The new conventional employment

When I was growing up in the sixties and seventies it wasn’t strange to see someone working at the same job for years, in fact that was pretty much the norm. Whether it was at a manufacturing job, teaching, government jobs or anything really, sticking around till retirement was the way to go and you probably got a pretty good pension when it was all over. Of course that is a thing of the past for the majority of careers except for maybe teaching and government work and even that isn’t as stable as it once was. Folks go from one job to another in a relatively short period of time. Why?


This nomadic career movement has a lot to do with the global economy once a upon a time the rest of the world weren’t able to compete with the US in manufacturing and in most fields. That has all changed and companies in this country have had to become competitive by cutting costs (jobs) or outsourcing. So long to the idea of staying with one company for 30 years!

So folks that are just getting out of college right now know that finding a job will be very tough and keeping a job will be even tougher. But the same goes for workers who are older they also have to be flexible and realize that keeping up to date on skills is something that they will have to do as long as they are in the work force. Being comfortable at a job and thinking about easing into retirement are notions that no longer exist.

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