then retire, and travel the world. I’m reminding people that no matter how this turns out, it’s not going to be like that a
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Given their mistrust of institutions, it might not be surprising that Gen X didn’t clamor to go into government.
Jean M. Twenge • Generations
•The pace of change and disruption in organizations means that the career stability our parents had (when people could spend an entire career advancing at a single company) is a thing of the past.
Gerry Valentine • The Thriving Mindset: Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World
Many of the jobs we do today would have looked like trifling wastes of time to people a few hundred years ago, but nobody is looking back at the past, wishing they were a lamplighter