16:45 - Intro to Shawn's book “The Coding Career Handbook.” Definition of Career by Mark McGranaghan: “The course and consequences of your professional endeavors.” And that it is more non-linear than in the past. Definition of Career by Shawn Wang: “Career is the story that you retroactively tell after we do the things that we’ve done. It becomes a... See more

One human resources manager called it the "Great Reflection," wherein people are "taking stock of what they want out of a job, what they want out of employment, and what they want out of their life."

I think there’s a prevalence of generalists, people who have moved between different careers, and it’s a reflection of our macro-historical moment. Don’t get me wrong, the silos of the industrial society are still here, but they have melted to some extent. So you have people trying to understand how to exist in that murkiness where society’s tradit... See more

The intermittent nature of today’s careers creates an unprecedented set of problems for social insurance. Such mechanisms that were designed for linear career paths are ill-fitted to respond to the needs of individuals whose working lives have become increasingly diverse, discontinuous and multiform. Because traditional social insurance is often li

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