LTYM - Five Careers

Letters to a Young Manager

Five Careers, #191
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Please note that this letter is in-process; the following are my notes

Dear Adam,

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Charles Handy says that in the post-modern era, we can expect to have five or more careers. I'm on my third. Next I want to teach. Maybe then I'll write full-time.

"Conn and Boyett explain that employees in Workplace 2000 must prepare for frequent, extended periods of unemployment and expect to “change careers” at least five times before retiring. They suggest that “all Americans will need to keep a close watch on the financial performance of the small company or business unit that employs them,” to avoid being caught by surprise when it abruptly folds." http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/apostles-of-the-new-entrepreneur

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/313/7065/S2-7065

Box 1: Handy's five portfolio categories
(1+2+3=career portfolio)

1 Wage or salary work- money paid for time given (what employees earn)

2 Fee work-payment for results delivered (what professionals charge)

3 Study work

4 Gift work-work done for free outside the home eg for charities, friends or in the community

5 Homework-care of the home and family

http://leadertoleader.org/leaderbooks/L2L/summer97/handy.html

Good biography of Handy here: http://www.strategy-business.com/press/article/03309?pg=1

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Takeaways:

Careers don't end; they change into something new

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