Yo Yo Model for Your Future Career

I just received in the mail today the Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, Volume 24, Number 2, Summer 2008. My article, The Yo Yo Model for Your Future Career: You're On Your Own was the featured article of the publication. I had forgotten I'd even written it. It is an excellent article. I am including the first paragraph below. Email me if you'd like the full version.

The job as defined in the past is dead. The path of loyalty to a company in return for 40-year employment, a gold watch at retirement, and then going home to wait to die is totally defunct. As career professionals, we are currently in the process of helping our clients move through the grief and burial of this former womb to tomb career ideal. Our responsibility is to communicate this demise effectively and replace it with alternatives. The world is moving painfully fast compared to even half a generation ago. Many of my clients do feel totally dissatisfied by the rapid disintegration of what they once found comfortable and reassuring. There is no longer a safety net. In fact there is no longer a net at all, except what the individual creates.

What actions are you taking to to move forward? Share your comments.