Trends to Consider when making a Midlife Career Change: Friction versus Frictionless |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 8:00 am |
| Tags: job career, career, career change, job change, feature |
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This is the fifth column on the macro trends to consider when making your midlife career change. Someone once said to me in the early days of Internet 1.0 that everything that exists in the physical world will be replicated on the Internet.' In this new age we now have a choice between the way of the physical world and how society has operated in the physical world and a new, cyber way. "Friction versus frictionless" is close to the subject of the last column, which was "place or no place," but friction is process, not physical location. Friction is the 'old' pre-Internet way that life was lived. An example is higher education. If one wanted to go to night school to get an advanced degree, one would drive to campus after dinner, park the car, walk to the classroom, sit with other students listening to a professor, take notes, then when class was over, do the reverse trip home. The frictionless variation would be that, after dinner, you would go sit down at your computer, log [ Full article ] |
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