Generalising specialist or specialising generalist, which are you?
The new age of authentic work, and how it offers you the freedom not to have to choose.
Gone are the days when you were expected to at least appear to have a ‘nuclear family’ — one or more kids, a husband and wife, a steady job for life. In the modern age of fluidity everything is up for grabs; your gender, your occupation, your sexual orientation.
Well, thank goodness for that, right?
If you’ve watched Mad Men or spent anytime researching the culture of the great American dream, then you would know how incredibly restrictive it was for many. Out of that context emerged the complete opposite — the sexual revolution, LSD, 1970s folk music and the highest divorce rates on record in the western world.
What also came out of it was a new breed commonly known as the Baby Boomer, now in their 60s and 70s and living in a world with completely different rules. There’s the internet for one, and their children, Generation X.
Gen X may have done ‘the right thing’ as some squeezed out the last juice of free tertiary education to nourish their dream careers, but very few would still be doing the job they trained to. And even less, are expecting to have one or even two jobs for the…
