Trends to Consider When Making a Midlife Career Change: 24/7 or 9 to 5 |
| Published: October 1, 2007, 9:00 am |
| Tags: job career, career change, job change, feature |
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This is the sixth column in our series of seven that look at the macro trends to consider when making a midlife career change. We pick up where we left off from the last two columns, "Friction or No Friction" and "Place or No Place." Both of those trends are closely tied to the ever growing connectedness of our world. The Internet, cell phones and the growth of wireless bandwidth and connectivity have allowed a number of us to disconnect our work from a specific place. This same connectedness now allows us to decide when we want to work. Decades ago the phrase 9 to 5 was a translation for the work day. Monday to Friday from the hours of 9 to 5 was the core time for offices to be open. This was so widespread that the phrases "rush hour" and "drive time" became universal. Rush hour connoted the heavy traffic in the morning before 9 and in the time after 5. This lead to the radio concept of drive time as that was the time that most people were in their car and therefore provided [ Full article ] |
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