My father had one job, I've had six, my kids will have six at the same time
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Re: My father had one job, I've had six, my kids will have six at the same time
#2Yeah, I feel in general it develops in that way. More flexibility, less specialization. But I don't think it's really good though.
If you have a core set of skills and tasks you can often work very efficient. You know who to talk to, you know what to do, and if you spend time optimizing your work process after some time your daily life also is not too stressful. But if you always switch and hunt the opportunities you don't know much about anything. You always have to continue hunting.
But on the positive side I think it will be an option, at least in a foreseable future. Being flexible also means you cna say no to an opportunity if it is too far away from what you are usually doing. Of course that also requires more discipline than in the past.
Concerning money I think it depends on your talent/skills/education if it goes up or down. Talent becomes more rare when people do more different tasks (e.g. the "full stack devopser" can only know a little about web development, because there are so many other things he needs to know). And higher flexibility for employees means that companies have a harder time to keep talent. Therefore pay must go up for talent. But someone who barely gets by doing one job now has an even harder time doing 6 jobs at the same time, and he has a harder time to hide due to more responsibility on his side, and last but not least more flexibility also means companies don't need to keep you. Below the tipping point money goes down.
If one likes that or not probably depends on if oneself is above or below that tipping point. I can understand both sides here. No reason to discuss just the negative side.
Re: My father had one job, I've had six, my kids will have six at the same time
#3It is more likely your kids will have no job.
Re: My father had one job, I've had six, my kids will have six at the same time
#4It is more likely your kids will have no job.
That would be in a perfect world..
Re: My father had one job, I've had six, my kids will have six at the same time
#5And their kids will have 36.
Re: My father had one job, I've had six, my kids will have six at the same time
#6Strange that BlahBlah is made to seem so hot when ZimRide had to convert to Lyft to make any headway. I wonder if ZimRide overstepped their transition, or if BlahBlah executed better, or if Lyft is simply a richer pot.
What is interesting is that Lyft chases the taxis and BlahBlah chases the trains, or the other way around, depending on your loyalties.
Still, as the old adage goes, lots of people do have the same ideas around the same time. Winners are much more unique than that.
Re: My father had one job, I've had six, my kids will have six at the same time
#7Re: My father had one job, I've had six, my kids will have six at the same time
#8And their kids will have 36.
Or they won't have kids.
Re: My father had one job, I've had six, my kids will have six at the same time
#9Maybe 'a job' is something that fitted a particular phase of our civilisation development and it just will fade away? A hunter gatherer (I bring this as my example - because as a species we spent most of our time in that phase) would do many things - but we would not call them jobs.