When I was a kid, my grandmother used to tell me, “you must go to school, and then you must go to university, and then you will become a doctor, lawyer or a teacher. You will get a good job, and when you’ve made enough money, you’ll be able to retire and then travel the world.”
It all seemed so simple then. Maybe what she said was true at one time, but today, unfortunately, nothing is further from the truth. There is no such thing as that linear career path that my grandmother used to tell me about.
It’s demolished. It’s gone by way of the dinosaurs. In today’s age, people change jobs every couple of years, and they change careers at least every six years.
Now think about that for a moment. If people are changing the careers every six years, where’s the place for the linear career part? Does anybody still go to university, study and spend the rest of their life doing what they studied for, at a single job?
Maybe there are people doing that, but for the vast majority, the world doesn’t operate like that any longer. And what what makes it even more challenging is that the world is constantly changing at a breakneck pace.
With technology and artificial intelligence make huge strides and affecting all aspects of our lives, we are constantly being forced to re-examine and re-imagine our jobs. We will need to constantly adapt.
The linear career path is dead.
What we’re going to need now is a completely new form of learning, a new form of approaching careers and business; and that is what we are going to be talking about in this book.